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of f l.ftoo.ooa Kt<i t uiodern appror«d (Wrkt* wUl br aralM of. A Nr* MiMisaippl Bridga. A aplendkl new railroad brktf* orar tb« XlUalaa»l|)|>i river at Tbeboa, I1L was dedicated and thrown open to trmfflc May £> by the cousttactiou tvtapauy organized in the interest of various railroads east and west of tha river. The new structure Is the only rallroaiibridge between Kt. Louis and Mctfcl&t*' and atTords direct eoumunlcation between the northwest and aoutbeast. A Municipal Fsrryboat. The last of tire ferryboats to tie built for operation by the < tty of New fork between the lintlery niid Kin leu Island was iauui-bisl May 1M at Port lliihtnond. N. Y. Ttn-e Ismts represent uu outlay »f ji.:wu.uoa It is expe*led that these immiel|ial boats will be ruuBhig by 8e|deU>ber. To Ha vs ths Fsstaat Train. Tlie oillrws of the Vanderbilt lines, over winch the Twentieth Century Limited has loen run between New York and (Tiicugu. lyive decidi? to cut one wholo hour from the train’s schedule. thus reduvdn^ tin- time of the trip to nlueteeu hotiro. tYlieit this order goes Into etTor-t. J uue 18. ttnw expect to hare the fastest train lu the world. This means that the train will have tb make ov er Bfty uiilo> an hour. Including all stopa. Flour by Eloctriolty. A rejiort of a new electrical'method for producing flue white flour has been made recently to the Academy of Sciepceo, at Paris. The flour Is brought In contact with electrified air. the ozone acta as a powerful bleacher. The electrified flour la whiter, but the bread made from It is not so savory. Largest Brickmaking Plant. At t'atsklll. X. V.. surveyors are at work laying out what Is to be the largest brickmaklug plant In the world. It will be owned and operated by the United States Brick company, which already owns extensive plants at Reading. I’a.; Baltimore and Buffalo. The new plant will employ 1.000 men and Will turn out l.OOO.OOO bricks a day. flailway Collision to Ordor. An Interesting feature of the tour of the delegates of the railway congress was the spectacular test of a new collision device at Pittsburg on May 18 on the Interworks railway, owned by George Weatlnghouse. A train compos'd of fifty new steel cars'was broken into three sections, two t{f which were allowed to stand on the tracks, while a third portion, to which a locomotive w»* attached, rushed at r —»f forty miles an hoar into colih the first two sections. There . a quiver} and then the three sect.. ^ which bad been automatically reunited, moved along as though nothing had happened. All the cars were eqnlpi>ed with what Is known as ■ “friction draft gear.” designed to absorb the strain.

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There waa a big falling off of prices In ^>ecul»tlve stocks on the New York exchuug,' May S3, and the fact that this coincided wlih the widely advertised firopbecy of Thomas W. Lawson attracted much attoudou. Tills was the alxth successive day of declluas. Almost every stock on the list reached the lowest prices of the year. Borne ut

Art School at Cslk^nbis.

Tbs National Academy of Design at New York baa dacidsd to act-e.-. ua plan of oo-ojMTiitloo with Co.om •<. university In the founding of a s.-h. < of fine arts which Is proposed to lie th best of Its kind In the country. Go.um bla Is to donate a kaj foot plj u. ground as so.tu as tlir aca teiny h - rataed A'AKVtO for the erection of'th

tributed the break to the rejiorted J^ulldlug. Fredrich iKclmau was cbo«e.

abandonment of a hanuTuy plan between the northwestern railroad systems. Ialter In the week die market began to recover. ■ Value of World's Diamonds. A London diamond c\|>crt estimates that lud'a lias prodm-ed lo.K'O.OOO carats, Brazil 1Z00U.U>I and Africa 57.000,000. Hr say's all the diamonds In the world uncut weukl have a valoe of

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Lawson's Latest Thrust. In advertising bis June Installment of the "Crime of Airalgitmated'' In Everybody's Magazine Mr. laiwsou says dial "he who laugh* Inst laugh* most echoliigty" and serve* notice on Wall street dial the "sy-Jciu" la now staggering beneath a load of securities for which there Is no legitimate market He any* h© la organizing the country so that on a certain day when he gives the signal people will withdraw their depoeits, at which time be will be ready with his remedy. His address in Kansas la to be the signal.

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> Psscs In ths Northwest • The official announcement was made May 2S at New York that Mersrt. Hill and Haniman had settled all existing differences regarding the northwest railroad situation. The fact wa* shown In a sharp rise In all stocks and esi>edally in those of the railroads concerned. It was ruinoied that Hill had been, able to-Xorce a settlemcat by the threat of a rpte war. The Immediate result of the settlement Is that the Union Pacific will not build in the territory'of the Great Northern and rice versa. * A New Orleans Dank Merger The consolidation of the Central Bank Trust and Havings company, the Whitney National bank and the Germania Natl iuul bank, all of New Orleans, was u un wooed on May 22, and the comblmxi Institution Is expected to be the largest outside of New York id CSlcago. The capital stock will be over *2,000,000. Merchants’ Truet Company dosed. The New York state banking superintendent announced May 23 the doe- ' ing of the Merchants' Trust company of New York city because of thn tying up of capital la nee leas securitlas, partly In companlea ta which soma of the directors are intereetad. An assme meat of etockhoiden was anticipated In fader to pay off the depositors. Bedafvtn were duly appointed. It came out later that Mlse Helen Gould and her brother Prank had loat n large earn In connection with this failure. It was said that through the advice of q serfs E. Fisher they had tn-

