The Ordway new era., 1905-09-15
CONDENSED rELEeRAns

sentember LIST throughout ~
mart of Wisconsin. resulting ID
heavy damage. 80 a..
Tho announcement is made tnat .ne
1rnitad states Steel Company mas w
c,dad 10 maintain the price OF n.sV'
raIIs TO its customers for 1906 ~ sSe
ton. p.u.
c-.,, ,,,erest is being taken at Phil
sa,nbIa over the correction OF the reg.
,stration list. IL Is stated that oo'voV
bogus names will be s'rieken y" ~
rolls.
Frank C. Graves. formerly financial
writer on a New York newspaper mas mas
inst paid $4,000 for seat on the
New York stock exchange. This
the highest price ever paid
The populatlon OF Massachusetts IL
. COS OBS. an increase OF 49s.115 over
ISS5 when the last official census was
taken. Boston's population is bs3.oss.
an increase OF eG.67S in ten years.
King oscar has conferred the honor
OF knishthood OF the Royal Order o.
| Vasn upon D. Lowenstein OF Memphis.
Tennessee. Mr.. Lowenstein has been
n constant visitor to Sweden for Twelve
wears.
Tho coinage executed at the mints
OF the United States during August
was: Gold. s9.O2O,O00: silver, sle3.'
900: Panama hall balboas. 100000
pieces: Philippine pesos, 4V2'Ooo
[ pieces.
The war Department has approved
/ the plans for the building OF n new ar
uucry post at the Preside. near san
| Francisco. and STj0,000 VIII be eS'
pended for this purpose within the
next year.
The porte has replied 10 tho note o'
l the six embassies, declining TO accept
I the scheme proposed by them for the
financial control OF Macedonia. The
| powers Will insist on the acceptance o:
the scheme.
on the recommendation OF Grand
/ Duke Vladimir. the emperor has par.
I dOned Prokope. who was sentenced TO
! death for the assassination OF Colonel
Krcmareuko. chief OF police OF V!borg
on July 22d last.
Total industrial dividends PAYABLE In
September Will rise above si0.450,00O.
according to statistics gathered by the
Journal OF Commerce. This Is an in
September n year ago.
More Americans have visited the
Yellowstone National Park this sum.
mcr than ever before. II Is estimated
that 10000 persons have been in tho
park since the season opened. The
record last year was $4,000.
The German postal authorities. who
have always been very progressive.
and who for some time have been ex
perimcutinG with automobiles. have de.
cided to put these modern vehicles In
use on all rural delivery routes.
Secretar, Bonaparte has issued an
order for n court martial TO try Com.
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade, on charges growing
out OF the fatal explosion on the gun.
boat Bennington at San Diego in July.
The Hartman lines have given an
order in Chicago for seveuty-nve chair
cars. 10 cost about S750.000. They Will
be used ON the system west OF ogden
tho southern Pacific. Oregon Short
Line. Shasta route and Pacific coast
lines.
President Paul Morton reports that
the Equitable socloty's business has
fallen less than ten per cent. In the
United States and Canada during tho
seven months ending August J.. 1905,
as compared with the corresponding
period of last year.
Edward ]. Lewis. the defaulting real
estate broker OF Wheaton. Illinois, who
by duplicate mortgages swindled
widows and ether poor persons to tho
extent ~ 100000. was taken to the
Joliet penitentlary to serve long sen.
tence. Lewis secrtly went before
Judge Bishop OF Wheaton and pleaded
guilty.
More than 10000 acres OF land on
the Uinta reservation had been filed
upon as homesteads up to September
I'd by persons who drew lucky mum.
bers In the recent drawing at Provo
So Ear the names of sos persons enti
tied 10 make filings have been called
Mt the land office. and of these 3Sl
nave responded and FLEA on home
steads
The Carnegie Steel Company. which
Is sub-company of the United States
Steel corporation, has ordered in every
blast furnace capable OF being ope
rated. The demand for pig iron is sc
great that the steel corporation wants
TO get into operation its total capacity
1t is not improbable that the Carnegie
company will run 100 blast furnace.
for q time.
The amalgamat!on of the lumber in
terests. inteHded principally to operate
In the redwood districts on the Pacifi,
coast. was effected at Detroit Angus
31st and the Pacific Lumber Compan,
was organized, with capitalization O
$4,000, 900. Articles OF incorporation
VIII be filed under the laws Of Milne
The new company is an out rowth o
the Pacific company Of New Jersey.
The new 16.0O0-ton battIeship yer
mont. built for the United States GOV
ernment by the Fore River Shipbuild
Ing Company at Quincy. Massachu