The Grit-advocate., 1903-08-21
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

OF DuDlln the sum OF Sli0.OOO toward
the erection OF free public library.
1t is announced that John A. Book
walter, OF Springfield, Ohio. will be
candidate Tor United States senator to
succeed Senator Hanna.
Fifty ladrOnes, who were implicated
in the recent raids near Surigao. in the
province OF Mindanao. have been sen
tened to long terms OF imprisonment.
At Kamloops. British Columbia. on
the 10th inst. while playing with a re-
volver, Willie Edmonds, aged six, was
shot and Killed by Charles Newman.
aged seven,
Tie Treasury Department on the llth
inst. purchased 10000 ounces OF silver
for Philippine coinage at an average
price Of 55t. cents, delivery to be made
in San Francisco.
The volcano of Kilauea, on the ISL
and Of Hawai-, the movement OF which
was suspended few days ago by a
| lava slide into the crater. has resumed
Its usual state OF activity.
The strike riots at Cracow, Austrian
Poland. have resulted, according to
, Cracow newspaper, in sixty deaths
since August 5 through conflicts be-
tween the strikers and the troops.
General Miles has accepted the Of
fee of president of the Thomas Jeffer
son Memorial Association, and the as
sociation announces that his election
| is for the remainder of its existence.
The Cooperative Union laundry,
which was established by union laun-
dry workers during the big strike in
! Chicago's warehouses last June, has
been declared a failure and has closed.
Eaton Stone, an old circus perform
er, who is said to have been the first
man to turn a some rsault on gallop-
ing horse. died at Nutley. New Jersey.
on the 10th inst. at the age of eighty
six.
The italian ministe: of marine has
directed that a squadron be kept in
readiness to sail for the East should
the complications in Macedonia make
it netessary to protect Italian sub
jects.
Brigadier General A. E. Woodson,
u. S. A., retired, died at Paola, Kan
sas, August T., aged siXty-two years.
He was in the military service forty
one years He will be buried in the
national cemetery at Arlington. Nir-
ginia.
1t is rumored at Constantinople that
the Turkigt trpops in Macedonia have
become. So oenoralized by their failure
to receive pay that hundreds OF them
are deserting and selling their rifles to
insurgents, In order to obtain pro-
visions.
The Kieff, Russia, correspondent or
the London Times says leading Rus
sian employer estimates that the strike
in Russia affected half million men
and that the strength of the movement
is increasing and the authorities are
nonplussed.
At Chicago on the 5th inst. John AL
exander bowie, general overseer OF the
Christian Catholic church. was made
a citizen Of the United States upon re
nouncing in the Superior Court his al
legiance TO the sovereign OF Great
Britain and Ireland.
An American firm has contracted to
furnish the Russian -four mills, at Pc
kin, with 100000 worth of machinery.
The output of the mills will be in
creased within year to 1900 barrels
per day superseding the supply OF
flour from America.
A violent earthquake shook Lisbon,
Portugal, at 10 o'clock on the night of
August 8. .he shock lasted but t"o
seconds and no fatalities are reported,
but it serves to recall the great earth
quake ami succeeding fire in 1175.
when over 10000 lives were lost.
The Photographers national con
vention. at Indianapolis, approved the
plan for hplding a national salon at
Winoaa. 1t will be the first undertak-
ing of its kind in the world. 1t was
decided TO postpone for one year the
acceptancc Of Sheadman's new actinic
light unit IS a universal standard
A dispatch from Pekin says 700 per
sons weTc drowned in the disastrous
floods Which occurred at Che Foo,
China Jur 81. The bridges within
the city aud many houses with their
| occupants we're swept away in the tor
rent. Two thousand of the inhabitants
are left dcstitute.
Three workmen were killed and
twenty-foUn wounded at kieff, Russia.
August e. when the Cossacks fired on
the strikers who We're attempting to
interfere s0th railroad traffic. The
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an officer and several soldiers were
| injured By stones.
A Cape Town dispatch says that
Princess RadZiwill. who was sentenced
to two vars Imprisonment by the
Supreme court. April 80, 1902, for
! forgery In ronnection with notes pur-
porting to ave been indorsed by Cecil
Rhodes. has been liberated from prison
and has serted for England.
At Cartb1ge, Missouri, August s,
wind storIn before daylight destroyed
/ thousands 0f dollars worth of fruits
and shade rrees and caused more or less
damage to mall buildings and mining
property iu the town and at Jasper,
Lamar am Seneca, taking in three
counties al1ng the Kansas line.
| Three OF he sixteen mills of Home
stead stecl works, at Pittsburg, have
closed down for necessary repairs