The Ordway new era., 1906-03-09
CONDENSED 1ELEeRAms


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 n vote OF two to one
against the acceptance of Andrew Car
negie's offer of $65.000 for a public
library.
Old North College at Middleton.
Connecticut. belonging to the Wes-
leyan University. was burned March
1st. 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 an ordinance fixing
the price OF gas at S5 cents per 1000
feet and providing for n 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 $l27.O00 have been
| imposed on several miners of that dis
trict for infractions Of the stamp law.
Perfect weather marked the annual
carnival celebration at New Orleans.
February 27th, 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-
sistory 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 the
provinces consisting Of officials.
zemstvoists and peasants to assist the
agrarian banks to devise means for the
more profitable working Of the soil.
In the receivership proceedings at
| Chicago It was charged the Cash Buy
ers' National Cooperative Society sold
| farmers $1,370,000 in stock. but had
only 500 In the bank ut the time re-
ceivership proceedings were insti-
tuted.
DIR. William Hill, who was present in
| professional capacity at the birth OF
| William j. Bryan, and who was consul
| af arntn (lavplnnd'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 $75O,0O0, and will engage
| Joseph H. Choate rs counsel. They
also indorsed part Of the Armstrong
report and accepted the resignation OF
,;tuyvesant 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
from business life.
Fire at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on
the 27th ult.. destroyed the big factory
| of the Star Shirt Company. entailing
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 a
fortnight when a 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 a colored
| foreman, ordered Gould to pay $65.0O0
| to the contractor.
Replying to questions in Parliament
the Japanese government announced
the intention of adopting the two
years conscription plan and explained
| that while increasing the war estab'
| lishment twenty-three per cent IL
| would only involve an additional out.
lay of $1,500,O00. A..
Irving d. Smith of Madison. South
Dakota, who died recently. Just after
celebrating his eightieth birthday. was
the richest exclusive farmer In the
United States and the wealthiest man
in South Dakota In the last fourteen
years he made nearly $2,000.000 and
every dollar came from the soil.
Gamblers who have been shut out
| Of Chicago have built Monte Carlo
| Just over the Indiana state line,
I guarded by two tall lookout towers and
| q bsrricade and enclosure to shut out
| unwelcome guests. Even II access Is
gained to the FIRST enclosure, there are
still the walls Of the main building to
| be battered In.