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of Gen. Brooke with the rank of lieutenant
general. Adjourned to June M....In the
house the bill to increase the subsidiary |
coinage was passed. Adjourned to June2
DOMESTIC.
Gov. Yates issued a proclamation
designating Saturday, June IA, as Flag
day in Illinois.
Gen. Wood denies charges of wasting
FUNDS during his administration of af-
fairs in Cuba.
Frank P. Sergeant says that soft
coal miners will strike if the anthra.
cite strike does not end in eight days.
An organization of colored men,
headed by Bishop Turner, of Georgia,
will ask congress for $500, 600, 900 to as
sist negroes to leave the United States.
A distinct earthquake shock in
Chattanooga, Tenn, caused houses to
tremble.
The funeral of Lord P%auncefote,
British ambassador, was held in St.
Johns Episcopal church in Washing
ton. An American warship will carry
the body to England.
Gov. Jefferson Davis, of Arkansas,
has been expelled by the Little Rock
Baptist church on charges of drunk
enness and gambling.
The tobacco trust has acquired the
three largest concerns dealing in
Cuban cigars and tobacco and will
practically control the whole Cuban
output.
Thomas A. Edison has invented a
storage battery to enable automobiles
to run 100 miles without r%echarging.
It is expected that mckinley" pos
tai cards will be in the hands of all
post offices throughout the country by
July 1.
Jesse L. Blount, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
a trainer, was killed by an elephant in
a circus at Brooklyn, N. Y, that he had
teased by burning with a lighted cigar.
Gen. Filipe "Buencamino, of Manila,
formerly Aguinaldo's secretary Of
war, called on President Roosevelt
and said the stories of cruelties per-
petrated by our soldiers were either
wholly untrue or greatly exagger-
ated, and also said that the civil gov.
eminent was doing a wonderful work
for good in the islands and that it
had been ably seconded by the army.
The forty-fourth general assembly
OF the United Presbyterian church of
North America convened in Pittsburg,
Pa.
Severe storms, causing floods in
the panhandle along the Red river
in Texas, have resulted in great dam
age to property.
A conference was held in Cleveland
between Senator Hanna, chairman Of
the Civic Federation, and George w.
Perkins, representing j. P. Morgan
& Co., relative to a settlement of the
anthracite coal strike.
William McFetridge was found no.
guilty in Chicago of the murder of
his brother, Robert McFetridge, and
the jury was severely scored by Judge
Kavanagh for the verdict.
Judge James NJ. Smith, Of Cincin-
natl, died on a train while en- route
home from the Presbyterian general
assembly in New York.
Rare flowers were sent by Presi.
dent Roosevelt to Canton, O., to dec
crate the grave of William Mckinley,
and Mrs. Roosevelt sent a basket of
flowers to Mrs. Mckinley.
A statue of President Mckinley, the
first in the world, was unveiled at Mus
kegon, Mich.
President Roosevelt addressing war
veterans at Arlington, said that self
government would not be granted the
Philippines until they had proved
themselves fit for it, and also said that
charges of cruelty against the army
were as unfair as blaming the state of
Texas for the burning of a negro by a
mob.
Herbert and Ivy Martin and Libby
and Lizzie Durkee were drowned near
Martins Bluff, Ore, by the upsetting of
q boat.
The val department announces that
the military force in the Philippines
will be reduced to $4,000 men in less
than two months.
President Roosevelt will appoint a
national commission to study the
tramp problem.
immigration is now at the highest
point in the history of the United
States, and is said to be due to the
country's great commercial prosper
ity.
Arthur Williams, of Manchester, N.
H., United States consul at Saltillo,
Mexico. died at Monterey.
Jacob Graham, a ~13-year-old boy
of st. Joseph, Mo-, confessed that he
killed Robert C. Hunter, aged IA.
The interstate commerce commits
sion secured evidence that most rail-
roads are in pools.
A class val at the University of Yer
mont led to the drowning of Nelson P.
Bond, of Burlington, who tried to es-
cape from sophomore %kidnapers by
swimming.