... INDEPENDENCE DAY. The American Society in London bed its usual Fourth of July banquet on Saturday. The American Amhsaeador, responding to the toast of his health, said that he bopod that this generation would sec the statue of George Washington erected ...

... PENALTY OF CELEBRATING. The list of Independence Day casualties in America caused by fireworks, careless handling of firearms, and other causes, is very heavy this year. The following summary of the cost of the Glorious Fourth is compiled from trust- ...

... MARK TWAIN CONFESSES. Speaking at the American Independence Day banquet in London, Mark Twain said he had tried to convince the English people from the beginning that he did not take the Ascot Cup. As he had failed to convince anybody that he did not ...

... of accidents, including collisions between electric tramway-ears, in various parts of the United States on Saturday (Independence Day), a dozen persons were killed and upwards of • hundred injured. The most eztraordisary happened at Pittsburg, where • ...

... to 1904 be was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. He has written a number of books on ecclesiastical subjects. INDEPENDENCE DAY. ...

... akin to a breach a neutrality. On Monday morning all the wanshipa at Portamouth drowsed over all in honour of C:rlian Independence Day, and in oompliment to the Chiba' training ship, General Baguevano, now in Portsmouth harbour. The General Bagnevano fired ...

... kept secret. The gnu was of either Turkimn or German manufacture. ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN MINUTES. It was fitting that Independence day the American cable girdle reined the globe should be completed. For a ameliorable time the Commercial Peelle Cable Company's ...

... BANK HOLIDAY. The America= have only one Dank Holiday each year, Thanksgiving Day, their most famous annual festival. Independence Day, which falls on the Fourth of July, and Decoration Day, which is set apart for deeking with flowers the graves of those ...

... in New York, and they were lodged in gaol in July. The gang. though in prison. were not at the end of their resources. Independence Day in America is a great holiday ; the streets are thronged, the utmost licence runs riot in celebration, and the full force ...

... three and four thousand American visitors to London attended the reception given by the American Ambassador in honour of Independence Day at the Embassy, Dorchester House, Park-lane. The dispute as to the closing of the right of way by the Admiralty from ...

... ed guests foregathered at the Hotel Cecil to the number of nearly four hundred on Saturday evening in celebration of Independence Day. The annual banquet was postponed this year from July 4 out of regard for the memory of Mr. John Hay, whose death imparted ...

... together with a newspaper paragraph, for a man receiving a legacy of £5,000. Twenty-six years ago a man in America at an Independence Day celebration got a nail blown into his neck. There it stayed until a few months ago, wham a sharp pain caused him to ...