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Smyrna.
1t Is estimated that the trades unions
OF Great Britain now have a member.
ship OF 2,O0O,OOO Of whom 122, 600 are
females.
The Algoma Tube Works has been
incorporated In Ontario, Canada. with
capital Of $3O,OOO,OOO The plant will
be located at Sault Ste. Marie.
Three Finnish newspapers have been
permanently suppressed and seven 9TH
ers have been suspended temporarily
on account Of the Russophobism Of the
papers.
The London Standard hears that an
important feature of the coronation
ceremonies will be a naval review at
Spithend on m unprecedentedly large
scale. to which foreign warsnIps will
be invited.
Nearly all the local freight agents Of
the railways Of the Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain region have received
instructions from headquarters to stop
all freight rate cutting, commencing
January 1st.
Mrs. Eliza Pinkhnm died at Mill
bridge, Maine. December 2Sth. at the
age of nearly 1O4 years. She was
poiA tth, 1tuS- ElNe
survive her one of whom, Paul Pink
ham, is n well known shipbuilder.
Alexander II. Revell. chairman Of the
| Illinois auxiliary OF the Mckinley Me-
mortal Association, reports that the
monument fund for the state Is fast ap-
preaching the S2J, 600 mark. The total
amount subscribed to date Is S20,919.
The epidemic of smallpox in Boston
Is assuming serious phase, and the
Board of Health has issued compul-
sorry order that 10000 Bostonians be
vaccinated as rapidly as a large force
OF physicians can perform the work.
Chief Wilkie OF the secret service has
issued circular stating that n counter
felt $40 gold certificate Is In circula.
ton. He says 1t Is an unlimited photo
graph and would not deceive any one
who is accustomed to handling money.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Kalispell, Montana, $4,000 for H.
brary provided the city furnishes a
site and $1,000 yearly for mainte-
nance. The city already expends that
amount each year for library support.
All news agents on the trains Of the
Northern Pacific are to be discontinued
after the 1st of January. Daily papers
| VIII pc htDl vi Nsiis
supplied by one of the walters. This
means that tlse train peddler Is to go.
A New York dispatch of December
26th says: A new record price for
seat on the New York Stock Exchange
was established to-day by a sale at
$4,000. Last Saturday a seat sold for
$4,000, which was the record up to
that time.
The receipts from stamps. postal
cards and envelopes at the New York
postoiiicc have more than quadrupled
In less than thirty years. For 1901
they Will aggregate about S13.oO,oOO.
In 1878 they aggregated S3,0oO,0OO In
round numbers.
AS the result Of conferences between
clergyman. Rev. Mr.. Broekhuysen,
and the Boer leaders at Amsterdam. 1t
has been decided to send G. NJ. Vessels
to the United States in January bear
ing letter from Mr.. Kruger to Presl-
dent Roosevelt.
John Plnovcr n young wholesale
liquor dealer of Middletown, New
York. wanted TO find sout II he could
survive jump from Brooklyn bridge.
He did; but after being picked up by
n government tug he was unconscious
| lOI tLiCe
A well-known Scottish artist. John
Dalrymple. died of starvation mt Bel
fast, Ireland Christmas night. His
body was found In miserably squalid
surroundings. Dalrymple exhibited ut
the Royal Academy and took three
first prizes for designs at the Paris ex-
hibition.
The Elks OF Birmingham, Alabama.
presented to the poor people OF that
city a Christmas tree loaded with gifts
and 1000 children took part In the fes-
tivities. Every poor child or woman
who went to the theater, where the
celebration took place, was given sill
YER quarter as a present.
William +. Cochran, n director In
several southern railroads. the Western
Union Telegraph Company. and other
corporations, died in New York Decem-
Der 9th. Mr.. Cochran's wealth is est-
mated at s1O.OOO,OOO. His gifts to va
rious Institutions and church endow-
ments aggregated over S1,OOOOOO.
Augustus l.. Allen, one of the origi-
| nal trustees of Vnssar College, died at
Poughkcepsie. New York, December
27th. aged ninety-two. In 1850 he was
| chairman OF the committee appointed
to welcome home the late Professor $.
+. b. Morse, inventor OF the telegraph.
after his return from his protracted
trip to Europe.
| d. P. Wheeler, cashier Of the Citi-
zens' National bank at Akron, Ohio,
was found dead In front Of the vault
In the bank on the afternoon of Christ
mas He had been killed by an cleo
trlc shock through handling socket
Of an incandescent lamp and opening
the vault door at the same time, thus
forming fatal current.
The London Daily News gives 1t as
n r,lmor that the government Is pre-
pairing an Irish land bill, providing an
equivalent to compulsory purchase. 1t
Is believed that the measure provides
that the tenant may buy at seventeen
and the landlord sell at twenty years
purchase, the state providing the pay
ment Of the three years difference.
Arrangements have been entered into
between the Marconi company and the
London and Brighton railway and the
corresponding French railway COM
pany to have wireless telegraph in.
stalintion Of n permanent character be-
tween New Haven and Dieppe. The
departure of the boats will be sig
nailed. with instructions ms to the
omount NJ Iuppopp number of paSseQ.