The Holly chieftain., 1902-01-03
rELEGRAPHIc sReviTIEs.

ated in New Jersey.
The federal government Of Austria
liza has decided TO send a contingent OF
1900 men 10 South Africa.
A seat on The New York Stock Rx-
change WIS sold few dnys ago for
$4,000. This Is the highest price ever
paid.
A deal has been practically closed for
the sale of the Topeka street railway
system TO a St Iouis syndicate for
100000.
Cecil Rhodes has suff cred from heat
stroke and has abandoned his trip to
Khartoum. He is now hurrying back
to Cairo.
The American Tobacco combina ton
has made an ncursion into Germany.
and 1t proposes later to carry the war
into Russia.
William Ellery Claiming. the no'ed
poet and essayist. died at Concord.
Massachusetts. December 23rd. aged
eighty-three years.
Judge David McAdam. of the Su-
preme Court of New York. died in
New York City December 22nd. Of
cancer OF the tongue.
Professor W. J. Spillman of Pullman.
Washington will succeed Professor f.
Latson Scribner as agrostologist Of the
Department OF Agriculture.
Papers Incorporating the American
Lumber Company. capital $s,OOO,OOO.
have been filed with the county clerk
Of Essex county, New Jersey.
President Roosevelt has sent to Con-
gress letter strongly commenting the
plan for a national forest reservation
in the southern Appalachian region.
The Swedish Antarctic expedition un-
der DR.. Otto Nordenskjol has arrived
at BuenOs Ayres. DIR. Nordenskjol ex-
poets to return to Sweden in May. 1903
Dr. Samuel Smiles. author OF the
SelfHelf series. and well known to
American readers. celebrated his
ninetieth birthday December 23rd in
London.
A ST. Petersburg capitalist has prom
ised TO supply 10000 roubles for the
expense Of Il north polar exploring
party which plans to leave next year
in the ship Panteleimon.
The National Broom Manufacturers
Association Of the United States and
Canada decided December 18th to ad-
vance the price of brooms and are con-
sidering further advance.
1t is officially announced at Berlin
that in consequence of the murder of
a German near Peking, August 9th. IF
teen members of the band found guilty
of the crime have been executed.
Emil L. Boas. general agent of the
Hamburg rgAmerican line, who returned
from Europe recently. says his COM
pany claims no rights In Nicaragua
through the purchase Of the Atlas line.
General Horace w. Carpenter. a
wealthy retired merchant Of the Pacific
coast, is the donor of the 100000 to
Columbia university for the endow-
ment Of chair of Chinese language
and literature.
BY the collapse of the city market
house a, Zacatecas. Mexico. December
22nd, fully forty-tive lives were lost
and over n score of persons seriously
injured. some of them so badly that
they cannot recover
The safe In the county treasurer's
office at Atwood Kansas. was blown
open on the morning of the 22nd and
$500 taken. Officers were on the
scene in n few moments, but the
cracksmen had escaped.
Physicians of the University Of Mich
igan think they have discovered an
an;iseptic for all intestinal diseases,
such as cholera. typhoid fever and
dysentery. 1t has already been sue
cessfully tried on small animals.
Colonel James Forney of the marine
corps, who is now in command of the
marines at the League Island navy
yard, Philadelphia, has been ordered
to Cavite. Philippine Islands, to as
sumo command of the first brigade of
marines.
A feature of the winter cruise Of the
North Atlantic squadron in West
Indian and gulf waters will be drills in
landing and launching boats crews Of
sailors and other maneuvers, in which
conditions Of actual warfare will be
simulated.
The Treasury Department has issued
a circular extending the prohibition
against the Importation Of meat cattle
from Australia and New Zealand into
the United States, so as to include
Hawaii, 1t being territory of the
United States.
The municipal council Of Dublin
voted to bestow the freedom of the
city Of Dublin on John Redmond, the
Nationalist leader in the House Of
Commons, who returned to Ireland o
few days ago from 4 visit to the
United States.