Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1901-11-07

III. British admiralty his o.'lcred
the construction of battleship larger
;han any now existing. II r disDlace-
nnt will be 10. 800 ton aud her length
i2j ret She will lie the first vessel oil
tae King i warI class.
Thr d ichoss e Manchester (wlio was
| Ms. Helen Zimmerman of Cinciuna,i)
vas rccuu hed Of a daughter. Both
he mother and child are doing W II
Tie infant viii receive the names Mary
Ava Monagu
| EX.Sccrc'ary OF State Caleb Power,
was again convicted at Geurlvtowr
Ky, a. accessory before the fact G. the
murder OF Governor William + GOeio
in ,JH u.ry, 1900 and tie scconl tn.
sentenced tD imprisonment for li;e
The supreme court at Llnsi' Z, Mich
| handed down n decision n!lirnin.
ju gment FOR 500 secured by Ann
Ice, a liccn,ed bicycle rider, against IL
city Of Pur, Huron, for injuries in fnl
caused by the defective condition Of th
walks. The court was OF opinion tina
80 ride bcycle upon the sijewal-
may hot b. Il nuisance, VII, are to drive
horse AMI wagon upon it would, anc
held that the municipality must keul
| the sidewalks in reasonable repair foi
all ordinary u.s..
According TO the London correspond.
ent of the New York Tribune, the South
African Cold Storage company has been
making immense profits out Of the sup.
plying of meat to the British soldiers
The amount now available for distribu.
tion, as the result of years trading, is
about S., 100000. The preponderating
interest in the company is, curiously
enough, Dutch and Boer.
Mrs. Anna Edison Taylor, to celebrate
her 43d birthday navigated, in q barrel.
the Canadian rapids at Niagara and
plunged over the Horseshoe falls, drop
of 1865 feet. The barrel, which was
padded with cushions and equipped
with q harness of straps, was starred
over the falls at o'clock, and 40 min.
utes later was taken from the water half
mile below. 1t was necessary to saw
n portion of tho barrel away to get Mrs.
Taylor out. She has cut three inches
long behind the right ear. and she suf-
fered severely from the shock, but the
doctors ay,she will recover. Mrs. Tay.
Taylor came to Niagara Falls from Bay
City, where she had been engaged in
teaching school.
The London Daily News publishes an
interview with Charles Bletterman El.
liott, general manager of the Cape gov
ernmeut railways, on the result of his
recent visit to the United States. Mr..
Elliott says: american industrial COM
petition is serious, as it has only just
begun. Splendid new machinery and
new methods are everywhere in prepar.
alton and work will be undertaken on
such scale as to make successful COM
petition difficult. Ny strong advice to
the heads of British firms is to visit the
United States and see for themselves.
What greatly surprised me was the ex-
tent of the use of automatic machinery,
nothing like which is to be seen in
England"
Advices from the Orient state that
three more schooners, japanese sealers,
have been seized by the Russian cruiser
Yakut for sealing within the limit
around the Copper and other Russian
seal islands. This makes six schooners
and boats crew, or about II men,
most of them Japanese, but some OF
them Americans aud Canadians. The
schoouers were taken TO Petropaulovski,
wh,re they We're condemned, and the
men to VlAdivostols, where some were
sentenced to n year III Jail and others
were waiting trial.
The Illinois supreme court awarded
writ OF maudamus against the state
board OF equalization to compel it to
assess the capital stock, including fran
chisos, of % Chicago corporations, the
fair ciSh value of whose capital stock,
including franchises, over and above
their tangible property, is alleged to be
1865, OOO 900, all of which had escaped
taxation previously, and was likely to
be omitted again by the state board,
which adjourned last December with
out assessing this vast amount OF prop
erty.
DR.. Schulz, health commissioner of
Milwaukee, has recommended that con.
sumpuvcs, or those suspected OF having
that disease, do not indulge in kissing,
for the reason that germs are likely to
gather around the mouth and thus aid
IN the spread OF consumption. The
doctor also advises consumptives to ex-
pcctorato only on pieces of paper or
BITS of cloth carried for that purpose
(which must be burned immediately,
or in pasteboard box, the bottom of
which is to bo covered with carbolio acid.
\ Chicago jury rendered verdict OF
S3 900 damages for Albert O. Whitney,
u bookkeoper employed by the Ameri.
can Steel and Wire company, from Sig
mund A. Schmidt, u wholesale dry
goods dealer of New York. Whitney
alleged alienation of his wifes affec.
tious by Schmidt. The latter made no
defense.
Admiral George Dewey resigned the
presidency Of the Metropolitan club, one
ot the most exclusive organizations OF
the city Of Washington, because of the
savage criticism made by members OF
the club Of the rulings of the court of
inquiry in the Schley case. The criti.
cism WAS not levelcd at Admiral Dewey
alone, but at Rear Admirals Benham
and Ramsay rs we'll, some of the mem.
bcrs charging that the rulings of the
court were too favorable to Schley.
Whcroupon Dewey, feeling that he
should act not only ON his own behalf,
hu, also ON behalf OF his distinguished
colleagues, B,uham aud Ramsay, re.
! ;ur..