The Holly chieftain., 1902-07-11
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Aaron T. Bliss IL the Republican can
didate for governor Of Michigan.
Tre Populists and Demorats have
united ON fusion ticket In South DA-
kota. s
The mounted police win be with
drawn from Dawson and q local force
substituted.
The degre Of LID. has been con.
Williams College.
The pension list for the fiscal year
ending June 30th shows q decrease Of
$780, 600 from that Of the previous
year.
It ID reported that all the big coal
q Ines of Missouri are to be absorbed
~ ayndicate controlled by ]. Pier
pont Morgan.
About 1,500 Canadian troops sailed
from Durham for home June 9th. Two
thousand additional Canadians will
start for home July u. 80
A contract for the building Of sugar
mill by the state Of Arkansas has been
aigned and ratified by the state penl-
tertiary board and the governor.
The permanent census act, operative
July 1st, leaves q census force or $50
clerks. Twenty, who have been en-
gagged on special work, are dropped.
Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fer
nandez, lying 800 miles west Of VAL
paraiso. is to be given civil govern
ment by Chill on account OF its lobster
canning industry.
Pneumatic postal tubes were ordered
put in service again July LIST In New
York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadei-
phia. Their construction Is authorized
In six other cities.
It is said in st. Petersburg that the
Russian troops have already been
withdrawn from Moukden, Manchuria.
The Manchurian railroad guards will
number 10000 men.
The Missouri Republican State Con-
vention strongly endorsed President
Roosevelt, whom Congressman Joy
designated as the Little Rough Rider
Of the White House."
The Minnesota Democratic conven-
tion l-ssninated L. A. Rosing for gov
ernor and passed resolutions approving
the Kansas City platform and eulogiz-
ing William ! Bryan.
For the third time in twenty years
Ex-Governor Robert Pattison of Phila-
delphia was nominated for governor of
pennsylvania by the recent Demo
cratic State Convention. @
The Canadian government has appro-
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fence along the boundary between
Montana and the Dominion, extending
from st. Ma.ys Lake to the Sweet
Grass Hills.
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt has de.
clined the peerage offered him by King
Edward. He says that after thirty
four years spent In the House of Com
mons, he is reluctant to change his
sphere Of work. -ss ~ r.
Three Victoria crosses, ten distin-
guished service medals, two promo
tons to commissioned rank and four
mentions in dispatches have fallen to
the lot of reform school lads In South
Africa, says Lord Leigh.
It is announced that the Ozark and
Cherokee Central, now building from
Fayetteville. Ark, through Indian Ter
ritory, has decided to secure coast c6n-
nection by constructing the line to
Guthrie, thence west to Denver line.
Advices from Ads Abeda, capital of
Abyssinia, announce the safe arrival
there of Fitzhugh Whitehouse of New
port, Rhode Island, and Lord Hindlip,
who started from England, February
1st, ON an exploring rip.to the upper
Nile.
The International Sunday School
Convention, which closed its session in
Denver June Goth, voted to recommend
Jerusalem as the place for the next
Worlds Sunday School Convention in
1904. The International meets next at
Toronto In 1905.
]. g. w. Cowles Of Cleveland has
been elected chairman Of the board of
trustees Of Oberiin College. The elec-
ton means that Mr.. Cowles will be
president OF Oberlin College until a
permanent successor to the late Presi-
dent Barrows is made.
The net earnings Of the United States
Steel Corporation for the quarter end
ing June 3Oth amounted to $37. .691 ,698,
as against $26,362,O00 for the same
period last year. This statement
shows an increase Of net earnings for
the quarter of I'll 1,329, ,886.
The idea prevails In London that Mi
chael Henry Herbert will not long Dc-
n .