The Globe-republican., 1903-11-12
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dowie complains that many checks
contributed to his fund are bogus
The ratio Of error in delivering mails
Is c,e,crror to 1880 correct deliveries
Fire has destroyed $50 buildings at
Coney Island with q loss Of $1,000, 900.
The Santa Teis spending $4,000 on
Kansas City terminals, mostly in Ar
gcntinc, Kansas,
Commissioner Ware estimates that
there will be d drop of 81, 7o0,oOo in the
pension roll next year.
The anthracite coal mine owners Of
Wales have formed a combine which
can put out million tons q year.
The plague has increased at Rio
Janeiro and vessels from all Brazilian,
ports are required 10 be disinfected.
Notices are posted at the Trinidad,
COL, mines for miners to report for
work or they will never be employed
again.
A London dispatch locates Ticondcr.
osa on Lake George, and as the, place
where Burgoync surrendered. This is
new history. -
ALI telegraphers ut the different sta
lions along the Rocli Island line will
receive an advance Of from IL 10 Is per
cent in wages November1,
Tho Cuban senate will pass the ma
tional lottery bill, but though congress
may pass it, President Palma has de.
clared his intention Of vctoing it.
The invariablc policy Of the United
States is 10 deal with dc facto govern.
men!s which makes 1t certain that the
new state Of Panama will be recog.
nlzed.
Reports submitted 10 President Rip.
Icy, OF the Santa Re, at Los Angeles,
Cali, show that there will be sent east
1880 carloads of celery, 5000 cars of
lemons and about $4,000 carloads Of
oranges,
The report Of the commissioner Of
education for the last fiscal year places
the number Of pupils enrolled in tho
common schools during the year at l5,-
925,sS7, Or over 20 percent Of tho entire
population.
The average daily attendance Of the
schools in the Uuited States for 1909
was 10000, 973, being 90 per cent Of the
total number enrolled. This Is the
largest average attendance OF those en-
rolled ever reported.
Russia and Austria lave sent an Ill.
timatum to Turkey giving the Sultan
u fixed time TO agree to their reform
scheme in Macedonia, and If Turkey
still refuses the two powers will take
steps to compel Turkish action.
Serious electrical disturbances said
to be due 10 the aurora borealis, or
northern lights, caused great incon.
venicnce to telegraph and telephone
companies in Chicago and were also
experienced in New York and else
where.
II is said that the fag used by Bur.
goyne's army WAS stripped from It's
pole when Burgoyne surrendered and
wound around a soldiers body, and
that tho descendants Of tile colonel
who meiuto possession of the flag
have recently sold 1t at auction.
The 1900 striking laborcrs on the
power plants Of the Canadian Niagara
Falls Power company haye returned to
work, accepting $l.5o per day, and the
strike is over.
The seed firm OF D. Tandreth 4 Son,
Of Philadelphia Is bankrupt There
are millions Of people who have been
familiar with the name Of that firm
for u quarter Of q century.
Senator Clark, Of Montana, las won
the shit in tho United States district
conrt at Butte, involving timber land
valued atss, 100000.
Rear Admiral Coghlan, who Is com.
mander.in.chief Of the Caribbean sea
will be in supreme command
on the Atlantic side Of the isthmus, and
Rear Admiral Glass will command the
naval force en- tile Pacific side
Marine engineers Of Jacksonville
and Evansville, Ind, have been ordered
10 strike.
Tho mail service carried last year
,7s,0sl tons Of second class matter 70.
,cived from publishers, Of which 80.
,O5, ss4 pounds was carried within the
jounsr OF publication FREQ OF charge,