The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-28
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1t is noticed that though 3S years
have elapsed since the Civil war, yet
25 per cent of the national senate and
13 per cent of the house fought on one
side or the other during the war.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her
sisterin-law, Mrs. w. S. Cowles. will
leave Washington next Thursday for
Gorton, Mass, to attend the closing
exercises of the school there of wuch
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt are
students. The party will return to
Washington next week.
The Nebraska Republican State
Central committe at a meeting just
held selected Lincoln. August 18th,
as the time and place for holding the
state convention. A resolution was
adopted endorsing the administration
of President Roosevelt and pledging
him the support of the party in Ne
braska.
A special dispatch from Madrid
says King Alfonso has inherited ST.
500, 900 under the will of his grand
father, King Francis, who died April
16. 1902. The will was opened about
a month ago. in accordance with the
desire of King Francis that it should
not be read until twelve months after
his death.
Lieut. Javier, commanding a force
of constabularly and volunteers, has
defeated 200 fanatical insurgents in
the island of Cebu, killing 6S of
them and capturing 20. The fight oc-
Cured in the mountains near Tabo-
gan. No details of the engagement
have been received and the govern
ment losses are not known.
The trousseau of Miss Ruth Hanna
will not be made in London or Paris,
but in the United States. Mrs. Hanna
has announced that in accordance with
the wishes of Senator Hanna the order
fol the trousseau was given to New
York dressmakers. The wedding
gown is to be costly and elaborate
and will be of peau de sole with lace
and a wedding veil.
The Maine Central railroad is trying
the novel experiment of using the
telegraph wires along its tracks for
the telephone as we'll as telegraph pur-
poses. 1t is said both kinds OF mes
sages can be sent over teh same wire
at the same time. and the telephone
arrangement which is being used can
be attached to a station or to a pole
at any point along the line.
The national convention of switch
men adjourned Tuesday afternoon az
ter deciding to meet in Indianapolis
in two years. w. c. Walsh was chos-
en- organizer for all states west of the
Mississippi river. The employment OF
negroes by railroads was condemned
and the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men was condemned for refusing to
denounce negro labor An effort will
be made to secure a charter for Yu-
kon, Alaska.
M. V. Leasia. who murdered his
father-in-law, F. H. Drews. Sunday,
and then fed, taking his divorced wife
along as an unwilling companion, was
captured in a barn about four miles
from Portland. The couple were ex-
hausted from their 4S-hour exposure
and when they entered the barn to
take a short rest, sleep overcame
! them, and resulted in the capture OF
the murderer and the rescuing Of his
captive wife.
Some experiments have been recent
ly made near San Francisco for separ-
ating magnetic iron from bench sands
! In order to leave it in condition for
glass manufacturing. 1t is claimed
by those interested in the machinery
that a complete separation of mag
netite can be made at a cost not to
exceed 25 cents to 80 cents per ton.
II this is true ii will obviate the ne
cessity of importing sand from Ger
many for glass-making, as is done
az the present time.
AS the result of unsettled conten-
tions of weeks duration between the
employers and employees, the linemen,
trimmers, stationmen and metermen
l OF the Utah Light & Power company