The Colorado statesman., 1905-04-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

Mia has been opened for traffic.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$4,000 to Western College of Toledo,
Iowa, provided an additional 100000
is raised.
1t is said that Andrew Carnegie has
congratulated Judge Dunno, Chicago's
new mayor, on his municipal owner
ship policy
Major-General Gillespie of the army.
Will retire June 18th at his own re-
quest. Brigadier-General Randall will
be promoted to the vacancy.
The battleship Minnesota was sue
cessfully launched at Newport News,
April Sth. The vessel was christened
by Miss Rose Marie Schaller of Hast
ings, MINI.
Brigadier General Frederick Fun
ston has assumed command of the De-
partment of California and the Divi-
sion of the Pacific, relieving General
Francis Moore.
United States Judge Hunt at Helena
has set for trial on June the cases
against r. NJ Cobban and fifty-three
others on charges of perjury and sub
ordination of perjury in connection
with extensive western Montana land
frauds.
President Diaz has issued a decree
regulating the designs for the new
coins of the republic. Provision is
made for the new gold coins of $40
and So each, and for new silver dollars
differing but slightly from the pres
ent coins.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union has received from John d.
Rockefeller a contribution of 100000
Nd hoo L = Il
the donation. For several years Mr..
Rockefeller has made an annual gift
to the union.
The report of the Department of Ag-
riculture shows the average condition
of winter wheat, April /, to have been
91.6 against 76.5 April l, 1904, 97.3 at
the corresponding date in 1903, and
S3.1 the mean of the April averages of
the last ten years.
The Mckinley antitrust bill. which
passed the Illinois house by vote of
112 to 8, makes very explicit definition
of what constitutes a trust, makes in
surance subject to the trust definition
and provides heavy fines and impris-
onment for violation.
For her heroism in saving the life of
companion skater from drowning last
winter, Miss Lactina Steele, a former
Coon Rapids girl, recently appointed
Assistant State Librarian at Des
Moines, Iowa, is in receipt of a Car
negie medal for her bravery.
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister of
the late U. S. Grant and widow OF Dr.
NJ. H. Cramer, was found dead in bed
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Virginia
Grant Corbin. in East Orange. New
Jersey, on the 5th inst. Mrs. Gramer
retired at night in apparent good
health
AT great chiefs council in Chicago
of the Improved Order of Red Men
John NJ. Cherry OF Norfolk, Virginia,
was chosen great incohonee to succeed
the late Thomas H. Watts of Mont
gomery, Alabama, and w. A. S. Bird of
Topeka, Kansas, great senior saga
more.
Mexican Central officials announce
embeZzlements at four stations ON
their line in the last month, to the ex.
tent of $4,000. The money is missing
from the stations of Parral, Chihuahua,
Jiminez and Santa Rosalia, the biggest
sum, $4,000. having been stolen at
chihuahua.
Thousands of circulars containing
demands for the initiative and refer
enrum and for municipal ownership of
utilities have been scattered broadcast
by the central committe of the Social
Revolutionary party at Moscow. Pro-
hibition of child and female labor in
certain occupations is demanded.
According to Rockland. Me-, dis
patch, now that the lobster kings have
formed a trust, the humble lobster
,catchers have decided to form a union.
70 ~ 10
Federation of Labor has a schooner at
his command, and already has organ
lied several unions along the coast.
Higher standards of education for
physicians and surgeons, and uniform
entrance requirements and tuition fees
for students were urged by speakers
at the annual meeting of the Associa-
tion of American Colleges at Chicago.
Seventy of the principal medical col
leges in the United States were repre-
sented at the meeting.
1t is doubtful if building has ever
shown the activity that now prevails
all over the country During March
permits We're taken out in twenty-eight
of the principal cities of the country
for the construction of 12,505 buildings,
involving total cost of $55,160, ,744, an
increase of 6S per cent. over the cor
responding month a year ago.
The coroners jury at Zeigler, Illinois,
returned a verdict that the forty-three
men who lost their lives in the Letter
coal mine April 3rd, were killed by
after-damp due to an explosion of pow
der caused by parties unknown. The
belief is expressed that the mine was
in good and safe working condition
so far as gas was concerned.
1t has been decided to appoint three
foreigners as members of the advis-
ory board, or consulting engineers, of
the ISthmian Canal Commission one