” Railroads through:the ‘‘wild West” put an end to serious Indian out breaks. They would be great civilize ing and peacemaking forces in our new possessions. We sent 2,222,279 pounds of mail to Great Britain during the last fiscal year, from which it would appear that we are entitled to high rank among people of letters. A society has been formed in Paris whose business it will be to furnish a fourteenth guest for dinner parties numbering thirteen guests. Alas, how seriously those frivolous Parisians take the little amenities of life. In spite of all the attractions of football, it is still true that the im- pelling motive of ycung men who seek our colleges is a serious purpose to acquire knowledge and an adequate preparation for the important duties citizenship. The wreck of the sfeamer Portland off the coast of Massachusetts, involv- ing the loss of over one hundred lives, appears to have been due primarily to a willful disobedience of orders on the part of the captain of the doomed ship. It is alleged that he was ordered by his employers not to sail from Boston at the regular hour of departure, but to wait’ at least two hours and consult the weather reports as to the probable duration of the furious storm theR raging along the treacherous coast Instead of following these instructions, it appears that he left port at the usual hour, toward the open sea in the face of a gale of ex- taking his vessel traordinary violence, with the result that he lcst his ship, his life and the lives of all the other persons on board. Tt is a grim tragedy of thé wintry seas, made doubly tragic by the probability that it might have been averted if com- mon sense and good discipline had guided its principal actor. The strained relations between Nor- way and Sweden bear close resem- blance to those between Hungary and Austria. Norway, like Hungary, has been rapidly increasing in wealth and population and, like Hungary, she is evidently aiming at eventually com- plete independence. In the meantime Norway is seeking for a separate con- sular service of her own, claiming that under the present arrangement the foreign service of the Scandinavian union is practically Swedisli, and Nor- Wegian interests suffer greatly in con- sequence. To this Sweden refuses to assent, maintaining that there can be only one representation of the union abroad. | one side of him and General | general, wegian storthing in adopting a resolu- | tion for a flag without the emblem of the Scandinavian union is apparently a protest against the attitude of Swe- den. Where the long dispute between these two countries will end it is hard { to say. The good influence of King Oscar, like that of Emperor Joseph in the case of Austria and Hungary, has 3 kept the two countries together in spite of jealousy and bickering, and it may prevent dissolution of the Scan- dinavian union. The latest declaration as to the legal status of the boycott is found in an opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of Michigan in a case which arose out of a boycott of a firm of mill owners by striking union teamsters. The strikers picketed the mills and issued circulars establishing a boycott on the firm. The court prefaced an injunction against the strikers with a statement of the law regulating the relations between employer and em- ploye. law protects employers in the right to employ whom they please at prices they and their employes can agree upon, and to discharge them at the expiration of their term of service for violation of their contract. So, also, the laborers have the right to fix a price upon their labor; and to refuse to work unless that price is obtained. They have this right singly or in com- bination. They may organize in order to improve their condition and secure better wages, and may use persuasion to induce men to join their organiza- tion or refuse to work except for an established wage. They may present their cause to the public in newspa- papers or circulars in a peaceable way, and with no attempt at coercion. This, however, marks the limit of either party’s right. The injunction granted by the court restrained the strikers from picketing the premises and from distributing boycott circu- lars which were said to embody threat- ening language. Labor, as the de- cision illustrates, possesses freedom of action and of combination, but that freedom must not be construed to in- clude intimidation or coercion of others whose right to labor or employ labor is equally free. SPAIN'S