The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-06
OOiaos of the Day Reflected
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told in Short Paragraphs--The
Latest intelligence from
All Sources.

The twenty-ninth annual conven-
ton Of the American Bankers Asso-
cation is to be held in San Francisco
On October 20th to 23rd next.
Alexander Williamson, who was the
tutor of Abraham Lincoln's younger
children, is dead at his home in
Brooklyn. He was SO years old.
It is probable that the Crown Prince
o. Sweden will head the Swedish
worlds fair commission at St. Louis,
he having intimated his willingness
to serve.
commercial treaty will be signed
by the United States and the For
eign Minister, containing clauses facil-
ltating the reduction of American
-four in Brazil
Judge Thayer, of the United States
Circuit court. St Louis. refused to
order the release of four prisoners
nom the united States military
prison at Fort Leavenworth
Mrs Douglas Robinson of New
York, sister of Mrs. Roosevelt. has
offered financial assistance to William
tIekens, the Yale negro student who
Won the Ten Eyck prize for oratory.
Miss Inez, only daughter of Record
er John w Goff of New York. took
the veil as novice in the Ursuline
convent yesterday The parents were
present at the ceremony. She enter
ed the convent last November.
The stattistician of the Department
Oh Agriculture estimates the total
area OF cotton planted in the United
States at 27907 900 acres, an increase
Of ll29,000 acres or 81 per cent upon
The acreage planted last year.
Reports from various parts of the
province of Quebec state that fire.
are still raging in almost every direc-
uon where the country is wooded
Inc villages of Astor and Forestdale
nave been completely wiped out.
At the commencement exercises Fri
Gay Of the New York university. the
honorary degree of doctor of laws
were conferred upon former Secretary
Ol the Treasury Gage, president of a
uust company in New York City.
The wage scale conference of officers
OF the American Sheet Steel com
pany and representative of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin-Workers has resulted in an
amlcable adjustment of all differences.
As a result of GOV. Hunts investi-
CATION of penitentiary affairs in Porto
Rlco, Warden Castro, a prominent
politician has resigned and three Jail
efs have been discharged. A reform
o. the loose prison system of the en-
tre island is promised.
An eastbound Wabash passenger
Train collided head-on with a west
bound freight near Gilmore. Mo-.
thursday. w. T. Schrugan of Lexing-
Ton, Ky, Mail Clerk E. n. Sylvester
ana passenger fireman named Will
nam Dougall. were seriously injured.
Several fights have occurred between
bulgarian bands and Turks and
oashl-Bazouks in Adrianople, in
which many were killed. A Greek
Notable who was kidnapped by Bull
sarian band near Sarkina failed TO
pay his ransom and was promptly
crucifed
zen. Frederick Dent Grant and
mrs Grant arrived in ST. Louis from
oah Antonio, Tex, Thursday evening
ana departed over the Wabash for
0hlcago. They were delayed almost
one day by the floods in Indian
territory. Gen. and Mrs. Grant are
en- route to West Point to attend the
graduation of their son, Ulysses, from
The national military academy.
William Hubert Of Buchanan Mich.
mas Just been married to his seventh
spouse, though he is not yet so years
old. Among the seven were two sis
ters from one family and two from
another. Death robbed him of three
helpmates and an equal number were
divorced. The seventh Mrs. Hubert
was won through the medium Of an