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Show Hews of the OJerld A special meeting of the Bengal chamber cham-ber of commerce, called on Dec. 15, to consider con-sider the participation of India in the world s fair at St. Louis, was addressed by C ommissioner Barret, whose recommendations recom-mendations were endorsed by Sir Edward Law, the minister of finance. The bill appropriating 150,000 for Virginia Vir-ginia s exhibits at St. Louis, which passed the Virginia house of delegates recentlv passed the. senate also on Dec 15 Its approval by the governor was assured Only three senators objected to the amount. During the last few years the bow is gradually supplanting the trolley wheel in the European street railway service. X?E0W co"sls5ts f a large metallic loop, which, rests against the electric wire at right angles. The advantages of the bow are: Greater contact surface, continuity con-tinuity of contact, no need of reversing the bow when the direction of the car is fn aiiSTl; or of "adjusting the contact in passing curves. PtJJ1? factories In the United States one-third use power. Steam furnishes fur-nishes S.742.416 horse-power, which is 77 per cent of the total. Water furnishes la per cent. The electric nower -owned and rented for manufacturing work is only about 4 per cent of the total San Jose. Cal.. has just been equipped with a system of e ectrlc lighting the f"ent. frtriwhich is carried from a Doin? In the Wtt of the Sierra Nevada mountains, moun-tains, -L3 miles distant from San Jose It is possible that Florida phosphate will meet a serious competitor in the recently re-cently discovered deposits on Ocean island, isl-and, northeast of the Solomon islands, as thev seem to yield a mtterial superior in quality to the Florida phosphate. An Italian priest of Denver. Colo., has apparently solved the problem of aerial navigation and that this will be demonstrated demon-strated at the St. Louis exposition. Marconi and Father Lepore are about the greatest of re;ent discoverers and they are not Anglo-Saxons, but sons of tnai I,atin race, that misinformed people in high and low station, characterized as decadent. If the aid ship be perfected, what is the use of building steel-clad navies, at prodigious cost? What the late Ignatius Donnelly called the "demons of the air," equipped with dynamite, could safely destrov the world's armadas swimming swim-ming in the "sea. Perhaps artillery may be used to bring down the air ship, like birds on the wing, but that remains to be seen. . . . Encouraged bv a decision just handed down by the Illinois supreme court, members of the cook county board of assessors will try to have a large proportion pro-portion of ...e exempted properties- of churches placed on the tax lists. I n-der n-der the interpretation of the law, which declares no property exempt unless used exclusively for purposes of worship, wor-ship, it is estimated bv a member of the board of assessors that $15,000,0X worth of realty may be added to the assessors' lists. Right Rev. James E. Quigley, D. D., bishop of Buffalo, has been named by the Holy Father to succeed to the See of Chicago, left vacant by the death of Archbishop Feehan. The Right Rev. Msgr. Alexander Le-Roy, Le-Roy, bishop of Alinda and superior general gen-eral of the Congregation of the Holy I Ghost and the Immaculate Heart ot ! Mary, whose headquarters are in Paris, ! will next year visit the United States in the interest of his order. In Switzerland; Dr. Joseph Zemp ot Lucerne, vice president of the federal council, has been elected president of the Swiss Confederation for 1903. Dr. Zemp is a Catholic conservative. Very Rev. A. L. Magnien. president emeritus of St. Marv's seminary, Baltimore, Balti-more, who died Dec. 21 at the institution, was buried Dec. 24 by the side ofhis predecessors in the little grave yard of the seminary on North Paca street. Miss Helen Smith, daughter of Judge P. P. Smith of the superior court of Pennsylvania, was received into the Order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Scranton, Pa. The signatories of the Chinese peace protocol, except the American, have consulted con-sulted their respective governments and practically have