The Columbus journal., 1905-10-25
General News.

President Roosevelt proposes to re
appoint William Barret Ridgely of
Springfield. as controller of the cur
rency. Ridgely's term OF Office does
not expire for several months.
In the report to the secretary OF war
for the last fiscal year Commissary
General j. F. Weston points out that
the losses of stores and property for
the use of the army has been remark
ably small.
The International Harvester Com.
pany of America has purchased the
Vulcan works near NOorkoeping,
Sweden. A Swedish corporation will
be formed to manufacture harvesting
machinery.
The president has directed the ap-
pointment of Colonel Henry G. Sharpe
to be chief commissary of subsistence
with the rank of brigadier general, to
succeed General John F. Weston, pro-
NOTED to major general.
Most Rev. P. w. Riordan, arch
bishop of San Francisco. was received
in home by Cardinal Gotti, project of
the congregation of the propaganda, to
whom he presented a report on the af-
fairs of the archdiocese.
The Duluth Missaba & Northern
railroad, one of the big ore roads of
the steel corporation, is to build in
Duluth what will be the largest r
dock in the world. 1t will cost in the
n~eighborhood of $500, OO0.
The licenses of ten mates, pilots,
pastors and engineers at San Fran
cisco were revoked by United States
steSnbOat inspectors. The action in
each case was for the reasOn that their
naturalization papers were obtained by
fraud.
Under the will of the late Frank
Harvey Ceilley Of Boston a bequest of
$4,000 is left to the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology for the equip
ment and maintenance of the proposed
Walker memorial building of the in
stitute.
The resignation of William F. Pow
ell as United States minister to Hayti
has been submitted to the president
and accepted. AS his successor the
president has determined upon DR.. H.
w. Furniss of Indianapolis, Ind, q
prominent negro.
A permanent national advertising
association, to be known as the Ameri-
can Federation of Advertising Clubs,
was perfected at the convention being
held in Chicago. Among the officers
elected was John II. Phillips of st.
Louis, chosen treasurer.
Chester Donaldson. the American
consul at Managua, whose exequatur
was withdrawn by the Nicaraguan
government because of his representa-
tons to President Zelaya in behalf of
William Albers, an imprisoned Amert-
can, has arrived in Washington.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Mail of Madrid says that fear
ing an attack by a British torpedo
boat, the bandits of the Anjora tribe
released the two British officers, Cap
tain Crowther and Lieutenant Ham
mon, who have arrived at Ceuta.
The parents of Sam Shubert, the
theatrical manager, who vas MORALLY
injured in the wreck of the Pennsyl-
vania railroads Chicago express last
May, brought suit in the United States
court at New York for 500, 900 dam
ages against the railroad company.
1t is understood in manufacturing
circles at Fall Rivers. Mass. that with
in a short time the Fall River Cotton
Manufacturers Association will grant
an advance in wages to the operatives, |
of whom there are now upward of
$4,000 employed in association mills.
The negro Baptist convention of
Texas. in session at Waco, adopted a
resolution commencing John d. Rookie |
Teller and saying that in the opinion |
of the convention he was an inspired |
giver. They also commended what he |
had done for the advancement of edu- |
cation and religion in the religious
world.
Ex-Governor James S. Hogg is lying
i'll at a hotel in Fort Worth, Tex. He |
en- route to a health resort when
he had to stop. The big ex-governor, |
who weighs over 800 pounds, has
dropsy and his physicians say unless
he is tapped at once he cannot sur |
vive. He declines to submit to the Cd |
Grafton, saying if his time has come
he will 60.
An important change of officials of
the state department has been de-
upon by the president and
Secretary Root. Col. William H. |
Michael. formerly of Nebraska, who
has been chief clerk Of the department
since the late John Sherman was Sec
rotary Of state is to be succeeded by |
Charles DENLY of Indiana, a son of
the late Charles DENLY, one time !
United States minister to China. Col. |
0nel Michael is to be transferred to an
post in the consular service.
Samuel Sutcliffe, chief Of the bureau
of street cleaning at Philadelphia re-
his $4,000 position.
The Pennsylvania railroad announc.
ed that it has placed orders for 500 To-
and will shortly let con-
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