... INDEPENDENCE DAY. The American Society in London held its usual Fourth of July banquet on Saturday. The American Amhuamtior, responding to the toast of s health, suid that he hoped that this generation would see the statue of George Washington erected ...

... A balloon ascent, which took place at Boston (U. 8. on Monday, in connection with the festivities on the occasion of Independence Day, had a fatal termination, two persons being killed outright.and & third seriously injured. The balloon, afterascending ...

... ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN MINUTES. It was fitting that on Independence day the American cable girdle round the globe should be completed, For a considerable time the Commeraal Pacifie Cable Cumpany's employés have been at work, At five o'cleck on Saturday ...

... BANK HOLIDAY, The Americans have only ome Bank Foliday each year, Thanksgiving Day, their most famous annual festival. g Independence Day, which falls on the Fourth of July, and Decoration Day, which is set apart for decking with flowers the graves of those ...

... This report, which was published on Saturday, shows that thers have been leakages in the Government forecast of the crop INDEPENDENCE DAY. LORD LANSDOWNE ON AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP. The members of the American Societv in London and a number of distinguished guests ...

... candidate for the Presidency, who is a strong partisan of General Barillas, attempting to make a political speech on Independence Day. The mob threw him mms friends off the Eln.tform and pelted them with stones until they took shelter ina fifmse in the ...

... killed, and 103 mnen wounded, the majority seriously, As the result of the movement for a *‘safe and “sane” observance of Independence Day in America the number of fatalities resulting {rom its celebration was comparatively small, there being only sixteen ...

... considered v -3 imperfect. In Philadelpaia alone sixty aceidents v reported, and the number of deaths due to celeb iz Independence Day was probably nearer seventy ti: twenty, according to one Northern paper. Capsury’'s Oocoa EssExce contains far more ...

... There are many peasants, indeed, who buy fresh meat only twice a year—once for New Year, and once for August Ist, Swiss Independence Day. If a Swiss household be too poor to afford meat for New Year’s Day, the local pastor sees that it is provided with some ...

... ides occurred to them. The father had purchased a lot of fireworks with which to celebrate the coming celebratios of Independence Day, and these were stored in & room near by. The rockets and erackers were siily taken 0 the window above the one where ...

... that the whole country was silent and tearful, waiting for news of the President. “ The usually nosiest day in the year (Independence day),” be adds, “ is as quiet as a Sunday.” Everywhere the public and private celebrations of the day were abandoned. The ...

... idea occurred to them. The father had purchased a lot of fireworks with which to celebrate the coming celebration of the Independence Day, and these were stored in a room near by. The rockets and crackers were slily taken to the window above the one where ...