Items of Interest July 19, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

President McKinley was officially notified at his home in Canton, O., July 12, that he had been chosen for the second time by the National Republican convention as presidential nominee. Senator Lodge, permanent chairman of the convention, was spokesman of the notification committee. Governor Roosevelt was officially informed at his home in Oyster Bay of his nomination for Vice-President. The notification address was made by Senator Wolcott of Colorado.

United States Consul-General Guenther, in Frankfort, has sent a report to the State Department in Washington to the effect that on account of the protective tariffs in force in Europe, leading Swiss statesmen are considering the expediency of uniting with some other power, and an extract from the Allgemeine Schmeizen Zeitung, which is embodied in the report, seriously advocates annexation to the United States.

According to the bureau of construction and repair of the Navy Department, the new battleships Alabama, building at the Cramps' yards, Philadelphia, and Wisconsin, at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, are, respectively, 97 and 93 per cent completed, the Illinois is 84 per cent completed, and the Maine 30 per cent.

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