The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-23
CONDENSED IELEGRAMs

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raj Wilkes, U. S. n, died at Florence,
Italy, February 18th.
Henry Gerald, founder of the Omaha
Bee. died at San Francisco February
l5th at the age of seventy-six years.
The centenary of the birth of Mrs.
browning 'March 6th) will be cele-
brated by the Pioneer Club of London.
A bill has passed the Senate prohib-
lting the unlawful wearing of the in
sigma OF the G. A. r. and other soldier
organizations
1t is reported that Dowager Queen
Margaret of Italy is planning to start
In May for an automobile tour of the
United States
John B. Stetson, the millionaire hat
manufacturer of Philadelphia, died at
his winter home at Gilen, near Deland,
Florida, February 18th.
The American colony at Havana on
February 18th observed the eighth an
niversary OF the destruction of the
Maine. Flags and wreaths were placed
on the masts of the battleship.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
General Kuropatkin and General Bat
jenof. commanders respectively of the
First and Third Manchurian armies.
have been recalled.
Paul Knapp. aged nineteen, half
breed Indian. whose mother was Il
daughter of Chief Peter Pokagon OF
the Pottawotomia tribe, has received
an appointment to enter West Point.
The town of Lovelocks. in Nevada.
ran 80 short of fuel the other day that
residents had to pull down some of
their buildings and burn the materials.
The mercury was thirty degrees below
zero.
The instruments of the imperial me-
teorological department at Vienna on
February 18th recorded an earthquake
center which was 1900 miles off. The
movement lasted from 3:22 a. m. to
$50 a. u.
The Hungarian Parliament, in ses.
sion at Budapest. was dissolved Feb
ruary 18th by the use of an armed
force of police. The members of the
coalition party declare that the disso-
luton was illegal.
Cambridge defeated Oxford this
month by three goals to one in the an
nual association football match played
in London. Out Of thirty-three matches
Cambridge has won II and Oxford Is.
The odd match was drawn.
A son has been born to Prince Chun,
the Chinese Empress brother. 1t is
believed that the child is the most
likely to be designated as successor to
the throne. An imperial decree be-
slows upon him the name OF Pu.
The May Festival Association Of
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late Theodore Thomas in that city, to-
ward which A. Howard Hinkle, former
president of the association, has
Lord Ashburton was married at
Paris February 18th to Frances Don
nelly, an American actress whose
stage name is Frances Belmont. for
merly of New York. and one of the
original "Florodora seXtette" of 1901.
The directors of the National Fra
ternal Sanitarium Association met at
Chicago and formally took over IA trac:
of 5000 acres of land and large ho
tel building at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The entire property it is said, is val
ued at $1,000,000. 1t is planned to
to open the sanitarium July 1st.
The sincerest gratitude is ex-
pressed in Toxic on all sides at Presi-
dent Roosevelt's appeal to the Amer
lean nation for assistance for the suf
ferers from famine in Japan. His ac
tion is appreciated as the timelies'
mark of Americas unvarying friend
ship.
The German Emperor has surprised
Il toll
strict constructionists of the lese ma
jeste laws. b. authorizing the circula-
ton of a French collection of carica
lures of himself which Jealous customs
officers on the French frontier had
seized.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by DR.. P. E. Shaw, one of the
physical science leaders at the Univer
sity College, Nottingham, England,
whereby measurements up to one
seventy-millionth part of an inch can
be taken. This is likely to lead to
some vitally important developments
, In scientific investigation.
DR.. Gunsauus, who breaches every
Sunday at the Chicago auditorium, re-
Gently forbade the housing of eight
lions in the cellar under the stage on
Sundays. They were kept there by the
managers Of spectacular play and
their roars frightened the audience.
who feared that the animals might
get loose and find their way upstairs.
| The magazine of the Hercules Tor
pedo Company, one mile from Geneva,
Indiana. was destroyed by an explo-
sion February 18th. Edward Gates
and Lee Howard, who were engaged in
unloading 1900 quarts of nitro.glycer-
inc from wagons at the time, were
blown to pieces. Nothing is left of
the magazine but big hole in the
ground.
Richard Randall Terry. who ten
years ago founded the New York free
circulating library for the blind died
February 18th, aged seventy-one. In
1894 he became blind and Interested
himself in books printed with raised
letters and with the assistance of Il
group of prominent New York mcn
founded the circulating library for the
blind.
Although bacteriologists from Dcs
MOines and Chicago declared the wells
of. the Northwestern railroad were not
polluted and that the road was not re-
sponsible for the epidemic of typhoid
fever of the last few months at Gin
| ton, Iowa, the railroad company has
paid fifty-five of it's employees amounts
aggregating $1,000 for time lost while
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