The Grit-advocate., 1904-08-26
CONDENSED rELECRAhS


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Former Premier NIaldeck-Rousseau.
OF France died near Paris on the 10th
inst.
Telephone lineman at work in Penn
sylvania recently destroyed $50 rattle
snakes with dynamite.
The Republican state convention to
select candidates for the state ticket
will be held at Saratoga September
18th.
DR.. Dowie and his son rescued three
young women from drowning in Lake
Michigan the other day at the risk OF
their lives.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Decoy sank off the Sicily islands as the
result OF collision with another des-
troyer. The crew was saved.
The governess of Thomas A. Edison's
children recently committed suicide
with poison due to anxiety from fear
that the children would be kidnapped.
A supplementary report of Admiral
Togo's casualties in the battle with the
Port Arthur squadron, August 10th. in
creases the total of killed and wound
ed to 225.
The supreme lodge. which is the bus
mess department of the Knights of Py-
thias, opened Its sessions at Louisville
(kentucky) on the 10Th. The attsn-
dance was large.
The farm house of d. A. Bowling.
near Perth, Oklahoma, was struck by
lightning and burned on the 17th -Four
members Of the family were burned to
death in the house.
An unknown Italian who attempted
to kidnap Helen White child five
years old, narrowly escaped lynching
in Allegheny. and was only saved from
serious injuries by the arrival OF the
police.
Former Gov. Elihu jackson has been
nominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis of the First Maryland district.
Ex-Governor Jackson's opponent will
be his brother, William H. Jackson,
the present Republican representative.
The news that Gen. Rafael Reyes
bad assumed the presidency OF Colorn-
Sia was received with satisfaction in
all circles at Panama. 1t Is believed
that diplomatic relations between Pan
ANA and Colombia will be established
soon.
The American line announces that
the steerage rate to Philadelphia will be
$3.50 instead of $40. This reduction
caused CONSERVATION among the lines
not in the combine, but it is not like
ly that they will do anything at pres
ent to combat 1t.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
| has entered upon the second half of its
| entire period and the total attendance
/ up to date. in round numbers, is 7,OOO,-
| 900 II is hnlpvaJ at ba holf
will even more than triple the attend
ance so far recorded
1t is reported that Nine Janauschek,
the aged actress who has been i'll at
the Actors Fund home at Staten Island,
has suffered n relapse and been re-
moved to a sanitarium at Amityvllc,
Long Island, for special treatment. She
is victim of paralysis
In a ruling by Judge II. NJ. Somer-
vile the board of United States general
appraisers has decided that chickens
are not household effects. In SO doing
the board ovefrued claim of Mrs. f.
Lamarre of Port Townsend, Washing
ton, for free entry of coop of chickens.
Disastrous conflagrations are occur
ring in Hungary in consequence of the
prolonged drOuth. Hundreds of houses
in the aggregate have been destroyed
by fire in various villages during the
past week, in which from fifteen to
twenty persons have been burned to
death.
The supreme council of Catholic
Knights of America in session at St.
Louis adopted new insurance rates. ef-
fectiye November 1st. and decided that
saloonkeepers and liquor dealers could
be admitted to the order. with the pro-
viso that such members be placed il
the extra hazardous" class.
A special train from Cincinnati bound
for Coronado Beach, California, and
running as the second section of No.
5. on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Eel
railway, was dtched one miles east OF
Scranton. Kansas. on the 18th. One
person was fatally injured, five were
hurt seriously and six Others sustained
slight injuries.
Emperor Wilnam has given his Am
erican built yacht Meteor to the crown
prince. 1t is expected that the emper-
or's new yacht, to be built by the
Hcrreshoffs at Bristol. Rhode Island
will be ready in time for the Kiel races
next June. The entire crew of this
yacht will be German. instead OF part
German and part English. as is that
of the Meteor
A spark from a locomotive falling on
dry leaves set a forest on fire in west
ern Silesia and the flames spread to
the Darched country, destroying a tim
Der district of nearly 100 square miles.
belonging chiefly to Duke Ernst Gun
ther of Schleswig a brother OF
the Empress and to Count Won DONNA
kotZenau. The village of Neuverwork,
on the dukes estate was burned
Afford W. Cooley, civil service COM
missioner. left Washington on the l1th
inst. for an extended trip through the
Mast and Spnfbwoc.H Ja,.ip,, f,r