Fair play., 1905-08-26

thlIl w Alhtt VI llt AulitN SUITS Sb-
cret service announces the appearance
of a new counterfeit s. silver certlh-
cate. II is Of series 1899, Lyons reg
lister and Roberts treasurer, and is
poorly executed.
The International Typographical un-
ion, at its session in Toronto, Ont,
adopted the report of the eight-hour
committee, which indoraes the cam.
paign now being carried on for the
eight-hour day.
A strike of cotton operatives in Man
chester England. for a five per cent
increase in wages, has been averted by
a compromise after lengthy confer
ence.
w. II. Stecn Of Braj1wuod. ILL.,. was
elected royel chief of the order of Scot
tish Clans at the Royal clan conyen-
ton in New York and John Hill, Of
st. Louis. was elected rOyal treasurer.
The British foreign Office authorizes
the statement that it is taking no part
whatever in the peace negotiations at
Portsmouth. Advice had no, been asked.
and none was likely to be given until
requested
A Russian imperial ukase has been
issued restoring to the Armenians their
school and church property in the eau,
Casus.
Hama, the Hawaiian wife of Kai-
Lua, Chinese, residing at Hilo, with
in a period covering six days, gave
birth to seven children. They all died.
Forest fires in the mountains north
east of Ogden, Utah, have destroyed an
enormous amount of timber.
Mrs Media Wells, widow, shot and
killed William Burch, to whom she was
engaged TO be married, in the home of
the former, at Hutchinson, Kas., and
then committed suicide. No cause is
known for the tragedy.
A lumor is current in Berlin that the
relations between Germany and Great
Britain have been strained almost to
the breaking point by the alleged ef.
forts of the emperor to form a Euro
pean coalition against Great Britain.
The cruiser Chicago and the gum
boat Bennington were in collision off
Angel island, San Francisco barbor, as
the sequel 10 a series of mishaps fol-
from San Diego Both vessels were
considerably damaged.
Secretary 10 the President Loeb and
his wife have completed their months
outing in Yellowstone park and have
returned east.
A tien Tsin dispatch says that an
attempt was made on the life of Dow
ager Empress An Her assalant, who
was dressed as soldier was promptly
bayonetted by the guard.
The coroners verdict in connection
with the wrecking of the Twentieth
Century limited at Mentor, O., on the
night of June 90 last, in which 10 lives
were lost, holds that Walter +. Minor,
the telegraph operator at Mentor,
opened the switch.
The will of Alan w. Wood, the
Pittsburg steel magnate, who died re-
Gently in New York, directs that his es-
tate be divided into nine parts, his
widow and eight children each to re-
ceive one part.
A massive battlemented tower Of
Vermont granite, erected in memory OF
Vermonts revolutionary hero, Ethan
Allen, was formally dedicated at Bur-
lington, VT, on the one hundred and
twenty-eighth anniversary of the battle
of Bennington. Vico-President Fair
banks was the orator of the day.
An Intellectual search of the steamer
Sonoma was made on her arrival at
Honolulu, for w. H. Belcher, ex-mayor
of Paterson, n. j., accused of emhezzle
ment, and who was supposed to have
taken passage on the steamer.
The board of directors of the Manu-
facturers and Producers association Of
San Francisco have adopted resolu-
tion in which they view with alarm
the prospect of any changes in the tar
iff as dangerous to the industries of
California"
The drought at ST. Joseph, Mo, and
vicinity was broken by one of the heav-
lest storms of the year. A terrific
wind caused considerable damage, and
railroad traffic was impeded by flooded
tracks.
Robert NJ. Fleming, a clerk in the
packing plant of Swift & Co, at st
Joseph, Mo-, shot and killed Carl w
Schultz, q civil engineer, on the street
on account of attentions paid Mrs
Fleming by Schultz Fleming is in jail,
Emperor William of Germany has
conferred the Order of the Red Eagle,
of the fourth grade, upon Waldemar
Won Nostitz, editor OF the Louisville
Q<y) Anzeiger, and the Order of the
Crown, of the fourth class, upon DR..
Junn, of Washington, ID. c,
The typhoid outbreak in Washington.
ID. c., has passed in severity that OF
1903, when the greatest number of pei
sons under treatment was 224. The
health officials are bending every ef~
fort to fight the disease.
grand dinner, followed by brill
liant pyrotechnic display, was given in
Quebec in honor of Prince Louis OF
Battenberg and the officers of his
squadron.
Walter Sanger Pullman, who was
injured in a runaway accident at Red
wood City, Cal, died at his home in
Belmont. An autopsy disclosed tLa'
his skull was fractured