Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-06-25
CONDENSED rELEcRArls

President Roosevelt delivered an adj
dress at Valley Forge on June 10th.
Evacuation Day"
The steamer Frithjof. with the zeig-
Ter relief expedition on board. sailed
from Trondhtem. Norway. June 18th.
The National Conference of Charities
and Corrections voted to hold its next
years meeting at Portland. Oregon.
Rear Admiral James A. Greer. Unit
ed States Navy. retired. died at Wash
ington. June 18th, aged seventy-two
years.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
treasurer of the General Slocum RELIEF
committee contribution of $500 to the
relief fund.
The award OF the King of Itaay in
the Anglo-Brazilian arbitration regard
ing the frontier of British Guiana is
in favor of Great Britain.
Almost the entire business seS6ou Of
the little town of Cul de Sac. Idaho.
was destroyed by fire June 20th. The
total loss will probably reach 10000.
The appellate division OF the New
York Supreme Court has decided that
II is not Illegal to keep In cold storage
out OF season game that was killed In
season.
Cardinal Satolli was received by the
President at Washington a few days
ago and presented felicitous address.
W hich was kindly responded to by
President Roosevelt
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Sparrow Hawk struck an uncharted
rock on Saddle Island. near Hang
Chow bay. June 10th. and is a total
loss. The guns from the vessel were
saved and no lives lost in the disaster.
The Union of Italian Artists has
passed a resolution wishing success to
Slgnor Biondi in his contest with the
Metropolitan Museum OF Art in New
York resulting from the refusal OF that
institution to accept the sculptor's
'Saturnalia"
AT Cleveland. June 18th. Lou Dillon,
a trotting mare. driven by her owner,
c. X. G. Billings. was sent n mile to
wagon to beat the amateur record OF
2:i0. The mare made the distance In
2;06R. The last quarter was made in
80 seconds.
The bureau of equipment OF the Navy
Department has planned to establish
large coaling station with capacity of
10000 tons at California City Point.
Vti Abr MfNtfi IpAht ~ AfAh oh'Af.D
bay. where the department has acquired
a tract of land
The American Surgical Association.
ri its meeting in St. Louis. decided to
hold its next annual meeting at San
Francisco. Ben johnson Of Richmond.
Virginia was elected president. One of
those elected vice president is Emmett
Rixford of San Francisco.
mandant Of the navy yard at League
Island. Pennsylvania. has been ap-
pointed rear admiral in the navy to
fill the vacancy caused by the retire
ment of Rear Admiral J. J. Read. chair
man Of the lighthouse board.
.In decision just handed down at
Cincinnati. Judge Littleford held that
blacklisting could not be remedied or
prevented by injunction. He refused
To restrain the proprietors from
blacklisting men Of the cab drivers
and hackmen.s union. who have recent
ly been on strike.
Harry Bullock. aged nine. while fish
ing In Bitter Root river. Montana. fell
into the river. Ernest Rich, who was
walking in the vicinity with Miss Anna
Strong jumped in to save the boy and
both were drowned Miss Strong faint
ed when she saw the two drowning. and
has since lost her reason. Mrs. Rich
Is almost insane because OF the drown
ing OF her son.
Hillsdale College. Michigan. has con-
ferred the degree of LID. upon Gen.
Frank Baldwin. commander OF the De-
rartment OF the Colorado. U. S. A. Gen
eral Baldwin was a student at Hillsdale
when the Civil War broke out, and
the recognition of his worth comes
from the college after Congress has
gwen the soldier two medals for con-
spicuous gallantry on the battlefield.
Justice GayRor OF the Supreme
Court of New York, sitting as a mag
istrate in Brooklyn. has handed down
an opinion in which he holds that
games of professional baseball such
as have been played at Washington
park this season-games to which the
public is invited and to which an ad
mission fee Is charged-are illegal on
Sunday. being prohibited by the Sun
day law.
On her last trip the North German
Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm left
Sandy Hook at S:07 q. m. June 14th
and arrived at Plymouth. England. at
1857 a. m. June Goth Before arriv-
ing she sent a message by wireless
telegraph saying. IAN records broken"
but this did not prove to be the case.
although she is said to have beaten
the record as to average hourly
speed. which for the trip was 1882
knots.
s. Pearson Z Son, incorporated, OF
New York. have hled q certificate Of in
corporation with the secretary Of state
at Albany. to build q tunnel between
the boroughs Of Manhattan and Queens
under the East river. The capital is
81 ,OOO. 900 and the directors are E. W.
Moir OF London. England. and George