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VOLUME 3, NUMBER 9,
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sued on tho 'birthday of Alexander
III., is considered to bo tho most
significant act of state sinco tho
emancipation of tho serfs. The pub
lic hails it as tho proclamation of a
new era, opening up blight prospects
of tho early improvement of Russian
internal administration.
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Tho domands of tho conductors and
takomon of nfty-two railroads west
of Chicago for an Increase In tholr
wages was mado last December and
tho first peaceful settlement of this
demand was mado by tho Union Pa
cific railroad when It acceded to these
requests. Tho lncreaso on this lino
will effect about 1,500 men.
( On March 7 Graomo Stowart of Chl-
cago was nominated for mayor by tho
, republican city convention. Ho was
opposed by James M. Harlan and the
lattor has pledged Stowart his support
Tho criilsor Chattanooga was
launched at Elizaboth, N. J., on March
7. This vessel has an armament of
twenty-two guns and is to bo equipped
with two poworful searchlights and a
wlroless telegraphy outfit.
A movomont is on foot to erect a
memorial in honor of the lato Henry
Ward Bcechor, tho founder of Ply
mouth church in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and for forty years its pastor. A great
mass meeting was hold in Brooklyn on
March 7 for tho purposo of raising
funds for tho purposo.
It has boon officially decided that
tho launching of tho United States
crulsor Colorado will take place in
Philadelphia, Pa., on April 9. Tho
Colorado Is much larger and moro
poworful than any of tho cruisers.
heretofore constructed and may bo
taken as an oxnmplo of an entirely'
now class of war vossols.
provide for an expenditure of ?179,
184,205, which is an increaso of ?1G,
010,000. 4,000 officers and men is tho
number of tho increaso provided for
in that direction, and a great increaso
is mado in tho number of new ships
and war vessels to bo constructed.
On March 10 it was reported that
General James Winning McMillan, a
member of tho board of review of the
pension bureau and a veteran of both
tho civil and Mexican wars, died at
his homo in Washington yesterday,
aged 77. Ho was a grandson of Col
onel James MpMillan, a member of
Georgo Washington's staff.
Major Gonoral William B. Frank
lin died on March 8 at his home in
Hartford, Conn., at tho ago of eighty
years. Gonoral Franklin graduated
from West Point in 1843 and was a
classnmto of General U. S. Grant Ho
sorved through tho Mexican and civil
wars and rotired from tho army in
186G with tho title of brovet major
gonoral of tho United States army.
Under tho provisions of the Elkins
bill recently passed by congress and
signed by tho president, half rates or
oven free passes on railroads will not
bo issued hereafter, nor will tho giv
ing of any favors to persons or or
ganizations for tho purposo of influ
encing business, be permitted.
It was reported from Dublin by the
Associated press on March 9 that O.
V. Devlin, Irish nationalist, formerly
Canadian commissioner in Ireland, has
been elected without opposition, to
represent Galway in the house of
commons in place of Colonel Lynch,
who is undergoing a sentence of life
imprisonment for high treason. Cap
tain Shaw Taylor decided not to con-
toah tho flftnfr whllft Vhn nnoaftnn nf
the Irish land purchase bill was un
settled.
bane, Australia, that a terrific cy
clone has passed over that section of
tho country and many persons had
boon killed or injured. In tho town
of Townsville, North Queensland,
schools, churches and residences wore
destroyed and many of the inhabitants
have been made homeless.
An interesting phase of the situa
tion in Korea where Russia and Ja
pan are quietly but incessantly seek
ing to obtain control, was revealed on
March 9 by a cablegram from Pekin
containing the announcement of the
resignation of W. H. Sands as ad
viser to the Korean government Mr.
Sands was appointed to this post dur
ing Mr. McKinley's first administra
tion and has held it with success un
til he was practically displaced by an
adviser sent by tho Japanese govern
ment. Russia has also sent a skilled
diplomat to Korea recently and it Is
anticipated that interesting complica
tions will develop in that country.
According to a Vienna cablegram,
preparations for a revolt on the part
of the Macedonians are being pushed
rapidly, it being asserted that tho
commander, Sarafoff, has already
raised an army of 20,000. The sultan
of Turkey has given orders to have
tho garrisons increased, particularly
along tho Bulgarian frontier.
