The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-03-13

At Wilmington. Del. on the 9Th inst,
eighteen culprits were whipped at the
workhouse for various offenses, princi-
pally larceny. and the total number Of
lashes inflicted was 255.
One result of wire prostratioA at
Philadelphia due to the blizzard will
be the establishment by the city of
wireless plant on top of the city hall
tower.
General Booth will be eighty years
old on April 10th. and. all over the
world Salyationists of every degree
and almost every color are preparing
TO celebrate the event.
Reports of the employees relief fund
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system,
east and west of Pittsburg, show that
the total payments since the organi-
to s25, ,7G5, 403.1S.
Plans for an extension of the Rapid
Transit system of New York city to
cost about $50, 900 are being pre-
pared by engineers of the Interboro
Rapid Transit Company, of which T.
p. Shonts is president
AT the Oxford University sports in
England on the 3rd inst. l.. C. Hull Of
Michigan, a Rhodes scholar, won the
100-yard dash and the quarter mile
His time for the first event was 10 3-5
seconds and for the second 81 seconds.
Efforts made by the district attor-
ney OF Queens county, New York, to
have an early date set for the trial of
Capt. Peter c. Hams, Jr., accused Of
the murder of William E. Annis, were
brought to naught on the 5tht inst. by
decision of Supreme Court Justice
Garrettson postponing Indefinitely the
naming of a date for the Hams trial.
President w c. Brown of the New
York Central railroad on the 5th inst.
announced that the full equipment or
der of the line for 1909 had been de-
cided upon and that it included 400
freight cars, 200 passenger cars and
seventy-five locomotives. The ex-
penditure for the new equipment will
aggregate $s,000,000.
To signalize the opening of the
Greensboro bridge to Long Island
the first real automobile bridge in the
country-free rides in motor cars over
the structure will be given to all per-
sons attending the celebration, June
II. Five thousand cars, it is expected.
will be placed at the disposal of the
committee In charge.
In an attempt to persuade Congress
to establish reciprocal coal trade with
the Dominion of Canada practically
every coal power in the western Penn
sylvania district has signed his name
to petition addressed to the ways
and means committee of the House.
Such an agreement. says these men.
will mean an immense increase In the
output of bituminous coal.
Premier Stolypin, M. Kohminkoff.
president of the duma. and other prom
inent government officials of Russia
have signed an address to Anson
Phelps Stokes of New York in appre-
citation of his aid in founding the Rus
sian Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. Emperor Nicholas, the empress
and other members of the royal fam
lily are taking lively interest in the
association.
Medicine enough for regiment and
surgical Instruments enough to do the
work of an ordinary hospital, will be
carried by Theodore Roosevelt to
Africa, all condensed so as to fill
suitcase There are $4,000 doses in
the tabloids, nearly forty per cent. OF
them quinine. The other medicines
are to ward off disease most prevalent
in equatorial Africa, chemicals to make
swamp water pure and palatable, cures
for snake bites, stimulants, opiates,
knives and bandages.