RULE HAS ENDED IN GUB. TRANSFER WAS QUIET. Gov. Castellanos Yields His Authority to Cen Brooke—An Exchange of Speeches—Cu- bans Not Enthusiastic. With tears in his eyes Gen. Caste:l- lanos, Spanish general of Cuba, last Sunday turned the reign of the island over to the United States government The form of the transfer was simple, consisting only of an exchange of speeches in the salon of the palace, and the raising in itt stead of the flag the hauling down of the Spanish fiag of the United States on the flagstaff on the palace roof. Salutes were fired from the heavy guns of the forts and two warships before and after the change of the flags. The raising of the Stars and Stripes was greetzd with cheers by the people, who cov- ered the roofs of the buildings around the palace and the plaza. At 11.45 Major-General Lee, itary governor of the province of Ha- vana, with his staff, joined General Brooke. The latter then crossed the street to the palace, General I.ee On Chaffee on the other, followed by the other American generals and the Cuban of- ficers. A flourish of trumpets greeted the procession, and the Spanish troops presented arms as the Americans en- tered the palace. The Cubans re- mained outside until escorted in by the members of General Brooke's staff, the Spanish soldiery remaining all the while at “present arms.” On entering the palace, the Amer- ican generals went to the salon facing the plaza, which is on the second floor. Suddenly Captain General Castil- lanos entered the salon without cere- mony from the left and greeted Gen- eral Brooke and others. After shak- ing hands General Brooke sat upon a sofa while General Castellanos moved towards the group of Cuban generals. Britsh Vice-Consul Jerome intro- duced him to General Mayia Rodri- guez. Shaking both hands of the Cuban officer, in the usual Spanish fashion, General Castellanos said: “We have been enemies, but I re- spect you for your correct attitudes and opinions, I have pleasure in shak- ing your hands.” General Rodriguez replied: mil- “I thank i you, general, I feel sorry for the Span- ish army, which has defended the banner it has sworn to defend. I also have pleasure in shaking your hands.” At the last stroke of 12, the bocm of a gun brought all eyes to the point in the room where stood the captain who was talking with an American officer. Immediately all was silence. At this moment the band on . the plaza was playing the Spanish natioal hymn. As the guns at Cabanas fort- ress ceased firing there was a breath- less pause in the salon. Everybody knew that the American flag was be- ing raised on the staff on the roof of the palace by Major Butler, son of General Butler, and that the Stare and Stripes was going up on all the other official staffs in Havana. After this second of silence, the baad on the plaza played “The Star Spangled Banner,” while the guns of the fleet and fortresses began to roar out the National salute of 21 guns. Addressing himself tg Major General | Wade, president of the United States ! military commission, General Castel- lanos said: “Gentlemen—In compliance with the i treaty of Paris, the agreement of the | military The recent action of the Nor- | commissioners of the island and the orders of any king, at this moment or noon, January 1, 1899, there ceases in Cuba Spanish sovereignty i and begins that of the United States. In consequence I declare you in com- mand of the island with the object that you may exercise it, declaring to you that TI will be first in respecting it. “Peace havmg been established be- tween our respective governments, 1 promise you to give all due respect to the United States Government, and 1 hope that the good relations existing | between our armies will continue until ; tory. of the evacuation of orders in this terri- the -termination those under my Major General Brooke said: “I accept this great trust in behalf of the Gov- ernment and Président of the United States,” and addressing Captain Gen- eeral Castellanos, “I wish you and the | gallant gentlemen with you a pleasant | return to your native land. May prosperity attend you and all who are with you.” The parade of the United States sol- diers did not arouse any enthusiasm cn the part of the Cubans. There was little decoration and much indiffer- ence. An Indiana company displayed small Cuban flags and Genered Lee ordered the men placed under arrest. ~-Meanwhile the officials of Spain were saying farewell to their nation’s seat of power in the new world. Turning to, his officers, General Castellanos said, with tears in his eyes: “Gentlemen, I have been in more battles than I have hairs on my head, | and my self-possession has never fail- According to the court the | ed me until to-day. adieu.