, 1900-08-30
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

1880
A panic on a viaduct crossing a Paris
street resulted In the killing of two
women. Many others were hurt.
The will of the late ex-senator In
gals was filed for probate. 1t be-
queathed to his wife all his property,
and appoints her sole executor, without
bond.
To meet the demand for accommoda-
tons for the encampment, si~xty-three
Chicago school buildings are to be
turned into hotels, with ample accom-
moat!tions.
Schekih Bey, head of the cipher bu-
reau of the Turkish foreign office, has
been appointed Turkish minister TO the
United States in place of Ali Ferrouh
Bey, recalled.
The Sultan has ordered a committee
TO investigate the recent massacre Of
200 Armenians in the sSassun district of
Asiatic Turkey. Meantime his majes-
ty has relieved Ali Pasha of the COM
mand of Bitlis.
Tie Fall Mall Gazette publishes a
dispatch from Rome which declares
that an important medical discovery
concerning Bright's disease has been
made by DIR. Ovid Brown, formerly of
New York but now of Rome.
William NJ. johnson of Hackensack,
New Jersey, the president of the New
Jersey Senate, has accepted the office
of assistant postmaster general made
vacant by the resignation of Perry
Heath. He will take charge in a few
days.
Tom Martin and Barney Kcegan up
set n lamp while fighting in a room in
the Hamilton house at Hamilton, Mon
tana, and set fire to the building. Both
were burned to death. The hotel and
three adjoining buildings were burned.
Loss 100000.
London is likely to be the location of
the first great plant for the manufac-
ture of liquid air. Professor Charles
Il. Trlpler, accompanied by several dir
ectors of his company, has gone TO Lon
don to complete the preliminary ar
rangements for this plant.
The United Christian. the official or
gan of the United Christian party, an
LOUNGES that j. +. X. Leonard Of Aims
worth, Iowa, a prosperous farmer, six
ty years old, has been nominated for
President of the United States by the
national committee of the party.
The Presbyterian Board Of Foreign
Missions has received IA cablegram say
Ing llul III MISSIONARIES ut luO ling
Flu We're killed. II is thought that the
Presbyterian missionaries at Pao Ting
Flu numbered three, II that altogether
there We're ten foreign missionaries
there.
A dispatch TO the Journal and Ad-
vertiser from Rome says: A staff of
thirty Italian detectives will be sent to
this country to operate in the centers
here, where Italians abound. They
will be under the command of an in
spector. who will have his h%eadquar-
tiers in New York.
A treaty of amity, m and
navigation and general intercourse mas
been signed Professionally by the Span
ish minister of state and the American
minister at Madrid. This practically
marks the last step in the complete res
toratiOn Of relations between Spain
and the United States.
The population of Greater New York,
rs indicated by the count just complet-
ed at the census office. is 3,437 ,202.
This includes the population Of the
boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, pre-
vioGsly announced. and those of Brook
lyn, Richmond and Queens. An APP
proXimate of the increase since 1890
shows it to have ben $40 per cent.
General Grodekoff." says the St. Pc
tersburg correspondent of the London
Times, ''telegraphs a remarkable fact,
which must be taken as n pre-emptOry
notice of what is probably TO follow.
The Russians have now conquered the
right bank of he Amur. which is there
fore no longer the frontier. but an in
ternal river of the Russian empire"
wheat shipments from oklahoma
nave become so great during the past
week mat not enough cars 10 transport
me gram east can De secured ny ele-
Na'or men ana larlners from the rail-
road companies. The eastward ship
neht OF wheht from oklahoma is larger
than ever before. 1t Is going 10 Ohio,
IennSylvania, New York and Newport
news.
For saving tho life of Mrs EImer
Cnrtbope Of GnIvastop Teyas thirty.
tnur wears ot,o Mrs JuIio ShaIdnn a
knitting mill employees of New York. is
made heir to n fortune OF $1,000 Mrs.
Sheldon was Mrs. Carthage's maid in
SIT While out riding with her mis-