The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-10-21

before recognising the new rulers In
Portugal.
Fire destroyed Pier &C" OF the
Southern Pacific terminal company In
the western portion OF Galveston.
Loss. estimated at 100000.
The president withdrew 400 acres
Of land from the public domain in
Montana.
The Standard Oil company an.
nounces a reduction of fifty points in
refined petroleum.
Fire totally destroyed the Adeline
Sugar company's plant at Franklin,
Pa. Loss, 100000.
Special agents at Washington are
looking into allegations of the ex.
istence of a lumber trust.
The supreme court postponed &C.
ton on most of the big suits pending
until there is a full bench.
With Lisbon tranquil and events
moving smoothly the new republic of
Portugal seems destined to live.
A violent collision occurred on the
streets of Valencia, Spain, between
republicans and members of the Cath
Ollie club.
Thomas J. O'Brien, the American
ambassador to Japan, will sail for the
United States October Is on a sixty
days leave of absence.
It is officially stated that the British
war Office is considering the possibili-
ty of securing a regular supply of
horses for the mounted troops in
Jamaica.
The will of Horace B.. Silliman of
Cohoes, N. Y, a former textile manu-.
f%acturer, bequeathes the estate of
more than 100000 to p~hilanthropic
purposes.
T. p. Nelson of Seattle, was elected
grand president of the Danish Broth
erhood, defeating H. H. Vogt of Day.
export, Ia, who has been president
twelve years.
To the already large area of about
$1,000, 900 acres, the department of
the interior has added 167, 900 acres
of land to the enlarged homestead
portion of Wyoming.
Joe and Ed Chandler, negro high
waymen, were killed and Ed Black, a
third member of the gang, was mort
ally moInded in Huntsville. Ala, by
Sheriff Mitchell and a squad of depu-
ties.
Rear Admiral John A. Rogers, u.
S. N, retired, arrived from Alaska,
convinced that his missing son, AL
exander, who went north in the sum-
mer of 1909, persisted on the Valdez
Fairbanks trail.
Social Washington was deeply In
terested in the recent cabinet meet
ings at the White House, at least in
that part of them which had to do
with the filling of the vacancies on
the supreme court bench.
Adolph Rothbarth, the hop mer-
chant, who pleaded guilty to having
defrauded various banks in New
York out of $500, 900, was sentenced
to serve not less than three and not
more than seven years in Sing Sing
prison.
The long-standing uneasiness among
railroad employees in France de-
veloped in a declaration to strike on
the part of those employed on the
northern roads. The decision is a re-
suit of a refusal of the company to
grant the demands of the men.
A o toward u%nification of all
of Chicago's street car lines was made
when the city council passed an or
dinance permitting the rehabilitation
of the Chicago Traction company and
the purchase of the Consolidated Rail-
ways by the Chicago Railways COM
pany.
There was a substantial increase,
amounting to about 10 per cent, in the
number of wooden cross-ties pur-
chased for consumption by the steam
and electric railroads in the United
States in the calendar year 1909, as
compared with the number purchased
in 1908.
Uniformity in grain inspection
throughout the United States and in
the rules of trading in all exchanges
will be the principal subject con-
sidered at the fourteenth annual con-
vention of the grain dealers national
association, which held its initial ses-
sion in Chicago.
Sir William Reloar, the English
philanthropist and former lord mayo
of London, who has been in the Unit
ed States and Canada a month, sailed
on Sunday on the Celtic of the White
Star line, after p%ronouncing the Am
erican women the "smartest dressed
women in the world"
Consul Chamberlain t~elegraphed the
state department from Lourenzo Mar
quez, East Africa. that the governor
general of that colony continued in
ofice under the new Portuguese reg
ime; that the republic had been pro-
claimed throughout the provinces and
that the translation was p~eaceable.
Personal.
Congressman Mccall of Massachu-
sets was renominated.
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