The Holly chieftain., 1901-11-29
1ELEeRAPHlc sREvI1lEs.

and Venezuela.
Seven troops of the Fifteenth cav
airy. now in the Department OF Cali
fornia. Will sail for the Philippines
December 1oth.
Forty thousand acres Of land near
Navajo. Greer county. Oklahoma. Were
sold Monday TO a colony of Germans
of 1000 families.
According 10 the Petit Bieu OF Brus-
sells, the wife and family Of former
President Steyn have been deported
from South Africa.
Citizens Of OskaIoosa, Iowa. by a
popular subscription, have pledged a
fund for the erection of a $4,000 build
ing for the y VI. c. A.
Spain Is having serious trouble with
students in Madrid and other large cit
les. # is announced that the govern
mcnt win adopt severe measures.
During the late fog IN England the
driver Of a London omnibus was found
dead in his box while the vehicle was
still running He was n victim Of cold
fog
II Is announced Mt Oyster Bay. Long
Island. that President Roosevelt and
family will occupy their country villa
on Sycamore hill at oyster Bay next
summer.
Fire in the canning building OF the
Cudahy packing establishment at Kan
sas City on the 10Th instant damaged
the building and stock to the amount
Of S1Jc.rru
James ]. Jefrries, worlds champion
flfsiZp Hyhflr IafHutHI I,n- - t1ltilfn a
San Francisco on the 1ith instant. The
match only lasted five rounds, when
Ruhlin's manager threw up the sponge.
Rumors are published in Japan that
the governor of North Kiang Slang,
province of Korea. has given orders
that all foreigners living in the PROV
ince are to he Killed.
''Ihe Indian government" says n dis
patch from Slmia. has abolished the
sword for the cavalry, both British and
Indian. and n short rifle VIII be issued
to all mounted troops"
For 100000 the American Bridge
Company of Philadelphia has secured
n contract for the construction of
twenty steel bridges along the line OF
the Uganda railroad in East Africa.
Tho negotiations between the govern
ments of the United States and Den
mark relative to the ccssion to the
United States of the Danish West
Indies have been transferred to Wash
ingtoD.
Argument was closed November 18th
in the Federal Supreme Court in the
case of the United States VS.. the Rio
Grandc Irrigation Company. the Ele-
phant Butte dam controversy, and the
decision was reserved.
The delegation of the Argentine Re.
public to the Pan-Amerlcan congress at
Mexico City entertained their United
States and Mexican colleagues at II
banquet. The full delegation of the
United States was present.
News from Hardin county, Texas,
confirms the report that well of al
most pure lubricating oil has been
brought in that flows 100 barrels of oil
per day. The new well Is about thirty
miles northwest of Beaumont
Inspection of the spectrum of flash
of lightning ns shown in n photograph
leads Professor u. c. Pickering. di-
believe that hydrogen is compound
element. made up of at least three
components
The numerous grievances of Austria
Hungary against Turkey have been
settled by the agreement of the porte
to pay 10000 francs to the Armenian
victims and by adjusting, financially
and otherwise, the wrongs arising from
eight other matters of dispute.
Huntington interests have come to
the front with another big incorpora-
ton. The Kern Power company, with
n capital Of S5.oOO,0OO fully subscribed,
filed papers of incorporation. 1t is pro-
posed to obtain power on Kern river
100 miles north of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse,
the widow of Professor Samuel +. Is.
Morse, the inventor of the telegraph,
died in Berlin, Germany, on the 14th
inst. She was Professor Morse's sec
ond wife and was married to him In
1878. She was born in 1922.
William Stone. chairman of the
archaeological Society, at its recent
meeting in New York reported that Mt
the rate of progress made 1t was sa fe
to predict that the feather dealers
would soon be driven to the wall, or
Mt least find their business much re-
stricted.
A Berlin dispatch says that the cun.
Ger Investigations made by Professor
Roswell Park Of the University Of Buff
falo have given results in every way
identical with those secured by Profes.
sor Macmillan Schucller OF the Berlin