National.

Five hundred and sixty teachers will sail on the transport Thomas for the Philippines July 23. The salaries of the teachers will range from $75 to $125 a month, and before starting they will sign contracts for three years. A sample of the text-books which will be used in the islands has just been exhibited in the Insular Bureau. It contains a three-thousand-word history of the United States, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence, and a map of the country. The pages are printed alternately in Spanish and English.

Secretary Long has directed that the old steam frigate Minnesota now lying at the navy yard in Charlestown, Mass., be sold to the highest bidder. The Minnesota was one of the few Union vessels which escaped destruction from the Confederate monitor Merrimac during the Civil War. For many years her name has been on the naval lists more for sentimental reasons than anything else.

The total receipts from the war revenue act from July 13, 1898, the date the act went into effect, to May 31, 1901, amounted to $310,053,363. For the first ten days of July the receipts of internal revenue were considerably larger than for the corresponding period of last year, in spite of the reductions which took effect with the beginning of the month.

The new Philippine tariff has received its finishing touches at the War Department, and will probably go into effect early next month. It is expected that the new law will produce annually $15,000,000 revenue for the new insular government, and materially reduce imports from all countries except Spain and the United States.

The Sultan of Turkey has finally paid the ninety-five thousand dollars claimed by the United States for damages to the property of the American missionaries in the Armenian massacres in 1893. Mr. Griscom of Philadelphia and Mr. Leishman of Pittsburg, Pa., have the honor of securing the payment.

The Chinese Government, through Minister Wu Ting-fang, has filed a claim of indemnity to the amount of half a million dollars on account of alleged outrageous treatment of Chinese at Butte, Montana.

The registration of persons seeking homes in the Kiowa-Comanche country, Oklahoma, was begun at El Reno and Lawton July 10. The drawing will take place July _9.

The National Educational Association, which assembled at Detroit, Mich., last week, passed a resolution in favor of a National university.

The Navy Department has been informed that the battleship Maine will be launched at Cramps' shipyard at Philadelphia on the 25th inst.

After July 25 all exports from Porto Rico into the United States and all exports from the United States to Porto Rico will be free of duty.

Foreign.

Owing to opposition to Japan's request to increase her indemnity claim about four million dollars, there has resulted another delay in the settlement of affairs in China. Japan presented a claim of twenty-three million dollars, but when it became apparent that the powers would accept bonds from China in satisfaction of their claims, Japan announced that she could not sell her bonds at par, and would, consequently, sustain a heavy loss, as her claim represented actual money expended. She therefore proposed to increase her claim accordingly. The United States has taken no part in the opposition, but has declared that Japan's proposal meets with its approval.

Chekib Bey, the new minister from Turkey to the United States, arrived in Washington July 8. He has never held a diplomatic post before, but has been chief of the cipher department of the Sultan, a most important position, which goes to none but the most tried and trusted of the Sultan's subjects.

A despatch from Pekin says that the Forbidden City has been closed to the public, preparatory to refurnishing the palace for the court upon its return. The palace is the least injured of the imperial domiciles, and is virtually intact.

Prince Chun, the younger brother of Emperor Kwen Su, who has been selected formally to apologize at Berlin for the murder of Baron von Ketteler, left Pekin July 12.

The American consul at Tientsin has sentenced three American looters to four years' imprisonment in the American jail at Shanghai.

President Kruger has abandoned his visit to the United States.

Industrial and Commercial.

The American Plough Company, with a capital of $100,000, has been incorporated formally in New Jersey. This company is to be the nucleus of the combination of manufacturers of agricultural implements, with plants for the most part in the West, that has been practically completed. Among the concerns to be included in the combination are Deere &Co., Moline Ill.; Moline Plough Company, Rock Island Plough Company, Bettendorf Wheel Company, Parlin-Orendorf of Canton, Ill. the Morrison Manufacturing Company of Madison, Wis.; Fuller & Johnson, Madison, Wis.; the Syracuse Chilled Plow Company of Syracuse, N.Y.; B. F. Avery & Co., Louisville, Ky.; Bucher & Gidds, Canton, O.; the Peru Plough and Wheel Company, Peru, Ill.; the Pekin Plough Company of Pekin, Ill.; J. Harley Bardley, Chicago; Martin Kenman, Peoria, Ill., and the La Crosse Plough Company, La Crosse, Wis. To control the world's trade in the agricultural implements business, agencies will be established at every important place on the globe.

Delegates representing seventy-eight thousand workmen in all branches of the leather trade in this country and Canada, met at Philadelphia July 5, and formed the Amalgamated Leather Workers Association of America. The new international union will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor.

The independent oil producers of Texas have contracted with the Neatia and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia for the construction of two steel hulk oil steamships of eight hundred thousand gal'ons capacity.

The Republic Iron and Steel Company of Youngstown, O., has granted an advance in wages to take effect from July 1. About forty thousand employes are benefited by the increase.

Oklahoma is experiencing an oil boom. Twelve wells are now being sunk and six are in operation. The first of these was put down at Pawhuska four years ago.

The principal gas company of Chicago has pledged itself to pay three and one-half percent of its gross receipts into the city treasury.

Canada's mineral production during the past year is valued at $65,000,000, which greatly exceeds that of any preceding year.

The New York Court of Appeals says that the eight-hour provision in the labor law is constitutional.

The Houston Oil Company has been organized with a capitalization of $30,000,000.

Telegraphic communication is now open between Seattle and Port Simpson, Alaska.

General.

The Young Men's Christian Association was organized in London June 6, 1844, by Sir George Williams, now senior member of the dry goods firm of Hitchcock, Williams, & Co. Mr. Williams will be eighty years old in December, but he goes to his office every day and exercises a general supervision of the business. When the Y.M.C.A. was organized it had only half a dozen members, now there are 7,200 associations with a membership of five hundred thousand, and owning upwards of $20,000,000 worth of property.

There are eighty associations in London alone and over 350 in England. There is scarcely a civilized country in the world without an organization, and the international committee, whose headquarters are in New York, finds it necessary to employ a corps of sixty-one secretaries to do its business.

The twentieth international convention of the Christian Endeavor Societ began at Cincinnati July 6, with the largest attendance on record. The annual report of the general secretary, John Willis Baer of Boston, shows that there are now 61,427 societies with nearly four million members.

During the year ending June 30, precious stones to the value of $1,919,053 passed through the office of George W. Mindil, government expert on precious stones at New York.

Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $750,000 to the city of San Francisco for a public library building if the city will furnish a suitable site and appropriate $75,000 a year for maintenance.

As the result of a compromise, the educational features of the Buffalo Exposition are open to the public on Sunday during the afternoon and evening.

Jacob S. Rogers, the millionaire locomotive builder of Paterson, N. J., bequeathed $8,000,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Mr. Carnegie's gift of ten million dollars to the University of Scotland is the largest ever made to any public institution in Great Britain.

The daily average attendance at the Pan-American Exposition during the month of June was over thirty-one thousand.

The general admission to the Pan-American Exposition on Sunday has been reduced from fifty cents to twenty-five cents.

A movement has been started to erect a monument in memory of the poet Whittier, at Amesbury, Mass.