The Ordway new era., 1905-09-29
CONDENSED 1ELEeRAms

pan. according TO oihciai s'"'''
amount to $ll3.OOo.o0o'
Ibe Canadian Pacific railroad alio on
TORS have refused an oner OF s,o.oov.
ooo for the remainder OF the company
arabic lands In the Canadian "es@
Fire ON the 18th inst. destroyed tne
uecbnnical shops at the agricuiturm
college of Utah, entailing loss OF soV.'
oon which is partly covered by ihsu''
ance.
William Waldorf Astor has MEG
claim against the city oil New io,h .ss
81, ,OOO, 900, asserting that MS pfopeIS
here has been damaged by inc ehAns
ing OF grades.
Nliss Nan Patterson. the actress, mas
married her former husband. Leon v.
Martin, from whom she was diVofcco
three years ago. Martin Is manager
OF a hotel in New YORK.
The next meeting OF the American
hoard of commissioners for foreign
missions of the Congregational Church
will he held Jointly at North Adams
and Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Acting Postmaster General Shellen'
barger recently issued an order eh
Guiding from the mails for Canada
thirty-eight monthly and weeRlS pup
licatlons unless postage is prepaid
The correspondent OF the London
Morning Telegraph at Shanghai says
China has decided to open Ninguta.
Hunchun, Kirin. Hwantun and Tsitsi'
har, in Manchuria. TO foreign trade.
| Tho American consul general at
/ Seoul, Korea. reports the death In that
| city July &c. 1905. of Arthur SturBis
/ Dixy, private secretary to Edward u.
! Morgan. American minister TO Korea.
! Yucatan adyices show that the de-
mand from tho United States for Hen
| equin fibre Is greater than the supply.
/ Henequin planters propose forming n
society for promoting their interests.
1t is understood at London that tho
/ Duke OF Connaught has asked Field
/ Marshal Lord Roberts to accompany
him TO South Africa in November.
hence the latter's postponement OF his
/ trip 10 America.
Bud Rogan, the Tennessee negro
giant, died at his home at Gallatin on
the 18th inst. Rosan was eight feet.
nine inches tall. His hands were
twelve inches in length and feet six.
teen and one-half inches.
Isaac Schamus. who was arrested at
Oyster Bay after having made efforts
TO see the President In order to pre-
sent to him plan for handling the an.
thracite coal output. was declared In
sane after an examination.
1 Large orders for steel rails for deliv-
cry next year have recently been
booked by PittsburS concerns. Some
OF these orders. 1t is said. are from
western railroads. indicating an unpre-
cedented demand In the West.
Tue Hawaii promotion committee
/ has addressed letter to Secretary OF
/ the Navy Bonaparte, urging the assem-
bling of the Pacific and Asiatic squad
rons at Honolulu for target practice.
feet formations and eyolutions.
Rain.in.the-Face. one OF the leading
chiefs in the Custer massacre. and who
is said personally TO have killed Gem
eral Custer. died at the Standing Rock
reservation. South Dakota. September
/ 18th. He was siNty.two years old.
Postal receipts for the fifty largest
cities in the United States. complied
by the third assistant postmaster gen.
| eral, aggregated for the month OF Aug
ust s5.Sl9.l5l. against s5,33i.9l7 for
the corresponding month in 1904. or an
increase OF 81 per cent
A dispatch from Buenos .Ayres says
/ that the Argentine Parliament has ap-
proved the substitution of Vigo for
Lisbon as port of call for the subsi.
died line OF rapid Transatlantic steam
ers, which are expected to make the
voyage In thirteen days.
The quarterly report on the progress
Of the Christian Endeavor movement
by Rev. Francis T.. Clark. president OF
the Union Society of Christian En-.
deavor records advancement. There
arc G3,003 affiliated societies. an In
crease of 231 since the last convention
The International Steam Engineers
Union. in annual convention at To
ronto. passed resolution urging the
exclusion OF Chinese, Japanese and Ko
reans from the United States and Can
ada. II was also resolved that unde
sirable emigrants from Europe should
be excluded.
Dr. ID. r. Pearsons OF Chicago ha.
given $25.000 to the Montana College
and School OF Manual Arts at Dee,
Lodge, Montana. Some months agt
DIR. Pearsons informed the trustees O
the school that be would give then
S25.00O II they would raise an add
tional $4,000.
According to preliminary figures O
Iowa's state census the state mad a to
tai population January /, 1905, Of 2
2Ol,372 a loss Of 30.4S1 since the cen
sus of 1900, when the state was accrey
tied with population Of 2.231, ,S6s
Practically all Of the larger cities an,
counties showed gains. The loss wa
almost entirely in rural sections.
Policeman Georgr Jiminez Of Ne,
York City has been appointed chief O
police of Panama. He is the secon
chief selected from the New Yor
, force for the Republic Of Panama, Tn
first. Burner Dafecflvo- aaru.s - n