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[Copyrighted by New York Herald Company, 1902.]

[Special to the Baltimore Sun.]

LONDON, April 20. --- William Waldorf Astor
has given $100,000 for the endowment
of four professorships in the University College,
London.

This is on eof several large gifts recently
made for the extending the scope and increasing
the efficiency of the University
of London and University College. The
University of London was until recently
simply an examining body. It had no
teaching classes. The degrees it conferred
were based upon severe examinations considered
to be more searching than those
of Oxford or Cambridge.

In the same cause Lord Reay appealed to
the Drapers Company, which responded by
giving $150,000. A generous friend, who
hid his identity under the pseudonym "Old
Student," gave the same amount. Mr. Astor's
gift has greatly encouraged those who
are working hard to raise a large sum.

SWEDES WANT TO VOTE

Mass-Meetings For Universal Suffrage
Result In Riots.

STOCKHOLM SWEDEN, April 20. --- Mass
meetings in favor of universal suffrage
were held today in all the towns of
Sweden.

In Stockholm the meeting was attended
with considerable disorder. The demonstrators
tried to march to the palace of
King Oscar. They were charged by the police
and several of them were wounded.
Others were arrested. The approaches to
the palace are now guarded by troops.

The meeting at Malmoe was attended
by about 15,000 persons.

NEW RIOT IN JAMICA

Hundreds Prosecuted For Failure
To Pay Taxes.

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, April 20. --- A riotous
outbreak occured yesterday at Annotta
Bay, on the north coast of the island.

It was confined chiefly to the a conflict between
police and the coolies employed on
an estate. Police reinforcements, which
were sent from Port Antonio, put an end
to the fighting. Many persons were injured
and numerous arrests were made.

Hundreds of persons are being prosecuted
in the island for non-payment of taxes.

Bocas Del Toro Captured.

[Copyrighted by New York Herald Company, 1902.]

[Special to the Baltimore Sun.]

COLON, COLOMBIA, April 20. --- A German
steamer from Bocas del Toro, arriving here,
reports that the rebels landed in open boats
and barges near Bocas at 6 o'clock Thursday
evening and a battle began. The revolutionary
troops outnumbered the Government
force, which surrendered the town at
11 o'clock Friday morning. The United
States gunboat Machias landed 100 marines
at Bocas.

Portrait of Cardinal Gibbons.

PARIS, April 20. --- One of the pictures on
exhibition at the salon of the Societe Nationale
des Beaux Arts is a portrait of Cardinal
Gibbons by Jose Frappa. The picture
is criticised, but attracts much attention
from Americans.