The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-23
CONDENSED 1ELEGRAMs

Orleans.
The National Wholesale Liquor
DEALERS Association of America. at Its
Chicago convention. selected Louis
vile as the place of the next meeting
The British submarine boat A. ,
foundered of Plymouth. England. June
sth and out Of her crew OF eighteen
ohcers and men only four were saved.
Enrique Daguhob. the leader of the
insurrection movement In the IslanA Of
samar. was killed. together with
thirty-nine Of his followers. June 9TH.
President Loubet has appointed Ga
briel Faure to be director of the Ma
tional Conservatory of Music. succeed
ing Theodore Dubois. who has re
tired.
Secretary Taft has appointed Gen.
Ezra A. Carman as chairman Of the
Chickamauga Military Park AssociR-
ton. to succeed the late Gen. H. V.
Boynton.
The employers in the building trades
Of the Rhenish Westphalian district
have dismissed within a fortnight 30.-.
900 workmen who belonged 10 labor
organizations.
The United States Supreme Court
refused to interfere in behalf Of Mrs.
Mary Rogers Of Vermont. under sen
tence to be hanged June 2sd for the
murder Of her husband.
The French government will assign
torpedo boat to carry the body OF
John Paul Jones down the River Seine
from Paris to Havre. where a French
squadron will deliver the body to the
American squadron.
Capt. T. Bentley Mott. the retiring
American military attache at Paris.
has received the cross Of the Legion
Of Honor, with letter from former
Foreign Minister Delcasse, under
whom it was bestowed.
Vice President Fairbanks was the
guest of honor on the 7th inst. among
the 10000 visitors who attended the
golden jubilee and the laying Of tho
corner stone of the new federal build
ing at Flint. Michigan.
A petition to President Roosevelt.
asking him to recognize the 1ew gov
ernment OF Norway, is being circulated
in Chicago among Norwegians. It
will be forwarded to Washington as
soon as the canvass has been COM
pleted
1t is announced that the Canadian
Pacific railway will build this summer
the projected line from Golden, B. c..
to Port Steele, near the line Of tho
Crows Nest Pass railway. The branch
will be known as the Kootenay Central
railway.
The government Of Chilli has pre-
sented to the Chilian Congress a mo-
tion to realise loan of $20000,000 for |
the construction of railroads through
out the entire country. These railroads
will form part of the Pan-American
railroad.
E s. Holmes. Jr.. associate statis-
tician for the Department Of Agricul-
ture, has asked to be suspended dur
ing the investigation OF charges
against him of irregularlty IN the COM
pilation and publication Of the last
cotton report.
The Farmers Packing Company has
been organized at Sterling, Illinois.
with a capital Of $1,50O,000. the inten-
ton being to compete with Chicago
packers. The corporation is composed
of farmers, stock raisers and retail
dealers In meats.
The New York Court Of Appeals by
= divided court, voting four to three.
sustained the lower court In adjudging
Albert T. Patrick, the New York law
yer. guilty OF murder in the first de-
gree in causing the death Of the aged
millionaire, William Marsh Rice.
What is known as the old packing
house plant in Fort Worth, comprising
eight buildings, seven of which were
built Of stone and one Of brick and
ranging from one to five stories. was
destroyed by fire June 11th. The plant
cost 3460.0Oo. Insurance. $4,000.
Reports to the forestry bureau con-
terning the cutting of timber on the
forest reserves show that up to date
81. .000, 900 feet Of lumber. 50. 900 cords
Of wood, $4,000 railroad ties and &c..
900 posts have been disposed of under
the supervision of the bureau officials.
BY advice Of General Trepofr the
Russian censorship. at the instance OF
the council of ministers. has Issued
a blanket order forbidding newspapers
to mention or to publish the proceed
ings Of any congress or meeting held
without the permission Of the govern.
ment.
Joseph Richardson Coomes. aged
sixty-eight years, lieutenant in the
Confederate army, who. while a pris.
oner OF war at Rock Island, Illinois,
in 1868, with seven other Confederate
prisoners, planned the Ku Klux Klaa.
died at his home in Norfolk. Virginia,
on the 10th inst.
A Fort Smith dispatch says that J.
Omerod, Texas manager for the Lebis
Meat Company, has offered. on behalf
Of his company. to erect an independ-
ent plant, providing cattle raisers take
one half of the stock. The plant 10 to
be capitalized at &5,oO0.000 and its
chief output will be extracts.
Some relics Of the dead Of 1872 have
oeen discovered in Washington. Dur
ing the excavation at the WaShingtQn