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General.
A new mineral has been discovered at the University of Wisconsin.
A crusade against fire-trap hotels is begun'in New York.
Porto Ricans are forming a Republican party.
The members of the Porto Rican cabinet will visit Washington next month.
'The federal court in New Orleans decides against the interstate commerce commission.
The lake carriers' association has decided to advance wages of boat crews $5 per month.
Digby Bell, the actor, filed a petition in bankruptcy at Chicago, in which he asks to be relieved of liabilities aggregating $27,000.
Henry A. Casperfield, who was formerly in the jewelry business at New York, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Normal liabilities, $706,386.
The remains of Lieut. George Elliott, U. S. A., whose death occurred Aug. 11 last at Santiago, were interred with military honors at Arlington.
The old monitor Comanche, which has been bought from the government by an Oakland, Cal., firm, is to be converted into a freight ferry boat to run in San Francisco bay.
The Illinois house passed the senate bill to prevent the introduction and spread in Illinois of the San Jose scale and other fruit-destroying insects.
The Woodmen's circle at Memphis, Tenn., has formed the International Association of Deputy Organizers of the Woodmen of the World as an adjunct of the sovereign camp.
The employes of the Belleaire (Ohio) Steel company's two blast furnaces were agreeably surprised when notified by the company of a 15 per cent increase in wages all around.
An erecting gang, from the Pencoyd Iron works, will leave in a few days for Africa, for the purpose of building a bridge across the Atabara river, in the Soudan, near Khartoum.
The battleship Iowa will at once be taken to the Union iron works, where she will remain about six weeks while being repaired. Her bollers will be retubed and her cylinders overhauled.
The Pacific Express company has made arrangements for a through route to California and the points along the coast line and another through route to New York city and the whole Atlantic coast.
Arrangements are being made for a reunion to be held at Guthrie, Okla., in June next for the rough riders who fought in the battles about Santiago. A letter has been received from Gov. Roosevelt of New York accepting an invitation to attend.
President Simon Burns, of the Window Glass Workers' association at Pittsburg, was informed that all the shove boys and lehr-tenders at the South Side factories have given notice that on Wednesday they will demand erage of $75 gold per ton.
Mr. 'Dawes, the controller of the currency, has been informed that Judge Speer has discharged the receiver of the First National Bank of Cordele, Ga., appointed by him, and that the effects of the bank have been turned over to the receiver appointed by Mr. Dawes.
Passengers who arrived at Seattle, Wash., from Copper River, Alaska, on the steamer Excelsior, say that scurvy is reported in all the camps in the interior, and many miners are coming to the coast, either to escape it or to recover from its effects.
