The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-01-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. 3.

The national convention of the social
list party will be held in Chicago May l.
Mississippi republicans will hold their
state convention in Jackson on March %.
Horace G.. Burt Unexpectedly resigned
the presidency OF the Union Pacific rail-
road.
Safe blowers at San Jose, H., cracked
and looted the safe in the post Office
Of $1,000.
James ]. Belden, former member OF
congress, died at Syracuse, N. Y, aged
IS years.
During 1903 the United States pro-
duced $74, 425, $40 in gold and $50 500, 0SS
in silver.
The office Of the mayor of New York
city has been turned over to George B.
Mcclellan.
Robert G. Harper, the Oldest man in
Minneapolis, died at the age of l04 years
: and six months.
Baptists may refuse to accept further
donations from John d. Rockefeller on
high ethical grounds.
Lives lost in wars throughout the
world the past year number sc, 46S,
against 25,700 in 1902
The Standard Oil company has reduced
the price of oil five cents in the east and
two cents in the west.
DR.. John Alexander Dowie departed
from Zion City on his world trip, which
is expected to take six months.
Dun's weekly review of trade says that
business men express confidence in the
! future, especially south and west.
Moses T. Clough and William Shaw,
prominent lawyers, lost their lives in a
/ fire in Troy On " clubhouse.
St. GATHERINGS academy. a Catholic
school for girls near Springfield, KY,
was burned, the loss being 100000.
Fargo Squiers, eldest son of the United
States minister to Cuba, accidentally
shot and killed himself in Havana.
The cruiser Dixie reached Colon with
600 marines under Gen. Elliott and there
are now.1 200 marines on the isthmus.
A national convention of Jews will be
called at Philadelphia to plan removal
of millions of their race from Russia.
Thirtyfour women teachers in the city
schools are among the dead and missing
in the lroQuois theater disaster in Chi
cago.
William Sheaver, a bartender, and
Mrs. Clara Collins, met death by asphyx-
iation in lodging house in Colum.
bus, O.
Inventors of a trackess train made
their trial trip in Paris, and were con-
graduated by President Loubet on its
success.
Burglars dynamited the safe of o.
Cohen, a jeweler in Des Moines Ia, and
stole $4,000 in cash, diamonds and
watches.
Col. Henry L. Thomas, for 81 years
translator in the state department, died
at his residence in Washington, aged
6S years.
Detlef Evans, a German farmer near
Denison, Ia, poisoned his lSmonthold
child and his wife, 1t is believed Evans
is insane.
Ann Tyler, a blind negro woman 90
years old, and James Turner negro
So years old, were burned to death in
Sedalia, Mo.
Experiments with turbine propulsion
prove successful and the new system
will be used on new naval ships of the
United States.
Mrs. Myra Jane Williams, of Brain
erd, Mimi, was sentenced to the penl-
Tertiary for life for the murder of her
little daughter.
Frederick Lindstrom, a trusted en-
ploye of Chicago wholesale house, con-
fesses to embezzling $4,000, which he
lost in the poolrooms.
Fire, presumably of incendiary orr.
gin, totally destroyed the grain eleva-
tor at Corning distillery in Peoria, ILL.,,
with loss of $4,000.
Mary Anderson read and sang in the
Peoples palace, London, for the first
time in Is years. The entertainment
was given for the poor.
Bonds to the value of $3.50 GOO wer.
missing from the Bank of Staten Island
at Stapleton, N. j., and Otto Altman
cashier, committed suicide.
Treasury department experts have be.
gun an investigation into charges of ir'
regularity in the accounts of the inter
state commerce commission.