The Grit-advocate., 1906-07-06

A telegram from San Francisco to
the chairman of the Minneapolis relief
committee denounces the Red Cross
finance committee regarding the re-
cent sale of flour sent to the sufferers
Harry Thaw, the young millionaire
of Pittsburg. Pa. shot and instantly
killed Stanford White. New York
architect during-a performance at the
Madison Square Roof Garden recently.
The cause of the tragedy is not known.
After July 81 Of this year no more
saloons than are in existence can be
cpened in Chicago until the popula-
ton of the city is nearly double that
of the present time. according to an
ordinance passed by the city council.
The senate bill which repeals the
so-called % hour law, by fixing the
maximum of time in transit for stock
at 36 hours upon the written request
of the owner or person in charge OF
the particular shipment has passed.
The board of health has directed
the owners of 81 out of III slaughter
houses in various sections of Philade!-
phia to abandon their establishments.
Conditions, it is charged. were un-
sanitary.
The Nebraska, Kansas and Okla
homa headquarters OF the rural free
delivery department of the postottice
sas City.
1t is stated that President Roose-
welt has decided to appoint ]. S. Har-
Ian, of Illinois, E. B. Clark of Iowa.
| and Franklin Lane Of California as
the new members of the interstate
commerce commission when the new
rate bill takes effect.
Conferences are being held in
Washington by United States district
attorneys preparatory to filing the
criminal suits which are to be brought
by the government against the Stand
ard Oil company.
President Roosevelt has approved
the resolution passed by congress eX-
pressing the horror of the people OF
the United States over the massacre
of Jews in Russia.
Lewis Embry Jr has been nomina-
ted by the democrats of Pennsylvania
for governor. Mr.. Embry had pre-
viously been nominated by the Lincoln
republicans for the same office.
Nearly every building in the town
| of TittZewah, Ok, has been practi-
cally demolished by tornado Many
people took refuge in cyclone caves
and no person was injured.
The correspondent at ConstantinoDle
of the Standard reports that Turkey
has decided to take measures to sup
press the Creek bands wifsh are dis.
,urbing Macedonia.
Attorney General Moody has directed
that suits be brought against a large
number Of railroad companies to re-
cover penalties for violation of tha
safety appliance law.
| Chairman Shon;s. of the canal cCm-
mission has expressed the opinion
| that the Panama canal will be COM
| peted in eight years
! At the hearing Of the Dowic csse IN
| Chicago a teller of the Zion City bank
testified that Dowie's account was
overdrawn $4Sl, ,o37 and that for the
last seven years Dowie had drawn
money from the bank at the rate of
| SS4, 900 a year.
John Clark. superintendent of a
Red Cross relief station in San Fran
| cisco, has been arrested for selling
large quantities of relief blankets and
appropriating the money
Seven tramps captured a freight
train near Glendale, Ohio, and at the
point of revolvers forced the GREY to
leave They ran the train ten miles
and then abandoned it.
| Havard defeated Yale in the annual
varsity boat race at New London
Conn, by two lengths and a hale
Harvards time was 23:O2 and Yale's
23:l1.
For the year 1905 Andrew Carnegia's
gifts to libraries in the United States
nubered 2l1 and amount to over S.,
100000
The emperor of Russia is now vir.
Itually Il prisoner in his palace, only
driving within the grounds. He is sur.
rounded only by his most trusted ser,
wants and has the imperial yach,
always ready to sail at a moments no
tice. Wireless communication with
several fortresscs is maintained
Harry X. Thaw pleaded not guilty
when arraigned for the murder Oi
Stanford White in New York recently
Over two inches of rain fell in Lon.
don in eight hours recently constitut.
ing record. Many districts were
flooded and people We're driven from
their homes, the underground rail
roads We're inundated and traffic wa.
stopped.
Custer proceedings have been insti
tuted by Circuit Attorney Sager against
the Celia Commission company of st
, Louis. Mr.. Sager asks that all pro
, perty of the firm be forfeited to tbs
, state.
, 1t is stated that Gar Nicholas will
attend with emperor William the en-
tire maneuvers OF the German fleet
near the end of July.
William Patrick, of PridmOnt, Kan.
, has surrendered to the military au.
thoritics at Fort Logan his l9-year-
son. who had deserted from til,
army.
The last report from the dry doci
Dewey received at the navy depart
ment shows it to be within 1900 mile
l of Manila