The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-03-20
Miscellaneous.

"I8CCIidOSOuS
China has conceded all of the Jap
anese demands in settlement OF the
Tatsu Maru incident including the pur
chase of the arms aboard the steamer
and salute by Il Chinese warship to
the Japanese flag when it is re-hosted
on the Tatsu.
The president has issued procla-
nation promulgating the terms of the
treaty of arbitration recently agreed
upon by the United States and
France.
The surgeon general of the navy
states that there is much preventable
suffering in the navy and recommends
the organization of trained women
nurses in the hospital corps and the
appointment of dental surgeons.
The jury in the first of the Pennsyl-
vania capitol graft cases returned a
verdict finding the four defendants,
Sanlerson. Snyder Mathues and Shu-
maker guilty of defrauding the state.
The trial lasted seven weeks and the
jury was out six hours. There are
ten other persons yet to be tried for
the same offepse.
Kansas Populists recently held their
state convention at Topeka and cleo
ted delegates to the national conven-
tion at St. Louis. Resolutions indors-
ing Thomas Watson for president were
adopted.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has begun pro-
ceedings for divorce from her hus-
band, Harry X Thaw. Papers in
the case have been served on the de-
fendant in Matteawan asylum and up
on his mother as next of kin.
The school building at Napoleon,
Ohio, the largest of it's kind in the
state, was totally destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Nobody was injured
The target ranges have been estab-
lished at Magdalena Bay and the
world-girdling fleet is busy at target
practice with the big guns.
The minister of justice has asked
the Russian douma for $1,00O,O00 for
the enlargement of the Russian pris-
ons which are overcrowded.
Banker Charles w. Morse and AL
fred H. Curtis pleaded not guilty to
20 counts in an Indictment in the
federal court at New York. They are
charged with conspiracy and false
entries.
Giuseppe Ala. the Italian anarchist
who killed Catholic priest at the
altar in his church at Denver, has
been convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced TO hang
The final reply from Washington re-
gardins the immigration question has
greatly pleased Japan.
The American battleship fleet ar.
rived at Magdalena bay two days
ahead of schedule. after a journey of
$4,000 miles. with all the vessels in
better shape than when they left
Hampton Roads three months ago. In
his message announcing his arrival
Admiral Evans said the fleet was ready
for any emergency on one days notice
A crank recently entered the Mer.
chants National bank at Omaha and
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blow up the building unless his de.
mands were complied with. He was
enticed outside by Vice President
Drake where he was taken into Gus.
tody by officers.
Fifteen thousand Filipinos were
made homeless by the destruction OF
1000 native huts at Manila by a fire
which swept through the district.
A disastrous prairie fire occurred
recently near Hoton. Kan. The fire
swept over 700 acres of land. deatroy.
ing everything in its path
Five hundred persons were recent.
ly poisoned at a church social at Tn.
per Sandusky, O., by eating chickens
and waffles.
| At New Albany. Ind. eight persons
were injured when a passenger train
, struck a trolley car on a grade cross
ing.