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# NEWS NUGGETS. Brought by the Wires from the North, East, South and West. Recitations at Lake Forest University at Chicago, has been suspended temporarily owing to a number of cases of scarlet fever that have developed among the students. Gov. Durbin of Indiana, has signed the Senate bill appropriating $1600 for a sword for Admiral Taylor, former commander of the battleship Indiana. The governor has appointed a commission to select a design. Prof. Arthur Wisner, 54 years of age, a French lecturer, dropped dead from heart failure at New York, Sunday night. Prof. Wisner has been a lecturer in French on French literature in this country for about 10 years. Early Saturday morning, five strangers blew up the safe in the postoffice at Phoenixville, Pa., secured $50 in cash and stamps and a $500 gold-bearing bond and made their escape. Postal Clerk C. Bishop gave the alarm and he and his family were shot at. The postoffice was badly wrecked. Definite information has reached Tangier that the Sultan's troops came into contact with the forces of the pretender, Jan. 13. It was, however, only an outpost affair and there were very few casualties on either side. The Sultan did not meet with a general disaster, as had been rumored. A serious engagement, however, may follow at any moment. The taking of testimony in the Wilcox trial at Norfolk, Va., ended, Saturday, and Atty. Leary for the defence, began his address to the jury. The defence advances the theory of suicide. Mr. Leary created a stir of indignation by saying to the jury that the prisoner was a native, while the Cropseys were but Yankees. The case will go to the jury, Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. The petition for a receiver of the old Butchers' and Drovers' Bank of Providence, which went out of business in 1900, was, Saturday, referred to W. S. Reynolds, master in chancery, by order of the appellate division of the supreme court. The court instructed the master in chancery to ascertain the name and address of each of the officers of the Butchers' and Drovers' Bank; also to ascertain and report the name and address of each stockholder and the amount of stock held, and to procure certain other information in relation to the books and records of the bank. Jacob K. Upton, chief clerk of the United States life saving service, died at Washington, suddenly, Sunday night, shortly after returning from Atlantic City. He was 65 years of age and a widow and three daughters survive him. Mr. Upton went to Washington from Manchester, N. H., in 1867. He entered the service of the treasury and with successive promotions rose to the position of assistant secretary, which he afterwards resigned and established himself in business in that city. Later he again entered the treasury service, being appointed to a position in the life saving bureau. He was unusually well informed on financial matters. The Berlin "South American Outlook," speaking of Cuba, says in effect that the transfer of the Pearl of the Antilles from Spanish ownership to the control of the American Union has not, during the past year, exerted any injurious effect upon European trade with this island. On the contrary, the Cuban demand for German wares is, judging from the figures for 1901, considerably increasing. The annual exportation to Cuba from Hamburg in 1901 was $2,427,600. The articles taken to Germany from Cuba in 1901 were cigars valued at $1,666,000, and raw tobacco valued at $714,000, wood valued at $238,000, wax valued at $205,870, and cattle skins valued at $71,400. Instead of blowing down coal in mines by means of dynamite, an Englishman intends to make use of a hydraulic cartridge, which is said to obviate the wasteful shattering of the fuel. The cartridge is 20 inches in length. Orifices along its sides admit of the application of a pressure of some three tons per square inch. The total pressure is about 60 tons. When inserted in a hole the cartridge is coupled up with a small hand pump. It is said that in a few minutes after the apparatus has been at work the coal breaks up and falls in great blocks. About one and one-half pints of water are used in the operation. One colliery proprietor who has adopted the invention for use in three mines computes that each cartridge saves $75 a week. At the trial at St. Louis, Mo., Saturday, of Charles F. Kelly, former speaker of the house of delegates, on the charge of bribery, the $75,000 deposited in the Lincoln Trust Co's. vaults as a bribe to the house of delegates combine was presented in court and counted for the fourth time of Philip Stock, "the legislative agent." He identified it as the same money that he received from President Charles H. Turner of the Suburban Railroad. Edward E. Morrell, George F. Robertson and William K. Tamblyn were among the members of the house combination who testified of its dealings and of Kelly's connection therewith. George Potee and E. H. Hall of the Lincoln Trust Co., told of the deposit of the $75,000 in the vaults of that concern. Mrs. Lucy W. Drew, widow of Joseph S. Drew, a woman 87 years of age,