The Holly chieftain., 1903-10-02
SHORT TELEGRAM 8.

|
ued at 1851 $50.
Telegraphic communication by wire
was established with Nome and st. Mit
chae.s. Alaska, on September 2lst. 4,
Senator Redield Proctor OF Vermont.
has just paid hne OF $3.50 in New
Hampshire Tor shooting q raecoou out
| pI season.
IL is reported at Sofia. Bulgaria. that
500 Turks We're killed with dynamite
while fighting against body OF insur-
| gents in the kresna detile.
The women of Wallington, New
| Jersey, have defied the painters and
decorators houses, and have formed
league to paint their own houses.
Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
! Century Magazine, who was solicited tq
run for alderman of New York as q
Citizens Union candidate. has declined,
J The slander suit brought against ex-
Postmaster General John Wanamaker
| by former Public Printer Robinson. re1
Gently ended in victory for the de,
! fendant.
The New York Wine, Liquor and
Beer Dealers Association has arrayed
itself against Governor Odel's adminis-
! tration on account of the license laws
enacted by the last Legislature.
The schooners Sadie and Lille of
Prospect, Maine, and the Mackerap
seiner George l.. Edwards, of Glouces-
| ter, were wrecked recently on Pema-
quid point during the night and fifteen
| lives were lost.
| Edwin French widely known as q
minstrel, died at New York September
18th. French began his stage career.
In the early days OF minstrelsy and for
, years was prominently identified with
leading troupes.
| Senator Hanna has denied the re-
port that he would resign the chair
| manship of the National Republican,
committee on account of poor health
He intends to remain until the nationals
| convention meets.
| A Berlin dispatch says that burst
of speed at the rate of ia miles an hour
was recently reached on the Zossen
electric line, but over what distance is
not disclosed. The length of the line
| is eighteen miles.
1t is stated that John D. Rockefeller.
has decided to erect no less than If
teen large office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district of
l n
than $4,000, 900.
The United States Court of Appeals
| at San Francisco has sustained a sem
tence for larceny for stealing dog In
| Alaska. The decision says: "A dog is
C chattel, and next to man, is the most
important factor in the past and pres
ent history of the country"
| At Cynthiana, kentucky. September
\ 1t, 1,- a
jury in the case of Curtis Jett, charged
with the murder of Town Marshal
| Cockrill at jackson. Kentucky. July 81.
| 1902, rendered verdict of guilty and
fixed the punishment at death.
At South Haven. Connecticut, Sep
/; tembcr 22d, Oliver T. Sherwood, the
defaulting cashier of the Southport
| National Bank. was sentenced to ten
years in prison by Judge Platt in the
United States Court. Sherwood was
convicted of misappropriation of $780,
600.
There remains less than two miles OF
the trestle work to be completed in
crossing the Grea, Salt Lake on the
Southern Pacific cutoff, and this work
will occupy several months. The sinks.
which at first formed serious obsta-
Gle, have at last been practically over
come.
A Dresden dispatch says that Herr
Bebel has re-established his authority
in the Socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the Rsvisionists by
several hundred votes against eleven
dissenting voices and having elected
an executive committee of his own
choosing,
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel
CompaHy's five furnaces at Lebanon,
Pennsylvania; at Cornwall and North
Cornwall, and the coke plant in Leb-
anon are TO at once suspend operations
for an indefinite time. No reason is
given for the suspension. Two thou
sand men are affected.
More than 5000 men employed at
the Pencoyd iron works in Phiiadel,
phia, viii he thrown out OF work with
IN two weeks All departments of the
plant with the possible exception OF the
bridge building shops, will remain idle
until January i. The immediate
cause is said 10 be lack of orders.
Joseph Ms-iconi, employed in e
power plant a, Spier Falls, New York.
was recently subjected 10 an electric
current of 10000 volts by falling against
two wires, and still lives 10 tell the
story. He was knocked unconscious
and badly burned where the current
entered and left Ordinarily 1900 volts
will cause instant death.
Captain Miller, skipper of the yacht