¥ Havana harbor presented a striking appearance this morning. The Stars and Stripes were conspicuous on the American men-of-war and merchant- men across the bay. while launches were constantly plying between the shore and the ships. The docks were crowded with sightseers, many of whom wished to enter Morro Castle and Cabanas fortress, but they were refused admission. DINNER WAS NOT READY. Instead a Father Pulls His Wife and Children From the River. At Alexandria Pay, N. Y., a few days ago three of the children of Chas. Hagerman were playing on the ice off the north shore of Wells island. in the St. Lawrence river, when it broke, and they were drown«sl. Mrs. Hagerman, in her endeavors :o rescue the child- ren, broke through the ice and was al- 80 drowned. Hagerman came home an hour after the drowning to take Christmas dinner with his family. He alone recovered, tte four bodies. Adieu, gentlemen, Promotions for Naval Officers. Secretary Long has decided to make Commodore Picking commandant ot the Boston navy yard and Commodore Philip, of the Texas Commandant at New York navy yard. Captain Kem- pff, late commanding the Monterey, has been selected as naval Governor of Guam. It has not yet been decided just what disposition to make ot Admiral Schley. and Admiral Howell, though it is certain that the latter is to be given a squadron and Admira Schley expects to get the European station. TERSE TELEGRAMS. The Rothschilds have, secured a loan of $150,000,000 for the Czar's gov- ernment. Beginning January 2 a letter mailed in New York will reach San Francisco 4 days later. The coinage is the largest ever re- corded for a single month, amounting 10 $10,062,000. The expedition sent out by the Swed- ish government to find Angre has re- turned without news. The Third U. . P.. church, of Pitts- burg, was destroyed by fire last Satur- day evening. Loss, $25,000. Theodore Roosevelt, governor-elect, of New York, took the oath of office at New Albany last Saturday. U. 8S. Grant, Jr., is the most promi- nent candidate to succeed Senator Stephen A. White, of Califcrnia. Prominent men in Germany are con- fident that the Jesuits who were ban- ished in 1872, will be permitted to re- turn. An excursion of 200 Texas cattlemen to Havana has been arranged. Over 100,000 cattle are being gathered to be sent to Cuba. The total receipts of gold at the Den- ver branch mint in 1898 were $20,195,- 995, a gain of $7,822,544 over. the re- ceipts in 1897. The imports of live stock from Mex- ico to the United States during the past year were less than half "the im- ports of 1897. Henry Wessel’'s dry Baltimore was robbed Wednesday. = Dynamite blow up the safe. A horseless truck company has been incorporated in New York with a capi- tal of $1,000,000. Compressed air is used as a motive power. Two girls in: Perry County, O., are suffering from leprosy. The victims will be isolated and cared for by their mother as long as they live. Mrs. : Mallon, . the = writer, better known as “Bob,” died at New York last Tuesday. The cause of death was pneumonia, succeeding grip. Thomas Green, of Furley, killed his wife and then shot himself. They both were returning from Wichita, where they had applied for divorce. George Smith, a stage driver of Jacksonville, 11l., has received notifi- cation that an estate in England, val- ued at $250,000 is his inheritance. J. E. Kennedy, Richard Harman and T. Grady fought a three-cornered duel at Lulu, Miss. a few days ago, and the first two were killed and the third fatally wounded. ; W. A. Feltus rode from Chicago to St. Louis on his wheel during the recent cold weather in order to settle a wager. Both his feet were frozen and have been amputated. Secretary of State Hay the concessions made in July by the Hawaiian government to the Pacific Cable Company for an exclusive right to lay a cable to Hawaii. A meeting of the creditors of Allan MacNaughton, president exchange, was held in New York last Friday. The schedules showed liabil- ities $1,149,530, nominal assets $241,465. The deaf and dumb parents of 5- year-old William Ingland of Duquesne, Pa., could not hear their boy’s cries when his clothes caught fire a few days ago, and he was burned to death. H. F. Bailey, cashier of the Cole- brook National