Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1902 — Telegraphic Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Telegraphic Brevities.

President Loubet has signed the bill approving the Brussels sugar convention. Cholera is spreading somewhat in the Philippine Islands. The ration for Manila is maintained. In a letter to an Aldermtfh, Mayor Low has described the New York method of disposing of refuse as “a relic of barbarism.” He takes the stand that this material should be burned and that the heat so generated should be made a-source of income. The Frankfurter Zeitung of Berlin prints a special dispatch from Pekin which says that an Imperial decree hag been issued giving the American China Development Company authority to issue $40,000,000 in bonds to complete the railroad from Hankow to Canton. Sir Norman Lockyer, the specialist on solar astronomy, says the recent West Indian volcano outburst is connected with sun spot activity. He says further that the moot disastrous volcanic eruptions and earthquake# generally occur around the dates of the sun spot maximum and mfrdmrnw _