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THE LATEST NEWS III BRIEF
On February 24 Cuba will elect its own government. Negroes are not allowed to live in Hoboken. New Jersey. Denver authorities have given prizefighting in that city its last knock out blow. There are 185 horse and domkey meat butcher shops in Vienna, the capital city of Austria. Fort Worth has raised the bonas asked by both Armour and Swift to build packing houses there. The total population of the United States as shown by the census of 1900 is 76,303,387 exclusive of Alaska. John D. Rockefeller Jr., is to build a club house for the use of the Bible class taught by him in New York city. The convention of the Episcopal church finally agreed to create the missionary district of Salina, Kansas. The percentage of foreign persons in the United States in 1900 is 13.7 per cent. In 1890 the percentage was 14.8. President Lorenzo D. Snow. of the Mormon church, left 31 heirs; 2 wives, 13 sons, 13 daughters, and 3 grandehildreh. Edward S. Stokes who killed Jim Fisk years ago, is a decrepit old manat 60, living in pain and semi-conseiousness. Australia has proportionately more churches than any other country, having 6,013, or 210 to every 10,000 people. Russia has 55 to the same number. Most American travelers in Ireland now visit Derock, county Antrim, to see the house in which James McKinley, the ancestor of President McKinley, was born. A run by small depositors on the Fidelity Trust company of Buffalo was met by the assistance of the banks of the city to such an extent as to cause the Fidelity company to stop it as they had enough. Two Italians with pistols and daggers, were arrested in the corridor of the presidential palace at Rio Janeiro. It is believed that they are anarchists and were seeking a chance to kill the president. Two advertisements in a Montreal paper: "S14 a month is offered for a Protestant house servant, no washing or ironing," and "$15 a month is offered for a teacher in a Protestant school, who can bring a first class elementary diploma." The census report shows that of the a total population 51.2 are males; slightly larger poroportion of females than ten years ago. The increase of the total population since 1890 is 21 per cent.