bank of Colebrook, N. H., was arrested charged with the misappropriation of funds of the bank. The shortage is placed at $34,150. The gunboat Bennington sailed from Honolulu Sunday with instructions to retake the island of Guam, captured early in the war by the. cruiser Charleston and since seized by the un- ruly Spaniards there. A reward of $5,000 awaits the person who will find the jewels which were taken from Max Blumenthal's apart- ments in the Great Northern hotel, Chicago a few days ago. The gems were valued at $25,000. Cattlemen, who some time ago kill- ed John Eckman at Chadron, Neb. in selfdefense have come to the relief of his destitute widow. She was present- ed with a purse of $1,000 on Christmag day, with a promise of more. It is reported’ that Wm. K. Vander- bilt, Jr., aged 21, is engaged to marry Miss Virginia Fair, slightly older. The lady posesses a great fortune. Van- derbilt is a sincere Protestant while Miss Fair is a devout Catholic. The year has, on the whole, been a very fortunate one for charities of London. A return has been printed showing out of a total personalty of 60 testators’ amounting to $65,000,000, $6,000,000 was left to charitable objects. Dr. Butler, an influential negro of Atlanta, Ga., has a remarkable article in Bishop Turner’s paper, in which he advocates a petition of 12,000,000 color- ed people to the European powers, ask- ing them to intervene to right the negro wrongs in a land which boasts so much of liberty. A rubber company capitalized at $30,000,000 will soon be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. China has forbidden the landing of dynamite and like explosives in the empire. x at last to store L000 used goods of was disapproved NEWSY GLEANINGS. London had seventy-two fatal cases of influenza in six weeks. Australia will join with Canada in de- fraying the cost of a Pacific cable. The house in Edinburgh, Scotland, in whieh Robert Louis Stevenson was born, is for sale. The farmers about Salem, Ore., are con- sidering the project of a co-operative creamery. The French were reported to be fortify- ing Tahiti, the principal island of the So- ciety group. Consul Washington at Alexandressa thinks there is a good chance for American wind mills in Syria. An American has founded Ruskin Hall at Oxford University, England, forthe benefit of poor young men. A Greater Sydney, New South Wales, will be organized, poasibly on lines similar to those of Greater New York. The Director of the Mint reports that the United States Government now has more gold than any nation on earth. John Howell, one of the heroes of the famous charge of the Six Hundred at Bal- aklava, died in Springfield, Mas-. Dispatches from Germany show that the feeling of antagonism to American imports into that country is gradually abating. The savings banks of New York City have deposits amounting to $766,684,916. This money belongs to no less than 1,805,830 per- sons, mostly poor. — The Wesleyan Methodists of England have already in hand a fifth of the fund of £5,000,000 which they recently decided to raise as a ‘‘twentieth century offering.” The terracotta monument marking the spot where Lafayette was wounded on the Brandywine battlefield was blown down by the reeent high winds and badly broken. of the wool - WILL NOT YIELD TO AMERIGANS. STUBBORN - NATIVE" Gen. Miller May Use Force to Rebels at Iloilo—Foreign Resi- Subjugate the dents in Danger. The following dispatch from Iloilo, island of Paney, has received at Ma- nila by boat, telegraphic communica- tion with llcilo not having ween sumed: “The situation at Tioilo is - grave Fifteen hundred nativse, fully armed, are at Melo, a suburb of Iloilo. Sev- enteen thousand more, it renorted, are awaiting orders to embark at sev- eral points on the island of Negros fifteen hours’ sail from Iloilo. “All the women have withdrawn and many families have taken refuge with the Americans. The rebels, afier a consultation, insist upon inaetion until Gen. Aguinaldo shall have been heard from. Gen. Miller, when this demand was first made, declined to concede them time and insisted upon an answer being given him by noon to-day. At the same time he gave as- surances. that lives and property would be protected. “The foreign residents tioned Gen. Miller to grant sion desired by the rebels, as a fight would cause inevitable lc This also Gen. Miller refused “At the designated. time a commission again boarded the United States transport Newport and asked for delay, saying that