The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-13
DOings of the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
Readers
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told in Short Paragraphs
Latest intelligence from
All Sources.


journed after a five years session.
Two new reports of death from ty-
phoid at Stanford University are made
public, the total number of deaths tc
date being ten.
The San Francisco stock and ex-
change boards adjourned until Thurs
day at $3.50 a. m, ON account of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's visit.
On account of religious disturb
ances in France, the Pope has decided
not to receive President Loubet when
the latter visits Rome.
A petition signed exclusively by Fill
ipino women has been presented to
Archbishop Guidi, the apostolic del
egate in the Philippines, asking for
the retention of the friars.
Acute distress prevails in the Nan
ming and Tsunfa district of Kwangsi
province. 1t Is estimated that 73, 200
persons are starving The people of
Hong Kong are sending relief.
DIR. Julius Broeckelmann, German
physician and scientist. who went to
Patagonia eight years ago to study the
conditions of the country, says the
Patagonians will be extinct in a few
years. .
In a dozen different cities of the
United States detectives are at work
in the effort to trace the sender and
maker of the Internal machine that
was sent to the Cunard Steamship
pier to be shipped ON board the Um-
bria last Saturday afternoon.
Thirteen city prisoners, serving
terms for minor offenses. took the
hinges off the door of the Seattle Jail
and went away at about $3.50 o'clock
Tuesday morning. Twenty others de-
elined to go out into the darkness,
and stayed until new hinges were
put on the doors.
Struggling Moros attacked the rear
guard of Captain Pershing's column
near Bacolod. island of Mindanao,
Saturday morning, wounding Lieu
tenant Rutegeles and one soldier. The
guard killed all the attackers. The
latest reports place the number of
Moros killed at the capture of Turaca
at 300.
There was a race riot in Saint Tam
many Parish, about fifty miles from
New Orleans, On Saturday night. An
insolent negro was beaten severely
with an ak handle by white grocery
clerk. The negroes armed and
pitched battle with white citizens fol-
lowed, in which four negroes, one of
whom was the aggressor, were killed.
Peace was then restored.
The University of Illinois has call
ed DR. Joel Stebbins to the director
ship of it's excellent observatory. Dur
ing the past year he has been a resi-
dent graduate student of Berkeley and
was last week granted the degree OF
doctor of philosophy and astronomy.
DR.. Stebbins is a graduate of the Uni
versity of, Nevada. and in 1899 was
awarded a fellowship at the Lick OBJ
servatory.
The widest excitement in cotton
this season occurred in New YORK,
Monday, when an enormous covering
movement was started by an unex-
pected advance of 11614 points in
Liverpool, attended by heavy sales OF
spot in the English market. The To-
cal market responded with an advance
of 15G24 points on the more active
new high records in all cases
being made.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific
Railway Company. held in Des
Moines, Iowa, Monday, the deal made
by ]. P. Morgan and Company for the
sale to the Rock Island of the st.
Company was approved and the capi-
tai stock of the Rock Island increased
$40 900, 900. The contract with the
Morgan company calls for an ex-
change Of $4,000 worth of Rock
Island stock for s31.O0O,OOO worth Of
st. Louis and San Francisco stock.
and the turning over of the entire
Frisco system to the Rock Island Of