The Globe-republican., 1904-11-03

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

At New York all grades of sugar
we're advanced 5 cents a hundred
pounds.
From child the Queen Of the Meth
erlands has been accustomed to rise
at Z o'clock. "
Admiral lessen has assumed com
mand of the First Pacific squadron,
succeeding Admiral Besobrazoff, who,
Is leaving Vladlvostok for st, Peters
burg.
John F. Waggaman, brother Of Thos.
E. Waggaman, the bankrupt real es-
tate dealer at Washington, D. G., filed
a claim against the bankrupt for $751;
900.
The directors Of the United States
Steel corporation declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of one and
three-quarters per cent on the COM
pany's preferred stock.
F. S. Cotton & Co., brokers Of Bos-
ton, members of the New York Consol-
idated Stock exchange, announced
their suspension. The firm has offices
in several New England cities and In
New York.
Special from Dawson says steam
navigation the full length of the Yu.
kon is practically closed. The river
| Is full of Ice. The output for the Klon-
dixie this season is nine and one-half
millions.
The protected cruiser Tacoma,
Commander Reginald D. Nicholson
commanding, now at San Juan, Porto
Rico, has been directed by the navy
department to proceed to New York
| for necessary repairs.
1t has been represented to the gen.
eral staff of the army that 1t will re-
ouire an expenditure of $S,S19,42O to
place the submarine defenses OF the
United States in a state of efficiency.
This estimate Is made by the tor
pedo board, which recently met at,
Fort Totten, N. Y.
Though the ocean covers about
three.fourths Of the surface OF the
earth it does not, in the same proper
ton, provide for the wants OF men.
| 1t Is estimated that only about . per
cent of the people of the world OBJ
tain their living directly from the
sea.
October 27 was the anniversary OF
President Roosevelt's birth. He Is
now 46 years old. Throughout the day
he was in receipt of messages Of con-
graduation from friends in all parts
of the country. He also received many
personal callers who congratulated
him upon the anniversary.
The Vatican Is sounding the differ.
ent powers on the subject of the ad-
mission of Its report at the proposed
second The Hague conference on the
same ground as the suggested admis'
sion of the South American republics,
which were not represented at the
: first conference The Vatican empha'
sizes the fact that it was excluded
from the first conference chiefly be-
cause of the opposition Of the Italian
government supported by Great Brit
J ain, which asked in exchange ltaly's
support for the exclusion OF repre-
: sentatiyes Of the Boer republic.
/. With the view Of ascertaining wheth
). err the wireless telegraphy may be
:. extended to the smaller boats, the
t navy department has completed plan'
s for the establishment of a temporar!
" experimental wireless station on o tor
n pedo boat destroyer. The Whipple
Q flagship Of the second torpedo boa
# aotilla, has been selected for the sys
d TEN under trial.
officials Of the Enterprise colliery
at Shamokin, Pa, which caught fir
three weeks ago, stated that the fire
which has caused over 100000 dam
1t ages has been extinguished.
IL The conference Of the National Tn
~ ion Conservative associations reI
- resentative Of the whole country, OF
ened at Southampton, England, an
o commenced business by enthusiast
cally adopting resolution assurln
lie the government Of Its entire supper
e' in any step that may be considere
necessary in dealing with "unwarran
~ able" action Of the Russian squadro
ey in the North sea.
- Charles M. Schwab, together wit
Y 100 tourists, mostly German banker
arrived at Taormlna, Sicily, on boar
the German LLOYD steamer Bremen