The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

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minister of the interior, died at Ber-
lin, March goth.
Ex-Gov. Cyrus G. Luce of Michigan
died at Coldwater Michigan, March
18th, at the age of eighty years.
The Mexican Cable Company is
about to lay a new cable from Calves
ton to Coatzacoalcos, about 500 miles.
Nan Patterson will be put on trial
once more in New York City to an
swer charge of numbering Caesa.
Young, the wealthy bookmaker, April
f. 10th.
The household property of Mrs. Cas-
sic l.. Chadwick was sold at auction at
Cleveland to A. d. Nelson of New York
for $4,000. There We're twenty bid
ders.
Following the suggestion of the re
cent convention of railway surgeons,
! the Pullman company has decided to
use three sheets to berth hereafter
instead of two
The American steamer Tacoma was
seized by Japanese guardship March
14th. The Tacoma sailed from Seattle
January 9Th with a cargo of barrel beef
for Vladivostok
A decree has been issued ending the
state of martial law, which was pro-
claimed February 4th. throughout the
whole republic as a result of the in
surrectionary movement in Brazil
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the constitutionality of the criminal
section of the Valentine antitrust law.
The civil section has already been
passed upon as constitutional some
time ago.
Two seats in the New York Stock
Exchange were sold on the 18th inst.
for $S3 900 each. This is a new high
record price, exceeding the previous
highest price paid few days before
by $500.
Paul Lessar, Russian minister to
China, has transmitted to the foreign
Office at st. Petersburg the most sol
emn assurances from the Chinese gov
ernment regarding its intention to pre-
serve neutrality.
1t is announced from Amiens, cables
the Herald's Paris correspondent that
Jules Verne, the novelist, is dying. He
is seventy-seven years of age. He is
pronounced by his physicians to be in
the last stages of diabetes.
The Earl of Rosslyn has been mar
| The bride is a native of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, but has lived abroad for
some years. She once appeared on
| the stage, but retired in 1901.
Emperor William has bestowed the
great gold medal for science upon Man
uel Garcia, the well-known professor
of singing who invented the laryngo-
/ scope Garcia celebrated his Tooth
birthday in London March 18th.
The i'll health of John J. Hannahan
grand master of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen, necessitates his
temporary retirement, says Peoria,
illinois,, dispatch. Mr.. Hannahan has
an assfavated attack of rheumatism.
During last December new island
was thrown up in the sea of Japan,
| three miles south of Two The island
! has been named Nushima. 1t is nearly
two and three-fourths miles Il. circum-
ference and is thirty feet above sea
level.
Private mail advices from the Cau-
casus received at st. Petersburg indi-
cate that the situation there has not
been exaggerated in earlier reports.
According to one letter the Armenians
estimate the number of their dead at
| 1000.
The Rev. C. S. Roster pastor of the
Dutch Reformed church at Orange
| City, Iowa, was tried by board of
ministers on the charge of sharp prac-
tices in a horse trade and found guilty,
involving his dismissal from the min
istry.
The pen with which President
Roosevelt signed the bill providing for
the Elephant Butte dam has been pre-
sented to the city of El Paso by Con
gressman w. r. Smith, with the sug-
gestion that it be placed in the public
| library.
La Province, splendid new ship of
the French line, was launched March
22d at st. Nazaire. She is the largest
French ship ahoat. being OF 1850
| tons, exceeding the tonnage of the
| largest French battleship, the Patrie,
! by $500. tons.
The National Congress of Mothers
at Washington elected Mrs. Frederick
Schoff of Philadelphia president. The
| Congress discussed the advisability of
establishing a newspaper organ, and
empowered it's board of managers to
act in the matter.
The activity of Mount Vesuvius con-
tinues. The desire of tourists to ap-
proach the crater, Notwithstanding the
danger, is so urgent that extra guards
have been stationed to prevent their
| passage. Detonations from the vol
cano are heard a long distance.
At Wallace, Idaho, March 10Th, w.
A. Middlekarf was killed and l.. NJ.
Odell dangerously injured by falling
200 feet from balloon while giving
double ascensions. They were seated
in parachutes which failed to open
when an accident occurred to the bal
loon.
The Union Pacific railroad has start
ed seed corn special" over its sys-
fem in Nebraska. The train will spend