Show NEWS SUMMARY stephen D fessenden of miss has been appointed as statistician of the department of agriculture the secretary of war has received a brief telegram from beneral wood ao 10 havana saying that tl e elections had passed off smoothly but giving no details an increase of from 4 to 12 per cent in the wages of about 45 trainmen i announced by the pennsylvania railroad company to take effect jan uary 1st the last advice of the state depart anent respecting miss stone and mme is that both were alive and well though still in captivity at the end of last week canada is be ng congratulated on the brogi ess made last the fact that public depos ts in canad an banks amounted to is cons dered remarkable kable the san franc m nt december completed nage record which makes 1901 the banner year in its his tory 07 1 abing been converted from bullion into n general wheaton s report from the island of bamar ind cates that little hai been accomplish ed there the at tit de of the natives is even more un friendly than ever before it is stated on rel able authority in at paul that the burlington will be gin work on its clings aad great falls branch to connect with the great northern on january 10 general lomas estrada palma the newly elected president of cuba has received many d snatches spat ches and tele grams of felicitation from various parts of cuba and th s country owing to an outbreak of smallpox in u of the philipp ne islands the civil comm assion 1 is prepared an act for the compulsory nation of all persons res dent in the islands adt ces from java islands states that cholera is ragine more severely than ever before this year the death record in tl e city of isau dur ing the month of november was over A party of surveyors headed by H are no v in alaska survey ing a route for a ra broad from pyra mid harbor to bainy hollow district which is said to be one great mineral deposit plans for establishing in mexico city a branch of the ti M A are maturing the project has the opera alon of miss helen gould and john barrett member of the pan american conference Vp field S arter a well known stock broker of pittsburg pa shot and killed himself at his home in that city friday arter had been in ill health for nearly a year from nervous prostration the maclay incident 11 now closed as far as the brooklyn navy yard is concerned said beai admiral barker in an interview maclay has been notified of his removal and is out of the service the boston fe montana smelters at great falls will commence operations about january this will mean a resumption in the amalgamated mines in butte a number of which were re bently closed A hundred families living in the flats and lowlands around chatta cooga are camped on the knolls as a i dult of high water suburban street car traffic is crippled and many houses are submerged tom as estrada palm a the nation allt candidate for the presidency of cuba has 55 electors while general bartoloma maso the democratic can didace who withdrew from the cam laign has 8 electors the violence of the snowstorms which have prevailed in norway during the past week is al most unprecedented A number of railway trains are stalled in the snow in the southeastern districts the president of nicaragua declared to the legislature in managua that the prospects of building the isthmian canal were becoming brighter and that the united baates formally guaranteed the sovereignty of nicaragua many of the prominent horticulture ests of illinois express the opinion that the peach crop in southern illinois th e year will be very small if any at all they believe the buds were killed by the recent severe weather announcement has just been made that the sale of the albany N city national bank to the national commercial bank has been effected the sale of the merchants national to the commercial was made only a few weeks ago in san antonio thursday E JI mcchane a wealthy citizen who owned a stradivari Strad ivar us of 1721 make and a wilhelm guthman violin the first valued at 5 and the second at several thousand dollars was rob bed of them in consequence of king edward s active interest in the crusade aga ast consumption a st who wishes his name withheld has placed 0 at his majesty s disposal for the construction of a sanitarium for the new york state forest fish and ame comm assion reports that express es wh ch operate in the ad carr ed deer during the past season this is bel eved to indi cate that deer were killed in atu sect on during abe year 4 f i i i |