The Globe-republican., 1904-01-28
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

maintain peace.
On January Is there were in opera
ton 9l,O66 rural delivery routes,
The Mississippi Legislature has re
elected Senators McLaurin and Money
With the thermometer at IS below
zero fire at Dawson, Alaska, caused a
loss Of S105,OOO.
Chicago had sixty-three fires during
the twenty-four hours ending Sunday
night at 10 o'clock.
Vice President Winchell, of the Rock
Island says that his road is not going
to build shops at Denver.
Eleven election Judges and clerks in
Denver, have been arrested charged
with violating the election laws.
The amount Of cement made in this
country in 1908 was IS, 753,5O4 barrels,
valued at almost one dollar barrel.
George Francis Trains brain weighed
fifty-three and eight-tenths ounces;
or six ounces more than the average.
The United States attorney general
says that railroad companies have no
right to confscate coal consigned to
private individuals.
Franklin Union No. 2, of press feed.
ers in Chicago, is in the hands of a re-
ceiver, for failing to satisfy judg.
ment due the state.
Mayor J. NJ May, inventor of farm
machinery, is dead, aged 90 years, He
once owned tie best portion Of that
city but died in poverty.
Hartford, CT, has had a 5000 900 fire,
which started in four story block,
destroying it and partly destroying an
eight story block adjoining.
Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, daugh-
ter of John Brown, "The Liberator,"
died at her home in Pasadena, Cali,
on January Is, aged rs years,
Heavy snow drifts on st. Louis street
car tracks held hundreds Of people over
night at their places of business, they
being unable to reach their homes.
The estate of Winfield S. Stratton,
the original Cripple Creek miner, has
just been appraised at $685. 900. The
state will claim S36O,OOO as inheritance
tax.
The manuscript Of Millions para
lise Lost" was offered for sale in Lon
Ion at auction, with a reserve price Of
$4,000, and the highest bid was $685.
$50. The manuscript was not sold.
The report circulated in the United
States from The Hague that former
President Kruger is so feeble that his
riends are most anxious regarding
lin, is incorrect. Mr.. Kruger is en-
Dying excellent health
Nearly 1000 men were thrown outof
in South Chicago by the
losing of the Iroquois Furnace com.
'any's plant.
The upper house Of the Norwegian
arliament by an almost unanimous
ote adopted a bill authorizing women
0 practice law.
Last year SO4,706 passengers were
rought to the United States from for
ign countries by the steamship lines
nd over two-thirds Of this number
anne for the purpose Of making their
ONES here. 0ne-ffth OF them were
jeerage passengers
Ice ut the mouth Of the Des Moines (
yer formed gorge flooding the low /
.nds and threatening the town of {
lexandra. This Mississippi is held
st by Ice causing a rising Of water
yer the same territory flooded last
INNER.
Three persons were burned to death,
70 were fatally hurt and ten were c
ldly injured IN gas explosion that a
rocked the Seltz hotel in Marion, a
diana. r
There were $4,000 homesoekcrs On
e special ttains from Chicago, for
ints in Texas, Oklahoma and New Z
exico, In one day last week
II is said that the Missouri Pacific Is
build new shops ct Sedalia to cost
100000. The city gives cash bonus
100000, The company agrees to
'ploy 1000 menin the shops, !