they were able to control the army, wich com- manded the city and the surrounding country. Gen. Miller refused and pre- pared to land forces sending an emis- sary back to Manila for “The rebels are strengthening position and are preparing to resist. The streets of Iloilo are ful of armed soldiers who are constantly entering in every direction. is great c¢itement, which is. i ‘eased by the appearance of the gunboat El Cano flying the Spanish The buildings, churches boats the river are filled with rebels. “The Newport's. boats, as. the patch. boat which carries this message is about leving, four machine guns mounted bows. The lighters are United States transport United States transport lies three miles to the steam up.” re- 18 then peti- SS native their nos lag, and along in their alongside the Arizona. The Pennsylvania south, Under Toas of Rock. A part of Red Rock mountain, cording to a dispatch from Airolo village of Switzerland, canton of cino) has fallen into Airolo, destroying a hotel and several houses. The scene of the disaster presents a terrible spectacle, the debris of the covering a square mile, (a The matchwood. A new terror was added by the outbreak of fire amid the ruins. Three dead bodies have ed. will reach $200,000. Can't Appreciate Negro Heroism. Mason Mitenell, the actor-soldier, who left the stage to join Roosevelt's Rough Riders, was aissed off the stage at the Acaen.y of Music, Was- hington, D. C., the other night, be- cause he praised the bravery of the colored Tenth cavalry. Mitchell de- livered a lecture sn the war and was enthusiastically applauded until he be- gan to praise <he colored soldiers. Then yells of . “Put him out,” ‘Stop him,” ‘Shut vp,” were heard, storm of hisses in every house. Miteclrell finally retired. Guardian of Washington's Tomb. Edmund Parker, once a slave in Washington family, and for almost half a century the guardian of the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon, is dead. Parker had skaken the hands of Presidents, Princes and potentates on their” pilgrimages to the tomb. the OUR NEW POSSESSIONS. The Filipinos believe that Time in the Old Town’ is the national air of America. Merchants and planters who left Cuba during the war are now return- ing to the island in great numbers. Aguinaldo, insurgents, now fears assassination and with some of his favored followers is in hiding back of Cavite. While, he has reached no decision and will make no recommendations on the subject, it is believed that sooner or later the president will recommend that the $20,000,000 indemnity be charged against the Filipinos, and both the interest and principal from their revenues. He does not think it should be a charge against the people ‘of the United States, al- though, as in all other matters, he re« serves the the subjéct. Exuberant Over an All ance. Here is a good story which has the | advantage of being perfectly nd true. At a smart afternoon At Home” the other day, a well-known young author introduced to a charming lady novelist of hitherto unimpeachable propriety—I can not mention her name for obvious rea- sons, declares the I.ondon Sun. Set- tling themselves in a quiet corner of the crowded room, they were chat- ting together and discussing Anglo- American politics, when a sudden si- lence falling upon the company, the lady in heart-felt accents was heard to exclaim: “And the more we know of each other, the more dearly we must love one another!” As can be :magined, all their eager explanations as to the entirely political character of the remark fell upon deaf ears and were powerless to stop the laughter of the hugely-delighted audience. new— was His Later Discovery. The Bishop of Exeter is a man ot the most abstemious temperament, almost a teetotaler, but of late not quite following, as he explained to Dr. Temple, the reason which was con- sidered adequate for Timothy. A well-known good fellow and capital judge of the fruit of the vine was din- ing cne night at the Bishop's table. At dessert Dr. Bickersteth asked him what wine he would take. His guest (with some qualms) selected port. The Bishop lifted the decanter before passing and said, **1 have had this since 1847.” There was an ‘honest glow on the face of the guest; but later on he discovered the Bishop was referring to the decanter and not the wine. Spiders are a serious plague in Ja- pan. They spin their webs on the tele- graph wires, and are sO numerous as to cause a serious loss of insulation. Sweeping the wires does