—A peach grower at Middlesboro, Ky., sold his crop, from 5,000 trees, for $8,000.
—Four negroes, suspected of robbery and assault, were recently taken from the jail at New Orleans, La., and lynched.
—A fire in the Hass Keui district, near Constantinople, Turkey, recently destroyed 150 residences, 40 shops, and a synagogue.
—A resolution condemning the “German world policy” was unanimously adopted by the Congress of Social Democrats, at Mainz, Germany.
—The grand maneuvers of the French army were concluded the 20th ult., with a review of 97,000 men by President Loubet, near Chartres.
—Two hundred and fifty laundries, run by American employees and equipped with American machinery, will soon be opened in London, England.
—The Pennsylvania and Reading Coal Company, employing over 30,000 men, few of whom have stopped work, has decided to increase wages ten per cent.
—A German naval battalion recently defeated a large body of Boxers and Chinese regulars, and captured and burned Liang-Hsiang-Hsien, southwest of Peking.
—Sir Claude MacDonald has become British minister at Tokio, Japan, being succeeded at Peking by Sir Ernest Satow, formerly British minister at the Japanese capital.
—By pretending to invoke the spirits of the dead, Jeanette Danforth, a medium, is declared, in conjunction with Arthur P. Dodge, to have played so effectually upon the credulity of Alicia Vanderbilt La Bau, a daughter of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, that Mr. Dodge was enabled to get, by fraud, something more than $100,000 from Mrs. La Bau’s pockets.14
—Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant is visiting in Montreal, Quebec.
—The National Postmasters’ Association is in session at Peoria, Ill.
—Thirty-one new cases of yellow fever are reported at Havana, Cuba.
—Five hundred Canadians will return from South Africa immediately.
—A heavy cyclone recently struck Morristown, Minn., killing eight persons.
—During the last eight months Cuba’s sugar exports aggregated 266,843 tons.
—Chicago millers have advanced the price of flour twenty cents on the barrel.
—The Pei Tang and Lu Tai forts have been captured by the allied army in China.
—Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross Society, is ill at Galveston, Tex.
—It is said that Dr. Nansen will join the Duke of Abruzzi in a polar expedition.
—The inheritance tax on Collis P. Huntington’s estate will amount to more than $200,000.
—The Colorado River is higher than was ever known, and is causing great damage throughout Texas.
—In Lewis County, W. Va., a newly discovered oil well is flowing at the rate of 200 barrels an hour.
—Aguinaldo, replying to Señor Buencamino’s peace proposals, declines to consider them, or to agree to a compromise.
—The First National Bank of Winnemucca, Nev., was recently robbed of $13,000 while five persons were in the bank.
—It is stated by the Electrical Review that the telegraph and telephone interests of this country are about to combine.
—The agent of Count Waldersee, of the German army in China, has wired for two saddle-horses from Lexington, Ky.
—After eight-years’ service, Justin McCarthy, the novelist and historian, announces his retirement from the British Parliament.
—Three men were killed, and fifteen wounded, in a clash between miners and a sheriff’s posse, near Shenandoah, Pa., September 22.
—The transatlantic lines have agreed upon an immediate increase in third-class rates between the United States, Liverpool, and Southampton.
—Buildings in process of construction on the Pan-American Exposition grounds, at Buffalo, N. Y., were damaged to the amount of $50,000 by the recent gale.
—The French Council of State has decided to reinstate Lieutenant Colonel Picquart, who was dismissed from the army because of his defense of Captain Dreyfus.
—Grass fire in the vicinity of Occidental, Cal., has already done over $250,000 damage. Nearly 1,000 persons are fighting the fire, which covers 100 square miles.
—The Netherlands government announces its determination to demand compensation for the expulsion from the Transvaal of employees of the Netherlands Railroad.
—Lord Salisbury, in a manifesto, urges British voters to give the government a strong Parliament majority, to deal effectively with the Chinese and South African questions.
—Jules Verne, the noted French writer, recently celebrated his seventy-third birthday. He is in perfect health, mentally and physically, and is at work on a new book.
—The Veterans’ Home at Waupaca, Wis., has received a legacy of $12,000, from Walter Houston, a wealthy farmer who visited the home in disguise, and was kindly treated.
—The United States transport “Port Albert” recently sailed from Seattle, Wash., with 502 cavalry horses and a cargo of forage and commissary supplies, for the Philippines.
—Sir William Harcourt, in a political manifesto recently issued in London, said that “England is the best hated country in the world, and that the Boer war will cost $500,000,000.”
—The wage scale for 1901, in the steel mills, has been signed, in Cincinnati, Ohio, by representatives of the manufacturers and workers. This decision guarantees employment for 60,000 men who have been idle since June.
One clause in the will of the late Donald Cameron, a druggist of Rutherford, N. J., requested that the cost of his funeral should not exceed fifty dollars, as he would “rather leave for the living that which unnecessarily goes to the dead.”
—The Rurutu and Tubuai islands, in the Pacific Ocean, south of the Society Islands, have been annexed by France, at the request of the natives. As a counter move, the Cook Islands, southwest of the Society Islands, have been annexed by Great Britain, with the consent of the native chiefs.
—Senator Caffery has declined the Anti-Imperialist nomination for the United States presidency.
—Former Governor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, has declined to be United States ambassador to Italy.
