Free press., 1904-12-17
Chic2gO Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

In st. Petersburg orders have been
issued for the mobilization of the sec
Ond Volga regiment and the TereF
cossacks.
Mayor Resigns.-Mayor Borah OF
Tishomingo has resigned the office.
He has been mayor almost since the
town was Incorporated.
A boat from the Turkish corvette
Mansura, manned by forty seamen has
sunk in the rOad-stead. Nineteen of
the crew were drowned.
A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger
from Kieff, Russia, announces that 20
persons have lost their lives there
through drinking poisoned brandy.
Kasaka hill, fronting on Port Arthur
December 6. The Russian armored
cruiser Bayan is reported to be
aground.
Maurice Thompson OF Butte, Mont
was awarded the decision over Kid
Stein of Philadelphia in a six-round
bout at the Chicago Riding and Driv-
| ing club.
General Maximovich Hetman, of
Don COssacks, is reported to have
been appointed to succeed Prince
Galitzin as governor general of the
Caucasus.
Robert Burns family bible, con-
tanning interesting family entries,
was sold at auction in London for
$3.25O. The purchaser was a Lon
don dealer.
The navy department is informed
that the cruiser Columbia and the dis
patch boat Dolphin. with Secretary
Taft and his party as passengers, left
Colon for Pensacola.
The Mexican astronomical society
has awarded its chief prize, a gold
| medal, to Professor Pickering of Har-
ward University, who discovered the
ninth satellite Of Saturn.
The foreign bishops now in Rome
are so numerous that it would take
weeks for the Pope to receive them
singly, and he has decided to give
them a collective audience.
Rev. Dr. Ross c. Houghton, form
| erly of Portland, Ore, a we'll known
retired Congregational clergyman and
the author or several historical
books, died at his home in Maiden.
aged 62 years.
Sasoneff, the assassin of Minister
of the Interior Won Plehve, has recov-
cred from the wounds he received
from the explosion Of the bomb that
killed the minister.
The superior Armenian clergy have
petitioned the government to restore
church property seized under the Won
Plehve regime. 1t is believed the pc
tition will be granted.
In Rome the condition of General
| Ricciotti Garibaldi is improved and
his physicians now have hopes of his
recovery.
President Roosevelt informed sew
| eral members of congress that he
! would not consider the appointment
Of any other man to the office of com
missioner Of pensions until he had
received a final answer from Major
William Warner of Missouri, to whom
a proffer of the position had been
made.
At Lincoln, Neb.. the supreme court
ruled that Thomas Dennison of Omaha
is subject to extradition to Iowa to
stand trial on the charge of completely
with Frank Shercliffe in the Pollock
diamond robbery.
Gen. Kuropatkin has issued re-
newed emphasized orders that the
effects of the Japanese killed be sent
to the prisoners bureau at St. Peters
burg, whence they will be forwarded
to the relatives of the killed. This
action is in response to similar Jap
anese courtesy.
Mrs. Alice w. Wheelan. mother OF
Fay Templeton. the actress, is dead
at Elmhurst, L. l., OF pneumonia,
aged 65 years. Years ago she was
on the stage and was known in the
theatrical profession as Alice
| Vane.
The wedding of Crown Prince Fred
erick William and Duchess Cecilia
of Mecklenburg-Sch has been
| ueHnlIeIy HAeO 1Of Ine EdtIeI HdII VI
May. Emperor William intends to
cruise in the Mediterranean in the
spring and return to Germany in time
for the wedding.
The postmaster general has ap-
pointed former Congressman James
Rankin Young of Philadelphia, super.
ntendent of the dead letter Office to
Ill the vacancy caused by the death
of D. P Leibhart last September.