Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-03-22
There Is good authority for the


statement fiat NJ. Whites recomnen-
dation for the abolition Of the COM
mittee OF ministers has been accepted
by Emperor Nicholas.
Gov. Higgins, OF New York. has
signed bill requiring excursion boats
TO carry at least one life preservsr for
each passenger.
A commission has been APPOINTED
under the presidency of Gen. Roop. a
member of the council OF the empire,
to investigate the surrender OF Port
Arthur.
Hounded by loan sharks. to whor,
he had assigned his wages in ad-
vance, and finally discharged as an I.
c. engineer, Frank Durham, A.. COM
mitted suicide in Chicago.
Mrs. b. F. Marsh, wife Of Congress
man b. r. Marsh. died at ner home in
Warsaw. ILL.,, OF apoplexy. Mrs Marsh
was a sister-in-law of Chief Justice
Fuller, of the United States supreme
court.
The National Congress OF Mothers.
which had been in session for a week,
adjourned to meet in March, 1906. at
Los Angeles, Cal.
Gen. Joseph r. Hawley, for nearly
"a years United States senator from
Connecticut, died at his home in
Washington. Death came peacefully
after a stupor lasting for many hours.
Brief funeral services were held in
Washington over the remains of Gen.
and Former Senator Joseph r. Haw-
ley.
The greatest sympathy is expressed
by the British press and public for
Gen. Kuropatkin, and there is strong
criticisms for the curt manner of his
dismissal. without a word of thanks
for past services.
A drastic anti-cigarette bill previ-
ously passed by the Wisconsin assem-.
bly, was passed by the senate.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending March Is
number 1873. against 100 the previous
week, 1913 in the like week in 1904,
1874 in 1903 and 1877 in 1902. In Cana.
da failures for the week number 22,
against 40 the previous week
After having been in a deadlock for
one month over the election of a Unit
ed States senator to succeed Francis
NJ. Cockrell, the Missouri Legislature
at Is minutes before sine die adjourn
ment elected Maj. William Warner,
republican, of Kansas City, tn fill the
contested vacancy
Former President Cleveland cele-
brated mis- 6Sth birthday quietly at
his home. Westland, n. j., receiving
informally his friends among the uni
versity faculty.
The American Tobacco Co. will fight
the anti-cigarette law in Wisconsin.
Vesuvius is again in eruption and is
throwing out burning lava, red hot
stones and high column of smoke,
While detonations are heard at long
distances.
Secretary of State Hay was taken
Ill as he was about to beard the White
Star liner Cretic at New York for a
voyage to the Mediterranean, and be-
came so weak that he was taken on
board the steamer in q wheeled chair
President Schurman, of Cornell, was
advised that not single candidate
taking the qualifying examinations for
the 1905 Rhodes scholarship from New
York state passed.
Guests from the state Of Washing
ton, the national capital and other
cities attended the launching of the
armored cruiser Washington at the
yards of the New York Shipbuilding
Co., IN Camden. n. j.
Official advices are to the effect that
President Castro, of Venezuela, is
seeking to settle his complications
with Germany and Great Britain, prob
ably with a view to leaving him a
free hand in dealing with the compli-
cations with the United States and
France.
Advices from Caracas. Venezuela,
say that the superior court decided or
appeal March 10 that the New York
and Bermudez Asphalt Co. aided the
Matos revolution.
Stricken with heart disease. Alex
ander l.. Whitman, 67, a wholesale
grocer of Chicago. died while seated
by the side of his son. William r.
Whitman in a carriage at Washington
! G. H., o.
A conference of Pittsburg and Allie
! gheny city officers was he'd and at it's
close the announcement was made
that all opposition to- greater Pitts
burg had been removed.
Seventy members of the aristocracy
and court and representatives of the
vatican gave a farewell dinner to Am
erican Ambassador Meyer in Rome
Gen. Arthur Campbell Cummings. SO.
a conspicuous character in Virginias
military history, died at Abingdon. Va
J. NJ. Woodall dropped dead upon
viewing make-believe corpse at
school entertainment at Good Hope.
Ala. The impersonator of the corpse
was the real dead mans son
President Joseph Smith. i'm his les.
timony before the senate investigating
committee testified that he had re-.