Political Events.

The Louisville Courier-Journal, which was a gold Democratic paper four years ago, has announced that it will support the regular Democratic ticket this year. In Chicago, where Bryan had no newspaper support in 1896 the Chronicle and the Evening Journal seem to be with him now, and the Baltimore Sun, anti-Bryanite four years ago, has given indications of a disposition to support the regular party candidates.

The Boston Transcript says: The Senate accepted the report of the Committee on Public Health, "no legislation necessary," the annual report of the State Board of Registration in medicine. This action will set at rest any fear that the State will, this year at least, impose greater restrictions upon the practice of medicine or healing than now exist.

The submarine torpedo boat Holland has been purchased by the Navy Department. The price paid was $160,000. It is the intention of the department officials to recommend an appropriation by Congress for the construction of from eight to ten vessels of the same type.

The Chicago Tribune says that the Democratic National committee has issued a circular urging that all delegates to the Kansas City convention be "instructed for the reaffirmation of the Chicago platform and the selection of candidates loyal to it in 1896 and loyal now."

General Otis, in a recent report of military operations in the Philippines, says that there have been one hundred and twenty-four skirmishes, mostly very slight affairs, since January 1, in which the insurgent losses amounted to 1,426, besides 1,453 captured.

Admiral Dewey has declared his willingness to stand for election as president of the United States. He refuses to say which party he looks to for the nomination, and declines to announce his views on the public questions which at present demand a solution.

Webster Davis has resigned the office of assistant secretary of the interior. Mr. Davis recently returned from a visit to South Africa where he was treated with extreme cordiality by President Kruger. It is his intention to lecture in behalf of the Boers.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals decided the governorship contest April 6 in favor of the Democrats. The opinion holds that the action of the Legislature in seating Governor Beckham was final, and that the courts have no power to review it.

Acting Chairman Foss of the naval committee, on April 5, reported to the House the naval appropriation bill, which carries $61,219,916, the largest amount ever reported to the House by a naval committee.

Foreign News.

A convoy of 350 British and seven pieces of artillery was ambushed by the Boers twenty miles from Bloemfontein on March 31 and captured. Another British force consisting of five companies was surrounded by the Boers on April 3 and captured after a day's fighting. This also occurred in the neighborhood of Bloemfontein. Methuen, the British general, reports on April 5 that he surrounded and captured a Boer force of about seventy men near Kimberly. Among the losses of the Boers was General Villebois Mareuil, chief of staff, a French soldier of fortune, who is supposed to have been largely responsible for the excellence of the Boer strategy thus far shown in the war.

Recently Russia made demands on the Sultan of Turkey for a monopoly of the future railway rights in that part of Asia Minor north of the line of the German railway right of way conceded by the Sultan. A disposition was shown to resist the demand, and Russia mobilized a large army near the border, which implied that a refusal would mean war. Dispatches from Constantinople of April 3 say that a compromise was reached whereby Russian capitalists obtain leave to build railways in the territory described, wherever Turkey does not wish to build.

The Mitsui Ginko, the oldest banking house in Japan, was founded two hundred years ago. The capital is five million yen and its reserve fund amounts to three million seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand yen. An immense edifice, the only steel building in the East, is being built for its use. The site covers one and one-half acres, and the structure will be finished in 1903.

The postal savings depositors of Great Britain are now said to number 7,000,000 and to have accumulated $55,000,000. In 1895 a dividend of 2½ per cent on this amount was paid, leaving a surplus of $3,500,000. The cost of the management is said to be but .44 per cent of the mean amount of deposit.

A youth of 16 years fired two shots at the Prince of Wales in Brussels on April 4, but missed his aim. The Prince and Princess went to Copenhagen to attend the celebration of King Christian's birthday, and while their train stopped for a few minutes at the railway station at Brussels, the shots were fired into their car.

Queen Victoria and her party on board the royal yacht arrived off Kingston April 3, and the venerable empress entered Dublin, seven miles distant, the following day. Great throngs of people greeted her both at Kingston and Dublin, and gave her a cordial welcome. This is her first visit to Ireland in 39 years.

A Berlin dispatch reports that Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal agent, has informed the press that one hundred thousand dollars has been collected for the Boers in Germany.

The British are transporting Boer prisoners of war to the island of St. Helena.

The Paris Exposition will open Saturday, April 14.

Industry and Commerce.

Convention hall, the mammoth auditorium in Kansas City, Mo., in which the Democratic convention was to have been held on July 4, was burned to the ground in less than half an hour on April 4. Plans are on foot to rebuild the hall immediately and have it ready for the Democratic convention in July. Convention Hall had been classed as one of the largest and most perfectly constructed auditoriums in the world. It was erected two years ago at a cost of $235,000, raised by public subscription. The seating capacity of the hall was twenty thousand, and with standing room it was capable of holding twenty-two thousand.

Work was resumed April 3 in the machine shops at Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Paterson, N. J., where the machinists had been striking for the last four or five weeks. This was brought about by an agreement to arbitrate the differences between the men and their employers, and this action prevented a general strike of machinists all over the country, which would otherwise have been put into effect April 3.

Admiral Dewey has decided to deposit his entire collection of trophies in the National Museum, including the sword presented to him by Congress, and the great loving cup procured by popular subscription. His object in so doing is to give the public opportunity to view the collection, which is one of great value and interest.

The General Electric Company has absorbed the Siemens-Halske Electric Company of America, and this is said to have brought about what is virtually an electric trust of the world, as the Siemens-Halske Company is closely affiliated with the company of similar name in Germany, the leading electric company of Europe.

Arbuckle, the coffee king, who has become an important factor in the sugar industry also, recently lowered the price of sugar. Havemeyer, the sugar trust magnate, refused to meet the cut in sugar, but he controls a rival coffee roasting concern, and retaliated on Arbuckle by cutting on package coffee, and Arbuckle met the cut.

A consolidation of the healing brick plants of Illinois has been formed under the name of the Illinois Brick Company. The capital is $9,000,000, and thirty-six plants are included in the organization.

The Western Union Telegraph Company has filed a mortgage for twenty million dollars in New York to secure a like amount of bonds.

Nine inches of land fronting on Horatio Street, New York, was sold recently to the Edison Electric Illuminating Company for $250.

General News.

All arrangements have been made by the university authorities for taking care of the two thousand Cuban school teachers who are to attend the Harvard summer school on the invitation of President Elliot and the corporation. Some wealthy men who are interested in Harvard, have started to raise a fund of $50,000 for the maintenance of the visitors, so that very likely they will have their trip to the United States and return, their tuition, and most of their expenses of a summer vacation free.

Some time ago John D. Rockefeller agreed to give two million dollars more to the Chicago University if President Harper would raise three million dollars among the friends of the university to go with it. The time limit was January 1,1900, and was extended to April 1. President Harper succeeded in meeting the conditions, and now the great western institution of learning has a total endowment of eleven million dollars.

The Springfield Republican makes the announcement that the position of superintendent of education in the Philippines has been informally offered to Principal Fred W. Atkinson of the Springfield (Mass.) High School by the new commission for the establishment of civil government in the islands.

Thirty thousand school children will greet Admiral Dewey with songs when he goes to Chicago in May.