The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1904-09-02
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buldlng permits 10 Inc amount OF
t15, ASS, 513 were taken OFT in New York
city during the month of July.
DIR. Edward J. Janes. president OF the
Northwestern University, has been
elected president Of the University OF
Illinois.
The German Veterans Association OF.
North America, in annual convention
| at st. Louis. elected julius Frame OF
Dallas, Texas, president.
The total internal revenue receipts
for July last were $50 405 04S, as COM
pared with $22 los, 1862 for July, 1903.
decrease Of $1.703.313.
The Kansas City packing house strik-
ers contend that the packing houses
cannot legally run boarding houses for
their employees inside of the plants.
A Brussels correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says that three French
submarine boats of the Dauphin type
have been forwarded to Yladivostok by
rail-
The new peso coined by the govern
ment for use in the Philippine islands
is said to be meeting with general IA
vor and rapidly disrlacfng Spanish and
Mexican coins.
From the opening Of the Worlds
Fair at St Louis, April 3lst, to Au-
gust 21st 7.655.S7S admissions were re-
corded. The average is now over 1907
900 day.
With the names of several OF the
most prominent men in Washington
among its trustees. correspondence
university has been incorporated in
Washington city.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has returned
from Europe. where she attended the
congress of women at Berlin. She
thinks the cause of woman suffrage is
gaining almost everywhere.
Since the completion of the drainage
canal. which has now been in use for
five years, Chicago reports notable
reduction in deaths from impure water
diseases. The flow Is 10000 cubic feet
minute.
At conference just closed between
President Escalon Of Salvador, Presi-
, dent Zelaya of Nicaragua. the three
presidents signed an agreement to
maintain peace in the Republics of Cen
trail America.
Hannah E. Van Wart Pessinger. a
granddaughter Of Isaac Van Wart, one
OF the three patriots who captured
Major John Andre on the Tarrytown
road in 1880, died August 22d, at her
home in Brooklyn, New York.
Weather bureau reports indicate a
general scarcity of apples in the
greater part of the m.-dle Atlantic
states and central valleys, but in New
, England. New York and the lake re-
gion the outlook is more favorable.
The government report of the condi-
tion of the crops in Prussia on August
18th. using one as very good, two as
good. three as middling and four as
bad, Is: Winter wheat. 81; summer
wheat, 20; winter rye, 20; summer
rye. So
S. w. Greasley, the third man to en-
ter the water in the attempt to swim
the Straits of Dover, between England
and France. this year. gave up the
trial after an hour and half, owing
to the extreme low temperature OF the
water.
The property loss in the great st.
Paul and Minneapolis tornado of Au-
gust Goth is estimated at $2,550,000,
divided as follows: st. Paul park,
$1,7s0.o00; Minneapolis, 100000; Still
water. 100000; Waconia, $4,000;
>oahAis AiSNiiNls, clNV'pVN.
The completion of the Galveston sea
wall was celebrated August 22d by run
ming excursions from different parts OF
the state of Texas to Galveston. Gov
ernor Lanham was present and made
an eulogistic address, commenting on
the work which has been accomplished.
A hurricane did great damage in the
northeast part of South Dakota on the
night of August 21st, three being
killed and thirty or more injured. At
Willow Lakes, small town in Hamlin
county, every building was wrecked.
A good deal of damage was done at
Bryant.
At San Francisco, August 22d. Mrs.
Cordelia Botkin was sentenced by Su-
, perior Judge Carroll Cook to life i'm
prisonment in the state prison at San
Quentin for the murder of Mrs. John
| p. Dunning in Dover, Delaware, by
means of poisoned candy mailed from
San Francisco.
During storm at Panquitch, in
southern Utah. lightning struck the
steeple of the Mormon tabernacle, and
following the roof downward and COM
ing in at window struck NJ j. Bur-
CESS. killing him instantly. At the mo-
ment of his death Burgess was putting
down the window TO shut out the rain.
Mrs. Caroline Boles Ely. we'll
known writer died in New York City
August 2Sd. She was seventy-nine years
old and was the widow OF Col Geo. B.
Ely. an attorney of Madison, Wisconsin,
who organized a company and after
ward commanded regiment in the ia
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