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# MISCELLANEOUS.
Providence, R. I.—Joseph Leiter, son of the Chicago millionaire, has purchased the famous Rhode Island Locomotive works and will begin the manufacture of locomotives under the patents the concern holds.
Beloit, Wis.—The state convention of the Young Women's Christian association was held in this city.
Victoria, B. C.—The official gazette gives notice of the intended construction of a railway from North Vancouver to the Lake Atlin gold fields.
New York—Two more men of war will probably follow the auxiliary cuiser Buffalo to the Asiatic squadron.
San Juan, Porto Rico—Private Peter Nolan, company L, Third Wisconsin, and Private Homer M. Bailey, company B, First Kentucky, died of typhoid fever.
Boston, Mass.—The general strike of the boot and shoe lasters in southeastern Massachusetts factories has been declared off.
Santa Fe, N. M.—First Lieut. Frederick W. Wientge, troop I, Roosevelt's rough riders, died of typhoid fever.
Litchfield, Ill.—The miners in the Litchfield Coal Mining company's mine have struck because nine fellow workmen were discharged.
San Francisco—Maj. Robert B. C. Bement of the volunteer engineers is sick in Manila with typhoid fever. He was appointed from St. Paul.
Milwaukee, Wis.—A temporary injunction has been granted against the Milwaukee Enterprise Box and Lumber Company in the suit brought by William Doig, the Brooklyn box-nailing machine manufacturer.
Boston, Mass.—The hospital ship Bay State has reached here from Porto Rico with 113 sick and convalescent soldiers of the Sixth Massachusetts and twenty of the First regiment volunteers. Two members of the Sixth died on the voyage.
Washington—The Peruvian government has asked congress to vote $40,000 to pay the claim of Victor H. MacCord, consular agent of the United States in Arequipa, Peru, in 1895, for damage sustained by reason of imprisonment during the revolutionary outbreak in that country.
Washington.—The president has given his consent to the Second Georgia regiment remaining in the United States service.
Caracas—The cities of Venezuela were en fete in honor of Simon Bolivar, the South American liberator. Much enthusiasm was manifested in the celebrations.
Muncie, Ind.—The regular annual meeting of the Northern Indiana school superintendents met here, with a good attendance.
Victoria, B. C.—Yukon river in Alaska is now filled with slush ice and travel to Dawson is suspended.
La Salle, Ill.—The Northern Illinois Teachers' association met here with an attendance of 1,400 from various cities in northern Illinois.
Waukegan, Ill.—Samuel Voak, 100 years old, died in the town of Benton.
La Salle, Ill.—The new La Salle township high school building was dedicated with impressive ceremonies.
Lisbon, Ohio.—Alpheus Arter, one of the heaviest depositors of the failed First National Bank, has been forced to close his harness manufacturing establishment as a result of his losses.
Parkersburg, W. Va.—Col. Z. T. Vinson, who during the campaign of 1896 was chairman of the national democratic committee for West Virginia, has taken the stump in that state for the republican ticket.