—Field Marshal Count von Waldersee reviewed the foreign troops at Shanghai, China, September 22.
—Forty lives were lost recently by the grounding of an Egyptian mail steamer on the Island of Andros.
—Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago, has purchased the franchise of the new London underground railroad.
—Another mob in Mansfield, Ohio, recently tarred two Dowie elders who attempted to speak in that place.
—Nearly 100 Americans were killed or wounded in the Philippines during the week ending September 24.
—Hundreds of land-seekers are at Tacoma, Wash., waiting for the opening of the Colville Indian reservation, October 10.
—Seventy-two new coal mines have been opened in Prussia this year, increasing the output of coal for 1900 by 2,500,000 tons.
—Four men held up a Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy train, near Lincoln, Neb., September 22, securing but little money.
—A bill has been introduced in the Mexican Congress, providing for an appropriation of $30,000 for the Galveston, Tex., sufferers.
—More than fifty vessels of the French fishing fleet from Saint-Pierre, Newfoundland, are missing, as a result of the recent severe gale.
—In order to make room in the New York City public schools, it is proposed to refuse admission to all children under six years of age.
—The United States transport “Thomas” has sailed from San Francisco, with 1,648 enlisted men, and $1,300,000, for Manila, Philippine Islands.
—Li Hung Chang has caused a proclamation to be posted in the principal cities of Pe Chi Li province, calling for the extermination of all Boxers.
—A terrific rain and electric storm did great damage in northern and northwestern Texas, the Trinity River at Dallas rising thirty feet in less than twelve hours.
—The first train since the great storm and cyclone, arrived at Galveston on the 21st ult. The building of the temporary bridge, two and one-eighth miles long, was a remarkable engineering achievement.
—The firm of Cadbury Brothers, England, has declined to send in an estimate for a contract for thirty tons of cocoa for the British troops at the front. Mr. Cadbury’s explanation is that, while his firm could not conscientiously do anything for the carrying on of the war, they have assisted the sufferers, and hope to do more, both for British and Boers.
—Olive Schreiner says that “the children of Boers carry away all the intellectual honors in South Africa. They fill the schools, and bear off the prizes. They are the lawyers, the magistrates, the successful barristers, the able doctors.” She attributes it to the fact that “these Dutch Africans come of an exceptionally able stock, which for several generations lay fallow, drawing strength from the soil, and not exposed to the devitalizing influence of cities.”
—Lord Roberts is, according to latest dispatches, making “a concentric movement upon Koomatipoort.” Ian Hamilton is returning to the railway from Lydenburg; Pole-Carew is pushing east toward Nelspruit; French is making for Barberton, and Buller has divided Botha’s forces, and cut off a portion of them from communication with the commandoes between Nelspruit and Koomatipoort. The British forces are in hot pursuit of the remnant of the Boer army, and are driving it eastward to the Portuguese frontier.” It is reported that Kruger has fled to Lorenzo Marques.
—The latest news in regard to the gigantic coal strike, is that “negotiations for a settlement of the strike are now under way. They are being conducted secretly, but this much is known—the operators have decided to make concessions to the miners.” A dispatch from Baltimore, Md., dated September 27, states that “it is authoritatively announced to-night that Cardinal Gibbons has received a request to act as arbitrator in the coal strike, and that he has consented to serve, provided both parties are satisfied. The cardinal declines to state through whom the request came, but acknowledges that he has consented to act. There was a report that John Wanamaker suggested the cardinal, but this could not be substantiated.” Over 140,000 men are at present engaged in the strike.
—Galveston, Tex., was nearly swept out of existence by the terrific hurricane and flood, which raged from Saturday noon, September 8, till Sunday morning. Great tidal waves, blown inland from the Gulf of Mexico by the terrific winds, played havoc with the entire town, and severely damaged many cities on the coast. A conservative estimate gives the loss of life in Galveston alone as between 4,000 and 5,000. The water stood over six feet deep on the streets, and the wind blew at a velocity of 100 miles an hour. The place is under martial law, and thousands of survivors have left to escape hunger and pestilence. Thousands, and even hundreds of thousands, of dollars are pouring into the hands of the relief committee, from all parts of the United States, and from foreign lands, for the benefit of the destitute survivors.
—A mine explosion at Dux, Bohemia, recently killed thirty-five men.
—Sir E. M. Satow, Great Britain’s new minister to China, has arrived at Peking.
—Excepting France, the United States secured the largest number of prizes at the Paris Exposition.
—In two recent engagements in the Sahara desert, the French troops sustained losses at the hands of the Berber tribesmen.
—Countess Schimmelmann has returned to Europe in financial straits, leaving her yacht in Brooklyn, to be sold for funds to pay her expenses while in the United States.
—After an illness of four days, George D’Vys, the last surviving member of the government relief expedition that rescued Dr. Kane, the American arctic explorer, died in Worcester, Mass., September 24.
—The Philippine Commissioners, in a report on affairs in the islands, say that “if the present policy is continued as a result of the presidential election, the insurrection will come to an end within sixty days.”
—One hundred and thirty-four Americans attacked 800 intrenched Filipinos at Mabitac, in Laguna province, September 17, but were compelled to retire, after a hard fight and a loss of twenty-four killed and twenty wounded. The insurgents have resumed activity in a number of places around Manila.
