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Show Generals Stoessel and Nqbogaloff are now con-', con-', fined in the fortress of St. Poter and Paul, to- gether with the Naval Commanders Grigorieff Iand Lischin. Ettore Ferrari, of Rome, tho foremost sculptor of Italy, whose greatest work is tho equestrian statue of Victor Emanuel, has completed a statue of Verdi, which will stand in Fairmont Park, IHHHHHHnHHHHnHl .Philadelphia, the gift of Italian residents of that 17 city. Henry L. Palmer, president of a Milwaukee life insurance company for thirty-four years, has resigned his position at the rare old age of eighty-nine, and in such full possession of his faculties that it is proposed to give him an advisory ad-visory position as chairman of the board of trus-, tees. Miss Evelyn Longman, of New York, who made the great Winged Victory, that surmounted the dome of Festival Hall, at the Louisiana- Purchase Pur-chase Exposition, has won the $14,000 prize for the design for tho bronze doors of the Annapolis Naval Academy chapel. Thirty-three men were competitors. It is estimated that London theater managers have lost during .the season now ending no less than $400,000 in the production of plays that have been unsuccessful, and much of this amount on dramatic enterprises imported, from the United States. The transient hotel population of New York is figured at 250,000 people a day. The hotel properties proper-ties are valued at over $SO,000,000. |