The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-02-24
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


raj Wilkes, L. S. N. died at FloreEee.
Italy. February 18th.
Henry Gerald. founder OF the Omaha
Bee. died at San Francisco February
18th at the age of seventy-six years
The centenary OF the birth OF Mrs.
Browning March 6thl will be cele-
, brated by the Pioneer Club of London.
A bill has passed the Senate prohih-
iting 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
niyersary 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
jenoff, commanders respectively of the
! First and Third Manchurian armies,
nave been recalled.
| Paul Knapp. aged nineteen. half
breed Indian, whose mother was Il
daughter of Chief Peter Pokagon of
the Pottawotomie tribe. has received
an appointment to enter West Point.
| The town of Lovelocks. in Nevada,
ran so 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
80 a. m.
| 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 til"
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 10.
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
Cincinnati will erect a memorial to the
late Theodore Thomas in that city, to-
ward which A. Howard Hinllle. former
president of the association. has
started subscription fund with $1,000.
! Lord Ashburton was married at
| Paris February 10Th to Frances Don
nelly, an American actress whose
stage name is Frances Belmont, for
mery 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 a tract
OF 5000 acres of land and a large ho-
tel building at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The entire property, it is said, is val
ued at 81 900, 900. 1t is planned to
| to open the sanitarium July 1st.
The sincerest gratitude is ex-
pressed in Toxic on all sides at Presi-
dent Rooseyelt's appeal to the Amer
lean nation for assistance for the suf-
ferers from famine in Japan. His ac-
tion is appreciated as the timeliest
mark Of Americas unvarying friend
ship.
The German Emperor has surprised
the German people, and especially
strict constructionists of the lese ma
jeste laws. by authorizing the circula-
ton of French collection of carica-
| ,f Ia; ;nh
officers on the French frontier had
seized.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by DIR. p. K. 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. Gunsaulus, 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 We're 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 800 quarts of nitro-glycer-
inc from wagons at the time, were
blown to pieces. Nothing is left of
the magazine but a big hole in the
ground.
Richard Randall Terry, who ten
years ago founded the New York free
circulating library for the blind. died
Fehruarv 18th aged Seypnty-Opp In