decided to- identically notify China that her failure to fulfill the obligations provided for by the protocol pro-tocol will entail grave consequences. The Hague arbitration committee, ot which Oscar Straus, Duke of Tcutan and Count Murnnoff are the members, will determine de-termine the rights of the contending parties of the Venezuelan embroglio. j This will be the first time a dispute in- , volvinar demands leading to a war dem onstration will have been considered. New York. Jan. 3. Real estate assessments assess-ments in this city, according to the tax commissioners. have been increased nearly $1,500,000,000 under the new system of taxation adopted by the fusion administration. admin-istration. A lone highwayman held up the Calis-toga Calis-toga and Clear Lake stage on Mount St. Helena, Cal. The express box was taken and the passengers were relieved of a few dollars. H. Theobald Chartran, the French painter, arrived here on La Loralne from Havre. He comes to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt. His portraits of Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt attracted a great deal of attention at the late Paris salon. Two and a half years at hard labor in Sing Sing was the sentence imposed upon Graham C. Voorhis, formerly in charge of a postofflce substation at New York. The strike of the rubber workers and other unions, which has tied up the plants of the Morgan & Wright and .the Mechanical Me-chanical Rubber company for the last two months and thrown 1.200 workers out of employment, has been settled. Cornelius Vanderbilt is so far on the road to recovery from his recent attack of typnoid fever that he is making plans for a cruise in foreign waters next month. He is arranging to cross the ocean in February with Mrs. Vanderbilt, and to meet their yacht on the other side. Then a long cruise will be taken in the mediterranean. mediter-ranean. A London judge has just condemned Kitty Byron, a pretty girl of 18, to death for murdering Henry Baker, a stock broker. Friday was celebrated by all Honolulu as cable day. It was observed as a general gen-eral holiday. Five thousand persons gathered gath-ered around the governmental, buildings and listened to addresses made bv promi- ' nent citizens and government officials. Plans for an American St. Peter's, which, if constructed according to the model, should be the most magnificent structure in the world, are now on exhibition ex-hibition at the Architectural league in New York. Application for a pro forma decree ot incorporation has been made in Judge j Hough's court by the National Colonization Coloniza-tion & Sanitarium company. The members mem-bers of the company intend to establish colonies and sanitariums in the southwestern south-western part of the United States for consumptives and others afflicted with pulmonary diseases. No member of the association will be allowed to derive any 1 pecuniary benefit from the organization. Its income will be used to further the work. The annual meeting of the organization or-ganization will be formed all over the United States. The governors of the different dif-ferent states and the mavors of towns having a population of 50,000 or more will be ex-offlcio members of the board during dur-ing their terms of office. Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 23. A dynamite dyna-mite cartridge was exploded at the entrance en-trance to St. Peter's cathedral last night. The doorway was dmaaged. but not seriously. seri-ously. The outrage is supposed to have been perpetrated by na anarchist. Professor Krafftebing of the University of v ienna, the celebrated nerve specialist is dead at Graz. Syria. He was ot one time an adherent of Professor Lombroso but 'atr held views antagonistic to those of the Italian scientist. Within a few days Miss Marv O'Brien aged about 30, living in East Long Meadow, Mass.. has suddenly recovered the power of speech, after being dump for fourteen years. y FoTm5r LTnlte(1 States Senator Dwlght M. Sabin of Minnesota died suddenly in his apartments at the Auditorium annex Chicago. Senator Sabin had been a guest of the hotel since Nov. 2, being accompanied accom-panied by his wife and daughter. He was stricken with heart