little good, as the spiders begin all over again. the exten- | un- | | 1892, I only : "and flour in any previus year instructions. | | $1.91 i “with ex~ | public | dis- | are being lowered with | with | i larger in | in ac: Ti- | | against avalanche | hotel, ! with eight houses and 12 other build- | ings, was swept into a great heap of | | being i year. Es | kets, | the amid a | part of the | week | 274, against I ceding week, | ing week { in the United States and 21 in Canada. | have | 178 liabilities less than $5.000. ed § leader of the Philippine | od 3 which | has been paid to Spain shall ultimately | paid |! right to change his mind on | TRADE REVIEW. The Year of 1808 Has No Equal as Regards In- dustrial and Financial Results, R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: The year 1898 has not only been one of victory, increase in ter- ritory incalculable expansion of the influence of the United States among other nations, but has sur- passed all other years in financial and industrial results. The center of finan- cial power has crossed the ocean. Af- ter paying debts of several hundred millions abroad and condncting a war to an honorable end, the country is lending so many millions in Iurope that, for the first time, banks abroad look to New York to dictate the rate of exchange. Exports have been and the excess over $617,000,000, against $357,000,000 in 1897, and in only two previous years has the balance risen to $300,000,000. 1n no past calendar year have-net imports of gold reached $75,000,000, but this year they have been about $140,000,000. November passed all previous months in value of produce exports over im- ports, but December has gone much beyond November. Power in the world’s market comes with a demand for breadstuffs and other necessavies never before equaled. of important and of about $1,250.000, imports about | Exports of cotton have been over $7,- 700,000 bales, about and in no previous year as 7,000,000 bales, or 3.500,000,000 Exports of breadstuffs have value, $283,018,294; in eleven and have never been as large other year. vear, lacking a day or two, have been 218,594,686 bushels, flour included, ightly exceeded only by 225,665,812 in and of corn, 200,979,077 bushels; approached by 189,127,570 in 1897, heaviest exports of both grain were 59, 3,936,000,600 pounds, much as pounds. been, in months, in any The 000,000 bushels smaller, only in 1897. Though wheat was in May, the highest quotation the highest monthly average for years, $ 3 that the average the first half ycar was $111.11, ex- ded slightly in 1891, but the highest ce 1883, the December average hag been only 72¢, 25¢ below that of last year, but the average, 93c¢, is the highest since : The triumph in finance has been largely due to. industrial . progress The output of pig iron has been about 11,645,000 tons, the- greatest yet reach- ed in any year by 2,000,000 tons, greater than Great Britain ever reach- ed by 2,500,000 tons... Yet the consump- tion in manufacture has been still of net exports of pig ten months 163,089 tons, for unsold stocks were reduced in eleven months 380,000 tons. Exports of iron manufacture in ten months were about $87,644,536 in value, imports of $13,497,817. Prices shown for the year in the table of com- parisons have been unusually steady, varying net 5 per cent for pig from the lowest to the highest, and for fin- ished products not 6 per cent. Textile industries have been retarded by high prices of wooi, and abnormal- raised te 30 for SO spite | ly low prices of cotton, both deterring been recover- | It is estimated that the damage | cotton for 50 known Sep- last not purchases. In three months reached 5.31c, the lowest price years, the greatest yield ever followed by receipts since 357,000. bales larger than ports have increased but 80 greatly. In spite of enormous stocks held. wool was so lifted that buying. both of wool and of goods was checked early in the year, but slow decline began in February. have been only 232,- 451,131 pounds at the three chief n so that the mills have probably used less than a full year's supply and stock of gaods was also excessive a year ago. Failures in were 25 tember Sales the United States. for the and in Canada 22, total 289 last week, 2 the pre- and 416 correspond- year, of 395 were the last which States 74 $5.000, “and For four total liabilities of $11,697,605, against Of failures in liabilities the United exceeding weeks of December firms falling were $10,366,586 last