The Glenwood post., 1904-11-05
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

2Sth of heart failure.
The president has issued proclama-
/ tion appointing Thursday, November
oath, as Thanksgiving Day.
A telegram from John II. Fesler.
consul at Annoy, China, states that the
consulate has been burned, with most
of the records.
Baron Sternberg the German am
bassador, expects to sail about No
vember 22d for few weeks visit at
| his home in SaXony.
The supreme council for the United
! States, Scottish Rite Masonry, has
elected M. w. Bayliss, Washington, d.
| c., sovereign grand commander.
! The attendance at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis for the week ending Octo-
ber 29th was 749,36S, and the total at
tendance up to that date Is 5,933,925.
| Colonel A. M. Flagg, who until a
few weeks ago was editor OF the Du-
luth News Tribune, committed suicide
at Duluth November LIST by drowning.
! Secretary Hays note to the powers
| inviting them to convene in conference
at The Hague has been cordially re
ceived by the diplomatic corps at
Washington.
The secretary of the Merchants Ex-
change at San Francisco estimates the
present population of California at l.
7o6,OOO, an increase of 800, 900 since
the census Of 1900.
The British naval force now at Glib.
raltar is composed of fourteen battle
ships, thirteen first-class armored and
other cruisers and a strong flotilla of
torpedo boat destroyers.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company on the 31st ult. reduced the
balance due upon the United States
government loan of s4600,000 to $751;
S51 by depositing 100000.
In cock-crowing contest at Paris,
for which hundreds of roosters had
been trained in all parts of France, a
little bantam won the prize by growing
thirty-two times in half an hour.
The army general staff has decided
to dispatch American army surgeons
,as attaches to the japanese and Rus
sian armies operating in the Far East,
providing the consent of the authori-
ties can be secured.
The trotting record of Maud S, a
mile in 2:0S4, was beaten with the
same kind of a vehicle, a high-wheel
sulky, by the trotting champion, Major
Delmar, at Memphis, October 26th, the
time being 207 fiat.
The remains of former President
Kruger of the Transvaal republic, who
died in July last were removed from
the cemetery at The Hague October
31st and taken to Rotterdam for con-
veyance to South Africa.
Many cotton mills in the Eastern
states that have been shut down on
account of dull trade are resuming
operations. At Rugusta, Maine, 1900
operatives went to work at ten per
cent. reduction in wages.
According to the September report
of the Santa Fe, the road is In a pros
porous condition. The gross earn
ings were $6,156,34O, an increase OF
s2S5,039. The net earnings were
$2,59s, ,152, an increase of s109,039.
The Mississippi Congress at
st. Louis recommended the appoint,
ment of a special committee by Con
gress to investigate the arbitration
laws of New Zealand and other coun-
tries which may have such laws.
Great discomfort is reported in Co
lombia. Apparently President Reyes
with his political enemies in the ma
jority in both houses Of Congress, can
not control the situation. Paper cur
rency is being issued in unlimited
amount.
The Supreme Court has decided,
after six years of litigation, that the
famous Lopez ranch of Tamaulipas
rightfully belongs not to Lopez, but to
J. o. Brictson. The value of the prop
erty is S3,50O,000. Brictson bought the
ranch in 1898.
NJ Santos -Dumont says he hopes in
a few weeks to be ready TO take an
eight-day cruise in the air. The new
airship he has had constructed is larger
than he has hitherto used. 1t has sleep
ing accommodations for two persons,
four motors and boiling apparatus.
According to financial statement
issued November 1st by the Worlds
Fair Company, covering a period from
the opening, April 80. to October l,
there syas balance in the treasury
at the latter date OF ss41,254. The
total receipts were s22,673,721 and the
total disbursements s21.S32,46S.
France and the United States ex.
pect TO begin the negotiation of an ar.
bitration treaty at Washington soon
dlleT lUe eletllOnS. L lie treaty Will De
known as the Hay-Jusserand arbtra.
ticn treaty, and, according to the pres.
ent program. will follow closely the
lines of the British-FTench arbitration
treaty.
Advices have reached the insular bu.
reau at Washington that by Legislation
contained in one of the appropriation
bills recently passed at Manila, the
strength of the Philippine constabu,
larry mas been reduced at one stroke
| by 1,2OO men. The reduction will take
effect at the beginning of the next ifs.
cal year, leaving the strength Of the
| force at 5000 men.
The United States Supreme Court
has ordered a re-argument in the case
of the Creede & Cripple Creek Min.
ing and Milling Company. against the
Uinta Tunnel, Mining and Transporta
ton Company, involving the Little
| Mary and Ocean Wave lode claims in