The state herald., 1904-11-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAhs

order restored.
The French postal department has
decided to replace its mail coaches by
electric motor cars.
Mrs. VIII Carleton. wife Of the poet
author, died suddenly on the 18th inst,
at her home in Brooklyn.
The Santa Fe railway is estimated
to have lost sl,0000O0 by the recent
floods In New Mexico and Arizona
The bill to abolish capital punish
ment in Vermont passed the house of
representatives by vote of 163 to SO.
William Mayer of Mount Carroll, H.
linois. lost his home by betting on Par
ker and committed suicide by hanging.
The St. Louis Worlds Fair officials
have repaid to the United States sub
treasury the entire government loan OF
$i.600,000.
Thomas Richardson, magistrate of
Henry county, Virginia, was found fro
zen to death on the public highway o
few days ago.
Nine scouts of the constabulary and
corps have been killed in an ambush
Serious characterization riots have
take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Troops were called out and seven per.
sons killed and thirty wounded.
A bronze statue of Robert Treat
Paine, one of the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence, was un-
yelled at Taunton, Massachusetts, on
the 18th inst.
It is officially announced that the
Seoul-Fusan railway was completed.
Traffic will begin December 1st. The
time between Toxic and Seoul will
then be fifty hours.
William l.. Douglas, the newly
elected shoemaker-governor of Massa.
chusetts, gave the Democratic state
committee $4,000 for campaign ex-
penses and thinks he got of easy.
The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railway into Wichita, Kansas. opened
for business November 18th. Contracts
have been let for the construction OF
522 miles of road from Wichita toward
Kansas City.
President Roosevelt will recommend
to Congress that authority be given
the Philippine commission to revise
the tariff now in force in those Islands.
Since 1t has been in effect many
changes have become necessary for
the development Of the islands.
Rev. DIR. Herbert Welch, pastor Of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church
at Mt. Vernon, New York. has been
chosen by the trustees as the new
president of Ohio Wesleyan university
succeeding Rev. j. w. Bashford, who
last spring was elected bishop.
The Chinese government has under.
taken. in return for certain conces.
sions as to remission and calculation
OF interest, to pay the whole of the
national indemnity of 1901 on gold
basis. The powers are certain to ac.
cept the proposals. which are unex.
pectedly favorable.
The missionary committee OF the
Methodist Episcopal convention at
Boston voted unanimously to appro-
pirate sl.220.000 for missionary work
during the coming year. and that this
sum be so divided as to give SOL, 500
for work In the foreign field, and s5lS,.
500 for domestic work.
The American consul at Kharput. DIR.
Thomas H. Norton. has been instructed
to proceed to the Turko-Persian from.
tier and watch the operations OF the
Turkish and Persian authorities who
have undertaken to arrest the murder
ers of the American missionary, Rev.
B. w. Iabare. who was killed In April
last.
The straw vote in the American
colony OF Mexico City, which was par.
ticipated In by many of the colony.
demonstrated conclusively the choice
OF Roosevelt for President. All had
supposed that the colony would go
overwhelmingly Democratic. The re-
suit was: Roosevelt. 355. Parker 2l5.
Swallow l3. Debs 10. Watson 4.
A Vancouver. II. C.. newspaper says
that DIR. Nell S. Phelps, OF Battle
Creek. Michigan. the scientist and for.
mer millionaire, who mysterlously dis.
appeared year ago, has been quietly
living In Vancouver nearly the whole
OF that time under the name OF DIR.
Fields. His identity was discovered
by a photograph published In Chi
cago paper and he suddenly disap.
peared.
The following are among the appro-
priatlons made by the Methodist Mis-.
sionary committee at the conference
in Boston: For colored work, mostly
In the South. 27.5O0: for work
among whites In ALASKA, $4,000; In
California. $500. During the week a
total OF nearly 81 .537, 900 was appro.
priated TO mission work carried on In
thirty foreign countries and In sixteen
languages in the United States.
At Pekln, November 12th the Amerl,
can. Austrian. German, Russian and
Belgian ministers were received In
audience In the forbidden city, and
presented the dawager empress with
autograph letters from their rcspcc.
tive rulers. congratulatlng her on her
birthday, The other ministers will
present letters later. The dowager
empress will send her portrait to the
rulers who noticed her birthday.
Gabriel syvoton. the Nationalist dep.
uty who struck War Minister Andre In
the face during the debate OF Novcm.
ber 18th In the French Chamber OF Dep.
utics. was arrested on the 10th Inst. ms
he was about TO take up his position
for duel with Captain Call. who 10 an
Intimate friend OF General Andre and
who In supposed to represent him. The
arrangements contemplated tho use OF
pistols and two shots each. NJ. Syvc.
tons arrest begins the criminal prose.