Mower County transcript., 1904-05-25
NEWS COND TIONS
Tuesday, May IL,

Tuesday, May II.
king Edward has definitely an
nounced his intention to visit Emperor
William during the regatta week at
Kiel, which begins June 22.
Rear Admiral Walker has announced
that Admiral Kenny, retired. formerly
paymaster general Of the navy, had
accepted the office of general disbHrs-
ing officer of the isthmian canal COM
mission. 2-=s% 5 rs e.>, ..>,, @ 81,
Three hundred and seventy-f1ye
Western athletes are entered for the
conference meet which is to be held
in Chicago June l.. Seventeen colleges
are entered and the prospects are that
the affair will be the largest athletic
event ever held in the West. ~
Ambassador Storer has received
from the Austrian foreign Office the
necessary permission for an American
squadron of nine. Warships to enter the
ports of Trieste and Fiume. The for
eign Office accompanied the permission
by an expression of the imperial gov
ernment's pleasure at the proposed
visit of the American squadron.
Wednesday, May 1s:
Grand Duchess Pauline of Sake
Weimar died Tuesday at Rome.
Frank Adee, president of the Sea-
wanhaka Boat club of Brooklyn and
vice president of the Middle States
Regatta association, is dead.
Options on large supplies of rice
in tho 0,,iciono ~;
district have been secured by Japan:
ese contractors during the past two
or three weeks.
John Kennedy, prominent contrac-
tor of Brooklyn and one of the sur
vivors Of the famous charge at Bala-
klava, is dead from pneumonia. He
was born at Belfast in 1895.
The house of commons has voted an
address to King Edward praying him
to order the erection of a monument
to the late Lord Salisbury in Westmin-
ster abbey at public expense.
It is announced that the Dominion
government will have an ice breaker
built in England this summer for the
purpose of trying to keep the St.
Lawrence open later during the fall
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the spring.
Thursday, May 10.
Severe fighting has occurred in San
to Domingo.
General J. N. Tyner took the stand
at Washington and denied charges of
conspiracy in the Tyner-Barrett case
The funeral of General John B. San
born occurred at st. Paul Wednesday.
The remains were inferred in Oakland
cemetery.
Tapestry carpet manufacturers of
Philadelphia have notified the weavers
that after June l they propose to re-
turn to the old working basis of sixty
hours week.
Union hack and cab drivers to the
number of about 300 struck at Cleve-
land, O., Wednesday because of the
refusal Of the employers to recognize
their organization
Interests identified with the Nation
al City bank of New York have filed
with the comptroller of the currency
an application for permission to estab-
lish national bank on the isthmus of
Panama within the zone under the
control of the United States.
Friday, May 20.
A Michigan man has been sent up
for life on third conviction for
burglary.
The lockout in the building trades
at Des Moines has been settled and
700 men have returned to work.
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is reported to he somewhat improved.
No unfavorable symptoms have shown
themselves for several days.
G. F. Thomas has been appointed
assistant general freight agent for the
Chicago Great Western Railway COM
pany, vice C. R. Berry, resigned to
accept service with another railway
company.
A piece of slate pencil two and
half inches long and sharpened to a
needlelike point has been removed
from the right hand of Rosalie Layko,
a nine-year-old Brooklyn schoolgirl.
The pencil had been working it's way
about the child's body since January
last, when she swallowed it while at
play.
Saturday, May Fl.
Cordelia Dean, nurse in the sani-
tarium at Madison, Wis, was drowned
in Lake Mendoza by the capsizing of
boat.
At Winchester, KY, John Hathaway,
a noted colored Jockey, has been SEN
fenced to be hanged Tuesday, July 10,
for the murder of Eta Thomas few
months ago. -
Ground has been broken at South
Chicago for gigantic. coke oven, to
cost $1,000,000, and the first of it's kind
ever established outside the anthracite
regions of Pennsylvania.
J. y. Parker of Kentucky, chairman
of the national executive committee
of the Popu]ist party, says that Hearst
will receive the support of the Popu.
lists in Kentucky and elsewhere.
On advice of committee OF creditors
the wholesale dry goods firm of Sweet
ser, Pembrook & Co. of New York will
go out of business at once. The firm
has been in existence fifty years and
carries a stock worth $1,200,0 900.