, 1902-01-23
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speculation in corn recently attracted
so much attention, is unable to meet
his obligations.
The anti-pass agreement has been
irretrievabIy broken, all lines ANNOUNCE
ing that for 1902 exchange passes
would be given.
A contract for the sewering and paw
ing of Havana for S10,649,OOO has been
signed by Jersey City men n by Act
ing Mayor Latorre.
Secretary Root has sent to Congress
estimates Of 100000 for the defense
of the island of Guam and 26,O
for the defense of Hawaii.
A revolution in Paraguay is immi-
nent; caused by the question OF presi-
dental succession. There has been
some fighting and more is predicted.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that a MAJ travelling on n pass
bearing the exemption clause cannot
damages for injuries received.
At Enid, Oklahoma Territory, Sun
day, the Peoples bank was robbed of
$1,000. The burglars blew the safe
open with dynamite. There is no clew.
William Is. Miller OF bIbDhlN IL tht
head of the Franklin $50 per cent. syn
dictate, has been refused a new trial.
Miller's sentence was ten years impris-
onment.
A combination of gas. gasoline and
oil stove factories is the latest. The
American Stove Company, with a cap
ital of $5,000.0O0, is the name the cor
poration bears.
Prince Henry on the imperial yacht
HohenZollern will sail for New York
January 18th. The band of the second
naval division will come to the United
States on board the Emperor's yacht.
The Union Lead and Oil Company of
New York is about ready to enter Il
excessively into the lead business. 1t
will be n competitor of the National
Lead Company as well as the indie
pendent lead concerns.
While the Pope was granting an aud
fence to American pilgrims last Mon
day, he was taken with n fainting fit
just MS he was about to address them.
The pontiff was conveyed to his apart
ments, where he soon recovered.
Scriptural quotations rejecting oil n
persons character and sent by postal
card through the mails are n violation
of the postal laws, according to n YER
dict returned by a jury in the United
States District Court in Chicago.
Commissioners Bernard Moses, head
of the Department of Pubic Instruc-
ton for the islands, has delivered an
address 10 the teachers of Manila, in
which he particularly urged the con-
tinued instruction of Filipino children
in English.
The feature of the Tri-State Grain
and Cattle Growers convention at
Fargo, North Dakota, We're the ad-
dress of James ]. Hill and the adop-
ton of resolutions commencing Presi-
dent Hill for his work on behalf of
the Northwest
The London News learns that. owing
to grave doctrinal differences, General
Booths son-in-law and daughter. Mr..
II Mrs. Booth-Clibborn, and Percy
Clibborn have resigned from the Saliva
ton Army and Joined the church of
John Alexander Dowie.
There is great rejoicing in the Off
cial circles of Nicaragua Over the news
by cable that the Nicaragua canal bill
has passed the House of Representa-
tives. The national band at Managua
played Hail Columbia" and salutes
Were fired from the battery.
In Germany the consumption of beer
in 1901 averaged fifty-seven gallons
per head through the empire, the aver
age rising in Bavaria to 212 gallons
per head. The average consumption in
1882, according 10 the official records,
was t~hirty-eight gallons per head, an
increase in two decades of nearly fifty
per cent.
a dispatch from Hartshorn, Indian
Territory, says a fire broke out in the
new slope No. Z. at Dow, one of the
principal tributaries of the Choctaw
coal system on the 18th. At s o'clock
four bodies had been brought 10 the
surface. Probably ten more men are
in the mine. Relief has been sent from
this place.
+. Ceilley of st. Louis, n general or
ganizer for the American Federation of
Labor. has been compelled to cease
his efforts TO organize negro laborers
of Meridian, Mississippi, into local
unions. The mayor and twenty-One
prominent business m-n signed n pa
per warning him TO deslst or be driven
ont of town.
Iyulph Ogilvy of Greeley is now enti-
tied to write his name Captain Lyulps
Ogilvy, ID. $. o. Captain Ogilvy, who
was once second in line for the Scot
fish earldom of Aairlie, and who is still
generally known as Lord" Ogilvy.
has been presented by Harold Pearce.
representative in Colorado of His Mai
esty Edward VII, with the distinguish
ed service medal, for gallant conduct
in fighting the Beers
The British war office is confronted
with Il most serious condition of af-
fairs. Its calls for volunteers to re-
lieve the regiments mt the front have,
so far met with absolutely no response
and has served TO intensity the wide
spread Indignation existing among all
the volunteer regiments. In the first
place volunteers answering the call
would only receive a shilling n day,
while the ~yeOmanry, in which many
volunteers have already enlisted, re-
ceive . shillings n day.
Mail advices from Seoul, Korea, via
Yokohama, are 10 the effect that check