The Colorado statesman., 1905-08-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


The present number of old-age pen
sioners now on the list and receiving
aid from the Belgian government Is
something over 100000.
) The third annual session of the Ma
tional Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada will be held in Montreal from
September 18th to 18th, inclusive.
Eleven wreckers were injured at St
Louis by the collapse of the roof of the
educational building at the Worlds
Fair grounds, which they were demol-
ishing.
1t is stated that the Standard Oil
Company is about to absorb the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company
and the San Francisco Coke and Gas
Company.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
is in need of nearly 5000 workmen to
work on the roadbed through Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t is being ballasted
with disintegrated granite.
The Norwegian Storthing by a vote
of 104 to IL adopted the proposals of
the government for the formal open
ing of negotiations with Sweden for
the dissolution of the union.
James Hazen Hyde of Equitable Life
Insurance and French ball fame has
sold his famous Long Island country
estate for $500,000 and is preparing to
go to Paris to live permanently.
! The secretary of the interior has Or
dered the withdrawal from entry of
16O, 900 acres of land in the La Grande,
Oregon, land district, on account OF
the Umatilla irrigation project.
/ The Navy Department has approved
recommendations made by the naval
board of construction with view to
safeguarding the crews of the Subma-
rine torpedo boats while practicing.
: The Detroit Tribune and Detroit
Evening News have consolidated un-
der the title of the Detroit News. The
Sunday edition will continue to be
known as the Detroit News-Tribune.
Hon. David Wark, the Oldest legis.
lator in the world, died at his home
in Fredericton, N. B., August goth,
aged 101 years and 6 months. Mr..
Wark was member of the Canadian
senate.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain)
is recovering from a severe attack OF
igout at Edgewood, a cottage in Nor
folk, Connecticut, rented by Miss
Clara Clemens, his daughter, for the
season.
Petitions are being circulated in San
Diego, California, addressed to Presl
dent Diaz of Mexico, asking his CO.
operation in preventing bull fights at
Tiajuana, just across the border from
San Diego.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, poet, edi
tor of st. Nicholas magazine and
author of several stories for children
died at her summer cottage in On.
teora park, Tannersville, New York
August 21st.
:. An appraisal of the estate of the
late Meyer Guggenheim, who organ.
lied the American Smelling and Rein
ing Company, shows that he left in the
state of New York alone property to
the value of s2,256.2S0.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, former
chancellor of the exchequer, was pas
senger on the Cunard line steamer
Umbria, which sailed from Queens
town August Goth. He is en- route fol
Singapore by way of the United States
According to a bulletin issued by the
Census Bureau, the aggregate financial
transactions of the ITS cities of the
United States having a population OF
over $4,000 equal in magnitude those
of the national government, excluding
the postal service.
The International Typographical
Union convention at Toronto, Ontario,
closed with a determination for an
eight-hour day. The executive com.
mittee was authorized to arrange for
the conference with the American
, Newspaper Association.
1t has been ordered by the State
Health Department that ali persons en-.
tering Texas by northern gateways
must furnish health certificates signed
by legal health officers and properly at.
tested. Identifications of persons must
also be given in certificates.
Chicago hotel men, wholesale butch.
ers and restaurant keepers, have
formed combination against the
beef trust" Two plants, one costing
$150,000, and the other 100000 are
in. course of erection. and a third, to
cost 100000, is contemplated.
Secretary Taft and Miss Alice Roose
welt were presented with many Moro
presents by the Sultan of Sulu, who of.
fered his hand in marriage to Miss
Roosevelt, and would make her sui.
tana of the Sulu archipelago, saying
that his people desired her to remain
among them.
Lightning which struck the house of
Williem Bowers in Ranchtown, Penn.
sylvania, played some remarkable
pranks. Not only did it upset tables
and chairs, but it stripped the cloth
ing without injuring her from Miss
Campbell of Philadelphia, who was Wis
iting the Bowers and was sitting near
the stove on the ground floor. The
clothing was burned to ashes.
During the month of July 253 Chi
nese were admitted to the United
States and nine were deported. OF
those admitted fifty-eight were United
States citizens, fifty-one returning la