The Holly chieftain., 1903-06-12
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ford. England. May Both, in 3 minutes.
II seconds. beating all records for both
| grass and cinder tracks.
Lady Henry Somerset has resigned
from the presidency of the National
British Womens Temperance AssOcia-
tion on account of her health.
Out of the eighteen judicial candi-
dates voted for in Chicago Cook coun-
ty) June 1st, the Democrats elected
fourteen and the Republicans four.
An explosion at Elmira, New York.
June lst, destroyed the plant where
jovite. a high explosive. was manufac-
tured. Three men were killed and
several injured.
Emperor William has presented the
New York Yacht Club with gold cup.
two feet high, to be known as the EN-
peror's cup, to be competed for the
first time next fall.
The secretary Of the interior, at the
request of Senator Smoot, has granted
permission to fruit and land irriga-
t1on company to construct q canal
across the Navajo Indian reservation
in New Mexico.
The American subscription for the
relief of the sufferers at Kishineff are
gratefully acknowledged by the Jewish
community at st. Petersburg. which
recognizes that the United States has
easily taken the lead both in material
and moral sympathy.
A Salt Lake dispatch says that Ma
jor James Mclaughlin, representing
the government, has closed a treaty
with the Uintah Indians, as result Of
which 1,250,000 acres Of reservation
land will be thrown open for settle
ment in October, 1904.
The japanese Cabinet has ignored
the resolutions passed by the Diet May
29th, demanding the fixing of the min
iste1al responsibility in connection
with the scandals resulting from the
alleged acceptance of bribes by educa-
tional officials from textbook publish
ers.
Following the investigation Of the
disappearance of Louise Diviniero. q
young girl, the New York police an
nounced that they had discovered In
Little Italy" band of men who were
making a business Of /, kidnapping
young girls and holding them for ran
som.
The British admiralty is inquiring at
st. Johns, Newfoundland, for seal
ing steamer suitable to be sent to the
Antarctic regions for the relief Of the
British scientific expedition now jeop-
ardized in that locality. where German
and Swedish expeditions also are i'm
periled.
A London dispatch says that Lady
Henry Somerset, who has been dan
Gerously i'll from rupture of the bow
els, has undergone an operation 80 as
to be able to attend the convention of
the Worlds Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union at Geneva, Switzerland,
June 9th.
Five years in the penitentiary, was
the verdict returned by the jury in the
bribery case of ]. j. Hannigan, q
former member of the Missouri House
of Delegates. Hannigan was found
guilty of accepting bribe in connec-
ton with the passage of the suburban
railway bill.
The president of the Montana Board
of Sheep Commissioners states the re-
ported losses by the recent storms in
that state are greatly exaggerated. In
stead Of $3,750,000, the losses will not
amount to one-tenth that sum, and the
benefit to the range by SO much snow
and rain will fully Offset the loss.
The total coinage executed at the
mints of the United States during May
was $1,7s0,4S6, as follows: Gold, $685.
600; silver, $1,5S4,00O; minor coins,
$127,4S6 These amounts are exclusive
of the coinage for the Philippine ISL
ands, which aggregated for the months
of April and May, 7,S12,396 pesos.
The Republican county convention
at Cleveland, Ohio, adopted resolutions
indorsing the administration of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and recommending his
denomination ard election in 1904.
Senator Hanna addressed the conven-
tion and paid high tribute to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his administration.
Lawyers at Mount Vernon, New
York, who have just completed an ad-
justment of the estate of the Rev.
Joseph Albinger, pastor of the Roman
Catholic Church of Our Lady of Vic
toria, who died Ave years ago, found
that Father Albiger, who was called
miser and went about the streets in
rags, left $4,000.
General Superintendent Potter of
the Wisconsin Central road has Off
cially announced that beginning June
all the trainmen employed on that sys-
tenn will receive a raise of from twelve
to fifteen per cent in wages. the
larger increase applies to the freight
men and the smaller to the passenger
employees.
To guard against the spread of con-