Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-02-14
NEWS IN
MINIATURE
Doings of a Busy World Told in
Terse Paragraphs.
NEWS CONDENSED
And Put Together in Readable
Form-.Happenings by Land
and Sea..Personal and Notes.

and Sea..Personal and Notes.
Property valued at $500, 900 was de-
stroyed at Bloomington, Ill.
The visit of the Brazilian squadron
to Chili has been proposed.
Navigation was stopped in the up
per Ohio because Of the ice.
Daniel W. Gurnsey, soldier. lawyer
and politician, died at New York.
The officers Of the Monterey Lot
terry Company were arrested in Texas.
Property valued at $40. 900 was de-
stroyed by fire at Washington, N. O.
Congress may not take mp the ques-
ton Of war tax reduction till this
week.
Mrs. Soffel, who was wounded
when the Biddle boys were captured,
is improving.
It is feared that the warship Egria,
sent in search Of the sloop-of-war
Donor, has been lost.
A movement was made in Michigan
colleges to prohibit the game of foot
ball in college sports.
Admiral Walker concluded his tes-
timony before the senate committee
on interoceanio canal.
Lord Salisbury is determined to op-
pose the Irish Nationalist and to
revive the Irish question.
The census bureau has issued pre-
liminary report on the manufactures
in the United States.
Tho Chinese government dismissed
all European professors from the I'm
perial University at Pekin.
Many pilgrimagss will be made to
Rome on celebrating the twenty fifth
anniversary Of Pope Leo XIII.
George J. Kobush, president Of the
st. Louis Gar Company, was arrested
at st. Louis on charge Of perjury.
Judge Turley Of Chicago, decided
that the Chiago elevated railroads
could to be assessed by the Board Of
Review.
Memorial exercises In honor of the
late Congressman R. E. Burke Of
Texas were held in the House Of Rep
resentetives.
The case Of the city Of Shreveport
vs. A. Schulsinger. known as the pool
room case, was argued before the Su-
preme Court Of Louisiana.
Plate glass manufacturers arranged
1t Pittsburg for q summer shutdown
Of work In order to maintain prices.
Mr.. WI, the Chinese minister, ex-
planned that in his recent letter on
the Chinese exclusion bill he did not
intend to insult the American laborer.
The apparent incompetency and al
legged dishonesty in the purchasing
departments Of the British army are
arousing indignation in England.
1t is reported that q glucose trust,
capitalized at go, 900, 600, will be
formed by J. d. Rockefeller and J. P.
Morgan.
At . meeting of the army of North
srn Virginia. it was decided to APP
point q committee to draft q new
charter because of serious defects.
Archbishop Chapelle has issued the
annual pastoral letter to the diocese
Of Louisiana with the papal regula-
tions for Lent.
The second and fifth battalion Of
the New Orleans fire department pa
raded and were inspected by the
mayor aud fire commissioners.
About twenty officers Of the volun-
teer engineer regiment Of which he
was captain in the Spanish-American
war arrived to be the carnival guests
Of City Engineer Hardee of New Or
leans.
Senator MoEnery has introduced
in the senate a bill authorising the
ecretary Of the interior to transfer
to the Louisiana State University the
buildings and grounds Of the United
States at Baton Rouge, La.
Secretary Hay has made q demand
upen the governor of Colorado for an
investigation Ct the destruction last
summer Of the buildings Of William
Redcliffe, an Englishman, at Grand
Mesa Lake, Col.
n. q. Alder, president Of the Ma
tional Council Of Switzerland, has
been compelled to resign because he
refused to return decoration given
him by President Loubet.
Gov. Taft continued his testimony
before the senate Philippine commit
tee. A osblegram from Acting Gov.
Wright was read, urging q reduction
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