year. GOVERNMENT'S FINANCES. | Receipts of 1866 Were Considerably Larger Than “A Hot | Those of Last Year. The forthcoming statement of the Government receipts and expenditures will show that during the half year end ing Dec. 31, 1898, the receipts aggregat- ,961,860.. against - $207,760,574 for the same period last year. According | to the Treasury records these receipts when they entire fis- are the largest since 1866, reached $558.032,620 for the cal year, and $490,634,010 in 1867. With the exception of these two years, the receipts never before in the history of the country exceeded $490,000,000, and cnly seven times have they ever reach- ed $400,000,000. The receipts from customs during the six months amounted to $96,045,- 39, as compared with $62,825,021 for the same period last year. For December, the customs receipts aggregated §16,- 764,325, which was the hlghest point reached under the present Dingley law ane the largest for December since 1888, when it was $16,900,000. The re- ceipts from internal revenue sources amounted during December to $22,621.- 319, the largest since the ‘War of the Rebellion. The total for December was $41,404,794. GOOD RESULTS OF A BURGLARY. Robbers Frighten an Invalid Into Health at New York. Unusual features came to light in a case of burglary which was beforg Magistrate Crane in New York a few days ago when a burglar who gave the name of Joe English was given a hear- ing. He is accused of having looted several Rouses in the northern section of the city. One of the houses he robbed was the dwelling of Mrs. Julia B. Adams on Madison avenue. The place was en- tered December 15 and about $800 worth of silyer was taken. Mrs Adams was in court and she re- lated that for about nine years up to the time of the robbery she was an invalid. For six weeks prior to the in- vasion of her home she was confined to her room. The fright of the rob- bery, she stated, had a strange effect upon her. On the morning after the visit by the thieves, she was able to leave her bed and her room and to as- sist the police in making the prelimin- ary examination. Since that time she has been well and is able to get about as she chooses. One Million for Charity. The. late Baron Fredinand Roths- child, of London, left nearly $1,000,000 for clarity. One bequest alone to Evelina Hospital, founded in memory of his wife, amounts to half that sum. His disposition of his magnificent steam yacht, Rona, is a tesson to other millionaire owners of these floating palaces. He left it to be disposed of, the proceeds to be bivided between nine sailors’ charities. The Rona should realize at least $100,000. Exports of wheat for the | and | THE LABOR WORLD. Delivery wagon drivers of Duluth, Minn., are organizing. Belgium supports eighty-two industrial and trade schools and thirty-two appren- tice shops. New Albany, Ind., has a federal labor union composed of printers, cigarmakers and iron molders. In San Francisco a move is on foot to amalgamate all the unions in the central body—the Labor Council. Judge Meyers, of Bloomington, Ili., has decided that the union labor only clause in contracts has no standing beforethe court. The native laborers of Mexico, the peon, receives from fifteen to twenty-five cents per day in Mexican silver at common labor. The strike of the grocers’ employes ot Paris, France, has suddenly collapsed. It is stated that many of the strikers obtained their demands. The Boston (Mass.) city council has or- dered all city departments to advance the wages of laborers in the city employ to $2.25 per day. The New Jersey State Board of Arbitra- tion reports that for the year 1898 not a sin- gle strike has been successfnlly arbitrated in New Jersey by that body. The Italian council of state recently de- cided that communes must abstain from granting subsidies from theif” budgets in support of the foundation or development of chambers of labor. The native labor of Hawaii is of a very low grade, the average wages being as high as $5 per week. The prevailing labor is Japanese, who get $15 per month, and Chinese, who get £16 and 317 per month. The laboring classes of Sweden in the larger cities are quite well organized, and efforts are being made —principallyby Eng- lishmen—to shorten the hours of labor, which now average ahout eleven per day. Denmark has the best and strongest fed- eration of all crafts in Europe: nearly every trade is organized and affiliated. At the last annual convention of the Danish Fed- eration of Labor 