The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-10-28
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS

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The attendance at the Lewis and
Clark Exposition was 2,551 $50. of
whom 1.sSo.6l1 paid and 911 los were
free.
! John F. Stevens. chief engineer of
the Panama canal. emphatically do
nies the rumor that he Is about to re-
sign the position.
The reorganization bill now before
the Philippine commission providing
for reducing the departments Of the
| government will save 81 1880. 900 tsold)
annually.
The entire business section Of Al
turas, California, $50 miles north OF
Reno, Nevada. has been destroyed by
fire. twenty yseven business houses and
two residences being consumed.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
handed down decisions sustaining the
| constitutionality of the anti-ciearette
law, the inheritance tax law and the
law to punish desecration of the Ameri
can flag.
The presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in Bohlin, Ken
| lucky. has decided that all women
members of the Presbytery shall give
to charity all eggs laid by their hens
on Sunday.
John J. George of the Fifteenth bat
terry of Fort Sam Houston Texas. was
killed October nth by cannon wheel
striking boulder and capsizing while
the battery was practicing on the Fort
Sill reservation.
| The shortage of the Mexican wheat
crop is greater than was estimated a
| few weeks ago. and millers are looking
| for the entire removal of the duty on
American and Canadian wheat by the
| first of the year.
At the state Republican convention
in Rhode Island, Governor George H.
| Utter. was renominated by acclama
ton. together with all the present state
| officers. The platform declares
| strongly for protection.
A dispatch from Santiago, Chile,
says that about fifty persons were
| killed and 500 wounded during the re-
cent rioting there. The trouble was
caused by the opposition of the people
| to the import tax on Argentine cattle.
| A general council" to consider the
| proposed union of the Congregational
| t670,000 members), United Brethren
| (250,00O) and Methodist Protestant
~
assemble at Dayton, Ohio, February Z.
| 1906.
The discharge Of employees of the
| pension bureau who have been lending
| money to their fellow employees at ex
orbitant rates of interest, sometimes as
| high as ten per cent. per month, Will
! be recommended by Commissioner
| Warner.
D,,t. .is
| has sent two young women on trip
around the world as reward for max
| ing the best records in their studies
| They will come to the United States
| first and visit some of the leading uni
| versities.
According to advices from Man
| churia, General Lineyitch. on receipt
of the notifications of the ratification
of the peace treaty. ordered the de-
struction of the barricades and other
| impediments of communication with
the neutral zone.
More coal was taken from the mines
OF the United Kingdom during the last
year than in any previous year on rec
| ord. The total. according to the return
| issued by the home Office. amounted TO
| 32,42S,272 tons, being 3,0S3,S03 tons
more than in 1908.
The French parliament will be asked
| to offer 100000 prize for cure. for
| consumption. The project has the ap'
proval of the government and there
| fore its adoption is assured. The dis
| cussion at the tuberculosis congress is
| responsible for this prize.
Sir Thomas Upton expects to chal-
lenge for the Americas cup in 1907.
| He declared recently tnat he was as
keen as ever and that while too late
to challenge for 1906. If all went well
he would be at Sandy Hook with a
new challenger the following year.
1t is denied by the Department Of
Justice that the voluntary testimony
of the beef packers given in the De
partment Of Commerce and Labor in
| quiry as to the cause of the high price
Of beef has been used in the injunc-
ton suit brought against the packers.
A monument to Pope Plus x, sub
scribed for by Catholics all over the
! world, was unveiled October 22d at
Riese, the little village in the Vene-
tian province where the Pope was
born. His holiness is represented in
the act OF administering benediction
King Victor Emmanuel recently re.
ceived $4,000 anonymously for the
benefit of the sufferers by the recent
earthquake in the province OF Gala
bria. Baron Kotchen, Russian consul
at Messina, now states that the con-
tribution was made by Emperor Nicho-
las.
The federal House of Representa-
tives Of the commonwealth of Austria
liza has adopted a motion to petition
King Edward to grant home rule to Ire
land This success of the home rulers
is attributed in large measure to Will
liam Redmond's recent campaign in
Australia.
William H. Nicholson, who is estab-
fishing the new town of Cuzco, in In.