The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-08-07

Inc Brltlsh old age pension bill ts
now law. having passed both houses
of Parliament.
The convention of the International
| Typographical Union will meet in Bos-
ton. Massachusetts. on August 10th.
! Associated Bla cks smiths of the Unit
ed Kingdom are planning an amalga-
nation of al existing unions of black
smiths throughout the entire king
dom.
| Four carloads of strikebreakers
were placed in the mines in the Br-
mingham Alabama, district Wednes-
/ day under military escort. There was
| no trouble.
| Richard V. Oulahan. for many years
the Washington correspondent of the
/ New York Sun. will have general
| charge of all the literary work of the
Republican national committee, and
will have his headquarters in New
! York City.
Samuel F. Moffat. forty eight years
| old. a member of the editorial staff of
| Golfers Weekly. and a nephew of
Mark Twain. was stricken with apo
plexy and drowned in the surf at Nor
mandie-bythe-Sea, New Jersey, on the
The executive council of the Modern
WoOdmen of America, at its July meet
ing decided to withdraw at once from
the National Fraternal congress and
will send no representative to the Put
in-Bay convention. This action is due
to the adequate rate controversy.
Work is to be begun almost imme-
diately on the restoration of the gov
ernor's room in the New York city hall,
which is to be put in exactly the same
condition as it was century ago. The
money for the work, $4,000, was given
to the city by Mrs. Russell Sage.
By the will of Gen. George Sherman
| Bacheller, Judge of the International
Court at Alexandria, Egypt. who died
| in Paris early in July, his spacious
summer home at Saratoga, New York.
worth 100000. will at his daughters
death become free public library.
l.. N. Scott of St. Paul and A. Leo
| Stevens, the we'll known aeronaut,
have completed the preliminary ar
rangements for balloon race to take
place from ST. Paul or Minneapolis
about September 1st. The race will
be open to all comers and suitable
lrizes will be offered
Suit for $1.50O,OOO damages under the
Sherman antitrust law has been
brought In the federal court at Louis
vile by the Monarch Tobacco Com
pany. large independent corporation,
against the American Tobacco Com
pany, because of its alleged operations
in restraint OF trade
The University of Strassbourg an
nounced Thursday that Prince August,
the fourth son of Emperor William, had
passed mis- examination for the degree
of doctor in the science of government
with the Endorsement Very good" on
his papers and that the title of doctor
had been conferred on him.
A transcontinental balloon race
starting from either Los Angeles or
| San Francisco, with the Atlantic sea
board as the objective point, is being
planned by the Federation of Ameri-
can Aero clubs. The race Is to be
held in November and cash prize Of
$4,000 is to be offered for the com.
pletion Of the trip.
Emperor William and his party ar
rived at Stockholm August 3rd on
board the imperial yacht Hohenzol-
A fleet OF Swedish warships met the
imperial yacht at sea. and later the
King and Queen OF Sweden welcomed
the imperial party aboard the Swedish
royal yacht.
| Following up his crusade against
the appearance of unclothed women
in the Paris theaters, Prefect Of Po-
lice Lepine has given orders that the
sale of obscene pictures on the boule-
wards, which has been for SO long a
disgrace to the city, be vigorously sup
pressed. The establishments produc-
ing these pictures will be prosecuted.
The Thomas car in the New York to
Paris race crossed the French Frontier
at noon Thursday and reached Paris at
s o'clock in the evening The car was
escorted ur the boulevards by automo-
bile enthusiasts, who met it at Meaux.
twenty-five miles east of Paris. and
was greeted with cheers. The race
committee was awaiting at the office
of the Matin to receive the car. Con-
gratulations were showered upon the
crew.