The Grit-advocate., 1902-12-26
SHORT TELEGRAmS.

There has been no yellow fever in
Cuba for more than year.
The Bank of Spain proposes to es-
tablish branches in Havana. Mexico
City, New York and Buenos Ayres.
/ The Russian officials at Port Arthur,
entertained Lieutenant General Miles
on his arrival there and sent him to
Taku on board a cruiser.
| Governor-Elect Mickey of Nebraska
Is a Methodist and does not counten-
nance dancing Hence it is announced
that the usual Inauguration ball wild
be omitted.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says it Is
announced from Seoul that the United
States minister has demanded the pay
ment of 81 100000 due to the builders
of the electric railroad.
Frederick Temple. Archbishop Of
Canterbury and Primate of all Eng
land, died in London, December 22nd
Porto Rico has 61 1863 pupils enrolled
in its public and special schools.
| Extreme cold weather in Hungary
resulted in sixty-three persons being
frozen to death within three days.
Wolves devastated the sheepfolds and
three shepherds were devoured.
W. Byron Coakly of Chicago claims
to have demonstrated LI experiments
on animals that by the use OF hOl-
low golden needle he can safely inject
medicinal liquids directly into the
heart.
The London Times publishes poem
by Rudyard Kipling which is strong
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agreement with regard to Venezuela.
The poem will probably cause much
| discussion.
The Jones Bros. Publishing Com
pany of Cincinnati. Ohio, has filed a
deed of assignment. The liabilities
are about $4,000. The company was
largely engaged in publishing subscrip-
tion books.
The United States Supreme Court has
cannot be compelled to pay the amount
of policy in case where the policy
holder commits murder and is legally
executed for the crime
Word is received from Commission.
er Barrett in Siam that it is the.in
tion of that country to make more
elaborate exhibit at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition than was shown
at either Paris or Chicago.
General Bourbon y de Castellvi, a
cousin of King Alfonso, was recently
arrested in a Madrid gambling house.
He promptly challenged the prefect,
who is responsible for the energetic
attempts made to suppress club gam
bling.
! The International Association Of Sug-
ar Statistics estimates the European
crop this year at 5,174.743 tons, de-
crease of 1,30S,900 tons from last year
In Germany the yield is estimated at
.7O3,296 tons, decrease Of 589, ,4S0
tons.
The high price of coal at Washing
ton, anthracite having reached $12 and
soft coal $8 ton, is held responsible
for a large increase in the number Of
cases of bad colds and pneumonia.
many houses being insufficiently
heated.
The annual sale of seal skins took
place at Lampson's and the Hudson
Bay Company, in London. December
18th. The prices realized were larger
than last year The skins brought
from $1S to 800 according to size and
quality.
! The executive committee Of the
Army OF Santiago de Cuba has selected
Detroit for the encampment OF July
16 and II, 1903, to commemorate the
. surrender OF Santiago, July II, 1888.
It is expected that the attendance will
reach 10000.
The Pope has signed the appoint
ments of Bishop James E. Quigley OF
Buffalo, New York, as archbishop OF
Chicago and Rev. ]. F. Regis Canev-
in, rector Of st. Pauls Cathedral of
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania as coadjutor-
bishop Of Pittsburg.
The constitutionality of the Missouri
railroad fellow servant law recently
passed on by the Missouri Supreme
Court, will be tested before the federal
Supreme Court on a writ Of error
sued by John O. Overall, for the rail.
road company, in the federal court.
Work will be commenced in the
spring to rid the city of Cleveland OF
Ills grade crossings. The estimated
cost of the work will be $10.00O,0OO and
lit will require ten years to do the
work There are seven railroads con-
cerned in the expensive improvement
Increases in wages amounting to
100000 year are to be granted to
the 5000 locomotive engineers and
firemen employed by the Chicago &
Northwestern Railroad and it's branch
lines. The average increase is about
eight per cent, beginning January
19O3.>
The Indians in Flathead county, Mon
tana,. are charged with slaughtering
deer and other game in great numbers
The estimate is that these Indians have
killed not less than 1000 head of deer
out Of season, besides other game
There is little game left in Flathead
county.
General Peanuts" who for a nun.
ber of years was one of the best known
midgets and clowns connected with
Barnum's and Forepaugh and Sells
circuses, died few days ago in New
York. The midget was a Japanese.
thrty-eight years old and two feet one