The Grit-advocate., 1905-03-24
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs


In the California Legislature.
The Socialists of Chicago have nom
mated John Collins for mayor.
The cost OF the British expedition
into Thibet was s4,0G3 .750. all Of which
India will have to bear
Mrs. Nancy Kelley. the Oldest white
woman in Maryland, ,aed At Baltimore
on the 10th inst at the age OF 1O1
years.
A cablegram announces the death At
Lausanne, Switzerland. OF Rear Admt
raj Edward D. Houston. U. 8. NJ, rs
tired, aged sixty
Leading manufacturers Of linoleum
have agreed to advance all lnlalo
goods ten per cent and all printed
goods twenty per cent.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change has Just been sold for $S2,6O0.
This Is the high record price. The
name OF the purchaser Is not dis
closed.
The British steamer Saxon Prince.
bound for Vladivostok with cargo OF
steel rails, was seized March 9Th BY
the japanese in the Tsu straits and
taken to Sasebo for trial.
President Harper Of the University
of Chicago is going to Lakewood, New
Jersey, to recuperate. John d. Rock
efeller will meet him on arrival and
has arranged for his stay.
The estate of the late Grand Duke
Sergius in the Dimtrov district, near
Moscow, has been pillaged by peas
ants and factory in the same dis
lo.
The wedding of the crown prince Of
Germany to the Duchess Cecil1e o.
Mechlenblrg-Schwer is announced
for May 22d and will be celebrated
with almost unprecedented pomp.
While seven workmen were being
hoisted In the carriage In the Clear
Spring collilery at West Pittston, Penn
sylvania, the rope broke and the men
were hurled to the bottom, distance
of $50 feet. All were killed.
On March 14th Ed and Will Ptomey.
negroes, who, the day before, shot and
fatally wounded Prof. Claude Hardy At
Pine Apple, Alabama. were caught by
a mob of citizens in house near AL
Ienton, Alabama. where they had bar
ricaded themselves, and were taken to
nearby swamp and hanged.
Spinal meningitis is killing forty
people week In New York City and
reports from cities and towns In Con
necticut, New Jersey and Pennsylva-
MIA show that New York Is not alone
In fighting against the ravages Of this
dread disease, which kills about fifty
per cent. of all those attacked by 1t.
The band of Yaqui Indians who re-
Gently held up and robbed the Mazat-
Ian stage of $4,000. was overtaken
near Tecuala by force Of rural po-
lice. In the fight that ensued three OF
the Indians were killed and two cap.
tured. Capt. Joseph E. Maciel Of Aca-
poneta was seriously wounded in thS
engagement.
Governor Folk of Missouri granted
a respite of thirty days to William Rtr
dolph, convicted of the murder Of De-
tective Charles Schumacher, at Union,
Missouri, and sentenced to be hanged
March 17th. A petition for the respite
was signed by large numbers Of Irish
Catholics who protested against an sx.
ecution st. Patricks day.
United States Senator William Bro
mage Bate of Tennessee. twice COVER
nor of his state, a veteran Of both the
Mexican and Civil wars, rising from
private to major general in the Confed-
crate army. and for eighteen years .
conspicuous member of the upper
house OF Congress, died at Washing
ton March 9th at the age of seventy
eight years.
In pitched battle at Lake City, Ar.
kansas, on the 14th inst. between a
sheriff's posse of white men and three
negroes suspected of the murder OF
two brothers named Watson, at Du'
mas, Arkansas, two Of the blacks were
killed outright and C. D. Owens, man.
ager Of the Red Leaf plantation, was
wounded in the arm. The third negro
escaped to the woods.
The San Francisco Chronicle saye
that 5000 Chinese are practically
starving in that city. Most of them
are employed at the northern fisher
les, earning during the season about
5000 per man. This year, owing to the
poverty of the men. the contractors
it is said, only offer $14O, and this pre-
vents the men signing up. II other
classes Of men are signed it will leave
the Chinese destitute in the city.
Gen. Gonzales Valencia has re-
nounced the vice presidency of the
Republic Of Columbia. greatly to ths
satisfaction of the national assembly
political prisoners have been set al
liberty and prospects seem bright fol
President Reyes government. A Co
lumbian syndicate will undertake the
administration of the rentes and the,
have founded a central bank with So,
100000 gold capital to develop bust
ness.
The national board Of fire under
writer's, at a special meeting in New
York City resolved to recommend tn,
withdrawal Of all fire insurance busi
ness in the state of Arkansas. Thii
action was taken because of the pro
posed enforcement of the anti-compac
law by the Arkansas Legislature. Tn,
bill becomes operative March 23d, ant
If not repealed by that date. all poll
I ut, s-to rr,I1 r.