The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-04-06
THE WORLD
NEWS NOTES

For the first time in the history OF
the kingdom, the revenues OF Great
Britain passed the billion dollar
mark during the year ending March
81.
The final provisional census returns
give the total population OF India as
315 100000, this being an increase OF
2O.5OO, 900 as compared with the lSOl
census.
Every coal mine in Alberta ana
eastern British Columbia is closed ana
from present prospects the strike OIL
coal miners will prevent the mining
of a single ton of coal for months.
An official estimate of the mineral
output of Alaska last year places the
figures at $17.4O0,OO0, of which $16,-
800, 900 represents gold, as compared
with an output in 1909 of $20,371,O7S.
The hull of the sunken battleshlp
Maine, in Havana harbor, will be ex-
posed not later than June l, according
to Frank M. Daniels, the contractor
who built the cofferdams around the
ship.
1t is authoritatively declared upon
the highest authority in Catholic
church circles in the United States,
that within a very short time an
other American cardinal will share
honors with Cardinal Gibbons of Bal
timore.
St. James Catholic church of San
Francisco was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire, entailing an estimat-
ed loss of $4,000.
After serving a year, the Spanish
cabinet headed by Premier Canelejas
was forced out Of Office through the
activity of the Republicans. Radical
measures against the clericals were
proposed by the opposition.
Temperance legislation met death
in the Iowa senate committee on the
suppression of intemperance when
Tie COlil4illCC hIAACu Tic uuy AiohL 90
loon bill and the anti-treating bill.
The new commerce court has des-
ignated Monday as the day for the be-
ginning of hearings before the court.
The sessions will be held in Wash
ington.
Drastic action was taken by Post
master-General Hitchcock to effect a
reorganization of the railway mail
service. A dozen changes of the most
important officers were made by Mr..
Hitchcock as result of careful in
vestigation and consideration.
Leaving San Francisco Sunday
night Colonel Roosevelt visited Reno,
New; Sacramento, Eugene. Portland,
Tacoma and Seattle, arriving in Spo-
kane at the end of the week.
Charles d. Hilles, assistant secre.
tary Of the treasury, began his duties
Monday rs secretary to the president,
succeeding Charles d. Merton, who
has resigned to become vice-president
of the First National Bank of New
York.
Otto Ringing, second of the famous
family of brothers who now control a
greater part of the circus business OF
this country, died in New York after
an attack of heart disease.
Andrew Carnegie took hand in
the Mexican revolution when he sent
an emissary to tell President Taft
that the revolutionists are certain to
win and urge him to exert "all pos
sible pressure to restore peace"
Colonel Charles S. Diehl and Harry
L. Beach have purchased the San An
tonic Light at San Antonio, Texas,
and will retire from their positions
in the Associated Press.
With all the vehemence of an emo
tional actor Enrico Alfans, common
ly called Erricone, the reputed head
of the Camorra, in Italy, testified in
his own defense against the charge
of instigating the murder of the Cuoc-
colos.
Supreme Court Justice James Alloy
sius O'Gorman, Democrat, of New
York City, was elected United States
senator after the most protracted
struggle over this position ever held
in the Empire State. On the final
ballot, the sixty-fourth, he received
112 votes to 80 cast for Chauncey M.
Depew, whose term expired March
last.
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