The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1905-08-10
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

1890 49, 80 EM
Michael katon. ii5 years old. is
dead a. oiidden He probably wa the
oldest man IN the United States KA
ton voted Tor twnetythfea presidents.
starting with james Madison.
The British second cruiser squadron
under command ~ Rear Admiral
Prince Louis ~ ~Battenburg. will sail
on September ] from Gibraltar for The
United States, calling FIRST % Quebec
American commercial interests gain
decidedly In tariff negotiations al St
Petersburg. the czar's representatives
being willing TO Withdraw retaiiatory
duties on machinery from the United
States.
The pope received IN private audi.
c Bishop Kelley OF Savannah. Ca,
and Bishop Northrop Of Charleston. s.
C., who arrived in Rome Saturday
with an American pilgrimage Of 100
persons.
Edward Trickett. chief o. Kansas
City fire department, reports during
the last seven years gasoline caused
s57 fires. which did property damage.
amounting TO S~122.45s.24 and caused.
10 casualties.
The legal period Of thirty days hav-
ing elapsed since the death Of Sec.
rotary Hay. the mourning stationary
upon which all the official business.
OF the State Department has been.
written wa Withdrawn.
Word has reached Beaumont. Texas.
that n white boy and two negro
boys yer killed outright and twenty
other persons we're more or less ser.
iously injured in a heavy windstp- m
which struck Bessmay, Ia
The body OF William Jones. a farm
er. 65 years old. was found in n.
pasture near Carmi. H. tied 20 q
sapling. He had been missing two
weeks. When last seen he was In
company with two strangers in =
buggy.
a petition Is being circulated IN
Spencer county. Indiana, asking that
Lincoln Park. where the mother Of
Abraham Lincoln is buried. be given
Linooln's private car. which o.
stands neglected on a side track az
Joliet. III.
Catherine. the 1l-year-old daughter
OF II. B Nichols Of New York. was
kidnapped az Greenwich. Conn. by
her mother. now Mrs. Forest Of the
state Of Washington. The child had
been placed in her fathers custody
by the courts.
A sevencolumn article written by
Tolstoi appears in the London Times
enhued "A Great I~niquity Il deals
with the land question and declares
that Russia is living through an i'm
portRnt time that Is destined 10 have
enormous results,
The Allan and Danoldson steamship
lines after a month Of ratecuiting
came 60 terms az Glasgow with regard
20 second and third class transatlantic
passenger tickets The secondclass
rate was restored % SIS and the third.
class ate 20 SIS.
Commissioner 81 Public Works Pat
tersuu has introduced registering dime
clocks and Ina the future many Of the
employees viii be compelled to record
the time they appear for work and
when they depart. n they win have
to stay within the hour limit AZ noon.
Mrs Laura n M1ice. the youngest
grandmother "a the United States.
came 10 Chicago from Kansas City
20 visit her daughters. Mrs William
Doherty and Miss Arclinc Harper. az
5ols Cottage Grove avenue Airs. Ma
lice Is - years old.
A large plant for the manufacture
81 structural steel steel plates and
blooms. and possibly also steel rails.
Is 70 be built on Staten island. New
York George Refs former president
81 the -Lackawanns Steel company. will
he At the head % the company.
A shift containing Edith and Goldio
Tcchnor. sisters. their brother Everett
and Mrs J. W and Mrs O. Y Plague.
al o. Vera. MINI. capslzcd and lis
occupants were thrown into swan
river near their horne. al being
drowned except Mrs o r Pague.
A dispatch from Madras British
India. says. A sorluus epidemic OF
cholera prevails AMONG the refugees
from the faminestrickcn districts who
have been crowdinE into the city for
weeks past Many persons have been
found dead or dying on thc streets
The death rate Is Ss7 per thousand
Questioned further In the house a.
commons On the reports 81 the pur.
chase e = goal ARA ia South wales
By = German syndicate, Premier Raj
four again stated that. 50 FAR As the
government was aware there was no
German syndicate In treaty Tor any
area containing steAm coal used hy
the British navy Shoaid the necessity
arise 10 prevent any foreign syndicate
obtaining control % such an ares he
said. the government would propose
a modification Of the Law declaring
foreigners from holding real property
considered necessary for the defense
az Great Britian or for the interests OF
the army or navy.
Suit brought against HYDE and
~fortyeiEht former Officers and direct.