The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

All the foreign bluejackets who have
been patrolling the foreign conces-
siOns At Shanghai have been with
drawn.
The Topeka & Northwestern rail-
road, branch of the Union Pacific
from Topeka to Onaga, Kansas. was
completed on the 14th inst.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth, the newspa-
was conferred last month, has taken
the title of Baron Northcliffe.
Col. Robert G. Lowe, owner and
publisher of the Galveston News, died
on the 18th inst at the age of seventy.
He also started the Dallas News.
Representative Binger Hermann OF
Oregon will be tried in the courts of
the District of Columbia for completely
in the land frauds in Oregon in March.
John H. Converse of Philadelphia
has endowed the chair Of homiletics
and pastoral theology of the Presbyte-
rian theological seminary of Omaha
with $4,000.
Mrs. Lucy E. Polk, the venerable
widow of Col. William H. Polk, and
sister-in-law of President Polk. was
on the 18th inst.
Sir Thomas Upton will build an
other yacht and try for the Americas
cup again. At least, he is said to be
laying plans for SO doing. Three
times and out" doesn't seem to hold in
his case.
James Brown Scott OF California,
professor of law at Columbia Univer-
sity, New York, has been appointed
solicitor Of the state department at
Washington to succeed Judge Pentield
resigned.
Morales, the fugitive president of
Santo Domingo, is refugee with the
American consul there. He wants safe
conduct from the country, which will
be granted if he resigns from office.
Morales leg is broken.
Secretary Bonaparte approved the
sentence of dismissal imposed by
court martial at Annapolis in the case
of Midshipman Trenmor Coffin on con.
viction of hazing and ordered his dis
missal from the academy.
The first Methodist and Trinity
Methodist churches Of Chicago con-
template the erection OF skyscraper
building to cost a million dollars and
to contain huge auditorium to be
used for church purposes.
The new estimates of the cotton
crop OF Mexico reduce the amount to
10000 bales, which shows far less than
was at first anticipated. Much cotton
may be lost in the Laguna district, ow-
ing to the scarcity of pickers.
Operations have been begun in
Homestead borough, Pennsylvania,
for the erection of the large steel mills
recently authorized by the United
States Steel corporation. An expendi-
ture of $7,00O,0O0 will be made.
J. C. Napier, the negro lawyer and
banker of Nashville, who was recently
offered the position of United States
consul at Bahia, Brazil, called on the
President and thanked him for the
proposed appointment, but declined 1t.
At the funeral of President Harper,
late head of the University of Chicago,
on the 14th instant, the floral tributes
included wreaths from President
Roosevelt, Emperor William Of Ger
many and many other distinguished
persons.
Sir Edwin Cornwall, chairman OF the
London County Council, has issued to
the press a proposal for an interna-
tional congress of representatives OF
capitals having over 100000 population
to meet annually for the discussion of
municipal methods.
Secretary Taft has been for several
weeks endeavOring to reduce his
weight and announced that when he
began the treatment he weighed 314A
pounds. Now he weighs 294ss pounds,
reduction attained principally
through careful diet
General Nogi, who has just arrived
at Toxic from Manchuria, was given a
popular reception similar in enthusi-
asm to that accorded Admiral Togo.
Cheering crowds lined the streets as
the general and his staff drove in i'm
perial carriages to the palace.
John A. Mccall, former president of
the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, has mortgaged his palatial home
at Long Branch for $4,000 and given
his check for $4,000 to replace the
sum of s235,oOO intrusted to Andrew
Hamilton for political purposes.
Mexico, through her representative
now in Philadelphia, Senior Francisco
Valdez. has concluded a contract with
the Philadelphia mint, under which the
mint is to coin s4,000,000 worth of gold
which Mexico has been accommodating
for nearly two years. The high price
of silver makes this favorable time
TO dispose of silver dollars.
John Houston, NJ. P, for Nelson,
who disappeared few months ago
and was later located at Goldfeld, Ne
vada, returned to claim his seat in the
British Columbia Legislature. AS a
member of that body creditors are I'M
able to proceed against Houston for a
month prior, a month after, or during
the session of the House.
The Sixth United States field battery
has just finished march of 1,1OO
miles, from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort
Sam Houston, Texas, making the en-
tire distance in fifty-flve days. This is
claimed to be record time for long
distance pra.tice march of artillery.
Both horses and men were badly
fatigued, having encountered storms,
! floods and billiards..
The Cotton Association at New Or,
ieans adopted the report of its COM
mittee recommending that the balance
of the crop Of 1905-0G be held for Is
cents a pound. A joint committee OF
bankers and farmers from each state
and territory is to carry the plans into
effect. Cooperation with the growers
IS i,ln nd & nrnviHnd