The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-02
SHORT TEtEGRAMS.


pt fenced at Syracuse Sicily on the
III hit of December 9th.
ne Maine cattle commission has is
sued a statement that the state is free
from the foot and mouth disease.
There are i44 ,lo7 depositors in the
Connecticut savings banks and the
amount OF their deposits is S2o3, ,522,-
225.
Contracts have been made for 200. 900
tons of coal for shipment from English.
Scotch and Welsh ports to eastern
ports OF the United States.
indrew Carnegie has given S25.000
lirrary TO the mountain branch of the
National Soldiers Home at Johnson
CRY. Tennessee, which is to be opened
AIril 1st.
'rhc Red Cross Society is sending
representatives, to Andijan, Russian
Asia. to organize relief for the earth
guHke sufferers and has contributed
Sli 800 to the relief fund.
Berlin papers say that Prince Henry
of Prussia is coming to the United
S."tes in 1904 to visit the st. Louis
Exposition and unveil the veterans
ponument in Philadelphia.
The Michigan Sugar Manufacturers
Association has adopted resolutions
protesting against the ratification Of
any treaty with Cuba which reduces
thu present tariff on sugar,
Count Tolstoi has sent personal
appeal asking the papers. in view of
hi advanced age and illness, not to
prDlish any further reports of his con
d ion, as they cause him pain.
che government has purchased four
mlre buffalo from a private herd in
Idaho for stocking the Yellowstone Ma
tionaI Park The herd in the park
now numbers about forty-hve.
Gen. Leonard Wood has accepted an
Invitation Of the Kansas Day Club to
res pond to a toast at the banquet Jan
urry 18th. General Funston and Ga
msha Grow will also probably be pres
o..
is rumored that the intercollegiate
football rules committee is likely to
take some action that will abolish mass
plays, which are strongly objected to
h college authorities as brutal and
d. gerous.
report comes from st, Petersburg
& t a story is current there to the
G. The Hague peace conference by
r. IN OF advice received a a spiritual
.fss. esnee
meeting in Brussels OF the in
tern, 'icnal Socialist Bureau resolutions
were passed in relation to the possible
kerllt;, of the economic war with which
w is iai!ned the United States are
threat ming Europe.
En- loyes of the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pitisi Irg railroad have been granted
seven per cent. increase in wages, ef-
fectiye December lst. The company
employs about 12,OO0 men, almost all
Of whom will benefit by the raise.
General Davis at Manila cables that
Capt Robert McGregor, engineer
corps, died December 23d of acute APP
pendicitis. Captain McGregor was a
native of Michigan and was graduated
at the military academy in June, 1883.
President Roosevelt sent private
telegram to Lord Mimic, governor gen
eral of Canada, conveying best wishes
Tor tic New Year to him and Lady
Mimic and expressing earnest hope
for The welfare and prosperity of Can
ada
Marconi has for some time been
sending two or three messages daily
by wireless telegraphy from Glace Bay.
Nova Scotia to Cornwall. England.
Some of these dispatches are lengthy
one was directed to eX-Empress Eu-
genie.
William Waldorf Astor has given
$250.0OO to build new out patient de
partment for the hospital for sick chill
1rl. IN, ctr I
II will be dedicated to the memory of
his daughter Gwendoline who died re-
Gently.
Five hundred million dollars in gold
is the amount of American capital in
vested in Mexico by LIZ American
companies, firms and individuals. ac-
cortling to estimates carefully prepared
by Consul General A. D. Barlow at
Mexico City.
The Lackawanna Steel Company of
Buffalo. New York, the largest indie
pendent steel manufacturing concern
in the world, recently received its first
consignment of ores. The Lackawan-
ma company has capital stock of S40,-
100000 and will employ $1,000 men.
Nate Salisbury, one of the country's
best known showmen, principal owner
Of Buffalo Bits Wild West Show,
and heavy stockhoder in the Barnum
& Bailey Company, died at Long Branch
New Jersey on December oath after a
week S sickness, of stomach trouble.
Dr. Frederick L. Brady, who was
member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders
in the Spanish-American war. died in
New York City December Goth. He
was in the engagement at Las Quasi
mas. the battle of San Juan hill and at
Santiago. making an honorable record.
The new Peoples Undenominational
church at st. Paul, Minnesota, built
at cost of 100000, to replace the
one burned year ago, was opened
Sunday. December 2Sth. Its decora-
tions pay tribute to the great found
ers of the principal religions of the
world