Free press., 1904-12-03
Chicago Futures-
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

LAIESl NEWS lW BRtEF.
The new cruiser Pennsylvania,
which has been lying at dock at the
New York navy yard, started for Bos-
ton to make preparations for her speed
trial
Major Colin Campbell, a member
of the staff of Lord Curzon, viceroy
of India, arrived at New York on the
steamer Philadelphia from South
ampton.
At Liverpool shipping in the Mer-
sey is practically at a standstill ow-
ing to a dense fog. The White Star
liner steamer Cymric from Boston,
the Allen steamer Tunisian from
Montreal, and other transatlantic
liners are fog bound outside the
bar
With the exception of the govern
ment building, which has hardly more
than begun, and the forestry building,
which will be under roof within a
week, the principal buildings of the
Lewis and Clark fair at Portland, Ore,
are, to all intentS and purposes, COM
pleted.
The acting secretary of war has
named March 1, 1905, as the date of
commencement of the examination
of candidates for civil life already de-
signated for appointment as second
lieutenants in the army. There are at
present eighteen vacancies, nine in the
artillery and nine in the infantry.
Japan is buying Welsh coal at Car
diff. One purchase of ten thousand
| tons is recorded, and other orders are
| reported to have been placed. The
steamer King Robert, $500 tons, has
been chartered at Cardiff for Japan ac-
count
At Cincinnati, O., revised estimates
of Saturdays fire places the aggregate
loss between $400. 900 and $500, 900, dis
! tributed among thirty-fOur individuals
and firms. The bulk of the loss,
| $265,0O falls on the Randolph Wuer-
| liter company, dealers in musical in
struments.
The New York board of commits
sioners for the Lewis and Clarke GEN.
tennial has notified the exposition un-
| officially that it desires space reserv-
| ed near the Massachusetts building
| site in the park for a $35, 900 struc-
| ure. New York will commence con-
| structiOn by the first of January and
will endeavor to supplement present
| plans for comprehensive display of
| the Empire states manufacturers by
asking for another appropriation.
The National Grange decided to
| hold the next annual session in the
State of New Jersey. The selection
| of the city will be made by the execu-
| tive committee. The grange went on
record as favoring industrial educa-
! ton in the country schools, especi-
| ally in the matter of agricultural
! training.
i Secretary Hay and Mr.. Probst Oh
| the Swiss charge d'affaires, signed an
arbitration treaty on behalf of the
United States and Switzerland. The
treaty follows the lines of the Ameri-
can and French arbitration treaty.
Heinrich Knote, the German Wag
merriam tenor of Munich, has departed
for the United States, where he is un-
der a four months professional con-
tract.
Roy L. Scott, the young Salt Lake
| student who attempted to cut the
throat of Elsie Gallagher, has been
/ adjudged insane and committed to an
asylum.
Orders are being prepared opening
20 commercial business the naval
coast wireless telegraphy system at
Yerba Buena, Cal, and Mare Island
navy yard, Washington, D. c.
The Merchants Exchange at San
Francisco has received dispatch
from Mazatlan stating that the
steamer City of Panama has been
sighted approaching that harbor hav-
lieved to be the barkentine Maka-
we'll The MakaweIi sailed from Ia
coma for Mazatlan on October 30,
with a cargo of coal and is known to
have encountered heavy weather
Japan, in a friendly spirit, has
drawn the attention of Great Britain
to the supply of coal furnished by
British vessels to the Russian fleet
| Rear Admiral Endicott. chief of the
bureau of yards and docks, has sub
mitted to the secretary of the navy
his annual report and estimates. The
secretary has approved them. The
report contains no estimates that
were not included in the approved
naval estimates recently announced
Explanations of these estimates are
given in each instance.
i
Arnold Beauthein, former cashier of
the West Liberty bank at Davenport,
! Ia. was arrested, charged with the
embezzlement OF $4,000.