The state herald., 1900-08-31
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

Slegel, Cooper & Co. of Chicago are
planning to start great department
store In London.
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 accommodate
tiOns for the encampment, sixty-three
Chicago school buildings are to be
turned Into hotels, with ample accom-
m0dations.
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 committee
to investigate the recent massacre of
200 Armenians In the Sassun district of
Asiatic Turkey. Meantime his majes-
ty has relieved Ali Pasla of the COM
mand Of Bitlls.
Tie Pail Mall Gazette publishes
dispatch from Rome which declares
that an important medical discovery
concerning Brights 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 u few
days.
Tom Martin and Barney Keegan up
set lamp while fighting in a room in
the Hamilton house at Hamilton, Mon
tuna, and set fire to the building. Both
were burned to death. The hotel and
three adjoining buildings We're burned.
Loss $4,000.
London is likely to be the location of
the first great plant for the manufac.
ture Of liquid air. Professor Charles
l.. Tripler, 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.
nounces that J. f. Il. Leonard of Aims
worth, Iowa, n 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 n cablegram say
Ing that all missionaries ut Pao Ting
Flu Were killed. 1t is thought that the
Presbyterian missionaries ut PaO Ting
Flu numbered three. and that altogether
there were 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 headquar-
tiers in New York.
A treaty of amity, commerce and
navigation and general Intercourse has
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
toratlon of relations between Spain
and the United States.
The population of Greater New York,
us Indicated by the count just complet-
ed at the census office. is 3,i31 ,202.
This includes the population Of the
boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, pre-
vioIsly announced, and those OF Brook
lyn. Richmond and Queens. An np-
proximate OF the Increase since 1880
shows 1t TO have ben 3I,9 per cent.
General Grodckoff," says the st. Pc
tersburg correspondent OF the London
Times. ''telegraphs n remarkable fact,
which must he taken MS n pre-emptory
notice Of what Is probably to follow.
The Russians have now conquered the
right bank of the Amur. which IL there
fore no longer the frontier. but al In
ternal river OF the Russian empire"
Wheat shipments from Oklahoma
have become so great during the past
week that not enough ears to transport
the grain east can be secured by clc-
vaior men and farmers from the rail-
ment Of wheat from oklahoma Is lnrgcr
than ever before. II Is going To Ohio.
Pennsylvania, New York and Newport
News.
For saving tho life OF Mrs. Elmer
Carthage OF Galveston, Texas. thirty
four years ago. Mrs. Julia sheldon, n
knitting mill employees OF New York. Is
made heir To n fortune OF $4,000. Mrs.
Sheldon WIS Mrs. Cartbnge's mnid In
1896. While out riding with her mis-
trcss the horse ran away. Mrs. Shell
don cut the traces In time 10 save them
from being dashed over precipicc.
James Morrison. state department
commander OF the q. A. Il. OF Pennsyl.
yanla. has announced That but three
OF the ihlriy-siN posts In Philadelphia.
with n membership OF 1000, win send
delegations to the national cncnmp-
mcni In Chicago next week. Commnn.
der Morrison stated that this action IN
the result OF the Invitation extended 10
W. !. Bryan TO attend the cncnmpmcni.
The annual report Of the pension bu.
rcau shows that Colorado stands AWAY
above It's surrounding states In its
number of pensioners nnd In the
amount paid ont In pensions. During
the past fiscal ycnr 1915 pensions were
issued to Colorado claimants. nggrc-
getting SDi3.aOO. In Wyoming $50 pen
slons aggregated S0T.OiJ. New Mcxi.
60 pensioners. i.ip2 In number. drew
S?3i .iGi. The III IN Arizona drew
Sin.iTt nnd Sl3s,25i was ISSUED TO the
s.iJ pensioners OF Utah.
The secretary of war. on recommend.
ntion OF the secretary OF the Interior.
to-day ordered the rond. workers nnd
other employees OF the engineer force
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