The Holly chieftain., 1903-08-14
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

The National Irrigation Congress
will meet at Ogden. Utah. September
18th to 18th.
The Mississippi Commercial
Congress meets vt Seattle. Washington,
August 18th to 21st-
Rich naphtha wells, extending over
distance of 200 versti, have been
discovered in the Krbsa territory OF
Cis-Caucasia.
Viceroy Curzon has 0agraphed a
lengthy protest to the home govern
ment against saddling India with the
cost of the South African garrison.
The repairing and painting of l,50O
Iron monuments marking the interna-
tional boundary between the United
States and Mexico has Just been COM
pleted.
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 I'd
read without glasses.
Startling increase IN suicides in
Washington this year has prompted
DR.. ]. Ramsey hewitt. district coroner.
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 off Bermuda in February, 1902.
the members of the crew of the Ameri-
can steamship Yeomap 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 new
| worlds record for pace followers by
riding forty-eight miles three laps and
two hundred and ninety yards in one
hour, in the Golden Wheel race at Bosr
ton, July 31st.
The London Times 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 M. Shaw, eighty years of age,
and for fifty-two years editor of the
Freeman's Journal at Cooperstown, N.
T., has just retired from newspaper
work. The paper has been published
weekly for ninety-five years.
A heavy rain fell over Kansas
August 1st, with the exception of few
| counties in the southwestern corner Of
the state. There is no longer any
doubt as to the excellence of the corn
crop. The yield will be large.
! A decree has been Issued in the
1 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
$4,000 for July, 1902. and $4,000 in the
same month in 1901.
The Canadian government expedition
J organized to explore Hudson bay in
/ the solar Neptune, consists of forty
persons, fifteen of whom are scientists.
A party Of twenty-five of the ships
company will remain one year. If not
longer, in the region explored.
! A Berlin dispatch says that a pro-
posal 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 29 and 80 will un-
1oubtedly agree to the Indignation.
Russian adyices received at Vienna
! tate that Prince Urusoff, who on July
4Ith was reported as having been
wounded in the Razan district by peas
ants, has become insane. The dispatch
says he was in the habit of testing his
skill as marksman on the bodies OF
| his peasants.
The fourth annual convention of the
International Federation of CONNER
cial Travellers at Mackinac Island.
Michigan. elected the following Off
GERS President, Louis Labeaume, St,
Louis; vice president, Charles c. DAN
iel, Columbus, Ohio; secretary, Arthus
l.. Sheetz, Omaha.
The commissioner of the general land
Office has ordered withdrawn from land
entry 2,S00,000 acres of land in Oregon
for the creation of the Warner noun
tain forest reserve. The larger part
of the land withdrawn is in the Lake
view land district and the remainder
in the Dallas district.
At the meeting of the Union Made
Garment Makers Association, in Chi-
cago, it was decided to adjust prices
to accord with the size of the garment
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