Items of Interest April 5, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

The bill to appropriate $2,095,455, being the amount of customs collected on Porto Rican imports, to be subject to the will of the President for the prosecution of public improvements in Porto Rico, has become a law.

Both branches of the New York General Assembly have passed a bill repealing the Horton prize-fight law, and if the Governor signs it, as is generally believed he will, prize-fights will be prohibited in the state of New York after September 1, next.

Secretary Root has announced that he has decided to consolidate Havana city and the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio, and to appoint General Lee to command the military forces therein. There are now about nine thousand soldiers in Cuba.

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