The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAmS

opening OF the DlQS lol tie Soho'
ton Of railroads in the Philippines.
The japanese steamer kilo, OF 1.lS
tons capacity, struck mine ana eanA
OF Port Arthur on the night OF May
18th. The crew was rescued ana
taken to Osaka.
The Mexican government has Tor
hidden banks to hold silver bars as !
basis of note issue, bars being no
LONGER at the option OF holders capaole
Of conversion into pesos.
1t is officially announced that hlns
Edward has appointed King Alfonso
of Spain a general in the British army.
The appointment dates from May 17tn'
the birthday of the Spanish king.
Count Won NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., the
head of the German mission to arrange
a special commercial treaty between
Germany and Morocco. arrived at fez
on May 11th, where he was received
with much ceremony.
Hiram Cronk, the only surviving SOL
dier Of the war Of 1872, died at Ava.
New York, May 18th, at the age OF
1O5 years. He enlisted when but M
teen years old, and served about loo
days at Sacketts Harbor.
The London Chronicle claims that
it has good authority to assert that
the government has decided to post
pone the dissolution of Parliament un'
til the fall of 1906 and that this means
the death blow to tariff reform.
William NJ. Morton, an aeronaut,
was severely injured and had narrow
escape from death at Chutes Park.
Los Angeles, on the 18th inst, by be-
ing dashed against telegraph pole as
his balloon rose from the ground.
General Maxine Gomez is danger.
ously i'll at Santiago de Cuba with ne
pnritis. The generals extreme age
and the results of the many wounds
he received in his campaigns for the
liberation Of Cuba complicate his trou'
BILE.
A statue of the Confederate lieu
tenant-general, Nathan 3. Forrest,
was unveiled at Memphis, May 10th.
Little Miss Bradley, a great-grand'
daughter of General Forrest, pulled the
cord which exposed to view the monu
ment.
After his opening address at the
Lewis and Clarke Exposition at Port
land, Vice President Fairbanks will go
to his farm in Illinois for the summer
and work in the fields during haylng
and harvesting, as is said to be his
custom.
The American bark, Martha Davis.
caught fire in Hilo harbor, Hawaii May
14th, and was totally destroyed. The
portion of her cargo consigned to Hllo
had mostly been dischal Ecd, but that
intended for the island plantations
was lost.
In a recent interview, Secretary OF
the Navy Morton, stated that he had
no present intention of resigning from
the Cabinet. He said, however, that
it was thoroughly understood between
the President and himself, that he
should leave the Cabinet next fall
L. P. Ohliger, ex-president Of the
closed Wooster, Ohio, national bank
, pleaded guilty to a count on one OF
the indictments charging him with
having issued draft when there were
no funds in the bank to meet it. Judge
! Taylor sentenced Ohliger to eight
years Imprisonment in the Ohio peni
tentiary.
General Nogi, the hero of Port AT
| thur, has written a card to Colone
w. H. Knauss of Columbus, in which
he returns his thanks for the numerous
kind expressions received from the
American people, and in particular ex
presses his appreciation of a small
American flag sent to him by Colone
| knauSS.
The Beneficial Life Insurance Com
pany has been formed al Salt Lake
City by leading MocmOnS. Joseph +
Smith is president, Governor John c
Cutler is first vice president, and the
other officers are prominent in the
church. The company, which will dt
an "old line" business, has a capita
stock OF 100000, all paid in.
The Russian press is considerabl,
exercised over the reports of Empero
Williams recent speech at Strassburg
Alsace-Lorraine, criticising the Rus
sian officers at the front on account 0
drunkenness, end the German ambas
sador, Count Won Alvensleben, ha
taken pains to issue an official denia
of the accuracy of the reports.
Secretary Paul Morton will resign
from the Cabinet in October, according
to a report circulated in financial cir
cles. to take the presidency of thu
I
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., who has beel
voted a long vacation. at the end o
which he will retire permanently from
connection with the Gould system.
The steamer Terra Nova sailet
from London May 10th. for TromSoe
Norway, whence she will go to Fran
Josef Land, in search of the eXpedi
ton headed b. Anthony Fiala o
Brooklyn, New York, on the steame
America, fitted out by William Ziegle
of New York for the purpose of at
tempting the north pole by way o
Franz Josef Land.
A committee of the House Of Com
mons has commenced consideration o
a bill providing for the installation il
London of electric light and pneumati
tube systems, similar to those in us
in America. J. ?. Morgan is among
the promoters of the company, whicl