The Globe-republican., 1904-12-08

LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

The first armistic between the COM
batants at Port Arthur was declared
December 2 for the purpose of bury
ing the dead. 1t lasted for period Of
six hours.
The United States Atlantic squad.
ron arrived at Bahia, Brazil from Rio
Janeiro. The gunboat Castine will
leave Bahia shortly to Investigate the
reported shoal off Pernambuco.
Dispatches from Kiel aver that EN-.
peror William will cruise in the Medl.
terranean in the spring. The Hohen.
zollern has been reftted and is Or
dered to be ready for sea February
An international conference con-
corning the status of hospital ships in
war time will be held at The Hague
December 49, A majority of the pow.
ers will be represented by their re-
spective ministers.
The appointment of Rear Admiral
Davis to represent the United States
on the international commission on
the North Sea incident is favorably
commented upon by government off.
cials and naval officers at Paris,
AT Lima, Ohio, R. D. Woods, secre-
, larry Of the Home and Savings bank,
who was found guilty Of embezzling
over $4,000, and who forbade his at
torneys for asking for a new trial,
was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary,
According to the secretary Of the
bureau, who managed all conventions
and congresses at the Worlds Fair,
100000 persons attended the 245 ma
tional and international gatherings
held in st, Louis, as a result of the
exposition.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad com.
pany has just acquired by purchase
Laurel Point, Victoria harbor, a
rocky promontory, the existence OF
which has restricted shipping in this
harbor, and will blast it out at cost,
II is said, of 100000, thus greatly en-
larging and improving the harbor on
the site which the company has chos-
en- for its wharves The company will
apply Immediately to the Dominion
government for substantial subsidy
to aid them in this undertaking.
Mira Ria Khan and the deputa.
ton from the Shah Of Persia arrived
al Moscow on ~ 1ir way to st. Peters
burg, In addition to an autograph let
ter to the emperor, Mira Ria Khan
is bringing the Shahs portrait in a
frame set with diamonds.
A special panel Of 200 talesmen
from among whom q jury will be
chosen for the second trial of Nan
Patterson, charged with the murder
of Caesar Young, has been summoned
to appear in the supreme court in
New York.
Herr Gludestadt, well known
banker, and other prominent Jews
have formed an organization to assist
the Russian Jews in emigrating to
America through Danish ports.
Funds are being collected to facili.
tate their passage and give the emf
grants a start in life on their arrival
al their destination. 1t is estimated
that fully 10000 of these emigrants
left Denmark during the present
year.
Lieutenant General Grippenbers,
commander Of the second Manchurian
army, has arrived at Hardin.
At Milan, Italy, following the defeat
of the lawless element as a result Of
the municipal elections Sunday, all the
radical members of the municipal
council have resigned. A royal COM
mission will conduct the administra.
ton Of Milan until the general ad.
minstrative election.
Negotiations are reported to have
been nearly completed whereby the
steamship ]. l.. Luckenbach may even
tually become the property Of the Rus
sian government She formerly was
in the transatlantic service under the
name Saale.