, 1901-11-07
~TELEeRAPHIc BREvir!Es.

separation of iron by magLets unpro6t-
able.
The Scottish Rite Masons unveiled n
monument 10 the late grand master.
General Albert Pike, ut Washington,
October BIRD.
Miss Helen Gould has announced
that she will accept the position OF
vice president of the Mckinley Memo
rial Association.
A. b. Cummhis, Republican candi-
date for governor of Iowa, is belfast
at his home ia hes Moines and COM
PEELED to cancel speaking dates indeti-
nitely.
Joseph ShuiIer, twice tried II twice
convicted Of murder in the first degree
and twice sentenced TO be hanged, has
been granted n new trial by the Su-
preme Court of Montana.
Captain w. w. Diehlenberg of the
Kosmos liner Harnesses says that San
Diego and San Francisco nre to be
mad ports of call for the Hamburg
American line of steamers.
The German press is discussing in
lively fashion the following utterance
attributed to Emperor william: IF
no commercial treaties are negotiated,
l shall smash everything to pieces"
The King Alfred, the largest cruiser
In the world, was successfully
launched at -Furness October
18th. The King Alfred cost $5,O5S. 1916.
She Will have IL speed of twenty-three
knots.
Judge Wheeler of Iowa has declared
unconstitutional the law passed by the
twenty-eighth General Assembly, pro-
hlbiting the sale of liquor shipped into
Iowa from other states in original
packages.
An Austrian paper reports Il serious
inundation ut Broussa, near the sea Of
Marmora. The water rose with terri
bic suddenness in the night time,
eighty persons being drowned and 7T6
houses destroyed.
The annual report of General James
A. Dumont. supervising inspector gen
eral of steam vessels, shows that the
total loss of life on steam vessels last
year was $40, an increase of 40 over
the previous year.
King Edward hos purchased Benja.
min Constants portrait of the late
Queen Victoria. which was so prOmi-
nent ut the last royal academy exhibit
ton. 1t will be hung in the royal din
ing room ut Windsor castle.
The total number of cases of typhus
officially reported in Belgium is 1888.
Thus far there have been twenty-seven
deaths, while only 1872 have complete
ly recovered. The epidemic has spread
to Bachem and Ludenscheid.
=. d. Scott, national worlds fair
commissioner mt St. Louis, has re
celved n telegram from Miss Helen
Gould in which she accepts the aD-
pointment of lady manager of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Ernest Seton-ThompsOn, the writer
on wild animal life, will in future be
known as Ernest ThOmpson-Seton. a
petition recently filed for a change of
name has been granted by n judge of
the District COur in New York.
According to a dispatch to the Novoe
Vremya from N~ladivostOck the Russian
General G~rodokon. accompanied by
the Russian assistant minister of
finance, NJ. linmrnoff. will soon open
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. railway.
Lee Chop, perhaps the wealthiest
man in New Works chinatown" is
going back to China to live out his old
age in luxury which can be purchased
with the fortune of S15O,OOO he has
amassed in merchandise in America.
Heavy SHOWS have been falling Ia
various parts of northern Arizona. Ten
inches has fallen ut Williams and in
the extreme north it is even deeper.
1t Is of immense value in providing
water on dry sheep and cattle ranges.
The Supreme Court of Montana has
decided that 1t is not lawful to give
union firms the advantage over non
union firms in the matter of bid for
supplying furniture for he new state
capitol. All citizens must be treated
alike.
Henry Wiseinan, in Jackson, Michi-
gan, prison, has confessed that he muir
dered Mrs. Ellen Huss in the woods
near Royal. Oklahoma, where her body
was found several weeks ago. The
murder was committed in October,
1900.
The Independent Home Ru!.rs, a po-
litical party largely composed of ma
tivcs and half whites. have indOrsed
Robert w. Wilcox for governor of Ha-
wall, and sent resolutions to that eff
feet to President Roosevelt. Wilcox is
Hawaiian delegate to Congress.
Henry Clay Hall. for thirty consec-
utive years consul in Cuba and min
lister to Central America, died ut his
home in Millbury October 10Th. aged
NAEAAAN 'AA' ''AF = u ut II lis
the father of the Nicarlguan canal.
and drafted the first treaty for the
building Of it.
The divorce proceedings by which
Frederick NJ. Gebhard and Louise Geb-
hard are legally separated, were con
cluded ut Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
by the order of the court that Mr. Geb-
hare pay his former wife SlS5,OOO and
make over to her his New York resi-
dence.
Chile, replying TO n request from the
Argentine government for an c~Nplnna-
ton of the Chilean occupation of the
disputed territory In the Cordilleras.
asserts that the sole purpose of the
Chilean government is to make neces-
sary roads with n view of facilitat.
ing the work of The British arbitration
commissioners.
Resolutions approving the course of
President Roosevelt in having Booker
II. Washington, the negro educator,
dine with him at the White House.
We're adopted by the national encamp-
ment of the Union Veterans Union.