The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-02
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


Toxic. there are 1856 Wholesale and
,35.414 retail tobacco dealers In ia
pan.
On January 2lst the people OF Pan.
anna celebrated the e33d anniversary OF
the founding of the city by De Cor
dOva.
A combine Is being formed - Inc
clude all the big breweries of New
York City. with paid up capital OF
$4,000, 900.
Former State Senator Harry Bunk
ers OF California has been committed
to the state prison at San Quentin to
serve q term Of five years.
Former residents of the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific coast states are
taking steps TO organize Rocky Noun
tain Club in New York City.
1t 10 reported that the French gov
ernment has decided to send Miss
Alice Roosevelt a magnificent piece of
gobelin tapestry as wedding present.
Robbers January 2lst wrecked the
safe OF the Bank Of Dale. at Dale. a
small town forty miles east of Okla
homa City. and escaped with about
$4,000.
The sentence OF Lieutenant Pendle-
ton at Manila, who was condemned to
life Imprisonment for murder, has been
reconSidered and changed to impri-
sonment for twenty years.
The Supreme Court OF Missouri
has upheld the constitutionality of the
usury law, which makes it misde-
meanor to charge interest at a rate
greater than per cent. month.
Manuel Algara de Torreros. mem.
Der of a distinguished family of Mex
leo City, shot Sonora Maria Reis, an
actress, and then himself, in the Pala.
cia hotel. Chihuahua, after a lovers
quarrel.
Ensign Charles T. Wade, charged
with responsibility for the explosion OF
the gunboat Bennington, in San Diego
harbor, California, some months ago.
has been acquitted by the court mar
tial in hts case.
At Hotel Ormonde, Florida, January
23d, in the fourth annual Ormonde-
Daytona automobile tournament, Fred
Marriott drove a steam racer one mile
in 81 4-5 seconds, breaking all previous
records.
Over 100 students left Talladega col.
lege (colored) because Southern
white man was employed as superin-
tendent OF the college farm. The stu
dents demanded his discharge and the
president refused.
The Dominion government, in receiv-
ing the surrender Of Monte Christi,
permitted the revolutionary governor,
General Arias, to depart for Porto Rico
and granted general amnesty to the
other revolutiOnists.
Miss Helen Gould gave to an inves-
tigator an analysis of sample OF the
weeks mail received by her showing
the number of requests and what and
how much they were for. The total
asked for was $1,5OO.O00.
The Suez Canal Company has begun
widening the canal to enable the float
ing dry dock Dewey. now on its way
from the United States to Manila. to
pass Trafflc will be stopped during
the passage Of the dry dock.
About $50 members OF the Life I'm.
derwriters' Association OF New York
met and pledged themselves to organ
ie an antirebating bureau, to prevent
the practice of giving or accepting re-
bates on life insurance premiums.
c. received the static from $4,000 volts
of electricity at the General Electric
works at Schenectady, New York, but
will recover. He was unconscious for
eight minutes and 1t was at first be-
lieved that he was dead.
A. Palencsuk, who is 1O3 years old.
was released from prison at Agram
Hungary, after fifty years confinement.
lie protested tcarfully against his re-
lease, but in vain, and he Immediately
committed another crime in order to
be reimprisoned
The Wellman- Chicago Record Heralf
Polar Expedition, corporation whosi
object Is the carrying on of scientific
and expoing expedition to the Nortl
pole with the aid of balloons and air
ship, has been organized and incor-
porated at Augusta, Maine.
A fire at Pittsburg few days ago
with monetary loss Of about $50,,
900, completely destroyed the old mar.
ket house. one of Pittsburg's most IA
nous landmarks. During the Civil war
the sanitary commission cared for
$4,000 soldiers within its walls.
Gen. Bartolome Mitre, former presi-
dent or the Argentine fepiDllc, uleu
at Buenos Ayres. January 18th. Gen.
eral Mitre was eighty-three years old.
He was president from 1867 to 1871
and general in chief of the army OF
Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay in the
three years war with Paraguay.
The secreary of war has sent let
ter to the speaker of House of Repre-.
sentatives calling attention to the mat.
ter Of post schools for the children Of
enlisted men at remote military posts,
where no other educational facilities
are available. Such schools were
formerly maintained and Congress is
asked to reinstate them.
Baron Rosen has presented to the
United States ship, Mayflower, in be-
half OF Count Witte, himself and the
other delegates to the Portsmouth
peace conference, a handsome Russian
silver punch bowl in recognition OF
hospitality which was extended to the
delegates on board that vessel during
the course of the peace conference.
Marion Turner and Otto FreShwater