403 delegates, represent- ing 69,720 members were present. Thirty employes of the Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Company of Newport News, Va., have divided $16,000 between them, the gift of J. S. Darling, President of the company, and his son. Individual amounts were based on time of service. One man received a check for $1000, and several conductors received $750 each. A Deadly Christmas Gift. Harry Cornish of New York received a bottle of bromo-seltzer as a Christ- mas gift. T.ast Thursday his cousin, Mrs. Adams, complained of a head- ache and he gave: her some of the seltzer. Shortly after she .died in great agony. It now develops that the vial contained poison and was intend- ed for Mr. Cornish. The police have as yet no. clue. Thousands of Riot:rs Liberated. King Humbert of Italy has signed a decree amnestying or reducing the punishments the rioters who took part in the disturbances last spring. of Fortune for a Missing Heiress. Mrs. Angie Sloan, who until a year ago lived in Chicago, is heiress to $250,000, according to a letter received by Police Captain Colleran from Mrs. Mary W. Hazlett, of - Parnassus, Pa. Mrs. Hazlett says her mother died re- cently, leaving nearly $500,000 to her two daughters. The writer is one of these, and Mrs. Sloan is the other. The presence of both is required at Par- nassus before the estate can be di- vided. Mrs. Hazlett says. her sister wrote regularly to her until a year ago. Captain Colleran failed to find any trace of her. The Iox It has deveioped that the battleship Iowa met. with a serious accident on her trip around South America. One sf her steam cylinders burst, erippling the ship, which explains the change of orders. - It was originally intended to send the vessel to Honolulu with the Oregon, but the Iowa will go to San Francisco for repairs. The battle- ship will remain at Callao until Janu- ary 10, in order that <he mail for the squadron may reach officers and men. CABLE FLASHED. a Injured. Now their reviews wonderful papers in upon the America. The English of 1898 dwelt in power of Duke Cyril, c« dicted that the much trouble for The new year Ireland with the local government legislation. Emperor William is gre at the number of office gambling dens and insists vestigation in every ce Joseph Vacher, the the Ripper,” was guillotined Bourg-on-Bresse, capital the partment of Ain. ‘Twenty-one ass sinations were tracked him. The of of Paris ex- amined M. Casimir-Perier, the former president of France, and M. Barthou the former minister of the interior, ip the proceedings attending the revision of the Dreyfus case. An eruption of Mount Vesuvius occurred from the crater formed 1875. Two streams of lava, each meters broad, have already reached the of Monte Somma. which flanks the north. rise usin of the Iilaninos America. czar, will pro- make for new local brightly initiation of the act to enact opens atly incensed 3 caught in on an in- French of to cassation court has in 9203 slopes this well- “Chancing Visi= had IL.ondon 1 of Father Stant London ritualist: to enter into c¢¢ sation with a itor to St. Alban’ Holborn, who attended the service for first time, Mr. Stanton asked what = he thought of the service, stranger replied that he liked it very well except the incense, to the use of which he strongly objected. ‘lI am very sor- ry for you, my friend.’ said M Stan- ton. The other not unnatuix ‘Why? . ‘Well, . you see,’ Stanton, ‘there are only in the next world—incens: stone—and you'll have to tween them!" The story known the two and choose At a gathering of Lutheran minis=- ters in Baltimore the other day it was decided to approve the view recently adopted by the Central Iliinois Dis- trict Conference of Lutherans, to the effect that the principle involved in life insurance is antagonistic to the teachings of the Bible. Milan has a curiosity in a clock which is made entirely of bread. The maker is a native of India, and he has devoted three years of his time to the construction of this curiosity. The clock is of respectable size and goes well. Rev. Dr. R. M. Patterson, after a study of reports, finds that more than half the Presbyterian churches of the country have a membership of less than 100 each. One-seventh of the Presbyterian and one-fifth of the Con- gregationalist have less than 25 each. The largest proporticn of single per- sons is found in Ireland and Scotland, and the smallest in the United States.
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