The Ordway new era., 1906-03-16
CONDENSED rELEGRAMs

AAOiCAAtCI utlIneI sue can
collect money In Texas on deals In
| cotton futures.
Women Of Chicago. despairing OF
ponce protection and thoroughly
alarmed by numerous attacks. are said
10 pc carrying short revOlvers In their
muffs and handbags.
Colonel c. A. Smith, n lumbermau
OF Minneapolis. Minnesota, has offered
TO give 100000 to Bethany college, at
LAndsborg. Kansas. on condition that
the college raise a like sum.
The three men who February tenth
attempted to assassinate General
Reyes, president OF the Republic of
| Colombia, were shot March 7th at the
spot where the attack took place.
| A snow avalanche at the Lofeten
Island. of the coast OF Norway, on the
7th inst, buried u number OF fisher.
mems huts. Rescuers extricated
twenty-one dead and thirty-nine in.
jured.
| George E. Thomas, retired banker
OF Philadelphia. has given $4,000 to
the board OF missions OF the Protes.
tant Episcopal Church. to be used for
home missionary work at the discre.
tion OF the board.
| Judge William Hickman Moore,
Municipal Ownership candidate for
mayor OF Seattle, has Just been elected
by the small majority OF fifteen votes.
after one OF the closest fights In the
history OF the city.
| The sentence OF death imposed upon
Mrs. Antoinette Tolla for the killing Of
Joseph Sonta has been commuted to
seven years and half Imprisonment
by the New Jersey Court OF Pardons
The vote stood six to two.
The London Daily Nails correspond.
ent at Tangier says that failure OF the
wheat and barley harvest is threatened
throughout Morocco. With no re-
serves from last year. he adds, n terri
BILE famine seems to be impending.
The trustees OF the New York Life
Insurance Company have authorized
the president TO employ counsel. II he
shall see At. to oppose passage In the
Legislature OF certain recommenda.
tions OF the Legislative Investigating
Committee.
A decree OF the Grand Duke Fred.
erick Francis OF Mecklenburg has been
gazetted. placing his uncle. Duke Paul
Frederick and the latter's wife. the
Princess Marie OF Winscl-Graetz. I'M.
der guardianship. II IL understood eX-
trpyagance Is the cause.
\ 100000 Masonic club house on
Michigan avenue is the plan Of Chi.
cago Masons. who have organized n
new society for the express purpose OF
putting through their project. Forty
officers OF Chicago Masonic lodges
| have the matter In hand.
An alarming earthquake has oc.
Cured In Bashahs. one OF the Simla
tributary hill states OF the Punjab In
India. Considerable damage has been
caused at Rampur. the capital OF Bas.
hahs Eight are known TO have been
Killed and twenty.six injured.
Tacloban. the capital OF the island
Of Leyte, has been destroyed by Hrc.
The financial loss Is reported to be
$500. 900. Tacloban was the NTH city
of the islands and was situated In au
important hemp district. A number
OF warehouses were destroyed.
| Within two months silver shipments
from the single port OF Vera Cruz. In
Mexico, have amounted to $9.7l6.O0o,
the bulk OF the shipments being silver
pesos from London and New YORK.
| Another shipment OF a million pesos
will be made within ten days
Mai. George II. Hopkins. former de-
| partment commander of the q. A. r..
! department OF Michigan. who held an
| important confidential position in the
| War Department under Secretary Al
ger during the Spanish-American War.
died at Detroit on the 9Th inst.
Frederick Augustus III. King OF Sax.
ony. has asked the Pope for n special
license to marry. In November, 1881.
he welded the Archduchess Louise oil
| Tuscany. and secured n divorce from
her in February. 1903. after she had
eloped with her childrens tutor.
Herr Mepdelsohn. head Of the bank.
| ing Arm of Mendelsohn 4 Company. OF
Rerlin. has received a number Of let.
tern since his arrival at st. Petersburg
threatening him with death II he nego-
tiated n loan with Russia. Six detec-
tiveH have been assigned to guard him.
A IRE at sheboygan, Wisconsin.
March 9Th. caused a loss og 100000
IN the furniture factory district. The
heayiest losers are Sheboygan Couch
Company, $4,000; Sears Roebuck =
~ Chicago. warehouse, $3O.OOO;
Montgomery Ward & Co.. warehouse
10000.
There is trust for the dead - well
A., for the living in Chicago. according
Ia the finding Of the Cigarmnkers' un.
lon. There is monopoly OF cemeteries
vith,n The city limits and union labor
hss no place to bury II. dependent
dead except at prices for lots that are
prohibitive.
pre.,dent Meiien Of the New York.
s,srv hsa authorized the statement
ss.t rsductIonv in passenger rates viii
~ nat into effect on all lines during
tss spripg and summer. The reduc.