The Globe-republican., 1904-02-25
LATEST news IN BRIEF.

wives in London. q
The safety of missionaries in Korea
is now considered us secure.
Feb. 10 was the coolest day in north
'ern Ohio since Feb. 10, 1893
Russia can afford to wait, - is IL com
mon expression at st. Petersburg.
Colombia has become quiet. Talk Of
Panama seems to have subsidized.
On Feb. II there were 300 cases of
typhoid fever reported in Watertown,
New York,
A crazy crank was arrested at the
White House with revolver on him.
lie was from Chicago.
The Russian embassy is being flooded
with offers of assistance from Ameri-
cans in various walks of life.
Fire at Minneapolis. Mimi, Quilted
the Printers Exchange bnilding, a six
story brick. Loss, 100000.
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose-
welt each planted tree on Washing
tons birthday, in the White House
grounds.
Commander Booth Tucker said that,
in the death of Senator Hanna, the
Salvation Army had lost oneof the best
friends it ever had.
The people of the United States cat
up Sl5o.000.0OO worth of candy in a
year. and there are nearly 5000 fac
tories making it, with capital of $685.
COO. 900.
Wallace King, son of creamery trust
magnate, who had been lost since be-
fore Christmas, was found frozen stiff
in an unused refrigerator room near
Norfolk, Nebraska.
An insurance publication Of Balti-
more fixes the total loss in the BaltiI
more fire at $3., 1874 800, of which local
companies carried 100000. The esti-
mated total salvage is 81 ,769,70O.
A ship was towed into port at New
York which had been ten months com
ing from Manila, with the crew COM
pletely exhausted They had been in
continuous storm in both oceans
The union Of the Presbyterian and
the Cumberland Presbyterian churches
of the United States was effected at
the conference at st. Louis; after
which % banquet was rendered the
me,npcrs of the two committees by the
Presbyterian Social Union ofSt, Louis.
The report that the japanese have
concentrated about 10000 troops at
Wonson on the east coast of Korea
with the object of entering Manchuria
is confirmed
So many offers of military and medi-
cal assistance have come to the Russian
embassy from Americans all over the
country that the Russian ambassador
has cabled to Russia for instructions
in the matter
The mercury went down to A be-
low zero on February II, which is q
new record for New York city.
The large paintshopof the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western car shop plant,
at Scranton, Pa, Is destroyed by fire,
Loss $780, 900,
By the approval of the president
1000 printing artisans of Baltimore
have been given temporary employ
ment in the government printing Of
fee.
The request of President Mitchell
that all miners should quit work dur.
ing the afternoon of the day of Senator
Hanna's funeral was quite generally
observed. l-
Seneca lake in New York, was frozen
from shore to shore from Starkey to
North Hector on February II, for the
first time since 1851
Senator Hanna attended the public
schools of Cleveland four years and
later was at the Western Reserve
Academy two years. This is the sum
of his school education.
The japanese minister at Washing.
ton is receiving numerous offers Of
large contributions to the war funds,
but It seems now to be probable that
Japan will refuse to accept such aid,