The Holly chieftain., 1905-01-13
CONDENSED TELEcRAns

The japanese government has agreed
to nexotiate an arbitration treaty With
The Emperor and Empress Of ia
pan held brilliant New Years cere-
monies at the imperial palace.
Emperor William sent q long mes
sage Of congratulation to President
Roosevelt on New Years Day.
The Associated Press is authorized
to deny the rumored attempt on the
life OF Emperor Nicholas at Wilma.
Pasadena, California. held her sev-
enteenth annual Fiesta OF Flowers,
known as the Tournament Of Roses.
on January End.
The permanent exposition in the
City of Mexico, which 1t is expected
would be opened on January LIST. will
not be opened until February 1st.
Several slight shocks OF earth.
quake were experienced in San Fran
cisco on New Years Day. Plate glass
was shattered in q few buildings.
The New Year opened with severe
gales and billiards in some parts Of
Europe The festivities were badly In
terfered with in Switzerland and Aus
tria.
In q letter made public January LIST
Andrew Carnegie offers to give $685.
900 to replace the Maryland Institute
which was destroyed by fire last Feb
ruary.
A Berlin dispatch says that the dis
content in the Westphalian coal fields
has reached an acute stage, and a
general strike affecting $4,000 miners
is impending.
Andrew Carnegie has approved the
plans for the new st. Louis library
building and says his cashier has been
instructed to honor acquisitions up to
81, 100000 for 1t.
Statistics show that more than $780,
100000 worth of property in the United
States was destroyed by fire in 1904,
making the largest annual ash heap In
the history Of the country.
In a test case in Chicago Judge
Charles M. Walker decided that the
city Of Chicago Is not liable for dam
ages growing out Of the loss OF life In
connection with the IroQuois Theatre
fire.
Justice Olmstead of New York has
handed down an opinion in the Court
of Special Sessions, holding that the
new law against selling or giving away
street railway transfers is constitu-
tional.
That a cadet at West Point Is not
an officer OF the army in the meaning
of the law applying to the dismissal
OF such officers has just been decided
by the Supreme Court Of the United
States.
Charles J. Russell, who pleaded
guilty at Chicago to having used the
mails to promote wild cat" insurance
companies, was sentenced to one year
in the House of Correction and to pay
a fine of $500.
Mrs. Marion Weed, representative of
the International Council of Women
and the w. C. T. u, who has spent
three years studying conditions in
Utah, says that "Mormonism without
polygamy does not exist"
Francis H. Nichols of Chicago died
recently in Thibet. He was heading
for L'Hassa, the Forbidden City," and
started on his trip long before the
British expedition under Colonel
Younghusband was formed.
(! At East St. Louis Mrs. Margaret
Trailor, aged eighty-three. who for
several months had predicted that she
would die as the bells heralded the
dawn of the New Year, died at the
! home of her daughter January 1st
] while the bells were ringing.
Capt. F. X. Fall of the British ship
Lonsdale recently arrived at Los An
geles, tells story Of picking up twen-
| ty-three castaways at sea who had
been drifting about near Cape Horn
for over a week. They had abandoned
the British collier Eivion, which had
| burned at sea.
In excavating for the foundation of
the new National Theatre In the City
! of Mexico, an ancient fountain has
been found covered with hieroglyphics
and on which are figures Of Indian
warriors, priests, etc. The foundations
| of some ancient buildings of great size
also were discovered.
James F. Secor, builder Of the Mare
Island navy yard in San Francisco. the
| Pensacola navy yard and many Of the
| monitors. ironclads and dry docks
|. which contributed SO largely toward
! putting an end to the Civil War, died
| in New York City December 2Sth. He
was ninety years old.
The introduction to the reports of
three prominent physicians whom the
New York Herald sent to Cuba to in.
vestigate yellow fever, says there had
been yellow fever in Cuba every month
for 200 years, until the United States
took charge, and that 1t is now reap
| pearing under lax management.
Attorney General Hayes of Ken