The Grit-advocate., 1904-10-28
Condensed TELECRAhS

"a Joint conference Of the Scotch and
north oi England steel makers has de-
cloei 10 form a combination for the
regulation OF sellers prices.
Don Jaime. son Of Don Carlos. the
prstender to the Spanish throne. has
been Injured by fall from his horse
at'Russlan headquarters in Manchuria.
Almost million people were ad-
mNted 10 the Worlds Fair grounds in
st. Louis during the week ending Oc-
tober 18th. the exact figures being $780,
TIA.
Representatives OF the Mormon
Church OF Utah Are negotiating for
the purchase OF tract Of 800 900 acres
OF laad in the state Of Tabasca. Mex
leo.
A German in Mannheim, Baden. is
said to have invented a cheap and ef-
fectiye substitute for leather and to
have sold his invention to an Amerf.
can firm for 100000.
The Idaho game laws, are apparently
not very remunerative to the Golfers OF
the state. According to the official fig
ures the income for the year ending
March, 1904, was only 1856.
The International Surgical Congress.
In session at Paris. decided to appoint
a committee of specialists to examine
the claims of DR.. Doyen that he has
discovered a serum cure for cancer.
At Madrid on the 18th inst. the In
fanta Maria de Las Mercedes. princess
OF the Austuras. sister Of King AL
fOnso and wife of Prince Charles of
Bourbon, died after giving birth to
daughter.
A Manila dispatch says that force
under Lieutenant POgge. of the con-
stabulary defeated large number of
PulaJanes in the mountains of eastern
Samar, killing the notorious outlaw
Oyomo and fifty of his followers.
Representatives Of German. British
French and Belgian manufacturers. ac-
cording to a dispatch from Brussels to
the Frankfurter Zeitung, have agreed
to form an international association to
control the steel rail industry.
The Worlds Fair has made the
seventh of the stipulated 100000 pay
ments on the government loan of $i,-
100000 which was advanced by the
federal authorities. The Fair now
owes $C9l $50 to the government.
Prize money amounting to sS5,0O0
will be distributed by the National
Horse Shoe Association OF America
during the twentieth annual exhibition
which will take place in Madison
Square Garden November IA to 10, in
clGsirs. -
A ministerial announcement has
been issued to the effect that King
George of Saxony, owing to his illness
has appointed the Crown Prince his
representative for the discharge OF
all state business until further notice.
The American Association of Tray
cling Passenger Agents will hold its
thirty-second annual convention In the
City of Mexico, December 18th and
18th. A special train leaving St. Louis
December Sd, will stop at the princi
pal points of interest along the route
At the instance OF King Leopold OF
Belgium, II. nowalsky, a personal
friend of the monarch, called upon
President Roosevelt recently end pre-
sented handsome silyer-mounted au-
tograph. Mr.. kowalsky defended the
King against the charges OF Belgian
cruelty in Africa.
II is officially announced that the ar
rangement at Paris for a parcels post
between the United States and France
including Corsica and Algeria, will
come into force on November 1st under
contracts with the Compagnie Gener
ale TransatlantiQue and the American
Express Company.
Mayor S. F. Smith. <f Daven-
port, Iowa, son of Samuel Francis
Smith, author of MY Country 'Tis OF
Thee" has been sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment in the Iowa peni-
tentiary. AS trustee of large estates
Smith recently acknowledged embez-
Element of $4,000.
In a public speech delivered before
the american Street Railway Associa
ton, President Francis declared that
the Worlds Fair has lost at least 81.
100000 through being compelled tc
close Sundays. Mr.. Ely Of Buffalo said
the Buffalo Exposition lost money by
being open Sundays.
A dispatch from the City OF Mexico
says that D. J. Doak of St Louis, who
has contracted to construct the south
ern division OF 200 kilometres Of the
Pan american railway from Tonola tc
Tapichula, it is semi-oficially an
nounced, will succeed Walter Everett
as president Of that road.
Alexander ]. Garnett. who shot and
killed Major J. NJ McClung at the
Palace hotel in San Francisco, Novem-
Der 25, 1903, and who was convicted OF
the crime of manslaughter. has been
sentenced by Superior Judge Lawler
to serve fifteen years in the peniten-
tlary at San Quentin. An appea! will
be taken.
The Association of Military and Ma
val Surgeons Of the United States a,
its recent meeting in St. Louis unani
mously adopted a resolution recon
mending that 1.-The sale Of beer be per
mitted at the army post exchanges
subject to such regulations as shall be
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