The state herald., 1902-12-12
SHORT TELEeRAMs.

2Sth.
The fall in silver will make 1t ex
tremely hard for China to meet her In
demnity payments.
1t is believed that there will soor
he merger of all the traction lines il
Greater New York.
An American chamber OF commerce
has been organized by American bust
ness men in Berlin.
Ohio's eight-honr labor law as ap
piled to public works has been de
clared unconstitutional by the supreme
court.
Following the lead Of the Union Pa
cific the Southern Pacific has decided
upon a plan for pensioning aged EN-
pioyes.
Official returns in Arizona give the
vote for delegate to Congress as fol
lows: j. +. Wilson (Dem.). 9,716; Rob
ert e. Morrison (Rep.), $3.50.
Walter w. Law not only owns the
carpet factory at Briarcliff, New York,
but he owns the entire village with the
exception of two small parcels of land.
Because he was sick and without
money Adolph Jacobs, sixty-six years
of age, committed suicide by hanging
himself on December 1st at a Denver
rooming house.
All the telegraph operators ca the
Wisconsin Central Railroad have been
granted an intrease in salary amount
ing to S5 a month for every employe
in that department.
Deputy PoiRs Commissioner Piper
of New York City has decided to send
some captains and mounted police to
the West Point Military Academy for
special instructions in horsemanship.
After admitting that for twenty
years she had been sending begging
letters to prominent government Off
cia.s. Mrs. Anna Mayors has been SEN
fenced to the New York work house
for six months.
The president has denied thirty-two
applications for pardon. has restored
to citizenship five applicants who have
served out their terms of imprison-
ment. and has acted iavorably upon
six other cases.
Ambassador Charlemagne Tower
has arrived at Vienna from Llvadia,
where he was received In farewell
audience by the czar. He says: "The
car and czarina are both enjoying the
best possible health
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busl-
ness November 20. 1902, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
s95S. .097, ,2S1, which is decrease for
the month of S4l0,4i0.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania has
honored the requisition of the cover.
nor of Missouri for the return to St.
Louis of Charles F. Kelly. formerly
president of the boodling House of
Delegates OF st. Louis.
The efforts to restore agriculture in
the Philippines have been blocked by
n dearth of field animals. Ninety per
cent. of the caribous died In the origin
al epidemic of rinderpest and of the
small number left many have died.
Admiral Dewey sailed from Wash.
ington December LIST TO take active
command of the large fleet engaged in
maneuvers in the Caribbean sea. 1t
is the first time he has been on sea
duty since his exploits In the Philip.
pines.
Surgeon General oRellly has re.
ceived a report from Colonel Adair.
chief surgeon in the Philippines, that
there has been an increase of malaria
and dysentery among troops in the
Philippines, and decided decrease OF
cholera.
The Ontario quarantine department
has ordered that owing to the outbreak
Of foot and mouth disease in the
United States all cattle entering Can.
ada from the western states shall be
cleaned and thoroughly dlsinfected at
the border.
The absorption OF the Nickel cor.
poration OF London by the Information
al Nickel Corporation. an American
concern. has practically been complet.
ed. To-day ninety.ihree per cent OF
the shareholders OF the British con.
cern had accepted the oiier made to
them.
The state OF Indiana has won the
long fought case against the Vandalia
railroad In the Supreme Court and the
school fund. unless an appeal should
be taken to the United States Supreme
Court. and the State Supreme Court
be reversed. will receive an addition of
s6s5. .i2i.75.
Mrs. Kate Vance. n colored woman.
died Mt Newton. Kansas. November
2sth. at the age OF i23 years. Mrs.
Vance had a daughter ninety years
old. and her husband died at the age
OF l05. She remembered with distinct.
ness Jcferson's administration and the
war OF 1872.
Rules and regulations for n pension
system. which Will 10 into effect Janu.
ary /. 1903. have been completed by
officials OF the Union Pacific Railroad.
by which Its old employees will be re.
tired on pension. II Is stated that the
system Involves the annual distrlbu.
ton OF over 100000.
julius Weis. one OF the woalthlest
cotton merchants OF New orleans, was
recently fined SIS for violating the
Wilson separate car law. He sat In
the section reserved for negroes and
declined the conductors request TO
get up because there was no empty
seat In the white section.
The Shamrock III. will be launched
at tho end OF March or early In April.
She Will be much more ready for sea
than was the Shamrock II. when tho
latter was launched. Lady shaftes-
bury. wife nf the commodore OF tho
Royal Ulster Yacht Club. probably viii
chris,cn the new challenger.
Al Detroit. December lat. Barney
oldnold, driving Tom coopcr's gaso
line racing automobile. at the Crosse
Polnto track. officially lowered the
worlds one mile automobile record fol