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VOLUME 3, NUMBER 23.
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It was announced from Pittsburg,
Pa., on June 13 that plans have been
perfected for the formation in that
city of one of the greatest combina
tions of banking interests ever under
taken. Eight institutions are to be
merged into one with a capital of $7,
OQOtOO, and the resources of the new
ronrcrn are said to bo $78,000,000. T.
Hart Given, president of one of the
lee ding banks of Pittsburg,, is to be
the head of the new Institution.
According to a New York report of
Juno 13 the Northorn Securities com
pany will bo "voluntarily" dissolved
and the stocks oC the Northern Pacific
and Great Northorn Railroad compa
nies will bo distributed among the
stockholders. It is said, however, that
tho appeal now pending in the Unite:!
States supreme court will bo carried
to its conclusion. This great company
was incorporated in 1901 with a cap
ital of $400,000,000.
General Matos, leader of the revolu
tionists in Venezuela, on June 12 pub
lished in Curacoa a manifesto ad
dressed to tho Venezuelan people, con
fessing that the revolution is crushed
and terminated, and saying he will
ask President Castro to guarantee the
safety of himself and all his followers
so that they may bo able to return to
their homes and work for the con
summation of peace and the pros
perity of Vonozuela.
June 14 a three-story building used as
a hotel and owned by Captain B. J.
Ewon, the principal witness against
tho accused men, was burned to tho
ground. It is believed that tho fire
was of Incendiary origin and was in
tended to serve as a warning to tho
jurors sitting in the case.
Tho terrible tragedy In Servia
whereby the king and queen together
with several attendants were mur
dered by a military revolution, seems
to have affected the Servian people
very little. On June 15 it was an
nounced from Belgrade that the sen
ate and skuptschtina had legally and
with duo formality elected Prinoe
Peter Karageorgeovitch king of Ser
via and this election was greeted with
the almost universal acclamation of
the people. It is said that the form
of government will not be changed.
in China or Manchuria, except the
duties collected by the native custom
houses at the treaty ports under for
eign customs management and allown
surtaxes of 11-z per cent In Import
and one-half per cent in export duty.
j.tev. John Chidwick, chaplain In
the United States navy, has tendered
his resignation to President Roosevelt.
Father Chidwick was one of tho flrut
priests to be appointed in the navy
and was chaplain of the ill-fated Maino
at the time of the explosion in Ha
vana harbor.
rary exercises and speech making at
Bunker Hill monument.
The formal opening of the twentieth
trionnial saengerfest of the North
eastern Saengerbund of America, took
place at Baltimore, Md., on June 14.
The attendance was very large, about
M00 -singers being present.
After a rough passage of sixteen
days and 22 hours from Gourock,
Scotland, tho latest challenger for the
America's cup, Sir Thomas Lipton's
yacht, Shamrock In., arrived safe in
New York on Juno 14.
On June 14 the relief committee of
Kansas City, Kas., issued an appeal
for aid in the interest of the people
of that flood-devastated city. About
23,000 people in that city alone are
in need of tho .necessaries of life, ev
erything they possessed being swept
rway by tho floods.
An awful disaster occurred to the
town of Heppner, Ore., on June 15
when the town was almost entirely
destroyed by a 'cloudburst and prob
ably 500 people drowned. The town
had a population of about 1,250 in
habitants and was the center of i
large farming and stock growing
country. It was situated on the banks
of Wlilow creek, in the neighborhood
of the converging point of four other
mountain streams that drained a larg9
area of country and on account of be
ing shut in by mountain ranges about
the people had little chance of escape
in that direction. It was reported
that the town was swept by a wall of
water twenty feet high and the people
were caught in their houses with no
chance of escape.
The united mine workers' conven
tion called for the purpose of taking
action on the refusal of the' operators
to recognize several district presi
dents as the miners' representatives on
the conciliation board, was called to
order at Scranton, Pa., on June 15.
President John Mitchell was chosen
chairman and in his address expressed
umu.iJiJomi.ment Because the mine op
erators do not live up to the award of
the anthracite coal strike commission
and its terms.
At Scranton, Pa., on June 16 the res
olution indorsing District Presidents
Nicholls, Fahey and Dettry as the
miners' representatives on the boar 3
of conciliation, was adopted separate
ly by the three districts. Another res
olution was adopted, providing that
all grievances, instead of being
threshed out in debate, should bo giv
en to the conciliation board for consideration.
An amicable adjustment of the ho
tel and restaurant strike was reached
in Chicago on June 17 after two weeks
of idleness on tho part of these em
ployes. All differences are to be set
tled by arbitration.
