The Globe-republican., 1906-03-22
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LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Harry Pillsbury, the noted chess
player, is in hospital in Philadelphia
suffering from stroke of apoplexy
followed by an attack Of paralysis.
The funeral of DR.. Manuel Quintan,
president of the Argentine Republic,
took place at Buenas Ayres. Mourn
ing emblems were displayed through
out the city.
The condition Of Francis Kossuth,
leader of the united opposition in the
Hungarian diet, Is causing anxiety to
his friends. He is suffering from an
attack of govt.
The business meeting of the Ameri.
can Association of General Baggage
Agents at Los Angeles discussed the
question of excess baggage. Papers
were read and speeches made.
The total loss in the fifteen prov
inces investigated by special COM
missions inquiring into the Agrarian
troubles of last year was $15,5OO,OOO
and not $155,OOO,OOO as reported.
Col. Knight, Major General Woods
chief of staff, has returned from
reconnaissance of the situation in
China. He reports that there is abso.'
lutely no danger of trouble and that
tranquility abounds.
Senator La Toilette introduced bill
making 1t the duty of the interstate
commerce commission to prescribe the
maximum number Of hours above
which common carrier shall not re-
quire or permit employees to remain
on duty.
The Daily Telegraph correspondent
at Toxic says that as result Of party
meetings the passage of the railway
naturalization bill by the diet is now
assured. The same correspondent
says that the dowager empress of Chi.
ma has subscribed $4,000 to the ia.
mine fund.
In London the committee having in
charge the celebration, on April 20, of
the fiftieth anniversary of Ellen
Terry's connection with the stage, In
cludes all of the leading actor-manag-
ers, Charles Frohman, Clepr Cole
ridge, the author and artist, and many
other influential men.
In the Department of Justice and
the Bureau of Corporations there is
unmixed satisfaction over the SUI
preme court decision, not only be-
cause of the immediate effect of the
decision, but because Of the way in
which thy smooth the path of the
government in cases not yet begun.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, member
of parliament for the Ailsbury division
of Bucks, speaking at Gresham on the
question of exclusion Of aliens and the
number Of poor Russian refugees ex-
cluded from Great Britain the last few
months said he possessed evidence
that every one of these men sent back
was shot at the Russian frontier with
out trial.
Secretary Bonaparte has received
the report of the court of inquiry to
investigate the general mix up of war
ships in the harbor of New York Janu.
airy last. The report will not be
made public until after Secretary
Bonaparte has acted upon It. 1t is
known, however, that the court found
that the grounding and subsequent
collision were accidental and not due
to carelessness or inefficiency on the
part of officers.
At the consular reform convention
Secretary Root spoke in favor of an
consular service. The con-
ventioh adopted resolutions fully ap.
proving the bill introduced by Senat-
Or Lodge, The resolutions conclude
by expressing regrets that one of the
vital provisions of that bill have been
removed from 1t" and ask that the
provision authorizing the president to
.ransfer consuls from one point to an
,ther in the same grade, be reincorpo-
'ated in the bill.
In a signed statement made at Shi.
oh house, in Zion City, Gladstone
0owie, categorically denied that a
separation between his parents had
aiken place or was impending. He
llso issued a general denial of the re-
,orts that have been current the last
wo days of incidents pointing to the
speedy disintegration Of Zion.
Secretary Taft returned to Wash,
ngton from New York, where he con.
ulted with his brothers regarding
he question Of acceptance of place
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