The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-09
CONDENSED IELEGRAMs

Rome, denies that the Dowager Queen
Margherita is going to The United
States in the spring.
A waterspout descended upon Ma
hanora in the island of Madagascar
February 21st. entirely destroying the
village and drowning many persons.
The citizens of Bath, England, have
decided by vote OF two to one
against the acceptance of Andrew Car
negie's offer of $65,000 for public
library.
Old North College at Middleton,
Connecticut, belonging to the Wes-
leyan University, was burned March
lst. 1t contained $50 rooms and was
erected in 1927.
The premier of Japan. Marquis
Saionji, temporarily will assume the
portfolio of foreign minister, made va
cant by the resignation recently of
Count Takahiro Kato.
The San Francisco board OF super
visors has passed dn ordinance fixing
the price of gas at So cents per 1000
feet and providing for a ten per cent.
reduction in the water rate.
Dispatches have been received from
China by the congregation of the pro-
paganda at Rome, stating that five
Marist missionaries have been mas
sacred and their mission destroyed.
Reports from the Artega district,
state of Chihuahua Mexico, state that
fines aggregating $127.000 have been
imposed on several miners of that dis
trct for infractions of the stamp law.
Perfect weather marked the annual
carnival celebration at New Orleans.
February 9th, and enormous crowds
witnessed the annual pageant of his
majesty Rex. Promiscuous masking
was general.
1t is asserted that the Pope has ex-
pressed his intention to hold con
sstory during the first fortnight OF
April and create some cardinals, as
there are now twelve vacancies in the
sacred college.
Judge Triebor, in the United States
Court at St. Louis, fined four members
Of the Carpenters district council and
their organizer, adjudged to be in CON
tempt Of court, an aggregate, with
costs. of $1,000.
The Russian Cabinet has decided to
establish local committees in tho
provinces consisting of officials,
zemstvoists and peasants to assist the
agrarian banks to devise means for the
more profitable working of the soil.
Dr. William Hill who was present in
| professional capacity at the birth OF
| William J. Bryan, and who was consul
at Sarnia, Canada, during Cleveland's s
first administration, died at Blooming
| ton, Illinois, March 1st, aged seventy
| seven years.
! At a meeting March 1st the Mutual
Life directors took steps to sue the Nc
Curdys for $750000 and will engage
| Joseph H. Choate as counsel. They
also indorsed part of the Armstrong
| report and accepted the resignation OF
| Stuyvesant Fish.
Having accumulated fortune esti,
mated at upward of $1,000,000 by in,
vestments in Wall street, Thomas NJ
| Hilliard, for many years manager OF
the Waldorf-Astoria, has severed his
| connection with that hotel and retired
i from business life.
| Fire at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on
the 27th ult, destroyed the big factory
of the Star Shirt Company, entailins
loss of $4,000. Seven hundred
women operatives were taken out
safely, but Mrs Jennie Heaphy, aged
| forty-two collapsed from excitement
and died.
Suit brought at Paris by Countess
Boni de Castellane (formerly Anna
Could against her husband for sep
aration was reached upon the docket
| of the first tribunal of the Seine, but
the court adjourned the case for q
fortnight when date for the hearing
will be fixed.
Castle Could" the magnificent
country place planned by Howard
| Gould, will never be built. In court in
New York City, attorneys for Howard
| Gould announced he had abandoned
| the project The jury, with colored
foreman, ordered Gould to pay $4,000
| to the contractor.
Replying to questions in Parliament
| the JaDanese government announced
the intention of adopting the two
| years conscription plan and explained
| that while increasing the war estab-
lishment twenty-three per cent. it
would only involve an additional out
lay of sl,500,000.
| DR.. OFT. King Edwards Marenbad
| physician. has taken the occasion of
| his return from his visit TO England
to publicly deny the rumCrs OF the
kings illness. These. Dr. OFT declares,
are malicious inventions, possibly
traceabe to political motives. He says
| King Edward was never in better
health than at present.
| According to DR.. Thomas G. Allen,
who has given the Chicago Medical
| Society the results of his study of vio-
| lelt deaths in that city. there have
! been 759 murders in Chicago since
! 1899 With oNe-third of Londons pop
| ulation, Chicagos murder rate is eight
! times that of London, and is said to be
| the highest OF any CITY in the civilized