The leading feature in tho reichstag
election held on June 1G in Germany
was in the success of the social demo
crats in increasing their representa
tion in the reichstag by fifteen seats
and their total vote to upwards of 2,
500,000, or 400,000 more than in 1898.
Tho socialist gain in Sanoy was espe
cially marked.
On June 16 President Roosevelt was
the guest of. the University of Vir
ginia, where he delivered an address.
The president afterwards visited
Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.
The flood situation at St. Louis, Mo.,
and East St Louis, 111., is slowly im
p5ving: althouSh great destitution
still exists among the flood victims.
It is reported that twonty-seven peo
ple are still missing from sections
visited by the floods, and the list of
dead may be increased.
A memorial monument to negro
slaves and thoir descendants, in rec
ognition of valuable domestic and pa
rotic services before and during the
revolutionary war, was dedicated at
Barrlngton, R. I., on June 14. This is
the first monument of its kind to bo
erected in tho United States. The
memorial is a large granite boulder
buttressed at tho corner with large
black stones, emblematic of tho inter-dependent
relation; nf h wu t-
mid black races, and bears a tablet
inscribed: "in memory of negro
? ,e? ,,and their descendants, who
faithfully served Barrington families."
Tho recent sensational trial of
Messrs. Jett and Whit eon trial for
the assassination of Lawyer J. B
?5H?um Ja(son Ky.. attracted at
tention throughout the country. On
On June 15 through their represen
tative association, B'Nai Brith, the
Jews of America laid their case before
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Hay concerning the treatment of Jews
in Russia and more particularly the
icuuul xviauiutju massacre. Tne dele
gation asked that tho president uso
his good offices to secure the atten
tion of the ranr to tTinao mitfon-sm ,i
daring that he is being kept Ignorant
c? the torriblo treatment accorded to
the Jews of his domain. Neither
President Roosevelt nor Secretary
Hay would make any definite prom
ises, but agreed to do all that the
principles of international comity
would allow to be done in the case.
The strike among the brick workers
and hod carriers of Omaha, Nob.,
which has . been in onorntinn oi
March 16 of this year was practically
settled on June 15 and building opera
tions in tho city began anew.
It was announced from Shanghai
China, on Juno 15 that the terms of
the American commercial treaty have
been settled, except tho clause provid
ing for the opening of two Manchur
fan ports. The treaty abolishes all in
terior trade barriers in tho shape of
internal taxation of goods in transit
The investigation into the affairs of
the postofllce department in Washing
ton goes on and on. June 17 Jas. T.
Metcalf, for many years superinten
dent of the money order system of the
department, was removed from office
by tho postmaster general. Mr. Met
calf is accused of indiscretions in tho
awarding of contracts for printing the
money order formS'of the government
A dispatch from Boston dated June
17 to the Associated press says: With
Philadelphia's famous relic, ther Lib
erty bell, and the memento of the civil
war, John Brown's bell from Barl
boro, as features, the annual celebra
tion of the annlversarv of tho hnffi.i
of Bunker Hill assumed unusual in
terest today. Following the carnival
and military parades there were lite-
Tho lockout in the building trades in
New York city was made complete on
June 17 by 10,000 employes of the
George A. Fuller Construction com
pany being thrown out of work. It is
estimated that this makes a total of
luO.OOO men in the city who are idle
on account of differences between their
organization and that of tho employers.
On June 17 Henry F. Greene of Di
luth was appointed as civil service
commissioner to succeed Mr. Garfield.
.Governor Bailey of. Kansas on Juno
17 issued a proclamation calling to
gether the legislature in special ses
sion on June 24. The preamble of tho
proclamation is: "Whereas, The re
cent floods have, in addition to tho
destruction of vast amounts of prop
erty, swept away numerous bridge?,
the immediate rebuilding of which is
imperative, but for which no adequate
law exists, thereby bringing about an
extraordinary occasion within the
meaning of the constitution authoriz
ing a special session of the legislature."
The work of restoring order out of
the chaos occasfoned in the town of
Heppner, Ore., by its recent devasta
tion by a cloudburst is progressing
slowly. Up to June 18 the number of
dead recovered from the flood ruins
totalled 153 bodies and about sixty
.more people are missing. About $15,
000. has already been contributed for
the work of relief.
Judge Grlnnan of the Richmond,
Va., chancery court on June 18 grant
ed an injunction restraining Lieuten
ants Theiss and Grossdeck, United
States navy, from proceeding further
toward the launching of the cruiser
Galveston, under construction in the
Trigg ship yards at Richmond. This
action was based on the attempt of
the creditors of the insolvent Trigg
Shipbuilding company to secure their
money, but it is said that the govern
ment while -not desiring to interfere
with the rights of state courts, is de-
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