The state herald., 1903-05-15
SHORT TELEGRAMs.


years. 1t is said that he was in the
Battle OF Waterloo under Blucher.
Charles NJ. Schwab was reelected
president of the United States Steel
Corporation at a meeting of the board
of directors held in New York on the
9th inst.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
the Mueller municipal bill which gives
the city of Chicago the right to con-
struct, own, operate and lease street
railways.
General Baden Powell. who has just
returned to England after short visit !
10 this country denies that he criticised
the United States cavalry as has been
reported.
An explosion at the Cresson Powder
Works in Pennsylvania April 30th, re-
suited in the death of nine employees.
Superintendent Harry Taggart of
Pfttsburg was fatally injured.
Secretary Shaw, accompanied by
Mrs. Shaw, his two daughters and son,
will sail for Europe July 4th. The
secretary's trip will be brief, but his
family will remain abroad until au-
tumn.
don Stock Exchange started in walk
ing match of ifty-two and one-quarter
miles May LIST. +. f. Broad was the
winner in nipo hours and thirty-iiye
| minutes.
A serious fire was prevented by tho
bravery of q soldier on the transport
Thomas at San Francisco few days
ago. He seized a leaky drum of gaso-
line which had caught fire, and threw
it overheard.
Cornelius Hin. chief of the Oneida
lndicls, last survivors of the famous
Six Nations OF New York State. will be
ordained as a priest of the Episcopal
Church June 2ith on the reservation
near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Copenhagen correspondent of
the London Mail says that King Ed
ward will visit St Petersburg in July,
stopping three days in Berlin on his
return. The correspondent says that
his majesty will also visit Copenhagen.
The controversy between the opera
tives and cotton mill managers at
Lowell, Massachusetts, involving 49,
900 hands, entered upon its sixth week
May ith, with little prospects OF an i'm
mediate change. An estimate places
the loss in wages at nearly 100000.
The Grand Trunk Pan-American
flyer from Chicago ran into crowd
of 1000 people at Detroit May 3rd. at
$50 p. m, killing at least seven men
and seriously injuring about thirty
more. The crowd was made up of
Poanders just returned from holiday
excursion to Toledo.
With the danger block set against"
VI, Panhandle train No. 81, bound for
Cincinnati. on the Little Miami divis-
ion, struck the derail at the Baltimore
a. Ohio crossing on the West Side at
Columbus. Ohio. and was ditched. The
Baltimore q Ohio passenger train
whizZed by moment later.
Judge a. L. Maxwell. who except ex-
Senator Vest, was the last survivor OF
the Confederate Senate, died at Chip
tey. Florida. May 9th. Judge Maxwell
was a member OF Congress from 1858
to 1857; was Confederate States SEN
ator from 1862 till 1865, and was chief
justice OF Florida from 1857 to 1891.
The Northern Securities Company on
May ith issued 4 statement of its in
come account from November 10. 1901.
to December 81. 1909. showing divl-
dends received on stocks owned to be
1894 ,2Gl, and surplus after pay
ment of expense, dividends. interest.
taxes, etc. OF s75Sll7.
Princess Louise OF Saxony gave birth
to daughter al Lindau, Bavaria, on
May ith. The princess deserted her
family at Salzburg last December and
eloped with NJ. Giron. the tutor OF her
children. Order have been given by
the King of SaNony to bring the prin-
cess and child 10 Dresden three weeks
after It's birth.
A strange fight took place in the
Sclnyonic Roman Catholic Church on
Sunday May 3rd. there being 1000 men.
women and children in the building.
Church member fought with their
lists and pieces Of furniture. Women
threw books. Bloody faces were nu-
morous. When the fight was over no
one could find out Just how It started
or what 1t was about.
A Honolulu dispatch says that the
Pacific Cable Board is said TO be con-
ductlng negotiations with Mareonl for
series OF wireless telegraphlc expert
mcnts between Honolulu and the Fan
ming island cable station, which IL the
present southern terminus OF the Brit
ish Pacific cable that will eventually
be laid to Australia. The distance be-
tween Honolulu and Tanning island is
about 1000 miles,
Professor John A, Brashear. Of Ale
gheny. Pennsylvania. announces that
the astronomical instrument Just COM
ploted for the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington will shortly be sent 10
81. Louis. where the government viii
have II mounted for exhibition at the
big fair. II Is the largest and most
constructed. and viii be used primarily
for the study OF solar phenomena,
At Jackson. Kentucky. on May
an. Just after he had finished
filing papers rcopcnlng the con-
tested election eases OF Breathitt
county. James II Marcum was shot
aud Killed by an unknown assassin. lie
fell In his tracks Mt the front entrance
Of the court house. Alarcum was coun-
hel for the fusionists who are contest
Ing for the Offices OF county Judge.
nhcrii. and other places now held by
Democrats.
The District Court Rt Washington
has decided IN favor of the defendant
Ia the suit of Charles a. Denrnaud ".
General r. G Ainsworih, chief Of the
,ecordH aud pension division OF tho
War Department. for $4,000 damages
for alleged libeiona statements In
"a Ill