Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-03-21
1ElEGRApHIC BREVI7IEs.

1ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Kid Broad, of Cleveland, and Abraham
Attell, of San Francisco, fought fifteen
fast rounds to draw at st. Louis last
night.
The civil tribunal at Paris has ap-
proved the eventual cession of the prop
erty of the Panama Canal Company to
the United States.
The fencing team of the United States
Naval Academy of Annapolis went to
Washington today to try conclusions
with the crack team of the Washington
Fencers' club.
George Boles, aged 22years, yesterday
shot his father, Henry Boles, at Martins
Ferry, Ohio. Young Boles did the shoot
ing to save his mother from the attack
of his drunken father.
The arrangements have been com
pleted for the musical festival to be held
at Cincinnati next month with Theodore
Thomas as director. The orchestra will
have 100 pieces and the chorus 500
voices.
! Russia is quietly preparing for war
with Japan, and the Trans.Siberan
railroad is declining mercantile ship
ments, as its full capacity is needed for
the shipment of war material to Vladvo-
stock, on the Pacific.
The zinc smelter at Bruce, Kas., has
been closed down after a run demon
strating the success of new treat
ment of zinc ore.
The navy department has. extended
the contract time nine months for the
completion of the monitor Wyoming
which has been delayed on account of
the strike at the Union Iron Works.
Charles Weston of Wyoming, last
night defeated William E. McCune in
pool championship series of games
at New York, by score of 125 to II.
Persia has completed an agreement
with Prussia by which Rersia gets a
gets a concession to build railroad
from Tabriz to Teheran.
The Canadian Pacific railroad is
about to place the largest order for
rolling stock ever made in it's history.
When the contract is filled the COM
pany will have 10000 freight cars and
1000 locomotives
Isidor Wormser, Jr., filed suit in
the New York supreme court yester-
day asking that the lease of the Me-
tropolitan Street Railway Company to
the Inter- Urban Street Railway Com
pany be declared null and void.
In the contested election case of Will
liam H. Horton VS.. James j. Butler
from the 18th district of Missouri, the
Republican members of the house elec-
ton committee No. l., have decided to
recommend that the seat be declared
vacant as there was apparently fraud
on both sides.
Petitions for injunctions were filed
at Chicago yesterday in the United
States circuit court by United States
Attorney s. H. Bethea, against six of
the railroad companies entering Chica-
go. charging them with infractions of
the interstate commerce law in regard
to rate cutting.
At charter election held at Clyde,
N. Y, James H. Mack was elected po-
lice constable and accepted the office.
It now turns out that he had not been
nominated at all, but that James
Mack was the true nominee and that
the James H. Mack on the ballots was
misprint. The matter will be taken
to the courts for a decision.
James Williams, colored cook, was
shot dead yesterday by J. r. Miner, an
architect, at Prescott, Ariz. Williams
had been reprimanded by Miners SIS
ter, and thereupon became abusive. He
attacked Miner with hatchet and
Miner shot at him six times, four bull
lets taking effect.
Rhodes Continues to Improve.
Capetown. March 21.-The slight inn
nrov,ouoout ", tho n0nd}fi0n nf Caoil