The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-25
CONDENSED rELEcRAAs


electric motor cars.
Mrs. Will Carleton. wife OF the poet
author. died suddenly on the 11th inst.
At her home in Brooklyn.
Michael Davitt. the noted Irish
home rule advocate, arrived in San
Francisco on the l4th inst
The Santa Fe railway 10 estimated
to have lost tl.000.000 by the recent
hoods In New Mexico and Arizona
The bill to abolish capital punish
ment In Vermont passed the house OF
representatives by vote Of 1S3 to sa.
William Mayer OF Mount Carroll. IL
ltnois, lost his home by betting on Par.
ker and committed suicide by hanging.
The st. Louis Worlds Fair onicials
have repaid to the United States sub
treasury the entire government loan Of
S4.600. 900.
Thomas Richardson, magistrate OF
Henry county. Virginia. was found fro
sen to death on the public highway .
few days ago.
Nine scouts Of the constabulary and
one American attached to the hospital
corps have been killed in an ambush
on the east coast Of Samar.
Serious anti-vaccination 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-
veiled at Taunton, Massachusetts,, on
the 18th inst.
1t is officially announced that the
SeoulFusan 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
622 miles of road from Wichita toward
Kansas City.
At Memphis, November 11th. Lou
Dillon smashed the worlds unpaced
mile trotting record at the driving
park by completing mile in 2:01. The
former unpaced record, 2:01A, was
held Jointly by Lou Dillon and Major
Delmar.
Brigadier General Horatio Rogers,
q distinguished soldier of the Civil
War and afterward attorney general
and associate justice Of the Supreme
Court of Rhode Island. died at Provi-
dence on the 18th inst. at the age Of
sixty-eight years.
President Roosevelt will recommend
to Congress that authority be given
the Philippine commission to revise
the tariff now in force in those islands.
Since it has been In effect many
changes have become necessary for
the development Of the islands.
Rev. DR.. 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 a gold
basis. The powers are certain to &C
cept the proposals. which are unex-
pectedly favorable.
The missionary committee of the
Methodist Episcopal convention at
Boston voted unanimously to appro-
pirate 81. 1.220, 600 for missionary work
during the coming year. and that this
sum be SO divided as to give $701 500
for work in the foreign field, and $685.
500 for domestic work.
The Dutch newspaper Londenvolk
announces that KirAg Edward, through
the local authorities, has expressed the
desire that royal salutes be fred on
the arrival of the late President Kru.
gers body at Cape Town and Pretoria
and that minute guns be fired during
the procession to the grave.
A. F. Jaurett, editor Of the vene-
zuela Herald, has been ordered ex-
PEELED from Venezuela by President
American interests in his paper, and
has taken the side Of the asphalt COM
pany in its recent trouble, and he il
reported to be an American citizen.
The American consul at Kharput, DR..
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. Labare, who was killed In April
last.
The straw vote in the American
colony of Mexico City, which was par
ticipated in by many or the colony,
demonstrated conclusively the choice
of Roosevelt for President. All had
supposed that the colony would go
overwhelmingly Democratic. The re-