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Russian dispatches report tho death
of Field Marshal Count Gourko, 1a-
nous Russian general.
The lower house of the Utah Legis-
lature has passed an anti-vaccimuoh
blu, the vote standing 81 to IT,
An International exposition. dealing
with hygiene, maritime security anu
fisheries, will soon be held nj ostend.
The alumni OF the University OF Ala
bama are urging General Joseph
Wheeler ms president of that institu-
tion.
The receipts of the Yale Football AS.
sociation during the season OF lbp
were s44.42G the expenditures were
$22.356.
1t Is stated that Andrew Carnegie has
secured control of The Pressed Steel
Car Company, which is paying over
$2,OOOOOO a year in dividends.
Baron wilhelm Won Rothschild. head
OF the Frankfort house of the great
banking firm. died at Frankfort Jahu-
ary 25th, aged seventy-three years.
Mrs. James A. Garfield. widow OF the
late President Garfield. is In deiicate
health and has gone to FLORIDA 10
spend the remainder of the winter
A unanimous opinion has been hand
ell down by the Supreme Court OF
Michigan sustaining the constitution
ality of the law taxing inheritances.
King Edward VII. has appointed
Emperor William OF Germany heiu
marshal of the British army. His maj
esty expressed great delight at the
honor.
The United States government has
sent Professor Nevy of the university
Of Michigan to California to invesu.
gate the danger of the 'blnck denth
breaking ont there.
A steamer from Skagway brings ad-
vices that Dawson experienced the Sc
verest cold of this winter January lth'
when the thermometer registered sew
enty degrees below zero.
John d. Rockefeller will give $20o,OOO
toward IN endowment fund OF S.OO'Uo
now being raised for Oberlin College,
provided the entire amount shall be
raised by the first of next year.
1t is said that in her last lucid rally
the Queen summoned the Prince OF
Wales and the Kaiser to her bedside
and beseeched them as they loved her
to avoid war and to maintain peace.
L. H. Clears automobiles arrived at
Dawson In the Klondike January 18TH
and were placed on the route between
Dawson and Grand Forks. The enter
prise is said to he backed by Rockefel-
Ter.
The steamer Aorangi. recently arrv-
ed at Vancouver. reports terrible
hurricane has spread death ana DE.
struction In New Britain. The force OF
the wave after the wind subsided was
terrific.
1t Is practically settled that the Can
ndInn government has decided to pur-
chase the Northern Pacific lines In
Manitoba for about S6.000.OOO and lease
them to another country In considera-
tion OF a low grain rate.
The Evangelical Alliance, which in
cludes all the churches Of st. Louis and
vicinity, with the exception OF the
Catholic. Episcopal and German speak
ing churches, has inaugurated move
ment for municipal reform.
News has reached Vienna from the
Vatican that fresh robberies have been
discovered there which have caused
the Pope much pain, as Mt this time
number of art treasures Of great value
have been made away with.
Preparations are being made by Is
lam Temple. Mobiles OF the Mystic
Shrine, San Francisco, for the enter
tainment OF party OF about 300 east.
ern Shriners who will pass through
enrly in March on the way to Honolulu.
The foundation for several new sky
scrapers on Wall street has been car
ried by shafts to depth Of 100 feet,
and the compressed air used In digging
Is so trying on the wOrkmen that they
get full days pay for ninety minutes
actual duty.
Miss Pauline Lewelling was severely
burned by having the letters "A. I. N"
burned oil her forehead with nitrate OF
silver. She admits that 1t was done
while being initiated In the Alpha The
tn Nu Society of the Wichita, Kansas,
high school.
Mark Twains Christmas greeting to
his many Vienna friends is reproduced
in the papers OF that city. 1t runs:
prosperity and happiness to my many
friends In the empire. The same to
my enemies on Christmas Day, but not
after that date"
The President has renewed his rec
ommendation that Congress make
gracious provision for indemnity to
the families" OF the two victims of the
Taluaha, Louisiana. lynching, July
20, 1890. who were subjects Of the Ital
ian government.
The Supreme Court Of Missouri over
ruled a motion for a rehearing In the
case of the st. Louis Star against the
Associated Press. in which II petition
for a writ OF mandamus to compel the
latter to furnish Its report to the Star
had been denied.
General Macarthur has deported
George L. Rice, editor Of the Daily Bull
letin. from the Philippines. The order
chnracterlzes him as dangerous in
cendinry and menace to the military
situation" His offense was slandering
United States officers.
Some Mexican troops ascorting labor
ers engaged In opening roads in the
southern part Of the peninsula of Yucca
tan were desperately attacked few
days ago by 1000 rebel Indians, who
We're driven of by the employment OF
machine guns. The engagement took
place near Santa Cruz
There has been great distress In the
province of Shnn 81, owing to the fam
Inc, and thousands have died. The
court distributed rice. but discrimlnat-
ed against native Christians. whereup-
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