Tsachiag Musical Criiicfam. The New England Conservatory of Music has offered a <-»nr*e of study in musical Journalism under *be direction of I/nil* C. Elson. for many years the music critic of the K-mtou Dally Advertiser. This, s'.ys the School Journal. Is to be tlie only '-ourse of Ita kind In the world. It Is b.kscd upon a real need for writers wlto can tell simply and effectively whit the public want* to know about ti: ■ realm of musicians. The students are to study musical literature and tbeo'v. rtw construction of • anous instranuirts ana tne law of songs as a basis for clear understanding. Then they are to attend concerts and write brief criticisms and maga-

zine articles.

Woman Wins Science Prixs. The *1,000 prize for laboratory reearch and investigation offered last year by the Associatlau For Maintaining the American Woman's Table at the zcologir.il station at Naples and few promoting scientific research by women has lje©u_ a warden to Dr. Nettle M. Htepbeus of Caiifbnila. a Bryn Must graduate, for a paper dealing with' certain germ cells In connection with the Mcn.iel law of hereditary and

examination.

No Allianes With Harvard.

The facalty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has voted, 67 to 6, against the proposed alliance with Harvard university. This acf will be rej»orted to the corj*oration and munlcnted to the alumni, who an to

vote on the matter by letter. Credit For Muric at Horn*.

The prinelpdi of the high school at Saginaw, Mich., reports favorably on the plan for giving pupils credit toward graduation on home study of made under com|ietent instructors. While the high school has given a two hour course In music, no Instrumental lemons were given. So. far borne study In piano and violin barb received credit provided the epurse of study Is prescribed by the school instructors.

Harvard Against Printed NoUk.

The faculty of Harvard dnlversHy, with a desire to make It impossible for students to lon^ through their course, has deckled to prohibit the circulation of printed notes on the various lectures. 4 is said that one-tenth of all the students at the university and half of the freshmen are now attendinff'on

probation.

Afternoon Bssalens Injurious.

German experts who bar# been investigating the effect of afternoon Ma-

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pupils. Dr. Otto Dorabiueth of Frankfort advocates that the morning eeaaions be of fire bonrs with fifteen minutes’ rent at the end of eacb-bour. Ho rhinka that the afternoon oboi given to play and outdoor axan

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Deaths. (-buries 11. Van Brunt, presiding ju» tie© of the appeUat" division, find tie partment of the supreme court. New Yoik, dropped dead May 2*i at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn bridge. Leaning on the arm of bla daughter. Georgians, he was waiting for a train, when he clapped, his hand over bis heart and fell. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, the well known writer and reformer, died at her home In Melrose. Mass., May 23. Bronchitis and a weak heart hasten©! the end. William Ziegler, the capitalist and promoter of nrtlc exploration, died at his country home near Norotao, Conn., on May 24. Dr. W. M. Dyer, president of Martha Washington college at Abingdon. Ya.. and Hullin's college In Bristol. W Va.. died at Abingdon, Va.. on May 25. Jesse B. Anthony, known In every corner of New York state where Is located a Masonic lodge, fell dead on May 27 at Utica. N. Y. Judge John Dean of --the supreme court of Pennsylvania died at his home Id HoUldaysburg. Fa., on May 26. Judge Dean was born In Blair comity. Fa.. In 1835,. Baron Alphonse de Bothschlld. bead of the French branch of the hanking bouse bearing the name of Rothschild and governor of the Bank of France, died on May 20 from acute bronchitis aggravated by gout. ccidsnts. , In a rear end collision between two trolley cars returning from a suburban resort of Baltimore on May 26 one man was killed and thirty-five persons iufured. ? ^ __ In New York on May 27 twenty-five Bremen were painfully singed and cut oy an explosion while working to put out a fire in a seven story -tortoise obeli tnd celluloid comb factory. The entire plant of the National Fireworks company at West Hanover, Mass., consisting of ten wooden bulldof one story earh, waa destroyed by an explosion in the mixing room on May 26.

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Governor Higgins of New York Is reported to have sakl, “There will surely be au extra session of the legislature link's* Justice Hooker resigns." an interview Attorney John J. Cuneo of South Norwalk, Conn., who wa* associated with counsel In the trial ot Gentbon Marx, it Is said, declared that Jdarx admitted to him that be and another man killed Kodeckl, Marx holding his farm hand while the friend struck the blow which killed him. Marx wa* executed for tlie crime last weak. President Bo jsevelt is consklerln* the Idea of presenting the immigra tion problem to congress as containing a serious peril and urging drastic action with a view to limiting it. Immigration is breaking all records. The figures Indicate a total Immigration for the year of over a million,. or one eightieth of the population, and ma»l of It comes from Italy. Hungary and

Russia.

“I don’t want to be called a hayseed, nor I don't like farm work. I don't want to be a farmer. I made up my mind to skip out, and I waited till Sunday morning and left before daylight. I want to learn a trade, and I would like to be a machinist. That's why 1 m IxJifae to York." Such wa* the speech ^orsoacoe Zerby, a farm boy from Bed Lion, near York. Pa. He waa sent

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