The state herald., 1905-09-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

cided to maintain the price of steel
rails to its customers for 1906 at $2S q
ton.
Great interest Is being taken at Phil
adelphia over the correction of the reg
istration list. 1t is stated that 10000
bogus names will be stricken off the
rolls.
Frank c. Graves. formerly financial
writer on New York newspaper, has
just paid $4,000 for seat on the
New York stock exchange. This is
the highest price ever paid.
The population of Massachusetts is
2.99S,05S, an increase of 498,775 over
1885, when the last official census was
taken. Boston's population is 593,59S,
an increase OF 3G.G.S in ten years.
King Oscar has conferred the honor
OF knighthood OF the Royal Order of
Vasa upon 3. Lowenstein of Memphis,
Tennessee. Mr.. Lowenstein has beer
a constant visitor TO Sweden for twelve
years.
The coinage executed ut the mints
of the United States during August
was: Gold. se.020,O00: silver, sl93,.
600; Panama hal: balboas, 100000
pieces; Philippine pesos, 100000
pieces.
The War Department has approved
the plans for the building OF n now ar
tillery post at the Preside, near San
Francisco. and $750,000 vii! be ex
pended for this purpose within the
next year.
The porte has replied 10 the note OF
the six embassies. declining to accept
the scheme proposed by them for the
financial control of Macedonia. The
powers will insist on the acceptance oil
the scheme.
On the recommendation Of Grand
Duke Vladimir, the emperor has par.
doned Prokope, who was Sentenced to
death for the assassination of Colonel
kremarenko, chief of police of Viborg,
on July 22d last.
Total industrial dividends payable In
September will rise above $1O.450,000,
according to statistics gathered by the
Journal of Commerce. This is an in.
crease of more than S3.500,00O over
September year ago.
More Americans have visited the
Yellowstone Nationa! Park this sum.
mer than ever before. 1t Is estimated
that 10000 persons have been in the
park since the season opened. The
record last year was 1900.
The German postal authorities, who
have always been very progressive,
and who for some time have been eX.
perimenting with automobiles, have de.
cided to put these modern vehicles in
use on all rural delivery routes.
Secretary Bonaparte has issued an
order for a court martial to try Com.
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade. on charges growing
out of the fatal explosion on the gun.
boat Bennington at San Diego in July.
The Hartman lines have given an
order In Chicago for seventy-five chair
cars. to cost about $750.000. They will
be used on the system west OF Ogden
tho Southern Pacific, Oregon Short
Line. Shasta route and Pacific coast
lines.
President Paul Morton reports that
the Equitable society's business has
fallen less than ten per cent. in the
United States and Canada during the
Seven months ending August !. 1905,
rs compared with the corresponding
period OF last year.
Edward J. Lewis, the defaultlng rea!
estate broker Of Wheaton. Illinois. who
by duplicate mortgages swindlcd
widows and ether poor persons to the
extent OF 100000. was taken to the
Joliet penitentiary TO serve long sen.
tence. Lewis secretly went before
Judge Bishop OF Wheaton and pleaded
guilty.
More than 0Ao0 acres Of land or
the Ulnta reservation had been filed
upon as homesteads up to September
I'd by persons who drew lucky mum.
bers In the recent drawing at Provo,
SO far the names OF 555 persons entl.
tied to make filings have been called
at the land ofiice. and OF these 3sl
have responded ana filed on home.
steads.
The Carnegie Steel Company. which
Is sub-company OF the United States
Steel corporation. has ordered In every
blast furnace capable OF being ope-
rated. The demand for pig iron Is so
great that the steel corporation wants
TO get into operation Its total capacity.
II In not improbable that the Carnegie
company will run 100 blast furnaces
for time.
The amnlgamation OF the lumber In.
terests. intended principally to operate
In the redwood districts on the Pacific
coast. was effected a, Detroit Angus,
3ist and the Pacific Lumber Company
was organized, with capitalization OF
$40. 100000 Articles OF incorporation
will be filed under the laws Of Maine,
The new company Is an ou,growth OF
the Pacific company Of New Jersey.
The now IG.000ton ba,tleship Yer.
mont, built for the United States gov.
ernmcnt by the Fore River ShIpbulld,
Ing Company at Quincy. Massnchu
sets. was successfully launched Au'
gust 3ist. The Vermont is one OF the
largest and most powerful OF the
ships Of war that has been constructed
for the navy. She has n length OF t5o
feet and extreme breadth OF 10 i0i?
feet.
Tho directors OF the Equitable Llfc
Assurance Society have decided To
abolish the $4,000 pension now en-
joycd by Mrs, Harry II. Hyde. widow Of
the founder Of the society: also 10
abolish the prospective pension OF SIS
600 10 Mrs. James W. Alexander. wifo
OF the former president, who recently
resigned, which she would have ro
colyed In case she survived her hus
band.
Az rcsul, Of the investigation OF
Count DE Brarxa, the African explorer,
into the charges of brutality against