The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-16
CONDENSED TELEGRAms

The st. Petersburg Engineers AS
sociation has voted pensions to the
wife and mother of Ivan kaleieff, the
assassin OF Grand Duke Sergius.
The British ship Afghanistan, from
Hamburg for San Diego. had a collision
with the British man-of-war Caesar, the
former sinking with twenty-three OF
her crew.
A Kansas banker, who declines to
permit his name to be disclosed, has
given $25.000 to Emporia College, a
Presbyterian institution at Emporia,
Kansas.
A cotton crop bulletin issued by the
Department of Agriculture shows that
the acreage Of the entire belt has de-
creased 11.4 per cent. The average
condition is given as 77.2.
A Toxic dispatch says that the Rus
sian cruiser Admiral Nahkimoff. Mo-
nomach and Dmitri Donskoi having
sunk in comparatively shallow water,
It is possible to raise them.
Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior
under President Cleveland and at one
time editor of the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, has announced himself as can
didate for governor of Georgia.
The Transmississippi Commercial
Congress will meet at Portland, Ore
gon, August 10th, and the National
Irrigation Congress will convene at the
same place August 21st.
Governor Bell of Vermont has
granted a second reprieve to Mrs.
Mary M. Rogers, who is under SEN
tence of death for the murder of her
husband. 1t extends to June 23d.
The cruiser Colorado, which had
been in Boston harbor for several days,
and has Just sailed for Povincetown for
her final acceptance trial, has lost 200
men by desertion. Unpopularity of Of
'icers is the cause.
Brig. Gen. George R. Davis has been
reappointed judge advocate general OF
tie army for a term of four years from
May 23d last. General Davis was first
appointed to that Office by President
Mckinley in May, 1901.
The President has established for
est reserve in southern Colorado to be
known as the San Juan reserve and
to contain about 100000 acres. The
Payette reserve of about the same size
has been established in Idaho.
The Mexican Light and Power Com
pany, a Canadian concern, has pur-
chasel all the light and power plants
in the City Of Mexico. The total ex-
penditures of the company when work
is completed will be s400o0,O00.
The Pennsylvania railroad will
shortly establish the fastest long
distance train in the world. 1t will be
new limited between New York and
Chicago, and will make the run in
each direction in eighteen hours.
The last will of the late J. Montgom
cry Sears, Boston's largest taxpayer,
which disposes of an estate Of about
| s25,O0O,OOO, has disappeared. Mr..
Sears attorney turned the document
over to him, it is said, several months
ago.
The National Club of Budapest.
Hungary, has decided to erect here
statue in honor of Washington, as evil
dence of it's appreciation of the action
of the citizens Of Cleveland. Ohio, in
erecting statue in honor OF kossuth
in that city.
! Secretary Taft has denied the appli-
cation of the state of Missouri to take
possession Of the Merchants bridge
across the Mississippi river at st.
| Louis on the ground that there has
been no violation of conditions of the
| charter. +.
The Kansas Board of Railroad Com
missioners issued an order to-day re-
ouiring the Union Pacific railroad to
-educe it's rates on grain from Chap
nan to Kansas City. The order de-
clares that the Union Pacific has been
guilty of discrimination in grain rates.
The commissioner of the General
Land Office has issued instructions to
registers and receivers of land offices
throughout the country directing that
in the future that no one person shall
be permitted to acquire more than $40
acres Of non-mineral public land under
existing laws.
Negotiations are being completed
! for the erection of $5,000.0O0 hotel
lin Herald Square, New York City, be-
tween Thirty-second and Thirty-third
streets and Broadway. Sixteen stories
high, it will have a capacity of 600
rooms and in general appointments
will rival the most elaborate hotels in
the city.
A great storm which has swept over
Pinetown, the center Of the tea and
sugar plantations of Natal South Al
rica, caused the reservoir to over
Aow, resulting In the drowning OF
many Hindoo laborers. The entire
loss Of life estimated at 500 Hindoo
laborers and SO Europeans.
New incororations in the eastern
states in May, together with increases
in capital, show the largest totals
since 1903. Those involving $1,000,000
or more aggregate $249,250,000. This
10 the heaviest monthly total since
May, 1903, when it stood at $3O7.6 &c.,
900. The April figures were $180,111,-
900.
The Reclamation Bureau recently
gave out the statement that the
formal contract with Samuel r. H.
Robinson for the construction OF the