The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-09-29
Chicago Futures.
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

lAIl0I NIW0 IN OnlIT,
Grain exports are increasing at all
Russian ports, especially the expor-
tation Of wheat to England.
1t is authoritatively denied that Min.
lister Lessar is negotiating at Picking
for the cession of the Manchurian rail.
way to China.
Consul General Cordova, of Tlondur.
as, says that the boundary question
between Honduras and Nicaragua
will be settled by arbitration.
Dispatches from different points in
New York and Pennsylvania report
heavy frosts and it is feared that
much damage was done to crops and
fruit.
Rear Admiral Jewell, commander
in-chief of the European squadron, has
informed the navy department that he
will hold the autumn practice Of his
squadron at Aboukr Bay this year,
Charles 7. Martin, secretary of the
National Live Stock association, while
journeying from Denver to Cheyenne,
Wyo, was seized with a hemorrhage
of the lungs and expired in few min.
utes after being removed from the
train at Greeley, Kansas.
2. ]. Davis, commissioner of crown
lands, and a member of the Ontario
legislature, has been unseated as the
result of petition against his re-
turn for North York at the bye-elec.
ton in February. 1908. This leaves
the government without a majority on
the floor. The speaker, however, has
the privilege Of casting a vote in the
case of a tie
General Harrison Allen, deputy aun
itor for the postofice department,
died suddenly, aged 60. General Al
len was born in Pennsylvania, but
moved to Fargo, N. D., received The
appointment of United States marshal
for that district. He was appointed
to the Office of deputy auditor by Presi-
dent Mckinley. He served with dis
tinction in the Union army during
the civil war.
The international wireless telegra
ply conference summoned at the in.
itiative Of Germany, which was to
have met October 4, has been post
poned at the request of France and
Great Britain, which countries de-
sire more time TO study the questions
involved. The German government
hopes the conference can be conven.
ed two or three months later The
United States government will be not
fled when date for the conference
has been determined.
Russian agents arc displaying great
activity in securing coal at Liverpool
for Vladiyostok. They offer Sc a ton
plus three per cent upon the ships |
departure and another $3.75 on arriv-
al at Vladivostok. The firms general.
ly are fighting shy, but a few ships
have been dispatched, Hong Kong
being the ostensibe destination.
All the powers have instructed their
ministers at Belgrade, Servia, 10 at.
tend the coronation of King Peter ey.
cept Russia whose action has caused |
a sensation. King Peter will be crown.
ed on Wednesday next.
The Russian volunteer feet steam.
ers Smoensk, with $50 tons of coal,
and the st. Petersburg, with 100 ions
of coal, have sailed from Port Said
ostensibly for Libau. The orders to the
British cruiser, Furious, to be in read.
mess to sail on two hours notice, have
been Cancelled
Word was received at the navy de-
partment that the cruiser Mayhower
has sailed from Genoa for Gibraltar
on her way home Among her pas
sengers are the men and officers Of
the battleship squadron who were Ia
ken Ill with typhoid fever at Trieste
Queen Wilhelmlna re.opened the
states general. In the speech from
the throne the queen said the home
industries of the Netherlands were
not competing satisfactorily with for.
eign enterprise, and that the finances
of the Dutch Indies and the Neither.
lands needed strengthening. The
queen announced also the forthcom.
ing introduction of bills providing for
old age pensions and higher educa-
ton.
The crown made in Paris for the
coronation Of King Peter Of Servla |