The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-14

August ls,h to 2lst.
Rich Haphtha wells, eytent.. a.,
a distan Of 200 yerst.l.. have been
discover III the Kuhau territory OF
Cis-Caucasia
| Vlceroy curzon has blegraphed a
lengthy protest to the home govern
ment against saddling India with the
cost OF tie South African garrison.
The ropairng and painting of 800
iron monuments marking the interna-
tional boundary between the United
states ana Mexico has jIst been COM
rleted.
MRS. Lydia Hancock died last month
at her home in Palmer, Massachusetts,
at the age Of 100 years and one month,
Until recently she had been able to
read without glasses.
Starting increase In suicides &.
Washington this year mas prompt
Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt district corone. ,
to recommend more stringent laws to
govern the sale OF carbClic acid
For their heroic work in rescuing
the Spanish steamship Ereza in a
storm of Bermuda in February, 1902.
the members of the crew of the Ameri-
can steamship Ieomap will receive
$4,000.
More than 200 miles of electric rail-
way, worth millions OF dollars, eX-
tending throughout Queens and Mas
sau counties, Long Island, has passed
into control of a trust company in New
York City,
Basil De Guichard established a new
worlds record for pace followers by
riding forty-eight miles three laps and
two hundred ., a pety yards in one
| hour, In the q heel race at Bos-
ton, July 3l4
The London ...nes prints Vienna
dispatch saying that the Emperor Of
| Russia received with benevolence from
the Croatians in the United States a
petition describing tho condition OF
| Croatia in the darkest terms.
Samuel NJ. Shaw, eighty years of age
| and for tifty-two years editor of the
| Freeman journal at CooperstOwn, n.
~, has Just retired from newspaper
work. The paper has been published
weekly Tor ninety-tive years.
A heavy rain fell over Kansas
| August lst, with the exception Of few
Counties in the southwestern corner of
the stale. There is no longer any
doubt a tn the excellence Of the corn
crop. The yield will be large.
A decree has been issued in the
United States Circuit Court at Tren-
ton, n. j., providing for the discharge
of receivers of the American Cycle
| Manufacturing Company and permit
/ ing the company to resume business.
Six thousand more aliens entered the
United States through the port of New
York last month than during the same
month last year The total for July
! this year was $4,000, compared with
$1,000 for July, 1902. and $4,000 in the
same month in 1901.
| The Canadian government expedition
organized to explore Hudson bay in
the solar Neptune, consists of forty
persons, fifteen of whom are scientists.
| party of twenty-five of the ships
company will remain one year. if not
| longer, in the region explored.
A Berlin dispatch says that pro-
posa is on foot to amalgamate the
National Socialist party and the Radi-
cal union, and it is said that national
socialist congress which will meet at
| GOettingen August 30 and 80 will un-
doubtedly agree to the ANA gamation.
| Russian advices received at Vienna
tate that Prince Urusofi. who on July
4th was reported as having been
wounded in the Razan district by peas
ants has become insane. The dispatch
say he was in the habit of testing his
skill as marksman on the bodies OF
| his peasants.
Tie fourth annual convention of the
! International Federation OF CONNER
cial Travellers at Mackinac Island,
Mic gan, elected the following Off
| cers President, Louis Labeaume. st.
Lou vice president, Charles c. Dan
| iel, Columbus. Ohio; secretary. Arthus
l.. Sneetz, Omaha.
| Tle commissioner of the general land
| ofco has ordered withdrawn from land
| entrr 2.S0O.00O acres of land in Oregon
| for ne creation of the Warner noun
tain forest reserve. The larger part
| of g land withdrawn is in the Lake
vicn land district and the remainder
| i'll the Dallas district.
A the meeting of the Union Made
| Garuent Makers Association, in Chi
casI it was decided to adjust prices
| to a,cord with the size of the garment.
Thu man weighing 1870 pounds might
be able to buy his suit for $40, while
! the man whose physique would meas
urc 80 pounds on the scales, might
be charged SIS.
Eing Menelik of Abyssinia is to have
MS own mint, and it will be in full
| oEeratiOn at his capital, Adds Ababa,
by ne first of the coming year, ac-
| cor ng to the report Of Consu! Mas
.ersDn at Alden to the department OF
con nerce and labor. Hitherto. King
Mcurlik has had limited silver coin
age he minting being done in France.
Tie Weddell house at Cleveland, one
of re Oldest and most historic hotels
in )hip,. has been ordered closed at