The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-12-07

succeed Herbert Squiers, who has re-
signed. Mr.. Squiers' retirement is
based upon some i'll feeling which has
arisen in Cuba over his attitude toward
annexation and the Isle of Pines.
Information to the effect that there
is a strong movement on foot in Wash
ington, backed by President Roosevelt,
to institute federal investigation of
the Standard Oil company and its al
lied interests was received by several
prominent New York financiers.
The annual report made by the cleo
trio light commissioners of Cumber-
land, Me, shows that the city's lighting
bills have been cut nearly two-thirds
since the erection of the municipal
plant Lights are cheaper there than in
any city in the country.
According to a bulletin issued by the
census bureau, about Jog persons out of
a thousand in the United States over
ten years old are unable to write. We
compare we'll with foreign countries
save Germany Sweden, Norway, Den
mark and Switzerland.
The New York Press said that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's friends announced
that he is planning to succeed Senator
| Platt in 1909, when the term of the lat
ter expires. The president is also said
to favor Secretary Root for the next
president.
In reply to questions from number
of local health officers the New York
state department of health declares
that properly conducted sanitariums
for consumptiyes are not menace to
| the neighborhoods where they are stu
! ated.
Franklin Lane, who has been nomi-
mated as interstate commerce commits
sioner, is a Democrat, and his appoint
ment will change the political complex
! ion of the interstate commerce commits
sion from Republican to Democratic.
Governor Higgins has appointed Hen
ry N. Rockwell of Yonkers a member
of the New York state board of rail
road commissioners. Mr.. Rockwell is
conductor of the Second Empire State
Express" on the New York Central.
There was an increase during the
month of November of 632 rural free
delivery routes established making tie
total in operation at the present ;iine
34,316 More than 1000 petitions re-
main to be acted upon.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that
there is strong probability that with
in the next six months many steel
plants may be closed from lack of ferro
manganese, which is mined almost ex-
clusively in Russia.
Some unknown person hurled heavy
iron plumb bob through Il window of
one of the cars of President Roosevelt's
special train, on which he was return
ing from Princeton to Washington. No
one was hurt.
The New York American says that
State Superintendent of Public Works
n. V. V. Franchot is the Roosevelt
Higgins choice for OdeIl's post as chair
man of the New York Republican state
committee.
With the closing of the football sea-
son the announced list of dead and in
jured exceeds all previous annual rec
ords. Twenty players were killed, 1873
seriously injured and forty permanent
ly hurt
August Belmont and his associates
in horse racing have acquired in the
state of New Hampshire three square
miles of territory and will maintain
a race track there, according to report.
/ It has become known that Judge AL
fred f. Skinner of the Essex county
IN. j. court of common pleas sent his
resignation to Governor Stokes and
that the resignation has been accepted.
Philippe Bunau- Vanilla, former min
lister of Panama and one time chief
engineer of the Panama canal, assert
ed that a Panama canal of the lock
1 type could be completed in four years.
According to the official PRONUNCIATION
! of the census of New Jersey, the pop
/ ulation of the state is 2,114, 143, a gain
of 269,474 since the taking of the fed
! eral census in 1900
James B. Tracy, young lawyer of
/ Taunton, Mass, who has worked his
way up to the practice of law from a
bootblack stand, is making fight for
election as mayor.
Driven almost frantic by the itch
from bedbug bite, Chester HALFWAY,
young farmer residing near Marietta,
o., scratched the tiny wound and died
in awful agony.
Thirty of the leading seed dealers of
the country have sent President Roose-
welt a petition protesting against the
free distribution of seeds by members
of congress.
Lee w. De Forest, inventor Of the
De Forest wireless telegraph system,
says the wireless transmission of pow
er is not wild dream, but scientific
possibility.
1t is learned on good authority that
steps are being taken to form a trust
of the hay and grain dealers in Greater
New York with a view of advancing
prices
According to a Washington newspa-
per, the Republican national committee