A remarkable decree was Issued by
the czar of Russia on March 12 in
whict he announces his intention to
grant freedom of religion to all his
subjects who profess non-orthodox
creeds, also to improve the conditions
of village .life and the peasantry. It
is said that the decree, which was is
According to an Associated press
cablegram from Berlin under date of
March 13 tho long legal fight over tho
attempt to compel tho municipality of
Berlin to contribute toward building
churches was ended with a decisiou
of tho civil court in favor of" Berlin.
The case grew out of Emperor Will
iam's great church building campaign
in the early years of his reign, for
which ho wanted the Berlin council
men to make appropriations. Thoy
refused, which caused strained rela
tions, between tho emperor and tho
municipal government.
The jury in tho case of the coal
operators of Chicago, recently on
trial on thd charge of 'conspiracy to
raise tho price of tho commodity, was
instructed by the judge to return a
verdict of "not guilty." The judgo
hold that if any law had been vio
lated it was tho interstate law, and
the offense should come before a fed
eral jury.
George Sawter, recently appointed
to succeed the lato Thomas Nast as
United States consul at Guayaquil, has
refused the post on account of the bad
health conditions of that city and has
been recommended by President
Roosevelt to the appointment as as
sistant appraiser of merchandise at
the port of New York.
The Associated press reported on
March 9 from Constantinople that it
was expected that permission would
bo given the American archaeologist,
Mr. Banks, to undertake excavations
XX Tel-Abraham, Mesopotamia, the
supposed site of the tomb of Abraham.
It is said that Mr. Banks has been
waiting for this permission for three
years.
Tho Wisconsin state senate recently
pvoposod that a convention be hold
at Atlanta, Ga,, for tho purposo of dis
cussing tho race question. This pro
position does not seem to bo meeting
with much favor in tho south, the
governors of sovoral states thoro ex
pressing tho opinion that such a con
vention could accomplish no possible
good.
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this department
Tho eastern portion of tho state of
Nebraska has boon subjected recently
to great damage and loss to property
by tho overflowing of rivers in that
part of the stato. Tho floods are re
corded as tho worst that have visited
Nebraska in its history. Tho break
ing up of the ice occasioned by tho re
cent mild weather is said to bo tho
causo of tho floods.
A freight train near Olean, N. Y.
loaded principally with oil tanks filled
with oil, broke in two on March 9
and an explosion of the oil followed.
Fire broke out and the explosions that
occurred caused tho death of eighteen
spectators and scores were seriously
burned.
On March 9 a resolution was intro
duced In the stato senato in session
at Topoka, Kas., recommending that
whon the now battleship Kansas is
launched the christening shall be
made with water instead of wine.
iJFh? BritIsu navy" estimates for
1903-4 were issued on March 9 and
It was recently announced that the
United States government would take
tho initiative in tho dfivplnnmnnr nf
tho international railroad projects and
Charles M. Popper had been appointed
special representative for this pur
pose. It was recently shown that of
tho 10,000 miles of railway required
already 6,500 miles had been built
The answer to the injunction re
cently issued by Judge Adams in the
United States distrint omirf nt hi-
Louis against the attempt of the em
ployes of the Wabash railroad to un
ite in a strike on that road was made
public on March 9. In this answer
tho claim sot up in the injunction was
denied, but the right of the workmen
to voluntarily withdraw from their
labor was strongly contended for.
Tho coal conspiracy case came up
for trial in the Chicago court on March
10. Tho onenincr nrmimnnr woo mnj
by Assistant State's Attorney Barnes
and tho oxistence of an agreement as
to prices was Gsffihllahori an, ,
alty for an illegal act injurious to
trade is five years in the penitentiary
or a fine of not less than $2,000.
A combination of oyster growers
and dealers, representing invested
capital of about $3,000,000, has been
formed at Providence, R. I. The an
nounced purposo of the now concern
it to lessen expenses, it boing assorted
that prices will not be advanced.
On March 10 it was reported in an
Associated press cablegram from Bris-
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