The Grit-advocate., 1905-09-29
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

tanned by King Alfonso.
The Russian losses on ships at Port
Arthur. Vladivostok and the sea Of ia
pan. according to official statistics
amount to s113.000,000.
The Canadian Pacific railroad direc-
tors have refused an offer of $4,000.
GOO for the remainder of the company's
arabic lands in the Canadian West
Fire on the 18th inst. destroyed the
mechanical shops at the agricultural
college Of Utah. entailing loss OF $780,
900. which is partly covered by insur-
ance.
William Waldorf Astor has filed
claim against the city of New York for
! sl.0OO,0O0. asserting that his property
here has been damaged by the chang
ing Of grades.
Miss Nan Patterson, the actress, has
married her former husband. Leon G.
Martin, from whom she was divorced
/ three years ago. Martin is manager
OF hotel in New York.
The next meeting of the American
board OF commissioners for foreign
missions of the Congregational Church
will ae held jointly at North Adams
and Williamstown, Massachusetts.
/ Acting Postmaster General Shellen-
barger recently issued an order ex-
cluding from the mails for Canada
thirty-eight monthly and weekly pub
locations 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 M2nchuria, to foreign trade.
The American consul general at
Seoul, Korea, reports the death in that
city July 26, 1906, of Arthur Sturgis
DiXy, private secretary to Edward G.
Morgan. American minister to Korea.
iucatan adyices show that the de-
mand from the United States for Hen
equin fibre is greater than the supply.
Henequin planters propose forming a
society for promoting their interests.
1t is understood at London that the
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 to America.
Bud Rogan, the Tennessee negro
giant, died at his home at Gallatin OH
the 18th inst. Rogan 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.
Large orders for steel rails for deliv-
cry next year have recently been
booked by Pittsburg concerns. Some
Of these orders, it is said, are from
western railroads, indicating an unpre-
cedented demand in the West.
Tne Hawaii promotion committee
has addressed a letter to Secretary Of
the Navy Bonaparte, urging the assem-
bling of the Pacific and Asiatic squad
rons at Honolulu for target practice,
fleet formations and evolutions.
Rain-in-the-Face, one of the leading
chiefs in the Custer massacre, and who
is said personally to have killed Cen
eral Custer, died at the Standing Rock
reservation, South Dakota, September
18th. He was siXty-two years old.
Postal receipts for the fifty largest
cities in the United States, compiled
by the third assistant postmaster gen.
eral, aggregated for the month of Aug
ust $5,S19,151, against 1884 ,917 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 E. Clark. president Of
the Union Society of Christian En-
! deavor records advancement. There
are C3,003 affiliated societies, an in
crease OF 231 since the last convention.
The International Steam Engineers
Union, in annual convention at To-
ronto. passed a resolution urging the
exclusion of Chinese, Japanese and 10
reans from the United States and Can
ada. 1t was also resolved that unde-
| sirable emigrants from Europe should
be excluded.
| DR.. d. P. Pearsons of Chl-ago has
| given $4,000 TO the Montana College
and School of Manual Arts at Deer
Lodge, Montana. Some months ago
| DR.. Pearsons informed the trustees of
the school that Re would give them
$4,000 if they would raise an adj
tional $4,000.
| According to preliminary figures OF
lowa's state census the state mad a to-
tai population January /, 1905. of O.
| POI ,372, loss of 30,4S1 since the cen
sus of 1900, when the state was accreI.
tied with population of 2,231 ,S53.
| Practically all Of the larger cities and
counties showed gains. The loss was
almost entirely in rural sections.
Policeman George ,Jiminez of New
York City has been anpOinted chief of