Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
TOLD IN BRIEF.

LONDON, December Ie-wales defeated
the New Zealand foot ball team CRugby :
rules) AT Cardiff this afternoon by 3 to o.
thus administering to the visitors the first
defeat they have suffered during their tour
OF the united kingdom
BERLIN, December 1.-THE Chinese min
lister informs the Associated Press that the
alleged offer made to the Chinese minister
by the imperial chancellor. Buelow of Ger
man help In the event OF any power at
tempting to seize Chinese territory as re.
ported by the Toxic correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph, December Is. Is
without foundation.
CHICAGO December 1s.-The annual eve
hibition of the International Live Stock
Show opened today in the new building
erected for the purpose at the stock yards.
Breeders from all parts OF the country and
many from Canada are represented, and
the affair promises to be the largest OF its
kind ever held in the west. Twenty-Five
hundred animals are entered.
LONDON, December 16-Henry Labou,
chere, the well-known editor and liberal
member of parliament for Northampton,
will not be candidate for reelection to
parliament at the coming elections. He
gives advancing age the reason for his
retirement He first entered parliament
forty years ago.
ROME. December 16.-Thomas ]. o Brien.
the American minister to Denmark after a
short stay in Rome. left here for Copen-
hagen today. Three thousand invitations
have been issued for the first official recep-
ton of Ambassador White, December q.
CONSTANTINOPLE December 16-Bar-
ton Hail. the American college for girls In
the suburb Of Scutari was partially de-
stroyed by fire last night. The students,
including number of boarders. were in
bed when the flames were discovered. All
the inmates were rescued.
ROME. December l6-Ltaly has accepted
the proposition Of Spain to hold the Moroc-
can conference at Madrid instead OF at
Algeciras. 1t is now expected that the rep
resentatives of the interested powers will
meet at the Spanish capital. January 10.
ST PETERSBURG, December 15-The
official telegraphy agency is authorized to
state that the reports published abroad 10
the effect that the 1rkutsk, Siberia, has
been in flames. that fighting has occurred
between loyal and mutinous troops at Har-
bin, Manchurfa, that another mutiny has
occurred at Vladivostok and that Kharkoff
and Elizabeth are ablaze are pure inven-
tons.
News has been received at Los Angeles,
Cal. that Senator w. A. Clark of Montana
has purchased the Union mine, on the
Mother Lode" in Eldorado county, Cal
The purchase price. It is said. is $1,750,0o0.
AS q result of the organization of tho
Montana Rate Association n Helena recent
ly, Gov. Toole will be requested to call the
legislature in extra session to pass q rail-
road commission bill At the last session of
the legislature a bill was passed on the lass
day of the session. and It was vetoed by the
governor on the ground that 1t was uncon-
stitutionai
The first convention of the League of Wiz
ginia municipalities Thursday a Rich
mond, with mayors and other city officials
present from all the principal cities and
towns of the state.
Rev George III. Mcknight d. D., rector
of Trinity Church, Elmira. n. Y, since 1850,
died there Thursday after an operation
aged eighty-four years. He was native OF
WATERFOWL, N. Y, and before coming to
Elmira held charges at Madison. Ind, and
other places.
Receiver Rinaker says 1t will be many
months before the affairs of the insoivent
Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny. Pa.
are in shape to make report on the condi-
ton of the institution. There are still $50
accounts unbalanced. 1t Is said to be the
worst bank wreck In many years.
The Kansas board of railroad commission
ers Thursday decided to order reduction
of per cent in the freight rates on all
classes of grain. The order affects every
railroad in the state.
John E. Rohan. seventy-eight years old,
and his wife, aged thirty-seven, were found
dead in bed Thursday night at their home
in New Haven. Conn. Death Is reported to
gas jet open.
The st. Petersburg correspondent OF the
Paris Figaro in a dispatch dated December
H. says that Lieut.. Gen. Gripenberg is suf-
fering from paralysis.