Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-04-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

formed a union.
Cabinetmakers In England average
about $11 n week.
Wisconsin BARRIERS are working for
state license law.
Wild creatures inhabiting hot
countries are more savage than those
or cold or temperate countries.
Thirty-five villages in Kielcc. Rus
sian Poland. are under water through
the OVERLOOKING OF the Vistula. due TO
ice blocks.
Orders have been given by the king
Tor motor launch to be used In con-
nection with the royal yacht, Victoria
and Albert
Agitation is on foot in Germany
against Chinese labor in Samoa where
the first shipload of Chinese coolies
has arrived
Coffee plantations 100 hundred miles
west of the volcano of Colima have
been damaged by falling ashes from
the eruption.
Together with the tools that were
stored inside It. an entire house has
been stolen. brick by brick. near Cas-.
sci Germany.
In round numbers. the frozen rab-
bits imported into England last year
from Australia and New Zealand TO
tailed 1900 900.
In Germany last year the telephone
was used 757 500 900 times. making an
average of nearly eight calls a day by
each subscriber.
In Paris n youth has been arrested
who attempted to kill his father in
order that. as a widows son. he might
escape conscriptlon.
In commcmoration OF the Thirty
Years War. the battle field OF Lutzen
where King Gustav Adolf OF Sweden
met his death, Is to- be turned into n
public park.
DR.. Ekenberg. a Swedish scientist
has invented machine for converting
skimmilk into a powder which when
dissolved in water gives the properties
OF ordinary milk
Glasgow corporation is about to con
slider the advisability of obtaining
municipal coalfields to put down the
excessive profits exacted on coal in
consequence Of strikes and disputes
Exports of fresh beef from the Unit
ed States for the eight months ended
February %. 1903. show a decline Of
upwards OF So 900. 900 pounds. as com
pared with the period the previous
year
The quantity OF butter exported
from the United States during the cal.
eudar year 1902 amounted to only g..
959.316 pounds. against 24.249. 5GF,
In 4
in 1900.
In South Uist. Hebrides. part OF La.
dy Gordon Cathcart's estate has been
seized by cottars. who have divided
II among themselves. and say they will
keep it by force. as without land they
must starve.
One thousand miles OF main canals
and iatcrals. costing $4,000 900 are to
DO constructed in the Snake River
valley in tho state OF Washington un.
der the leadership OF steel manufac.
turing millionaires.
King Edwards three daughters
seem TO be devoid OF personal ambi-
ton. and to be quite willing that their
slster-in-law and their aunts Helena
Louise and Beatrice should represent
royalty IN tnclr stead.
In connection with Sir Ernest Gas.
sells gift OF c4O,OOO for the relief of
eye diseases in Egypt. a tent in tn.
form OF a travelling dlspensary" for
the treatment OF patients is 10 be as
tabiished al cost Of 600 year.
One Of the last wishes of tho late
Mr. Rhodes. the erection Of memo
rial at Carriers Ridge TO COL Scott
Turner and others who we're killed i'm
the sOrtie on November %. 1899 has
just been carried out by the De Beers
company
At the suggestion Of Lord Strath
coma and Lord Aberdeen party If
members of both houses Of parlia.
mon, is being organized TO pay a visit
10 Canada in tho autumn recess. The
object IS 20 study the resources OF tho
dominion
Nearly all the shoes sold I'm Russia
are manufactured by ono firm In ST
Petersburg. which is ono Of the most
prosperous stock companies i'm tho
world
A handsome monument is TO be
erected 10 Gen Alexander Hays Of
Hancock's corps on tho wilderness
battlefield. in Spottsylvania county.
Virginia, where he fell
Exports OF frozen beef from Argen.
tina have Increased from 9.O79 tons in
1899 TO 70.O18 tons in 1902 Exports
OF live cattle declined during the same
period from 312.150 head In 1899 10
1i8.2O3 head In 1902