The silver star., 1901-03-08
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The Legislature of Utah passed an
anti-compulsory vaccination bill over
the veto of the governor.
Susan b. Anthony was presented
with two $500 United States bonds on
her eighty-first birthday.
| The Pail Mall Gazette says that
| Americans have quit contributing to
| the Irish Parliamentary funds.
Andrew Carnegie will donate $50
900 TO Knox College. at Galesburg, lui-
nois, for new library building.
| The city of New York owes the sum
of S3oO,OO0,0O0. winch is within $l6.-
100000 of the limit allowed by law.
| Calamity Jane. a noted border char
acter. has been compelled to take ref
uge in the poor house OF Gallatin coun-
~. Montana.
Brigadier General Theodore Schwan
has been placed on the retired list on
his own application under the forty
years service clause.
A fire in Detroit. Michigan. February
Goth, caused 100000 damage to Grin
nell Bros music house and $4,000
loss 10 Tuomey Bros, dry goods.
Irwin II. Spiggs. mayor of Eureka,
Utah. recently resigned that office to
accept n position as dealer of faro
bank. Money makes the mayor so.
A law taxing inheritances for the
benefit of the State University of
Missouri has been held constitutional
by the Supreme Court of that state.
In the District Court Mt Clinton.
Iowa Thomas Burke was awarded
$1,000 damages for injuries received
when Initiated by the Modern Wood
men.
The bill before the Montana Legisla-
ture to appropriate $4,000 for an ex-
hibit at the s.. Louis Exposition has
been indefinitely postponed by the
House.
The first mail from Nome arrived in
Seattle February 21st. 1t consisted of
six pouches. containing about 1000 let
tiers. The latest left Nome on Novem-
Der 23rd.
Designer Watson, who Is building the
Shamrock ii. at Glasgow. will con-
struct the deck of aluminium TO save
weight. covering it with Il thin sheet
ing of wood.
A bill has been introduced in the
Utah Legislature authorizing the state
to issue bonds to the amount of So
pu,V't 10 eTetS Il state SlueIlcT anu Il
state beet sugar factory.
Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn retired
by age limit March 4th. He began SER
vice in the navy as shipwright's ap-
prentice and achieved the highest posi-
ZION in the construction corps.
! Harvard has total enrolment of
ASS for the present academic year.
The University of Michigan is the sec
ond largest university in the United
States, having u total registration of
300.
The Kansas law imposing tax of
five per cent on legacies 10 persons not
of lineal descent from the testator for
the benefit of the school fund. has been
sustained by the Supreme Court of that
state.
Sicnor Nagiuri. millionaire. COM
mitted suicide at Leghorn, Italy. hav
ing previously destroyed Turkish Sc
curities OF the value OF 100000 lire
in order that no one might enjoy his
fortune.
There is big strike on among the
woodcutters in Arizona. The cutters,
who are mostly MeXicans and half
| breeds, demand twenty-five per cent.
advance in wages and 4 wood famine
Is imminent.
The largest order for window glass
on record. being for one million boxes.
has been given the American associa-
tion and the independent association
by the dealers association. So says u
Cincinnati dispatch.
According TO a report from the Vati.
can. 1t has been decided for reasons Of
economy. to unite the diplomatic rep
reseniailon OF the holy see In the
United States and in Canada In one
and the same person.
The London Telegraph, commenting
upon what II calls the gravity OF the
menace 30 English trade" by the form
alton OF the United States steel corpor-
alton, says 1t understands Mr.. Carnegie
was bought out for about Si00,OO0,O 900.
Having invented n firebox for loco
motives, which Is proving II great sue
cess, Cornelius Vanderbilt is now ut
work on n new form of boiler, a null
Tubular. which promises, he says. TO
work revolution In boiler-making
and construction.
Harvard College observatory dIscoy-
cred new star February 22nd, said
to be the brightest one discovered In
three centuries. 1t Is In cOnstellat ion
OF Perseus and IL OF the first magnl.
ludc. In only three days 1t emerged
from total invisibility.
The American Newspaper Publish.
ers' Association. which met few
days ago In New York. appointed d
committee to consider the project of
establishing nm immense paper factory
publishers to take stock according IL
the amount OF paper they consume.
j. d. Rumbcrge, n tenchcr who re.
Gently returned to San francisco from
Guam. reports that preparations art
being made there for 1860 Filipino
prisoners. The natives of Guam have
deep hatred for the Filiplnos, and dc
not like to see them brought to the In
land.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has turned
over to the Chicago university the
Chicago Institute Ut pedagogy
which will represent an nddi
ton TO the university endowment OF
nearly Si.OO0,00O. The Institute wal
started by her some years ngo by M
appropriation OF xT50.oO0.
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