Mount Vernon signal., 1905-09-15
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Work is to begin at an early date
on a million daliar passenger sta
ton at Birmingham, Ala.
Dispatches from Toxic says lie
city is quiet and orderly, and it Is
believed there will be no resump-
ton of rioting.
Godfrey Guntle, aged seventy
years, living near Charlottesville,
Ind, shot his wife, aged 90 years
through the heart and then killed
himself.
The Rand Powder Mills at Fair
Chance, Pa, were destroyed Satur-
day by an explosion, which killed
nineteen of the thirty two men at
work in the plant.
There is a belief in Washington
that the railroad rate agitation is
likely to result in drastic legisla-
ton against private car lines at the
coming Congress
Estimates of the losses to the
oil companies at Baku through the
recent rioting there give an aggre
gate OF 500. 900, 900. The situa-
ton is still serious.
Senator Beveridge, in discussing
the outcome of the recent peace
conference, says that President
Roosevelt is the most powerful
figure in the world today.
Samuel Horn, the thirteenth
member of the family of ABB aham
Cripe, in Fulton county, Ind, to
meet with a violent death, was kill
ed while hauling logs.
Adam Rapp. of Wlndfall, Ind,
was awarded 81 damages in his
suit against w. {. Legg in a horse
deal, while the court cost TO Legg
will aggregate SI,4S2.
The Japanese Government has
ordered the suspension OF three
newspapers published respectively
at Kofu, Migata and Otaru, for
criticising the peace treaty.
The new line of the Louisville
and Southern Indiana Traction
Company. connecting Louisville.
JeffersoDville and New Albany.
were formally opened Tuesday.
An official bulletin issued Satur-
day at Berlin announced that nine
teen new cases of cholera and seven
deaths We're reported during the
twenty-four hours ending at noon.
Director of tine Mint Roberts
estimates an increase of $1,000, 900
i'll gold production in 1904 over the
previous year. He estimates the
increase i'll silver at 3,4S6,ooo fine
ounces.
Baron Komura. the chief envoy
of the Japanese Emperor, is i'll in
New York and the japanese COM
have Cancelled or post
poned all social engagements in
consequence.
Twenty seven new cases aud sew
en- deaths from yellow fever was
the Sunday record in New Orleans.
One of the deaths was Father L. E.
Green, distinguished Catholic
A dispatch from Godzyadani,
says Field Marshal
Oyama has sent a letter to Gen.
Linevi:ch congratulating him on
the conclusion of pesce and asking
him to appoint Russian plenipo
Ientiaries to arrange an armistice.
A deal has been closed at CIarks-
Vile. Tenn by which the Italian
Government gets another 5000
hogsheads of tobacco About
$500, 900 is involved in the deal.
which is said to have been made by
he Dark Tobacco Growers Asso
,iation.
A. H. Brown, WHO has had the
Monte Carlo privilege at French
Lick Hotel. is reported to have
broken with the management on
he question of rental, and to have
lad plans drawn for another hotel
It French Lick, which will cost
s2oo, 900.
President Roosevelt Saturday
made public the report of the Keep
in the recent investi
cation of the affairs of the Govern
nent printing office. ''Improvi
lence" and maladministration
re the strongest charges made
gainst former Public Priuter Palm
r. The wives of two Of his as
istants, it is stated, are stockhold-
rs in the Lanston Monotype Com {
amy. The President directs a
peci6c inquiry into that feature of !
he case. Il