Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-02-22

oAAC DIlllSu SQuduIOu al
Manila during the Spanish-American
war, has been made an admiral.
The Tribuna announces that the
members of the American colony in
Rome have decided to present statues
OF Longfellow and Hawthorne to that
city.
The American colony in Berlin
turned out, on the night of the 14th,
IN large numbers, to attend a min
strel show given by 40 American mu-
steal students for the benefit of the
girls club.
A census of the unemployed in Ber-
lin, taken on the 20, indicates that,
so far as the count has proceeded,
there are $4,000 persons totally with,
out employment and about 10000
partially unemployed.
Gen. Egbert Brown, who was in
command of the Union troops at
Brazos, Tex, in the last battle of the
civil war; fought after peace had
been declared, died. on the 11th, at
Westplains, Mo-, aged IS years.
The navy department received a
cablegram from Rear-Admiral Rodg-
ers, at Cavite, on the 18th, announcing
that Sergeant B. Mcswiney, of the
marine corps, was killed in action at
Balangiga, Samar, on the Sd inst.
An agreement has been reached by
which the lil1in, or provincial duties,
now collected by the provisional gov
ernment in China, will, on the disso-
luton of that authority, revert to
the control of the foreign customs.
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Washington Gill, for many years
engineer of Richmond, Va, and later
superintendent of construction of the
bridge across the Missouri river at
st. Charles, Mo-, died at his home
in Kansas City, Mo-, aged SO years.
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An increase of the salary of the
minister to Persia from $4,000 to
$1,000 has been recommended by the
senate committee on foreign rela-
tions. yThe post is said to be one
cf the most expensive in the diplo-
matte service.
The Kingston (Jamaica) Daily Tel
egraph gives prominence to a report,
circulating in official circles there,
that an American syndicate is maxi
ing tentative inquiry with the view
of acquiring control of the Jamaica
government railroad.
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Thirty-Two Japanese laborers, i'm
ported from Wyoming and California
by the Victor Fuel Co., to work in
the Chanler coal mine at Coal
Creek, Col, arrived there on the 11th.
All the miners employed there went
on strike as protest against the
action of the company.
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q. I. Briggs, cashier of the Nebras-
ka State Bank of West Point, Neb.,
died on a Burlington train near Nc
Cook, on the 18th. Briggs was identi-
fled with state politics for years and
was a man of considerable wealth.
He was on his way to Boulder, Col,
for the benefit Of his health.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones has given formal notice that
the new leases of the 4SO,00O acres of
Kiowa Indian lands in Oklahoma,
bordering on Texas, will take effect
April 1, as originally proposed. An
effort had been made to have the
date postponed some months.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
Prince and Princess Charles of Dem
mark and Princess Victoria occupied
box, on the night of the 14th, at
the performance of "Arizona" at the
Adelphi theater, London. King Ed
ward expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the performance.
The Berlin foreign office, on the
18th, pronounced incorrect the state
ment cabled thence that Germany is
on the point of presenting an ulti-
matum to Venezuela. On the con-
trary, the outlook is improving, and
a friendly settlement of the ques-
tions in dispute is most probable.
At a meeting of the Morconi wire
less Telegraph Co., in London, ON the
18th, it was announced that the di-
rectors of the company had insured
the life of Mr.. Marconi for G15O,0O0.
It was also reported that the Lloyds
had exclusively adopted the Marconi
system in connection with their sig
nal stations.
At Detroit, on the 10th, Cashier
Frank C. Andrews was placed under
arrest on warrant charging him
with taking over million dollars
from the City savings bank without
the authorization of the directors.
He was arrested in the Office of the
Detroit Trust Co., arraigned end re-
leased on $4,000 bail.
Judgment by default for $4,000
against Prince Buiwha, the second
son of the king of Corea, was entered
by Chief Justice Bingham, in the
circuit court for the District of Co
lumbia, on the 14th The plaintiffs
are Wolff Bros. & Co., of New York
city and Philadelphia, who sued on a
promissory note made by the prince.