failure about 11 o clock last night and a physician was summoned. He found Mr. Sabin in a dying dy-ing condition and beyond medkal aid. The tuberculosis hospital, which there has been talk of building near New Pa,Men' ,.9?nn- for some years, is to be built within a short time, recent gifts of land on Woodbridge Heights having assured as-sured the success of the undertaking The hospital will be run mainly on the "fresh air theory. The Most Rev. Frederick Temple, archbishop arch-bishop ot Canterbury and primate of all paTt irs deld0 bee" 111 fr SOme timu Sister Thomasla Rujze of the Dominican Domini-can order is the most distinguished student stu-dent attending the University of Prague. lHfTOiessor sav sne is the most gifted woman they have ever known. She has been proficient in the most abstruse forms of the higher mathematics and m-nti? a2 nov! ls b"at"& all rivals in mental philosophy. Sister Thomasia is one of the fourteen children of a poor shopkeeper. Prince Rupert, destined some day to s t on the throne of Bavaria and declared de-clared by the Jacobins to be the rightful I i&J.0 lS othe Enlish throne, wm visit tile United States in 1!!03 I The steamer W. L. Hopkins', which left t Detroit last Tuesday morning en I l oledo, and which was sighted Frlda v abreast of Toledo light in Alaumee bay ' lS no78t in the lce and in grave dan-' : ,ger of being crushed and sunk : Fred Ruckstuhl of New York, who has i faefrgant StLof' SCUlpt,0r of the World's ia'r fX,fh saya ln a statement he has issued that he went to St. Loui int tending to do his work in a way satis! factory to the exposition and to all oth- ers concerned. oc Advices have been received thnf th. British steamer Mombass! Captain Fair bUn2 fr,m CaIcutta for New York was " abandoned, on fire, on Dec. 23. in latitude ' 15 north, longitude S6 east. The crew wa saved and was landed at Colombo A fire that started from an unknown" cause last night ln the big seven-stoTv ! fc1 Tfact0P of Ernest Gabler Brol , Ux i East Twenty-second street, caused dam-age dam-age to the extent of $250,000. The factory 1 LnnJlrfly troyed. Tenants were driven from adjoining, tenements and t ' panic existed among the nuniU in th li Truant school in theSrtCf Story6 The worst fire which has ravaged the ' bfnlnetv P?,rtion of Knoxville Tenn! i since the disastrous million-dollar con! flagration of 1S97 broke out in a. fm.r story building on Commercial ivenul dil rectly opposite the central fire station company.1" the KnoVrSS. !j Myron J. Carpenter, who has been nres- 1 he" w V16 Ch,caS & Eastern road for the last ten years, has resigned to accept ac-cept the -position of vice president and fyK!'manager f the Pere MarJuettJ j The remains of General Wao.no- Swayne. soldier, lawyer 2nd once m l tary governor of Alabama, were bud ed Jji with full military honors at the national Cemetery at Arlington. A Polish girl named Kopec has been sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment in the province of Posen for lese majeste for having thrown, a brooch with Emperor Em-peror William's picture in it to the floor and stamping on it. Such brioches were presented to the . pupils of the schools when his majesty visited Posen. " Asa Bird Gardner, president of the Rhode Island Society of the Order of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, has .ecrived from President Lou-bet Lou-bet of France an acceptance of honorary membership in the order. The president said it was doubly agreeable to accept a souvenir of the glorious alliance of arms which united the two nations in the war of the American revolution, and is a new and rrnriiiaTTZT""" bonds of friendship uhiH,'0"'" o ceased to exist l,,tt, -h United Staus. " ''r:ll' Jn,"''" The coiflpst fl-Mthf-r ,, lV:,nsr '-xPTien.-c.i jn x,.L lr, "in-., . thermometer r-v r ""'"M:.,, there was much ..,. ;' ""tre-.,' freeze extended thrui;!i ;V,r tr"t.." I:' Vc has d?ni..iis-.-,i ';C Sl!s'lrrt'-' pot of the Or.-s.,, K:n;w Vr '' company ;it Spnk u;' ' ' ' ..-v loss of $!." lr ,y.4s t;7, ' ' j . Union Depot n.ir..',,. ". ""'"' ' ' si i red. The fir.- st,: rti , j' -','!..;'"' ; ' L electric wire. " "' '!'.,;- ) Seven men fro., - ,., ,,,,,, . , vania's record tor . f,,',;,Js IV-... |