The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-22

Ottawa, Ont-Parliament has been
summoned to meet Jan. IL.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Forest fires at La
Canyada threaten to wipe out the little
town OF La Cresenta.
washington. d. C.-The American
German arbitration treaty will be signed
at the state. department today.
Indianapolis, Ind.-The twenty eighth
biennial convention of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity is being held here.
Kansas City. Mo.-Richard c. Kerens, of
81. Louis, declares he is in the race for
United States senator to succeed Francis
M. Cockren to stay.
elected president of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. He succeeds the late
Frederick w. Rhinelander.
Washington. D. C.-Secretary Hav and
Mr.: Probst, the Swiss charge d'affaires,
have signed an arbitration treaty on be-
half OF the United States and Switzer-
land.
st: Johns, N F.-The whaling steamer
HarboS Grace, with a crew of twelve
men; from Norway to st. Johns, and now
nearly month overdue. is given up for
lost.
Columbus, Ohio-An abandoned coun-
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for the manufacture of spurious silver
dollars, has been found in a thicket near
Built Park.
Buenos Ayres, Argentina-The strike
movement here has been resumed. The
cab and principal telephone services are
suspended and the street car services are
partly suspended.
New York-Steamship Kroonland. about
which there has been some anxiety be-
cause of an unconfirmed report pub
lished Sunday that she had foundered,
has anchored in quarantine.
AmsterdamaThs Talautse islands,
have been visited by a hurricane, caus-
ing the sea to flood the islands and render
10000 persons destitute, their homes,
boats and plantations being destroyed.
Philadelphia. Pa.-The British steamer
Aros Castle, Capt. Day, from Java with
cargo Of sugar, arrived at this port
Nov. Is of the Spanish bark Tafalla with
her. crew of fifteen men during the re-
cent storm.
Washington. D. C.-The board appoint
ed by the last congress to select a site
for the great lakes training station held
ds,h its final publ public hearing The Merchants
Lake Bluff site free of cost. The value
OF the land is said to be $150,000.
Baltimore, Md-Thomas W. McGregor.
the clerk in the rural free delivery divi-
sion OF the postoffice department who
with c. Ellsworth Upton was convicted of
conspiracy to defraud the government on
a pouch contract, has gone to the peni-
Tertiary to begin his term Of two years.
New Haven. Conn.-The fifth annual
report of Morris F. Tyler treasurer of
Yale university, shows that during the
fiscal year ended July 81, 1904, there were
additions to Yales funds amounting to
The total estate of the university and
departments Is returned as $7,344,95S
Philadelphia, Pa The Philadelphia
presbytery, by vote of 80 to 46, decided
in favor of the affiliation of the Cumber-
byterian church of the United States.
Seventy three of the 245 presbyteries in
the Presbyterian church of the United
States have voted in favor of affiliation
and z against.
Berlin-The war department is expert
menting in German Southwest Africa and
China with a new food preseryative, a
sort Of jelly. Sausages.- any preserved
meat or butter. is dipped in this melted
jelly, which dries and forms. a skin i'm
pervious to air When peeled off months
later it leaves the food as fresh as when
prepared.
ConstantinopIe-The British embassy
has Joined the American legation in in
sisting on the cessation of interference
with the sale of Bibles in certain lQca1i-
ties The British and Foreign Bible Sc
ciety has had trouble at Uskuh. The
porte says the reason is that the Bibles
are being sold at a ridiculouSly low price
and the sales partake of the character of
a propaganda