The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
CONDENSED TELECRAhS

discovery OF large coal deposits naa5
Port Arthur.
| Under the will OF Mrs. Anna sophia
Farnam, widow Of Henry Farnam, for
merly a professor in Yale. the uni
versity is given $4,000.
Some women al party IN Wichita
discussed the Reed Snoot affair and
varied their function by hanging the
| Utah senator in efhgy
Nearly all OF the schools and churches
| Of Des Moines, Iowa. have been closed
| for several days on account OF the coal
famine caused by the strikes.
The steamer Alliance arrived at Co
! Ion, April 5th, with the United States
| Panama Canal Commission on board.
| The arrival caused much enthusiasm.
Five lives have been lost and prob
ably more than $1,000 900 damage to
property has been done by the food
which has recently devastated many
parts of Michigan.
Joseph W Folk of ST Louis Doodle
prosecution fame, has stated that be
would not accept the Democratic nom
ination for vice president OF the United
States if it were offered to him.
The state Of Utah has ordered a
general health day-namely. the frst
Monday in October. On this day ali
! theaters, churches, public halls. hotels,
boarding-houses, etc, mus: be thor.
oughly disinfected.
An inventory of the personal proper
'ty OF the late Millionaire w. J. Lemp
of st. Louis shows a total valuation Of
s44iS, 900. 1t IS believed that the real
estate is worth 100000. The widow
inherits nearly the whole estate.
The Capitol National Bank of Guth-
.ie. Oklahoma, has failed and Is now
in the hands of the comptroller Of the
currency The directors claim that the
depositors will be paid in full. although
the stockholders may lose heavily.
The Illinois coal mine operators
have signed the state agreement. ef-
fective for two years. When the joint
convention met April Sd there was not
one dissenting vote against the agree
ment reached by the joint scale COM
mittee.
Four young Polishmen who were
about to be convicted of murder in
Chicago were saved few days ago
by the action OF a little girl in chang
ing her testimony. In explanation of
the remarkable change OF front the
child declared that she had been in
structed how to testify by the widow
OF the murdered man.
James c. Colgate. member of the
New York stock exchange, has taken
out an insurance policy for s1,5OO,oO0.
1t is said to be the largest single risk
ever accepted on a human life. The
company which wrote the policy, upon
which premiums OF about $4,000 will
fall due annually has reinsured all but
S25O,0OG in other concerns.
A compilation by the New York Jour
nal OF Commerce of dividends SO far
announced by industrial corporations
payable in April shows an increase OF
more than S2,300,000 over the same
month in 1903. and OF about s2,100,000
over April two years ago. Next
months total based on the returns so
far, foot up about 22,200,0 600.
A dispatch to the Amsterdam Teie-
gram from kota Raja, island of Sum
atra. announces that a column of
Dutch troops operating in Ackin en-
gagged a strong entrenched body OF
Achinese in the Gaiocoleas district,
with the result that 54l Achinese
were killed. The Dutch lost three
men killed and twenty-five wounded.
Two worlds automobile records
have been broken, according to dis
patch from Nice NJ. Rigolly, driving
l0O-horse power car, built for the in
ternational cup race, covered mile,
standing start, in SO 3-5 seconds. In
the kilOmeter (3,2S0 feet race for the
Rothschild cup, with flying start, Ri
goly covered the distance in 25 3-4
seconds.
Albert Kirby Fairfax. eldest son of
the late Dr. John Conte Fairfax, OF
Prince Georges county. Maryland. and
inheritor Of his titles of Lord Fairfax
and Baron Cameron in the peerage of
Scotland. is reported to have assumed
his titles and taken his seat in the
House Of Lords. Being without prop
erty to support the title, it is said that
he has been adopted by a wealthy
man.
At meeting of Americans and Jap
anese. held in Toxic in commemora-
ton Of the tiftieth anniversary of the
| signing OF the Perry treaty between
| Japan and the United States. an Amer
| lean war charity. called the Perry
memorial relief fund. was organized
| with much enthusiasm. The sum Of
! s37 $50 was subscribed at once. and
| it was decided to organize committees
| in all the larger cities of the United
States.
Resolutions requesting Governor
| Beckham of Kentucky to interfere
in the case of Caleb Powers. convict
ed and sentenced to die for the mur-
der of the late Governor Goebel, have
been passed at meeting of eVangel-
lists and Christian workers in Chica-
go under the auspices Of the Presby-
| terian Church. The resolutions re-
quest Governor Beckham to make use
of the pardoning power. either setting
| Powers free or securing him new
trial.