The Grit-advocate., 1904-12-30
CONDENSED rELEcRAhs

4 bill has been introduced nv Rep
resentative Morrill, providing To- the
rs-establishment Of the canteen at
army posts.
Right Rev. Richard Phelan. bishop of
the Roman Catholic diocese OF Pitts.
burg. died at Idlewood. Pennsyly mia
December goth.
Five textile unions at Fall liver
Massachusetts. have voted to 81 ubmi,
labor troubles involved in the long
pending strike to arbitration.
Tho next annual convention OF the
National Association of State Dairy
and Food Departments will be held at
Portland. Oregon. June 2O-25.
William l.. Elkins. the Pennsylyan ania
street railway and gas operator and
dnancier. who died in November 1903,
left an estate worth $31, ,57S, 900.
Rev. Luther H. Trowbridse O, De.
troit. for thirty years editor and pro-
prietor Of the Christian Herald of that
city. died in Los Angeles December
18th.
The London board Of trade inquiry
into the damages done by the Russian
heet to British fishing boats is said to
show that the claims will aggregate
/ 100000
The Nova Reforma OF Lemberg,
Austria. says a steady stream Of Rus
sian deserters continues to arrive
there, most OF whom are going to
America.
Chief Censor Zberer of Moscow has
issued a warning to the editors OF the
local papers to insert nothing In their
papers In connection with the doings
Of zemstovs and town councils.
Colonel Stephen Allen Bassford, who
commanded the Ninety-fourth Ohio
volunteer infantry in the Civil War.
died at New York City December Goth.
He entered the army as a private
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to attend the Lincoln Day
dinner 70 be given by the Republican
club Of New York. February l3. The
President Will deliver an address.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent on the 18th inst. from Kansas
City to Cleveland, Ohio, 725 miles.
without relay. This is said to be the
longest distance overland ever cov-
cred.
A lone robber held up the bank of
Chisholm. Minnesota, during business
hours, secured $4,000 and escaped. He
forced Cashier Greiser into the vault
at the point of a revolver and locked
the door.
Nine. Adelina Patti recently gave a
concert for the benefit Of the Red
Cross society under the auspices Of
to DE-, NJ
concert was a brilliant success. net
ting over $4,000.
A new bank with 100000 paid.up
capital. furnished by Boston. Los
Angeles end Indianapolis capitalists.
has been organized in the City Of
Mexico. to be called the Mexican
Banking Company. limited.
Eight persons were killed and I've
badly injured at Minneapolis. Decem-
ber Goth. by the falling Of . side wall
Of the recently burned o. II. Peck
building, which toppled over and
struck the Croker hotel adjoining.
The Steel Bar Association, at q
meeting in Jersey City December 20th
advanced the price of steel bars 81 q
ton. The steel plate manufacturers
held . meeting there also and voted to
advance the price Of steel plates 81 q
ton
Between Liberty and the Verdigris
river. more than a mile Of the par
TALLY completed pipe line Of the Kan.
sas Natural Gas Company was blown
up with dynamite by masked men
some time during the night Of Decem-
Der 18th.
Two mora banks closed December
goth on account Of runs precipitated by
uneasiness occasioned by the Chad
wick exposures. though neither had
any OF the Chadwick paper. They are
the First National bank Of Conneaut
and the Marine bank Of Conneaut Har
Dor. Ohio.
Pope Plus X Is reported to be Euffer
ing from gout and is somewhat lame
Mrs. Mary Andrews Clark. mothe,
OF Senator William A. Clark and Of
J. Ross Clark, died at Los Angeles
December 18th, after an illness Of but
+ three days. Mrs. Clark was nearly 81
years Of age.
The Court Of Appeals has confirmed
the Judgment Of the lower court ia
yorably to Tod" Sloan, the Ameri'
can jockey, and against the pockey
club. Sloan sued the Jockey club
for 100000 damages for being warned
of the turf in connection with Rose
de MATS winning the prix de Diane al
the Chantilly races in May, 1902.
Depositors in two Of the largest
savings banks in New York-the
Bowery and the Greenwich, have been
notified of an increase in the interest
rate which is raised from three and
one-half per cent. to four per cent. A
similar advance will. 1t is stated, be
made shortly by other institutions
The savings deposits in the two banks
aggregate $132, 100000.
Gifts amounting to $437,370 were an
nounced by President Harper at the
flfty-thiru quarterly convocation Of the
University of Chicago December goth
John D. Rockefeller gave $245.000 fol
current expenses and 100000 for i'm
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