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Show Hews of tbe lUorld. Kin- Victor of Italy will visit the emperor em-peror of Anstrhi on June ?". and subsequently subse-quently will visit the emperor of oer-manv. oer-manv. The emperors of Austria ami Uer-manv Uer-manv will in the near future visit the kini of Italy. - - The County Cavan Young MenSs P. & B. association held a special meeting Tuesday. Tues-day. May 6, at 3H East Twpnty-second street, to hear reports from the arrangement arrange-ment committee for the coming picnic and to give advice if needed. The committee com-mittee reported satisfactory progress. The war department Sunday, May 4. received a cablesram from General Chaffee Chaf-fee indicating that the campaign against the sultan of Bayon, one of the principal Moro chiefs, had been successful. The result was accomplished by a gallant assault on a Moro fort and its capture aftor number of the leadinir Moros and one United States officer and even men , had been killed. I The Boers have possession practically I of the northwestern part of Cape Colony. 1 They have destroyed miles of railroad. j burned the sleepers, and dynamitpd the blockhouses, compelling the evacuation of many small garrisons and blockhouses. ; and the concentration of the British at O'okiep. while the small garrisons at Sprinubokfontein and Concordia were compelled to surrender. This information only reached Europe May 4. Working the Two Ends: London. May 2. Professor Barrett Wendell of Harvard university was today elected Clark lecturer lec-turer on English literature at Cambridge university for the ensuing year. On this date it was arranged to give the degree of Doctor of Laws in Yale to Lord Kelvin Kel-vin of England, to lecture on English j literature, too. Anglo-Saxon, You Know; New Haven. I Conn.. May 5. Lord Kelvin, scientist, was I honored today by Yale university with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. I His as;e and his eminence as a scientist I are the reasons given why the corpora- j tlon of the university violates the established estab-lished custom as to time of giving the degree. Not within the memory of the present university authorities has Yale done such honor to any person. Santos Dumont has done indefinitely more for science than Lord Kelvin, but who talks about giving him an honor. It is all Anglo-Saxonism. A dispatch from Jackmel, Haytl. May 4. stated that the capital of the Dominican republic. Santo Domingo, had been captured cap-tured by the insurgents. President Jim- ; enez was reported as having taken refuge in the French consulate. The supplementary annual report of Superintendent Su-perintendent of Insurance in New York State Hendricks, which deals with life, casualty, title, credit and mortgage guarantee guar-antee insurance companies, was made public May I. The gross assets of life Insurance companies in the state on Dec. 31. 1!01, we're $l,S79.624.564.0tf. an increase of Jlo5,S6S,S41.56 compared with previous year. Of this amount. New York state companies have $1,139,511,409.27, an increase of ?Sl7,193,577.3S. |