— Lord Kitchener reports the capture of a small Boer force.
— Edward VII of England will be crowned on June 26, 1902.
— The rapid rise in the premium on gold causes uneasiness in Mexico.
— Chicago provides nine municipal ponds for skating, in six of its wards.
— Chicago’s death rate for November was lower than the average for the past ten years.
— It is reported that Prince Henry and Queen Wilhelmina have resumed dining together.
— Twenty-five shoe manufacturers of Cincinnati declare their independence of organized labor.
— The State Bank of Williamsville, Ill., was robbed of $4,000 and valuable jewelry the 3d inst.
— The annual convention of the American Federation of Labor began at Scranton, Pa., the 5th inst.
— All importers who paid duty on goods from the Philippines and Porto Rico, will doubtless be reimbursed.
— President Hutin, of the Panama Canal Company, offers to sell the property to the United States government.
— On Monday, the 2d inst., 3,000 bills were introduced in the House of Representatives before twelve o’clock.
— Chile and Argentina are buying arms and war munitions in Germany. A war between the two countries is imminent.
— Trouble is expected in the Cuban elections, since “all members of the Central Canvassing Board are candidates for office.”
— On the 5th inst. the Alton Railway discharged fifty employees who refused to work on Thanksgiving day. A strike may follow.
— The Standard Oil Company acquires the monopoly of the oil business of Borneo and East Africa, by the purchase of the Shell line of steamers.
— The South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition was opened at Charleston on the 2d inst., Senator Depew delivering the opening address.
— Several bills are introduced in Congress to stamp out anarchy in this country. Senator Hoar proposes to banish anarchists to an island where neither law nor order will be enforced, and to let them see how they would get along.
— Peking, China, makes great preparations for the return of the emperor.
— French troops and Chinese bandits clashed the 2d inst. on the Tonquin frontier, China.
— Students at Warsaw, Russia, attacked the German consulate at that place on the 4th inst.
— The Pittsburg, Pa., switchmen’s strike is likely to result in closing the Carnegie steel works.
— The British ship “Nelson” founders at Astoria, Ore., the 4th inst., its crew of twenty-eight perishing.
— A company is incorporated at Baltimore, Md., to make whisky out of watermelons. What next?
— W. J. Bryan declares that the Chinese Exclusion Act should be amended so as to include the Filipinos and Japanese.
— An agreement is said to have been reached for the sale of the Danish West Indies to this country, for a sum between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000.
— Congress talks of reducing the Southern representation in that body “because of the denial of suffrage to negroes” in some Southern States.
— On the 2d inst. M. Sevaro made, at Paris, “a successful trial trip with his dirigible balloon,” steering the same without difficulty over the city.
— In an address before the Chicago Council of Jewish Women the 2d inst., Dr. E. G. Hirsch declared that Sunday-schools do more harm than good.
— Richard Croker admitted on the 3d inst. that his leadership of Tammany Hall was practically at an end, and that his health required him to give up the work.
— General Botha declared on the 2d inst. that the Boers are able to continue the South African war five years, and that they will yet drive the British out of Cape Colony.
— On the 3d inst. was begun at St. Paul, Minn., the suit by the Attorney-General of Minnesota, attacking the consolidation of the Hill-Harriman railway lines of the Northwest.
— On the 3d inst. a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives, to punish the assassination or attempted assassination of the President or other high government officials.
— In a Chicago University debate of the 3d inst., on the question of whether football should be continued as an athletic sport of the colleges, the decision was that it should be discontinued.
— The full text of the new Hay-Pauncefote agreement concerning the Nicaraguan Canal was made public by the United States Senate the 5th inst. The United States alone is to control the waterway.
— On the 2d inst. Sousa’s band played for two hours before King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and the royal family, in London. The king requested that the band play “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
— The Consul-General of Austria-Hungary located at Chicago, appeals to the Austrian legation at Washington to compel the Wabash Railway to reveal the whereabouts of several immigrants injured and killed in the recent wreck near Seneca, Mich.
— The United States Supreme Court decides that the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico became domestic territories of the United States immediately upon the ratification of the peace with Spain, and that duties levied upon the products of those territories are illegal.
— Filled with wine, Prince Henry publicly insults his wife, Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, at a dinner party, and, being reproved by Major Van Tets, the queen’s aide-de-camp, fights a duel with the latter. Van Tets is worsted in the encounter. With their strong love for their queen, the people of Holland will doubtless have something to say.
— The December issue of the Cosmopolitan magazine contains an editorial on the first page appealing to the citizens of the United States, in behalf of the Boers, and containing a blank petition asking that President Roosevelt, and Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, be appointed as arbitrators between the British and the Boers. The pro-Boer sentiment seems to be on the increase in England as well as in the United States.
— A dispatch of the 5th inst. from Andalusia, Ala., states that “Sheriff Bradshaw returned to Andalusia to-day with twenty-two negroes, who are accused of complicity in the killing of J. W. Dorsey, a merchant, and the fatal wounding of Fale Atkinson, city marshal, at Ono last evening. The negroes were chased with bloodhounds and captured by the sheriff and his posse. There are fears that the friends of the dead white men will attempt a wholesale lynching. The negroes are in jail here.”805
— A Chicago exchange of the 7th inst. states that “at a meeting of the National Liberal Federation—the open caucus of the Liberal party of England—held at Derby on the 4th, a resolution was adopted which calls upon the British ministers [ministry] to publicly announce the terms on which they are prepared to conclude peace in South Africa. This resolution is evidently designed as the Liberal fighting ground in Parliament, which is to reconvene on the 16th of next month.”
— President Roosevelt’s first message to Congress was read to both houses on the 3d inst. The document discusses the eradication of anarchy, the Chinese exclusion law, legislation relating to trusts, the appointing of a new cabinet officer as secretary of commerce and industries, the preservation of our forests and wild animals, Cuban independence, the Philippines’ policy, the isthmian canal, the construction of a Pacific cable by the government, the Monroe Doctrine, the building of more war-ships to preserve peace, a hope for world-wide peace through The Hague conference, the individualization of the Indian by “allotment of tribal funds,” the St. Louis and Charleston expositions, a permanent census bureau, the abuses of second-class mail privileges, the relations of the Powers with China, the Pan-American congress now in session in Mexico, etc. On the whole, the message is well received, though a few criticise it. A. J. B.
