The Holly chieftain., 1903-09-25
SHORT TELEGRAkS.

damage to the hay and grain crops in
Eastern Washington.
| The 15.000-ton armored cruiser
Maryland was launched at Newport
News, Va, September 18th.
| Otto Sarony. the famous portrait
photographer. of New York city, died
of lung disease on the 14th inst.
Rear Admiral O'Neil. chief of ord
nance will ask for $4,000. 900 for ord
nance in the navy for the next fiscal
year.
| Count Tolstoi celebrated his seventy
| fifth birthday on September 1lth, at
home among his children. He was in
excellent health.
| The board of regents Of the Nebras-
ka state university have decided to
locate an agricultural experiment sta
ton at North Platte.
1t is reported at Deadwood that the
Rothschilds have offered $35, ,0O0, 900 for
the famous Homestake gold mine. OWL
ed by the Hearst estate.
The Rev. Robert Benson, son of the
late archbishop of Canterbury. who
died in 1896. has been received into the
Roman Catholic Church.
Four students of the technical high
school of Stuttgart. Germany. have
been sentenced to three months deten-
ton in fortress for duelling.
Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook. who
commanded the Brooklyn at Santiago.
was retired on his own application
September 18th after forty years SER
vice.
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Portland. Ore, on the afternoon OF
September i1th. No damage was done,
although tie largest brick buildings
were shaken quite severely.
The Anaconda group of mines at
Butte closed for two months pending
alterations in the big Washoe smelter,
resumed operations September 18th.
The mines employ 5000 men.
Ore mile in twenty-eight minutes,
five and three-fifths seconds is the new
swimming record made at Travers
Island few days ago by Charles Rub
Bile of the New York Athletic club.
At least fifty persons were injured,
one fatally, by runaway horse at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 14th inst.
George Lane had his skull crushed
while trying to save three children.
A dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt,
from Constantinople, reports that the
Russian monastery at Jerusalem has
been sacked by a Mohammedan mob
and that all of the monks there were
murdered.
Heroic work on the part OF nurses
and attendants prevented serious loss
Of life in a fire that started from de-
fective fiue in the Keogh- Wright hos
pital at Salt Lake. The loss will not
exceed $4,000.
Lieut.. Colonel Charles G. Treat.
commandant of cadets at West Point,
and Capt James X. Thompson. FIT
teenth infantry, have been detailed as
umpires during the army maneuvers at
Fort Riley, Kansas.
Some time will probably elapse be-
fore the meeting of the Venezuelan ar
bitration tribunal at The Hague, as the
Associated Press is informed that the
Gar has asked for two months in
which to select the arbitrators.
Augusta, Wis, was greatly damaged
by a cloudburst September 18th. Abb
botsford, Medford,' Chelsie, Merrill,
Mondova, Unity and Glenwood are
among the other points in Wisconsin
that suffered from heavy foods.
Ralph Mcbride, aged seventeen, died
at Bluffton, Iowa. on the 18th instant.
as the result of initiation into a high
school secret society The grand jury
returned indictments against nfne stu
| dents in connection with the affair.
1t having been stated that President
Roosevelt had objected to meeting Sir
| Thomas Upton at q dinner of the Sea-
| wanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, th~
president wrote a letter to the chair
| man of the club trustees denying the
report.
Francis " Benque, arrested on COM
plant OF federal authorities on
charge Of having written threatening
letters to Secretary Hay, has been COM
mitted to the Manhattan state asylum,
Wards Island, having been found par
TALLY insane.
The British Foreign Office announces
that no proposal has been made for the
appointment of an Anglo-American
| commission to define the boundary be-
| tween British Borneo and the Philip
pines, and that there is no necessity
for the appointment Of such a body.
| President Loubet recently paid an
unusual compliment to the wife of
Senator Lodge by placing his box at
the opera ut her disposal General
Brugere, commander-in-chief of the
army, sat with Senator Lodge and wife
in the box Throughout the evening.
Tho iyv m Massachusetts and Hary