The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-05-22

islands in the neighbcrhood should
take warning, as should also those of
Central America.
A private telegram received here via
La Guaira, Venezuela, says Fort de
France, Martinique, is seriously
threatened by the volcanic disturban-
ces.
Several small islands near Martinique
have been entirely swallowed up by the
sea since the great eruption of Mont
Pelee ON May s. Martinique is daily
shaken by earthquake rumblings There
was landslide near LIE Precheur Sat
turday which engulfed plantations and
several houses. Scientists here predict
greater disasters. The greatest I'M
easiness prevails.
Professor Friedrich Hirth, of Berlin,
who holds the chair of Chinese philo-
logy at the University of Munich, has
received call to the new Chinese pro-
fessorship at Columbia university, New
York. 1t is understood that Professor
Hirth cannot Immediately accept, be-
canse he has already accepted COM
mission from the Russian government
to go to st. Petersburg to catalogue q
collection of Chinese books and manu-
scripts.
The engagement of M. Santos-Du-
mont the Brazilian aeronaut, to the
daughter of a distinguished native of
his country is announced in Paris.
J. Pierpont Morgan's victory in the
prolonged fight before Lold Windsor's
committeein London, is admitted to be
an event of enormous significance in the
history of London locomotion. The great
feature of Morgan's tube scheme is his
proposal to charge extraordinarily cheap
fares, notably one penny from Hammer
smith to Charing Cross, a distance of
over five miles, 1t was therefore OPP
posed by all the other railway compan-
les who are alarmed at this prospect
of vigorous competition. The Yerkes
group will get its line from Piccadilly
Circus to Holborn, to join the up tube
from Brompton to Piccadilly with that
from Holborn to Finsbury Park, which
has already been sanctioned, but they
will have to face serious competition
with the new line. The decision of the
committee involves the construction of
four tubes under Piccadilly.
The wholesale purchase of Missouri
mules by the British government for
service in South Africa has ceased at
st. Joseph Mo-, according to tele-
gram received Tuesday by a British
agent. Large purchases were made
during the past week and orders were
received that they be shipped to
the remount station at Lathrop Mo-,
whence they will be prepared for ship
ment to some British possession. The
Lathrop station will be closet. The
telegram in effect said:
THE war in South Africa will close
at an early date and no use can be
found for more horses and mules"
1t is stated on good authority, says
the Toxic correspondent of the London
Times, that the new programme of
naval expansion for the six years be-
ginning 1904, will comprise four battle
ships of To- 900 tons each, 1.-TWO armored
cruisers of 8, 900 tons each, four second
class cruisers of 5000 tons each, fifteen
destroyers and fifty torpedo boats.
The correspondent says the Japanese
nation is evidently prepared to indorse
the naval expansion policy.
The Toxic correspondent of the Times
says that Gen. Fukushima, who was
commander in Pe.Chi-Li province,
China. in the early part of the campaign
of 1900, will represent the Japanese
dU tUt VI hlUb ElWdTu.
The King of Spain, Alphonse XIII
was crowned ruler of the Castilian peo-
pie last Saturday in Madrid He took
the oath before the Cortes.
In the Swedish parliament the leader
of the agrarians offered an amendment
to the effect that the government should
introduce bill for universal suffrage
in 1904. The amendment was carried
! by vote of III to 1917 The labor lead
ers have decided that the strike shall
end This action was taken because of
the action of the Rigsdag in passing a
vote that universal suffrage should be
granted This vote is regarded by the
labor leaders as satisfactory.
Whooping Cough.
A woman who has had experience
| with this disease tells how tO nrevent