The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-05
CONDENSED IELEGRAMs


pated.
1t is reported that Senor Zenit. Meg
lean minister to Austria. will be BRO
NOTED to Mexican ambassador at
Washington.
Expert calculations show that the
peasant debts remitted in Russia by
the recent imperial decree amount to
about $45.0O0,O00.
On April eth DR.. d. X. Pearsons of
Chicago, announced gifts to five south
ern colleges. The amounts range from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The London Sportsman states that
the stallion st. MacLou, by st. Simon,
out of Mimi. has been sold to Sulzber.
ger of Germany for $4,000.
The question of constructing q canal
to connect the Black sea with the Bal
tic has again been taken up by the
Russian minister of finance.
Commissioner James r. Garfield of
the federal bureau of corporations is
in Pasadena, California, visiting his
mother, Mrs. Lucretia Garfield.
Commencing May 1st, blast furnace
workers in the Pittsburg district re-
ceive ten per cent. advance in wages
A total of $1,000 men are affected.
Fire insurance companies doing bus.
mess in Mexico, principally German
and British, have agreed to advance
rates from thirty to forty per cent.
Cosima Wagner, widow of the great
composer. has discontinued her suit
against Heinrich Conreid. growing out
of the American production of "Parsi-
fall"
Articles of incorporation OF the
United Shoe Machinery Corporation,
with capital stock of $50,000,OOO
have been filed at Paterson, New Jer-
sey.
The record price for wool in the his
tory of Montana was reached May lst,
when a Philadelphia firm bought $780,
900 pounds in Lewiston for 25 cents
per pound.
A gift of practically $4,000 to the
Old Peoples Home of Chicago from
Nathaniel S. Bouton is involved in two
real estate conveyances that have been
filed for record
The painting of "The Man of the
Mantle" by Carl Melchers, the Ameri.
can artist, has been purchased by the
Italian government for the modern art
gallery at Rome.
The 100000 acres of Kiowa. Co
manche and Apache Indian lands in
Oklahoma, now leased for grazing pur
poses to cattlemen, are to be leased
July lst for agricultural purposes.
A police census of the District of
Columbia just completed, shows a pop
ulation of 22,445, being an increase of
43.127 over the federal census of 1900.
OF this population 227 ,G07 is white.
The Illinois House of Representa-
tives has passed bill establishing a
state sanitarium for the treatment of
persons afflicted with tuberculosis, and
appropriated $4,000 for the purpose.
An anonymous donor has given $50
900 to Columbia University for erect
ing and equipping college hall for
undergraduates, to be named in honor
of Alexander Hamilton of the class OF
1777.
The transport Sherman sailed from
San Francisco May I'd for Manila via
Honolulu, with the Ninth infantry. 7Gl
men. the second squadron of Seventh
cavalry, $50 men, 142 recruits and
three hospital corps.
Four hundred Confederate veterans,
members of the local camp, are 10 be
guests of the U. S. Grant post, G. A. r..
on Memorial day in New York City,
and from a. m. till late at night the
veterans of the two armies will mingle.
The French cable connecting Cadiz.
Spain. with Tangier, provided for by
the Franco-Spanish convention. has
tnI Nhn h hall tn,
the French government and will
strengthen French interests in Mo-
rocco.
Stephen Connell, who has been at
tached to the United States secret SER
vice department in St. Louis for the
past year, has been appointed head of
the secret service department a. the
Lewis and Clark Exposition at Port
land, Oregon.
A blanket fraud has been issued by
the postoffice department against the
Home Cooperative Company, which
had an Office in st. Louis until few
months ago. The fraud order was is
sued on the ground that the company
is operating a lottery.
Arrangements are nearing compile
tion at the Lick observatory for the
three expeditions that institution is
shortly to SEND out to various parts of
the world to observe the eclipse of
August 30th, next. One of the Lick
parties is to go to Labrador another
to Egypt, and the third to Barcelona,
Spain.
A longstanding controversy between
Indian and white claimants over a
tract of land in Argentine, Kansas, has
been decided in the United States SUI
preme Court in favor Of the Indians.
The principal representative was one
George Washington, son of Susan
White Fellow, to whom the land was
patented in 1859.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
denied rehearing in the case of State
Insurance Commissioner Host against
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