The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-10-30

The proposed series OF baseball
games between New York National and
.,etroit American league teams has
been abandoned.
The 162nd anniversary of the found.
ing of Princeton university was OBJ
served at Princeton, New Jersey, on
the Z2nd inst, with appropriate e1er-
cises.
A fortune Of 100000 awaits the re-
turn OF Daniel B Russell Of Melrose,
Massachusetts, who has been missing
since 1886. He is son of Daniel Rus.
sell. who died January 23, 1907.
The Roosevelt prize for the three,
mile running race at Paris Sunday
was won by Keyser. a French runner.
in Is minutes and 1G seconds. He also
won the event in 1906.
The Aero Club of France has de-
cided to organize big aeroplane
meeting in the autumn Of 1909, when
the Grand PriX d'Aviation will be COM
peted for. The value of this prize is
$4,000, and there will be other awards,
Thirty earthquake shocks were ex-
perienced in the Zwickau region, Sax
ony, Wednesday. They were accom-
panied by thunder-ljke reverberations,
and the people were greatly alarmed.
There was arother severe shock Thurs
day.
J. Halwood of Lexington, KY, has
sold to Ed Alvery Of Louisville. Pin
kola, the famous derby winner, for $6,-
900. and Friend Harry, by Orlando, for
$4,000. The latter is half brother OF
jeff Bernstein, for which horse large
offers have been refused.
Brig. Gen. John Elmer Mulford,
through whose efforts as an agent for
the exchange of prisoners during the
Civil war more than 10000 Union SOL
diers were restored 10 their homes.
died Monday at Montour Falls, N. Y.
| aged seventy-nine years
The Vermont Legislature Tuesday
reelected Senator William P. Dilling-
ham for another term of six years and
elected Former Gov. Carroll S. Page to
fill the remainder of the unexplred
term of the late Senator Redfield Proc
tor. Both are Republicans.
Duchess Alexandra Victoria OF
Schleswig- -Holstein, daughter of Prince
Frederick, duke of Schleswig- -Holstein,
was married in the chapel of the In
perial palace at Berlin, Thursday, the
END inst, to Prince August William
of Prussia, fourth son of Emperor Viii
liam.
At Newark, New Jersey, October
25th, Frank l.. Kramer, the champion
| bicycle rider, broke his own world S
record for twenty-five miles unpaced
in competition at the Vailsburg track.
riding the distance in 57:36 35. His
| previous record made in 1901 was
57:52 40.
| One OF those freak fires that are
the continual bane of the insurance
man is reported from Paduca, Ken
tucky, where fire starting from a
match carelessly thrown in dry grass
resulted in the burning of an orchard
of 5000 apple trees, valued at several
thousand dollars. The orchard be
longed to Mrs. Mary Chesterfield.
Before a crowd of several thousand
Tuesday, the Chicago worlds cham
pions defeated the Detroit American
league champions at Terrc Haute, 7 tc
/. Before the game Mordecai Brown
was presented with an elegant silver
service by the citizens Of Terre Haute
his home city. Cobb carried off the
batting honors with four singles in foul
times up.
The franchise under which the
Cleveland, Ohio, Municipal Traction
Company is operating street railway
lines on 3-cent fare basis. was de
feated by a majority Of S79 in the refer
endum vote Thursday. The total vote
was more than $4,000. 1t is alleged
that the public were dissatisfied witt
the service given by the operating
company.
Seventeen of the woman suffragist.
who were arrested October 18th dur
ing the ''storming Of the House o
Commons on charges of disorderl.
conduct, have just been sentenced il
of Imprisonment varying from three
| NtekS 10 tllIte lllUulllS. ne WDlllel
were offered the alternative of givin;
bonds for their good behavior, bu
they elected to go to jail
In a desperate fight prolonged 70
hours, which occurred Friday near Iii
gan, island of Mindanao, nine Filipino
laborers and their superintendent, als
native, were killed by the marauder
and four other natives were wounded
The bodies of the dead Filipinos wer
mutilated by the Moro band in mos
horrible manner. Before being drive
off. the Moros succeeded in firing tn
plantation stores, which, with thei
contents, were destroyed.