The Ordway new era., 1905-09-01
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Rochelle August goth o nea1' e''sess'
The present number OF old'sxs pen
aiouers now on the list and recelsins
! aid from the Belgian government ID
something over 20e.vVe.
Tho third annual session Of the Ma
,,onaI Trades and Labor Congress OF
, Canada will be held In Montreal from
September 18th to 18th. Inclusive
Eleven wreckers were injured at ST
7 ouis by the collapse OF the roof OF the
educational building At the Worlds .
Fair grounds. which they were demo'
ishins.
IL is stated that the Standard Oh
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
10 in need OF nearly 5000 workmen to
work on the roadbed through Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t IS being ballasted
with disiutegrated granite.
The Norwegian Storth!ng by vote
OF lVi to u adopted the proposals OF
the government for the formal open
ing o! 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 tor $500,U00 and is preparing 10
go to Paris 10 live permanently.
The secretary OF the Interior has or
iereL the withdrawal! from entry OF
10000 acres OF land In the La Grande.
Oregon. land district on account OF
the Umau!la irrigation project
The Navy Department has approved
rcComm. pdat!ons made BY the naval
board OF construction with view TO
safeguarding the crews Of the subma.
line torpedo boats while pracucing.
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-Tribuue.
Hon. David Wark. the Oldest Iegis
lator in the world. died ut his home
IN Fredericton. y. B.. August goth
aged lUl years and 6 months. Mr
Wark was = member OF the Canadian
senate
Samuel L. Clemens MARK TwaIn)
Is recovering from severe attack OF
gout a. Edgewood. a cottage In Nor
folk. Connecticut, rented by Misi
Clara Clemens. his daughter. for the
season.
Petitions are being circulated In Sar
Diego. California, addressed to Prest
dent D!az OF Mexico. asking his CO
operation In preventing bull fights at
Tiajuana. Just across the border from
San Diego.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge. poet. cdi
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 tho American Smelling and REIN
Ing Company. shows that he left in the
state OF New York alone property to
the value OF s2.256,2S0.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach. forme,
chancellor Of the e2chequer, was a pas
senSer on the Cunard line steamer
Umbria. which sailed from Queens
town August goth. He is en- route To-,
Singapore by way OF the United States.
According to bulletin issued by the
Census Bureau. the aggregate financial
transactions OF the IFS 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 foi
the conference with the American
! Newspaper Association.
1t has been ordered by the State
Health Department that all persons en-.
fering Texas by northern gateways
must furnish health certificates signed
by legal health officers and properly at.
tested. ldentifications of persons must
also be given IN certificates.
Chicago hote! men, wholesale hutch.
ers and restaurant keepers, have
formed combination against the
beer trust" Two plants. one costin 2
100000. and the other $3OO.0 900. are
IN course OF erection. and a third tc
cost 100000, is contemplated.
Secretary Taft and Miss Alice Roose
welt were presented with many More
presents by the Sultan Of Sulu, who OF
iered mis- hand In marriage to Mis-,
Roosevelt. and would make her anl
tana of the Sulu archipelago, sayin,
that his people desired her to remair
among them.
Lightn!ng which struck the houss ri
Wiiliam Bowers In Ranchtown, Penn
sylvan1a, played some remark ahi,
, pranks. Not only did It upset table
and chairs. but 1t stripped the clotb
Ing without injuring her from Mis-,
campbell Of Philadelphia, who was yis
iting the Bowers and was sitting nea,
the stove on the ground fioor, IN,
clothing was burned to ashes,
During the month of July 253 Chi
nese were admitted to the Unitet