The Grit-advocate., 1905-03-10
CONDENSED TEtEGRAMs

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technic Institute. Vicksburg. Virginia
has been destroyed by fire.
The Indiana Senate has passed bill
| appropriating $1,000 for a statute OF
Gen. Lew Wallace to be placed in the
capitol at Washington.
The maid servants OF Kief, in south,
western Russia. went on strike few
| days ago and paraded the streets until
! Cossacks were called out to diSperse
them.
When the ice gorge in the Missis-
sippi went out it completely demoi-
| ished the new $250,00O government
dyke and a 100000 water protection
in East st. Louis, Ill.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Hawthorne
Thwaite, Socialist leader in the Brit
ish Columbia Legislature for an eight
hour day in the British Columbia smelt-
ers. has been defeated.
Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker has
added 81 to her fortune of 100000, 600
by winning prizes for the best beans.
primroses and mushrooms displayed at
the annual meeting of the Pennsylva-
mia Horticultural Society.
J. Pierpont Morgan added another
old and valuable manuscript to his col
lection few days ago when for $4,000
he purchased from Tristram Coffin the
original of Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table"
An Ell Paso dispatch says that Col
W. c. Green, who has started extend
ing the Sierra Madra railroad into
Mexico, intends to build to the Pacific
coast without a stop, giving straight
line to the southern Mexican coast.
1t is reported from Suez that 10000
Turkish troops of the Damascus army
corps, who had been ordered to Yemen
to suppress the rebellion in that prov
ince, refused to leave Akba because ar
rears of their wages had not been paid
Henry C. Whitman. for years one OF
Chicagos leading lawyers and mem
Der of the Boston bar, died at Boston,
February 2Sth, aged seventy-four. He
was at one time connected with Abra
ham Lincoln's law office, in Springfield
Illinois.
The betrothal Is officially announced
of Princess Victoria of ConnauGht to
Prince Oscar, eldest son of the crown
prince of Sweden and Norway. The
announcement states that the engage
ment has the entire sanction Of King
Edward.
Orders have been received at Colon.
on the isthmus. from Washington to
resume the installation of wireless
telegraph system with the station on
the spot originally selected. 1t is ex-
pected that the work will be completed
in three months.
The plant of the Ironclad Manufac-
turing Company in Brooklyn was dam
aged $4,000 by fire on the 2Sth ult.
The principal owner Of the property
is Mrs. Robert Seaman, formerly
known as a newspaper writer under
the name of Nelly BLY,.
A London dispatch says that Sir
Henry Irving, who recently had Sc
we're chill, has suffered slight relapse
and has Cancelled the remainder OF his
provincial tour. His physicians have
imperativeely ordered him not to act
for at least two months.
The Economic Society Of Central Eu-
rope, Of which Professor Wolff of Leip-
zig University is president, has ap-
pointed a committee to report on how
to readjust Germany's trade relations
with the United States. The purpose
seems to be to consider the possibility
Of acommercial treaty with the United
States.
Over a million dollars damage was
done by big fire at Hot Springs. Ar
kansas, February 25th. Among the
buildings destroyed were the Grand
Palace hotel, Lee house. Moody house.
Plateau hotel. Columbia hotel, the
county court house, jail, First Method
ist church, the Jewish church and 2s5
residences and stores.
Taotai Lang Sho Tt Of Tientsin has
been appointed Chinese minister to
London. He is at present in India ne
gotiating a convention for the adhe.
sion Of China to the Anglo-Thibet
treaty. Lang Shao TT was educated at
Yale University and was formerly see
retary to Yuan Shi Kai, progressive
yiceroy Of Pechili province.
Judge Kavanagh modified the In
junction issued against the picketing
of tailoring establishments and shops
in Chicago by deciding that the strik:
ers should not be prevented from
peaceably speaking to the non-union
employees of the tailoring establish
ments, as long as there was no sem.
blance of persecution.
The transport Logan sailed from San
Francisco February 2Sth for Manila
via Honolulu and Guam. She carried
285 enlisted men Of the Second squad
ron of Eighth cavalry, SAG enlisted
| men of the Sixth infantry. twenty-one
enlisted men Of the marine corps, four
teen enlisted men Of the hospital corps
and a cargo Of army supplies.
The legislative committee which Is
| investigating Irregularities in the
financial accounts Of Utah's commits
sion to the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton has appointed Representatives Jo-
seph, Stookey and Gandry as commit.
tee to go to st. Louis and turn over
every detail Of the commissions work
at the fair Forged vouchers aggregat.
ing more than $2,10O already have been
| identified