The Holly chieftain., 1903-06-05
SHORT TElEGRAMS.

Pittsburg steel manufacturer, divided
$50 0O0. 900 among the widow and four
children.
A Paris dispatch says that Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer pronounces the story OF
her engagement to the Prince of Mon
AGO as absurd.
| A fire at Laconia, New Hampshire.
on May 26th, burned 100 buildings and
left $50 people homeless. The loss is
nearly $40O, 600.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese Of
Central Pennsylvania has voted almost
| unanimously against the proposition to
| change the name of the church.
| Sarah Bernhard made her second
| appearance before Berlin audience a
few days ago. She had a cool rocep-
tion by the public and the press.
Director of the Mint Roberts has
purchased 5. .162. .070 ounces of silver for
the Philippine coinage, at an average
price of about 53A cents per ounce.
Tod Sloane, the American jockey has
ben expelled from further entrance to
the tracks of the French Jockey Club
for exercising horse without au-
thority.
Governor Toole has issued call for
| special session of the Montana Leg
| islature to act upon several appropri-
tion bills which failed of passage dur
ing the regular session.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges that wo-
mems clubs throughout the country
| should hold special meetings and ap-
peal to the czarina of Russia in an
effort to stop the massacre of Jews.
Miller Reese Hutchinson of Alabama
is said to have perfected new dry
storage battery that Is much lighter
than any now in use. Tiny batteries
can be made to run portable lamps.
| At the demand of General Bobrikoff.
the governor general Of Finland, M.
Savon, the Swedish counsel at Nystad,
Finland, has been dismissed for parti-
cipation in the antiRussian agitation.
Princess Louise of Tuscany, formerly
Crown Princess of Saxony, has asked
| the Emperor for permission to reside
In Austria. His majesty has given his
consent on the condition that she shall
| reside in convent.
The national convention of the Fed
Grafton of Musicians at Its meeting
just closed in Indianapolis. abolished
the color line, and unions Of colored
musicians will not be designated as
''colored" any longer.
John D. Rockefeller has offered to in
crease his donation to the student
building fund of Indiana University at
Bloomington, from $4,000 to $50 900
on condition that fund Of $50, 900 be
raised from other sources.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin Warren of Low
vile, New York, have started out for
drive of 5000 miles. Their destina-
] ton is Los Angeles. California. Their
outfit consists of a stout pair of horses,
buggy and light stock of clothing.
Two thousand native houses have
been destroyed by fire in the Tondo
district of Manila. About 5000 persons
| are homeless and are being fed and
sheltered by the municipality. The
damage is estimated at 1000 900 pesos.
Paul Blouet, the famous French
writer and newspaper correspondent.
who wrote under the name of Max
O'Rell," died at Paris May oath from
the effects of an operation for appen-
dicitis at New York some time pre-
vious.
A fire at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, on
May goth destroyed the shoe factory of
Cole Brothers, and half a dozen other
industries, together with ESQ houses
leaving nearly quarter of the city's
population homeless. The loss was
about 100000.
John D. Rockefeller has given $4,000
to the Washington, d. c.. Young Mems
Christian Association, conditioned on
raising 100000 before January 1st,
1904. The total contributed thus far
is raised by Mr.. Rockefeller's subscrip-
tion to $4,000.
The district managers of the Nation
al Metal Trades Association, in session
at Cincinnati. decided to extend the
labor employment bureau by organiz-
ing local bureaus in all the districts of
the association. One of the bureaus
will be. in Denver.
At a special election held May 26th
in the Seventh congressional district,
of Kansas, to fill vacancy, Victor
Murdock, Republican nominee. carried
every one of the thirty-six counties and
probably every one of the 1900 pre-
cincts in the district.
DIR. S. Hobart Peabody, assistant di-
rector of exhibits of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition and a widely
known educator, died at st. Louis on
May 26th, aged seventy-four. He was
noted mathematician, linguist, nat
uralist and astronomer.
The congregation of the propaganda
in Rome is examing a proposition to
divide the diocese of Davenport, Iowa.
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