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two-thlrds OF which Is Insured.

tWO-thirds OF which 10 insured.
The president has under considera.
ton the question of the reorganization
! OF liz Dawes Indian commission.
There are five members. each of whom
draws n salary of 5000 per annum.
A thirty-year franchise has been
granted by the Superior. Wis.,, council
to the new Peoples Telephone com
pany. Long distance Instruments will
Ike put in.
The New York Central has arranged
for the sale Of $1OO,OOO.OOO of 3h per
cent h~undred-year gold bonds and the
New York and Harlem for ST., 900
of the same class of bonds.
The United States cruiser BROOKLYN,
which was injured in the ice gorge on
the Delaware in January, was sue
cessfully floated out Of the dry dock
ut League Island navy yard.
A dispatch from Washington an.
nounces that the Carnegie company
Inns been invited by the Russian gov
eminent to bid on armor plate for two
first-class battleships.
The runner HailstOne, the property
OF ConOver l. Co., died ut the Windsor,
Ont. track yesterday. Hailstone has
Won numerous ace on the Western
tracks.
l.. Sandies, operating general stores
Mt Frankfort, Kan, and Falls City,
Neb.. has failed. Assets and liabiii.
ties are not given, but are believed to
he large.
After n search of four years, Edwin
r. Mohler, a millionaire lumberman of
TinNo0.,o1ic Gon Nonnko1 IT. as---.-l
Wife, Loru Maude. and their eight-year-
old child, Paul Raymond Mohler. The
woman was fOuad In Pasadena, Cal.
Walter S. Chlncc. for several years
a special agent Of the treasury depart
ment at Philadelphia, has been pro-
NOTED to be supervising special agent,
vice ]. ]. Crowley, transferred and ap-
pointed special agent at Chicago.
The appraiser of the estate of Maria
Louise Vanderbilt, wife Of William H.
Vanderbilt, has filed his report with
the surrogate at New York. The value
of the personal property is found, af-
ter deducting expenses ard paying Ger.
tain debts. to be $625.47S.
Suits for damages in the amount of
$25.OOO are Instituted in the federal
courts of Marquette. Mich, against the
Northwestern railway. The plaintiff is
Gustave Gorgans, n fireman, who sus-
tanned permanent injuries by the ex-
plOsiOn of his boiler near Escanaba
last July.
Clarence Sidney verrill, son of Prof.
Verrill, Of Yale, has broken the
strength record made by Charles Chad
wick, Of Yale. recently. Chadwick
broke the total strength record of
Lowering, Of Harvard, of 1923 kilos.
Chadwicl's total was 1,63S. VcrrilIs
total is 1876.
Efforts are being made to form a pool
between the Altoona Iron company, the
Portage Iron company Of Duncans-
vile, the Hollilaysburg Iron and Nail
company and the Eleanor Iron COM
pany, the four leading co lcerns in Blair
county, Pa, for the manufacturing Of
mill iron.
o. b. Harding and j. S. Campbell,
leading farmers and agents for Osce-
Ia county, Iowa, for India relief, will
soon ship a al load Of o r to st.
Joseph, Mo, to be kiln dried for ship
lment to Calcutta. Winter before last
they shipped $4,000 pounds of -four,
the donations to Nebraska sufferers.
A letter written by ex-Gov. Altgeld
in 1893, in which he informs the
trustees of the Illinois State univer-
sity that President c. w. Spalding, of
the Globe Savings bark, was a good
II an for the treasurership Of the uni
versity, is printed. Gov. Altgeld has
always insisted that he never Endorsed
Spalding,