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se6, chief prosecutor OF the Holy
Synod. Of Russia. has resigned.
The dome of the great cathedral at
Monterey. Mexico, fell October 27th.
crushing the church, which was erect
ed In 1893.
1t Is reported that disease which
has attacked pine forests In various
parts OF Mexico Is likely to cause
heavy losses.
The Mexican Central railroad has
5000 men at work on the extension OF
tts line to Colima from Tuxpan, in the
state Of Jalisco.
Tho Spanish armored cruiser Car
dinal Cisneros foundered on Villanova
October 2Sth, after striking a rock. All
on board were saved.
The Russian government Is slowly
removing the mines placed by the Jap
anese around Vladlvostok. which now
render access to that port dangerous.
Secretary Hitchcock ordered the dis
missal from service OF four clerks In
the Pension Bureau, accused OF loan
ing money at usurious rates OF In.
terest.
The conventions OF the supreme
lodge and the encampment OF the Uni
form Rank. Knights Of Pythias, will
be held at New Orleans the third Tues
day In October next.
The Japanese Foreign ONCE. Octo-
ber 28th, accepted Emperor Williams
suggestion that the powers withdraw
their troops from Peking, excepting
the legation guards.
An immense subterranean channel.
which promises to surpass in size and
beauty the famous Mammoth cave, has
been discovered near Glasgow juno
tion, Barry county, Kentucky.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
issued an oflicial statement OF the re-
ceipts and expenditures under the ap-
Precipitation of $1O,000.00O for canal
construction from June %, 1902, to
June 80, 1905. II shows a balance at
that date Of $6,O83,415, making total
expenditure OF $4,009,573.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl-
vania committed to life imprisonment
the death sentence OF Mrs. Catherine
Danz, the Philadelphia woman who is
alleged to have poisoned her husband
with powders procured from George P.
Hossey, "voodoo" doctor. HOssey Is
under sentence OF death for a similar
offense.
Each of the church organizations OF
Lead, Central and Terraville, South
Dakota, has Just received check for
500 from Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. Mrs.
Hearst remembers every year these
churches and the amount OF her an
nual contributions to them Is over
$4,000. She has done this for Q mum.
Der of years.
One Of New York City's most con-
spicuous ventures in municipal own
ership was inaugurated few days
since, when the new ferry line be-
tween the Battery and Staten Island
was put into operation. 1t is owned
and operated by the city and its Ave
splendid ferry boats are the largest In
New York harbor.
The Southern Cotton Association has
issued statement compiled from the
reports of 10000 correspondents
throughout the cotton belt estimating
the present crop at 9,444.314 bales.
The statement estimates that 61.3 per
cent Of the crop had been picked and
that SAT per cent 81 he'd Octaber 21st.
TIE Santa Fe RAJ fway company has
asked the court in Muskog0e to ap-
point an appraising board to condemn
a right OF way from Tulsa, Indian Ter
ritory, to Shawnee. Oklahoma. 120
miles. This will connect the branch
between Independence. Kansas, and
Tulsa and the Oklahoma lines in
Shawnee.
An official denial has been made at
Berlin Of the report originated In Lon
don that Germany proposed to Russia
to partition Austria. The Associated
Press is informed authoritatively also
that Germany has made no proposals
to Russia for an alliance In any form
nor has an interchange OF views there
on taken place.
An overland march OF more than
1000 miles has been planned for the
Twenty-second battery of light artil-
lery, now at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake.
and the Nineteenth light battery. now
at Fort Riley, Kansas. which have
been ordered to exchange stations.
seventy days.
Having occasion to secure twenty.
five additional officers for the Philip
pines constabulary. the places paying
$1.1OO to begin with, Captain McIn-
tyre. acting chief OF the insular bu.
reau, invited one hundred state mill
tary Institutes and agricultural col
leges to name candidates for the
places from among their graduates.
Less than twenty applications were
received.
The Mexican government has ex-
tended the time of the construction OF
the Mexican Central's branch from
Colima to Manzanillo. on the Pacific
Coast, to October. 1909. There is al
ready narrow gauge road between
these two points. which belonged for
merly to the Mexican National Con-
struction Company, but which was re-
Gently acquired by the Mexican Cen
tral. This road will be made standard
gauge.
The annual report of Gen. George
B. Davis, judge advocate general Of
the army, shows that OF the commits
stoned officers tried during the last
year by general court-martial, thirty
six were convicted and thirteen ac-
quilted. Three cadets and 1898 en-
listed men were convicted, while 356
men were acquitted. The total mum.
Der OF trials before general court-mar-
tial of 4,800 cases shows an increase
Of S51 cases over last year.
The Ninth Correctional Tribunal of
the Seine has sentenced Eliot Fitch
Shepard. Son of the late Colonel Eliot
F. Shepard, of New York, and grand
ann oP tho Oota Wy uoudnrbi1< &o