The Grit-advocate., 1904-06-24
CONDENSED TELECRAhS

Jose Pardo has been elected presi-
Gen Of the republic OF Peru.
owing to an injury to the champions
kree, The Jefries-Munro prize fight
ha ueen postponed until June goth.
Ministers of the Swedish Free
Ch-.rh OF America. in conference at
ho'lInrd, Illinois, voted to marry no
divorced persons hereafter.
i IS announced that Whistler's IA
mo- Peacock Rooms which is now
ben exhibited in London, has been
acquired by an American collector.
Eight earthquake shocks are report
ed 10 have occurred recently in the
stales Of Guerrero and Chinapas, Mex
lco. A number of sharp shocks were
ais reported from Colima.
John Alexander Dowie, who be-
Lies himself to be Elijah the
Prophet. has been having strenuous
TIM n London, where a mob seems
to be- in waiting for him wherever he
goCs
Tie Kansas railroads have made re-
duccl rates from Kansas City, Leaven-
wcHH Atchison. ST. Joseph. Tokeka,
For Scott. Chanute and Cherryvale 20
all sections in the wheat belt for har-
yes lcly
The only unidentified body Of the
victims of the lroquois theater fire in
ChlcagO was buried a few days ago
at Nuutrose cemetery with this in
fscGWion on the casket. The I'm
known, December 50, 1903.
,;n
des ruycd the federal custom house,
the Southern Pacific and the Sonora
railroad depots and the interior of the
Wcl.s-Fargo express Office. The dam
age VIII approximate $l,00O,OOO.
Tie Russian war Office has adopted
Recommendations made by Lieutenant
BOtain embodying the use of the Unit
ed States army model tents. These are
convertible into ponchos for the pro-
tectIon Of the troops during the rainy
season
Senator f. NJ Cockrell of Missouri
was run into by boy riding bicycle
and thrown violently to the ground.
His right collar bone was broken, his
left side badly bruised and he was
9th cTwIse injured.
John Mccoy, pioneer of lndepend-
ecce Missouri, died at his home in
thai city June 9th, aged eighty-eight
year In 1850 Mccoy received from
the government contract for carrying
the first mail that was started across
the plains to Santa Fe.
re National Packing Company has
absorbed the Ruddy Brothers Packing
Company, whose plant is in Armour
dale, Kansas 1t is said the considera'
tion was about 100000. The Ruddy
Brothers Packing Compny employs
180 men and the daily slaushtering ca
pacity is $50 cattle, 500 hogs and 3OO
sheep.
Professor Mctchnikoff of the Pas
tcur Institute. lecturing in Paris on
Old age. strongly indorsed the theory
that senility is due to special mic
CrObe which he had attempted to iso-
late. AS a result of a close investiga-
ton he stated his conviction that the
habitat of this microbe was the large
Intestine.
Nary Virginia Rhodes. one OF the
heirs to the Cecil Rhodes estate in
South Africa. has been found in Ashe-
vile, North Carolina. She is now Mrs.
Virginia Rhodes Baker and mission
ary. about forty-tive years old. She
had been engaged in mission work in
the Black Mountain district for num-
Der of years.
contract has been let for the erec-
tiun at Tacoma of a $4,000 hospital
building for the Northern Pacific Rail
road Employees Association. This hos
pital will occupy more than one city
L.Ork in Tacoma and will shelter the
irured and sick employees OF the road.
II is under the direct control of the EN-
liUyes of the road.
The War Department has approved
plans for a field meet at Fort Russell,
Wyoming, July 4th. and comprehen-
siva program of sports has been pre-
parod for the occasion. In addition to
the events included in regular meets,
Il ere will be squad wall-climbing con-
Il Is, equipmen races, drivers con-
les, for the artillery, etc
The Tangier correspondent OF the
London Times says: "A well-organized
pI0t to depose the Sultan exists
thrnughout Morocco. 1t has no connec-
ti0u with the late rebellion, but orig
ina'ed with the religious and educated
classes and is supported by many
shegeefs and other influential persons,
inriUding members of the Moorish gov
eruments
Rudolph Bingham, father OF the Pro
hi6fton party in Camden county, New
Icny. died few days ago in Cooper
o.5rtal, Camden, aged eighty. Scv-
era years ago he began to subsist on
d!ur Of bread crumbs. whole corn and
wheat. believing it would prolonG his
lita Physicians told him the fare was
killing him. but he refused to
change it.
tn Ricciotti Garibaldi has issued
n r1clamation in which he declares
thar he armaments OF Austria can not
be mt against Italy, rendering impos-
sibLa her opposition to an, Austrian
march through the Balkans to Salon
lea General Garibaldi urges the ltal-
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