The Ordway new era., 1906-04-06
CONDENSED 1ELEeaAms


By an explosion In the Takashima
coaI mine. near Nagasaki. Japan.
March 2Sth. $50 miners were killed.
While at Toxic last month. Jacob H.
ocnin. the New York banker. was dec
GRATED with the order OF the Rising
sun py the Emperor Of Japan.
Senator Tillman has announced that
ne VIII make his campaign In South
Carolina on the issue that the state
liquor laws must be amended.
Representative Jones OF Washing.
ION mas introduced bill to compel all
vessels to carry oil and machinery for
distributing 1t during storms.
Count Zeppelin is to build another
Airship. Despite his failure. the Ger.
man army will furnish him with the
funds to continue his experiments.
At University of Wisconsin demon
stration In Indignation over the faculty
hostility to football. leading anti-foot-
ball professors were burned in efiigy.
Mrs. Marietta Chaplin Pearsons, wife
| of DIR. Pearsons, who has given mil
lions OF dollars to aid small colleges.
died at Hinsdale. Illinois. on the Both
alt.
A fishing boat struck a floating mine
March 26th on the coast OF the prov
lnce OF Echizen. Japan. and was blown
up. Seven of her crew OF ten men are
missing.
The administration building, the
| main structure OF the University OF
Idaho. burned March 30th. The loss is
estimated at 100000. There was
| 100000 insurance.
A gift OF s6G5.OO will accrue to Tus-
kegee Institute. Alabama. by the will
of the late Andrew T. Dotger. retired
merchant of New York City. who died
two months ago at his home. South
| Orange. New Jersey.
Spain is suffering from drought
which has ruined all agriculture and
thrown no less than 100000 laborers
out of work. The famous province of
Andalusia has had no rain since the
first week in January.
The first OF the trials of persons con
! ccrned In the rioting and massacres
in February. 1905. at Baku, Russia. re-
suited April LIST In the conviction OF
two men, who were sentenced to six
years penal servitude.
The date for the national encamp-
ment OF the United States war veter.
ans in Washington has been fixed for
October sth. and throughout the week.
The President will address the veter-
ans and review the parade.
When Joe Transfer. an old offender
was brought before the police judge at
Remington, Kansas, on the charge of
having been intoxicated, the judge
fined him 81 and ordered that he be
confined to his bed for n week. Mar
shal Horath took Transfer home and
put him to bed.
Fifteen hundred Russian students OF
| both sexes are starving in Paris as an
| indirect consequence OF the Russian
revolution. The majority have been
| living on remittances received from
home, but for a long time they have
been without news.
BY a storm uprooting an apple tree
at English, Indiana, $4,000 OF the treas
ure hidden by George Patten forty
years ago was unearthed. This hnd
| caused the search to be renewed by his
| family, and few days since the DIS
| coyery of $4,000 more was made.
Figures furnished by the bureau OF
| statistics. Department of Commerce
| and Labor, show that the value OF the
commerce between the United States
| and the Philippines for the present cal
| endar wear is likely to reach $20,0OO,
600. against $15, 100000 for the preced-
ing year.
Mrs. Lucy II. Boardmcn, WIDOW Oh
| w. w. Boardman, died at new haveh'
| Connecticut. March 18th, aged eisn.y-
six. Mrs, Boardman during her NE
o.ve away larger sums In charity and
benefactions than probably any other
woman in Connecticut. They are esti-
mated at $75O,00o.
Baron Loicu De Lobel, In order to
meet the wishes of the Russian ma,
| tional defense committee. has altered
| his Bering strait tunnel and siberian
railway project to make the rai,r0as oa,i
run due east from Kansk to the liu,h
degree of longitude and thehce noi'A
| easterly to Yakutsk.
After n protracted session at Des
| Moines the representatives OF the CLUBS
In the western Baseball League agreed
unon n schedule. A resolution was
nassed requiring each club to post
| $4,000 guarantee that 1t would hnisn
| tn eseason. The pannant was voted 10
the Des Moines team.
| Mai H. B. Hersey. director OF the
,,oother bureau at Milwaukee ana In
srector of the western stations, re-
Gently received a telegram from WASH
ineton instructing him to report US
soon as possible at Washington to pre-
nsrs 10 accompany the Wellman ex-
nedition in search OF the nortn pore.
Minister OF Public Work Hyman OF
Canada has announced federal poncy
Tor water power which Will preven. .ne
sxportation OF power from tne Niasana s,,a
Fails to an extent which wonio !na s.alSo ~.
| Canadian Industries. 1t is Also a.t .no
| tention of the government 70 p.s' tha
the spoliation of the scenery % 'A'
falls.
| A. os,cial dispatch received Ct ber.
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