The Grit-advocate., 1905-11-03
CONDENSED TELEcRAMs

tree.
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 $1.250, 900 (gold)
annually.
The entire business section Of Al
turas. California, $50 miles north Of
Reno. Nevada, has been destroyed by
fire. twenty-seven business houses and
two residences being consumed.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
handed down decisions sustaining the
cOnstitutionality Of the anti-cigarette
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 18th 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
(6IO. 900 members), United Brethren
l250.O0O) and Methodist Protestant
GSO,0O0) churches has been called to
assemble at Dayton, Ohio February Z.
1906.
The discharge of employees OF the
pension bureau who have beer lending
money to their fellow employees at ex
orbitant rates of interest, sometimes as
high as ten per cent. per month. wiR
be recommended by Commissioner
Warner.
The Sorbonne University at Paris
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.
| yerSitieS.
According to sdvices from Man.
churia, General Linevitch, 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
232,42s.2I2 tons, being 3,083.803 tons
more than in 1908.
| The French parliament will be asked
to offer 100000 prize for a cure for
consumption. The project has the ap'
pvoval 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 that he was as
keen as ever and that while too late
10 challenge for 1906. If all went we'll
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
nuiry 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 Nene-
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 Ko.chen, 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
diana, is putting in all the leases a
clause to the effect that If liquor is