The Holly chieftain., 1909-11-26

rope a few days since. Sir Thomas
Upton stated that he will challenge
for race for the American cup. to be
sailed in 1911.
Shareholders of the Cleveland, Gin
cinnati. Chicago & St Louis (Big
Four railroad met at Cleveland and
voted a bond issue of s20,000,000 for
physical improvements.
A new ,O00.OOO,OOO company will
be the result of an action of the Am
erican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany in securing control of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company
through the purchase OF Gould Stock.
Mrs. Alice Smith. wife of Leroy E.
Smith. superintendent of the Ameri-
can District Telegraph Company OF
York. died at her home in Newark. N
j., few days ago after swallowing
some tablets taken to relieve head
ache.
The American Federation of Labor
closed its convention at Toronto Sat
urday, after selecting st. Louis as the
next place of meeting. President
Samuel Gompers. Vice-President John
Mitchell. Secretary Frank Morrison
and other executive officers were
unanimously reelected.
The Pilgrims of England played
their final game of association foot
ball on their American tour at Bay
Ridge, l.. l., on the 10th inst. defeat
4 ing the Crescent Athletic club, to l.
The Pilgrims played 22 games while
in the United States, winning 16 and
losing 2, with four games drawn.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
has emphatically denied the state
ments published as coming from wo-
man in Berlin, to the effect that his
wife, while she was still Miss Alice
Roosevelt. had been photographed by
him astride the sacred elephant of the
Koreans at their national capital.
Director Lowell of the observatory
at Flagstaff, Ariz., reports the first
apparent Antarctic snowfall of the
season on Mars. Two patches appear
at the altitude 62.72 longitude 100.190
The first was November u, and was
ber 16. The second was observed for
the first time on the latter date.
Former President Castro, an exile
in Santander, Spain, is accused daily
by the highest officials OF the Vene-
zuelan government of attempting to
regime. Everyone believes Castro
never will rest until he has made an
other effort to ruin those who were
responsible for his downfall.
The American Federation of Labor
in its convention in Toronto. in addi-
tiOn to indorsing the attitude taken
by President Gompers in the Bucks
Stove & Range Company injunction
proceedings, voted to continue the
salaries of Gompers and Secretary
Frank Morrison, and to compensate
Vice President John Mitchell, who is
not salaried officer, during their
terms of Imprisonment, in case it is
decided they must go to Jail for con-
tempt of court. They will be paid at
the rate of $4,000 year.
| Statistics have been collected from
35S cities in AZ states and the District
of Columbia, showing what has been
accomplished to discover and remove
physical defects mong pupils of
these cities, 147, with school popu-
lation of 100000, are not making any
attempt whatever to discover trans
mitable diseases; 211 are inspecting
for such diseases; 226 are inspecting
for defective vision, ITO for breathing
troubles and lis for bad teeth, while
1O4, with a population of 100000,
have no examination of any kind for
their 100000 school children.
Captain Road Amundsen, discov-
erer of the Northwest passage, who
recently arrived in New York from
Copenhagen, explained that his visit
tao America was to fit out an oceano.
graphic expedition for the Norwegian
government. The expedition would
start, he said, from Christiansand in
Nansen's old ship, the Fran, next
July. and probably would cruise for
five years. The first year will be
spent in the southern portion of the
North Atlantic, studying the currents,
temperatures, the ocean bottom and
sea life. Then the Fran will be nav
igated around the Horn to the Pacific,
fitting out in San Francisco probably
for an Arctic trim.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
According to the records kept by
the technOlOpic deDartment the