The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-11-16
T Cream of News.
/ Is 7 4gE..EE. 80 ~
Brief Summary of Most
important Events
of Each Day.

BY an explosion in the mine OF
the Peabody Coal Company at Sher-
man, H., a ware room and tipple were
destroyed and two miners, George Nc
Gee and Ivan Myseru, were injured.
The oliver Queen Hotel, in the
Sour Lake, Tex, oil region, burned,
nj four people were cremated.
BY direction Of the secretary of
war, orders have been issued carrying
into effect the recommendations max
ing changes in the uniforms Of the
army.
1t is reported in Toxic that Cen
eral stoessel, commanding at Port Ar
thur has asked the japanese for an
armistice, the purpose for which it is
not stated.
London weekly newspapers de-
vote considerable SPACE to the presi-
Dental election in the United States
and all dwell lengthily upon the per.
sonality of President Roosevelt as the
prime factor in the republican vic
| tory.
The Standard Oil Company has
advanced the price Of crude oil four
cents.
Emperor William, of Germany, in
tends to give many of the valuable OBJ.
jects now on exhibition in the German
building at the ST. Louis worlds fair
to the American nation.
The Novoe Vremya (St Peters
burg declares that all Russia en-
dorses Nicholas message to Vice Ad-
miral Rojestvensky, of faith and hope
in him and says the good wishes and
approval of the whole nation accom-
pany the squadron.
1t is reported that Cornelius Van
derbilt will shortly accept a position
in the diplomatic service and in this
connection the post of first secretary
of the American embassy at Berlin is
mentioned.
Thomas E. watson, who is in New
York, has issuel public statement re-
garding election results and his fu-
ture plans.
The navy department has received
telegram stating that the cruiser Co
lumbia. which went aground near Pen
sacOla, Fla, has been fioated unin-
cured.
The plant of the Chicago Steel
Company at Newcastle, Ind, has been
burned with a loss of 100000; in
surance $4,000.
President E. P. Riley of the
Santa Fe Railway system, states that
it is a fact that John D. Rockefeller,
Sr.. and James Stillman, president Of
the National City Bank, of New York,
nave purchahsei s25,000,0O0 in Santa
Fe stock.
1t is understood that arrange
ments have been completed by Rus
STA for the floating of loan of $780,,
100000 in Berlin, of which German
banks have underwritten three-quar-
tiers and Holland banks the remain
I der
| Five Japanese, the advance guard
of a colony of forty or fifty families,
have arrived at Frisco on their way
to Dade, Fla where they intend to
cultivate $1,000 acres of land.
In celebration of the election of
Mr.. Roosevelt to the presidency a
large number of prominent Panamans
! serenaded Joseph w. ]. Lee, the Amer
| can charge d'affaires.
| ALI records on the Pennsylvania
railroad for long distance runs have
been broken by special train from
| Crestline to Fort Wayne, Ind. The
distance of 131 miles was covered in
! 113 minutes.
1T was announced in Washington
that the president on his approaching
! trip to st. Louis will make no stops
at other cities coming or going.
The mining town of Anaconda,
Colorado, has been practically wiped
out by fire. Fully 100 frame structures
were destroyed. An estimate of lie
total loss is $4,000.