The Grit-advocate., 1905-09-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

The japanese government is nego-
tlating with the krupps for fresh Or
Cers OF armor plate and guns.
Adolphe William Borgereau, the IA
nous French painter. died at La
Rochelle August goth OF heart disease.
The present number of old-age pen
sioners now on the list and receiving
aid from the Belgian government ID
something over 100000.
The third annual session Of tho Ma,
t!onal Trades and Labor Congress Of
Canada will be held in Montreal from
September 18th to 18th. inclusive.
Eleven wreckers were injured at st.
Louis by the collapse Of the roof OF the
educational building at the Worlds
Fair grounds. which they were demol-
ishing.
1t is stated that the Standard OIL
Company IS about to absorb the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company
and the San Francisco Coke and Gas
Company.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
Ia in need of nearly 5000 workmen to
work on the roadbed through Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t Is being ballasted
with disintegrated granite.
The Norwegian Storthing by vote
of 104 to II adopted the proposals of
the government for the formal open.
ing of negotiations with Sweden for
the dissolution of the union.
James Hazen Hyde of Equitable Life
Insurance and French ball fame has
sold his famous Long Island country
estate for 100000 and Is preparing to
so to Paris to live permanently.
The secretary of the interior has or.
dered the withdrawal from entry OF
10000 acres of land in the La Grande,
| Oregon. land district on account OF
the Umatilla irrigation project.
The Navy Department has approved
recommendations made by the naval
board of construction with view to
safeguarding the crews of the subma.
zine torpedo boats while practicing.
The Detroit Tribune and Detroit
Evening News have consolidated un.
der the title of the Detroit News. The
| Sunday edition will continue to be
known as the Detroit News-Tribune.
Hon. David Wark, the Oldest legis.
lator in the world, died at his home
in Fredericton, N. B., August goth,
aged 10l years and months. Mr.
| Wark was q member of the Canadian
senate.
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain)
is recovering from severe attack OF
gout at Edgewood, a cottage in Non
folk. Connecticut, rented by Miss
Clara Clemens, his daughter, for the
season.
Petitions are being circulated in San
! Diego, California, addressed to Presi
dent Diaz of Mexico, asking his co.
operation In preventing bull fights at
l1aJuana. just across the border from
San Diego.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, poet, edi
tor Of st. Nicholas magazine and
author of several stories for children
died at her summer cottage in On
teora park, Tannersville, New York,
August 2ist.
An appraisal Of the estate of the
late Meyer Guggenheim, who organ.
lied the American Smelling and Rein.
ing Company shows that he left in the
state Of New York alone property to
the value of $2.256.2SO.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, forme,
chancellor Of the eXchequer, was pas,
senger on the Cunard line steamer
Umbria, which sailed from Queens
town August Goth. He is en- route fol
Singapore by way of the United States.
According to bulletin issued by this
Census Bureau, the aggregate financial
transactions Of the It's cities of the
United States having a population OF
over $4,000 equal in magnitude those
of the national government, excluding
the postal service.
The International Typographical
Union convention at Toronto, Ontario,
| closed with determination for an
eight hour day. The executive com
mittee was authorized to arrange fol
the conference with the American
| Newspaper Association.
1t has been ordered by the State
! Health Department that all persons en-.
tering Texas by northern gatewaya
must furnish health certificates signed
by legal health officers and properly at.
tested. 1dentifications of persons must
also be given In certificates.
Chicago hote! men, wholesale butch.
ers and restaurant keepers, have
formed a combination against the
beef trust" Two plants, one costing
s150.000. and the other 100000. are
in course of erection, and third, to
cost 100000. is contemplated.
! Secretary Taft and Miss Alice Roose
welt were presented with many Moro
presents by the Sultan of Sulu, who of.
fered his hand in marriage to Miss
Roosevelt, and would make her sui
tana of the Sulu archipelago. saying
that his people desired her to remain
among them.
Lightning which struck the house OF
William Bowers in Ranchtown, Penn
sylvan1a, played some remarkable
pranks. Not only did 1t upset tables
and chairs, but it stripped the cloth
ing without injuring her from Miss
Campbell Of Philadelphia, who was WIS.,
iting the Bowers and was sitting near