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tcrmined to have the Galveston
launched at the earliest possible mo
re ent
The Associated press recently se
cured several interviews with promi
nent members of the English house of
commons and all these tend to the
opinion that the present government
will continue in power for another
two years' tenure. The present issues
that disturb the fiscal policy of Great
Britain are believed to have been
pestponed by the officials for soma
time. The Irish land bill so much dis
cussed recently has been postponed for
further" consideration until June 29.
Major General Frank Wheaton, U.
S. A., retired, died at Washington on
June 18, aged seventy years. General
Wheaton was a native of Rhode Isl
and and in 1850 served as assistant
on the United States and Mexican
boundary survey; in 1855 he was made
lieutenant in the First United States
cavalry, and afterwards served with
distinction through the civil war.
On Juno 18 charges were preferred
against Charles Hedges, superinten
dent of the city delivery service of the
l)ostoffice department at Washington,
alleging that he had pressed claims
before congress, solicited employes In
the service to take stock in mining
companies and other allegations which
are now being investigated by the
inspectors of the postoffice depart
ment On the same day the postmas
ter general designated Edward F.
Kimball to act temporarily as super
intendent of the money order system
to succeed James T. Metcalf, who was
removed on June 17 on charges of indiscretion.
Twenty men wero. killed and thir
teen injured by an explosion In the
lyddite factory at the Woolwich ar
senal near London on June 18. The
building was completely wrecked.
It seems that the new government
of Servia is to have the sanction of
the powers of Europe. On June 18 it
was announced that Russia had joined
with Austria in recognizing the new
king, although urging the punishment
of the regicides. It Is not yet knowa
what action the new king will take in
this matter.
At the cabinet metelng in Wash
iugton on June 19 the time was taken
up by discussions of the questions in
volved in the decision of the United
States government to disregard the
injunction of the court of Virginia
and seize the incomplete gunboat Gal
'eston at the ship yards in Richmond.
Attorney General Knox had prepared
an opinion strongly affirming the right
of the government to take this action
and declaring that the court had ex
ceeded its authority.
The jury in the case of Curtis Jett
and Thomas White at Jackson, Ky.,
on trial for the murder of Attorney
J. B. Marcum, did not agree on a ver
dict and the men will have another
trial which will take place at Cyn
thiana, more than 100 miles away
from Jackson. The change of venue
in this case has excited much inter
est as has the whole progress of the
case.
The thirty-first national saengerfest
at St Louis, Mo., closed on June 19.
It is estimated that, this festival
brought to St Louis over 50,000
strangers, and it is regarded as having
been one of the most successful musi
cal festivals ever held.
Items of Interest.
An electric p!ckpocket alarm has
been invented by a mtfn In Manches
ter, England.
"At Mullion, In Cornwall, a halibut
has been caught which weighed up
wards of 100 pounds.
Of the 2,891 Congregational minis
ters in England and Wales 2,573 are
stated to be teetotalers.
British railway capital has in
creased during the last ten years by
no less than ?80u,000,000.
Liverpool, generally called a wet
place, has an average rainfall per an
num of 34 1-8 inches of rain.
The first life insurance society was
started In London in 1C98 and another
in 1700. Neither was successful.
Permanent salvage corps to render
aid in cases of accident are about to
bo organized by the Swiss Alpino
clubs.
London harness makers and carriaga
builders are suffering loss of trade
by the growing popularity of the mo
tor car.
An anonymous doner has given
300,000 to St. Bartholomew's' hospital,
London, to buy the land required for
extension.
The Liverpool docks, one of the
wonders of modern commerce, extend
along the Mersey a distance of six
and a half miles.
A scheme has been prepared for car
rying out an underground railway in
Mancuester, England, with connec
tions with the principal out-districts.
The number of murders per million
population Is 5.13 In England, 5.45 In
Germany, 11.55 in Franco, 15.42 in
Austria, 76.11 in Italy and 44.70 in
Spain.
The experiments of Muller prove
that if microbes be placed in a gun
barrel the wound made by a bullet
fired from it would be infected by the
microbes.
The annual loss from the burning
of buildings in the United States is
about $135,000,000, not including cost
of Insurance and the appliances for
fire protection.
The largest airship yet constructed
is to be built at St Ouen. It has been
designed by Senor Jose do Patrocini,
who has receive! a subsidy from the
Brazilian government for the purpose
The importations of opium that is
prepared for smoking is double that
used by physicians and morphine
habitues. The amount is more than
half a million pounds and the value
?3,500,000.
Speaking of cremation, the London
Lancet expresses the opinion that the
chances of a living body thought to
be dead being reduced to ash .s are too
Indefinitely remote to merit attention.
In the vast majority of Instances
there is no real foundation for the
stories of premature burial or in
tended burial.
The United States patent office Is
sues one-third of the whole number of
patents issued in the world, or nearly
as many as France, Germany" and
Great Britain combined, and four and
a half times as many as Germany, the
only one of our near competitors
which makes novelty researches be
fore granting patents.
The demand of the British govern
ment that the two new Cunarders it
sr heavily subsidizes shall maintain a
speed averaging 25 knots an hour for
a season has to this date prevented
the letting of the contract To have
two vessels costing about $10,000,000
thrown back upon them would be a
great hardship for any firm of build
ers. Twenty-three and a half knots
in the highest record for a single voy
age. The expression "baker's dozen,"
'which is in point of fact 13, has a his
tory. For a baker in the olden times
to give short weight in bread exposed
him to considerable penalties, and
thus the custom arose of adding an ex
tra loaf to the dozen as compensation
for any possible deficiencies in tho
rest of the batch. Tho extra article
was originally a safeguard to avert
tho chance of a heavy fine. -Pittsburg
Dispatch.
A Cutting Retort.
Tho Russian official! aro coming
back at tho United States In return
for tho protests mado hero against the
massacre of the Jows in a way that
makes tho fur fly. They say that the
United States government is tho last
government on earth that should pro
test, having Itself killed 300,000 Fili
pinos. Some it tortured to death, in
cluding at least one Christian priest,
others, it herded in rcconccntrado
enraps where they died of disease and
were charged from 25 to 100 per cent
profit on tho rice that was given them
to keep them alive. Whole provinces,
and not simply ono section of a city,
were made a "howling wilderness."
Then these Russians, after enumerat
ing these cruel things, of which tho
whole world has knowledge, say that
tho people of the Unitod States had
better remove the beam from their
own eyo before they undertake to re
move the mote from their neighbor's.
Tho truth about the matter is that
imperialism has destroyed tho moral
influence of this nation, once bo
strong even in the remote corners of
tho earth. There has been a damn
ing blot placed on the unsullied honor
of this nation by the republican party.
Whether that blot can ever be ef
faced or not depends upon how soon
tho republican party is overthrown
and this nation goes back to the Dec
laration of Independence. The hope
of the oppressed of every land for a
hundred years was In tho United
States. Then all at onco "the land of
the free and tho home of tho brave"
turned aside from Its constitution and
all its traditions and adopted tho im
perialism of the kings of the olJ
world. There is no beacon light ot
liberty now left on tho whole earth
and the hope of the earth has been
turned into despair. -Lincoln (Nob.)
Independent.
Letter Perfect.
"Now," said the professor, "suppose
you had tried everything which your
knowledge of medicine suggested,
what would then be your course?"
"Supposing the patient to fall?"
"Certainly."
"After having presented and col
lected my bill I would advise the pa
tient to take a trip to Europe."
"But suppose you did not succeed In
collecting your bill upon its presenta
tion?" "Then I would stay right with him
and depend upon tho gratitude of hta
heirs."- Houston Post.
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