Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-01-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

LOT 81 day OF eight hours.
Spain is overrun with bandits. who
loot converts and churches
Women clerks at Denver. Col. have
formed a permanent organization
King Edward likes to have Ameri.
can women present at his dinners.
VIM. c. Lawrence, who was a fire.
man in Boston since 1882. has lust
died.
Female house servants command
from SIS to $50 a month in South AT.
f.ca.
w. Nelson, of Paterson, n. J.. owns
the manuscript of Poe's poem. THE
Bells"
German exports to the United States
increased s14,S7s,770 during 1902 over
the year 1901.
NewspapN writer's in many OF the
large cities are organizing under char
tiers from the international Typogrf PHI
zeal union.
No child, young girl or woman can
be employed more than CO hours "A
week in Canada, and the law is strict
ly enforced.
An enormous sunfish. weighing one
and one-half hundredweight. has been
left stranded by the tide at Blakeney.
Norfolk, Eng
Titan's long missing Mary Magda
len" Is, Thought to have been found in
the possession of Robert Jarvis, of
RoxLury. Mass
TEere are more than 10000 work
mfen employed in the Portsmouth
(EngO navy yard. The wages amount
to $4,000 weekly.
Navy men are subscribing for
monument Cat Erie, Pa to the late
Capt. Charles V. Gridley. OF the Olym-
pia and Manila bay.
1t has been decided to establish
wireless telegraphy apparatus on all
stations and on all passenger trains
On Italian railroads.
Oregon labor unions are preparing
child labor. eght-hour and other labor
measures for consideration by the leg
isature this session
An odd candy box Is an elephant sit
ting clumsily on its launches and
smoking a pipe. The head lifts off to
receive the bonbons.
Eighteen miles is the distance at
which the new $4,000 candle power
light on the Bass rock, in the firth OF
Forth will be visible
Robert Scott. q waiter at a Cleve
land hotel. has served the guests a.
one OF the tables of the establishment
continuously for "a years.
The st. Petersburg police have dis,
covered gang of thieves recruited
from young men moving in the highest
circles in Russian society.
In the restaurants of Germany veni.
son is as cheap and as abundant as
beef. Great pains are taken TO pre-
serve and improve the deer
Justin Mccarthy has just passed his
72d birthday. lie has apparently aban
dohed novel writing and is devoting
himself exclusively to history
The daughter of the sheriff at One
onta Ala. freed two prisoners. one
charged with murder and the other ac-
.cused of "a minor oifense. and elopcd
with the latter
The only considerable fields OF an.
fhracite coal aside from that of Penn.
sylvania are those OF China. which.
however, are vast in comparison with
Pennsylvania.
Senator Mason introduced bill pro
vidiDg for the appointment OF receiv-
ers for coal mines whenever the fail
ure to operate becomes detriment to
the public welfare.
John r. McVicar. OF Boston tho
white child born north Of the Arctic
circle. has just celebrated his golden
tened by Sir John Franklin.
The owners of number Of skyscra
pers in New York city have been
forced to purchase ground adjoining
them to prevent their light and air
being cut of by other tall buildings.
rather appropriate sulphur match
safe is in the shape of head intend
ed to- represent His Satanic Majesty
He has a very red face. and from or,
OF a small black cap protrude the
horns usually awarded 10 this gentle
man.
Prof Hall, in a recent number Of
the Astronomical Journal. has deter.
mined the mass Of the rings Of Saturn
20 that OF the planet as one 90 1902
The mass of Titan. it's largest satel.
lite. is TO that OF Saturn as one IN
$500.
On Christmas night Bishop John VI
Walden (CincinnatD. OF the Methodist
Episcopal church. had been a member
of the masonic fraternity 30 years.
He was made a master mason on Dc.
cember 25. 1852. in McMackfn lodge
No. 100, of Mt Healthy. o.
-Four hundred and seventy three
thousand miners work in the district
covered by the Miners Federation ot
Great Britain, and Of these $4,000 are
union men.
proposal has been made for tho
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