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ffall to agree on these questions thff
woric or tiie coal strike commission
will go for naught
Lord Salisbury, one of the last of
the great statesmen of tho past gen
eration, died at London on August 22
after an illness of about a month's
duration. Lord Salisbury was born in
1830 and Jias been intimately connected
with the political life of England for
many years. His political activity may
be seen from tho following posts he
has held: Secretary of state for In
dia, 1874 to 1878; secretary of state
for foreign affairs, 1878 to 1880; spe
cial ambassador at conference on east
ern affairs at Constantinople, 187G to
1877; second plenipotentiary for Great
Britain at congress of Berlin, 1878;
prime minister and secretary of state
for foreign affairs, 1886-6; prime min
ister and first lord of the treasury,
188G-7; prime minister and secretary
of state of foreign affairs, 1887-1892;
prime minister and lord of tho privy
seal and secretary of state for foreign
affairs, 1895-1900; prime minister and
lord of the privy seal, 1900-2.
Philippines to relieve troops now sta
tioned thore. The Twenty-second regi
ment is stationed at present at Fort
Crook.
A new world's record in the sporting
world was made on August 24 at JRead
villo, Mass., when the trotting horse,
Lou Dillon, trotted a mile in two
itinutes.
A disastrous fire took place at Buda
pest, Austria-Hungary, on August 24
in a four-story building in which were
at the time about 200 working people.
It .is feared that of this number about
120 perished.
It was announced from New York
on August 22 that the American Dis
trict Telephone company of that city
has contracted with the Western Un
ion Telegraph company for its mes
senger service throughout the United
States and Canada. The new com
pany is under the direction of George
J. Gould.
Articles of incorporation for the
Fan-American Railroad company, with
a capital stoclt placed at $250,000,000
were filed with the secretary of the
territory at Guthrie, O. T., bn August
24. The purpose of the company is to
build a road from Hudson Bay to
Buenos Ayres and Rio de Janeiro, an
estimated length of 10,000 miles.
Tho waiters and cooks' strike in
Chicago of some time ago was referred
to an arbitration board which made
its decision unfavorable to the strik
ers and in consequence they were
again called out on August 24. It is
believed that at least 150 restaurants
in the business portion of the city
will be effected. . .
One of the heaviest rainfalls on rec
ord visited the eastern part of Nebras
ka and the western section of Iowa
on August 26, almost seven inches of
rainfall being reported from tho city
of Omaha, Neb., for the three days
ending Wednesday, August 26.
Throughout the nerriniiltiirnl vat,inna
some damage was done to the corn
ULUJO.
In the yacht race off Sandy Hook,
N. Y., on August 22, tho American
boat, Reliance, defoated the Shamrock
ill. over -a thirty-mile course. Tho
first race run on Thursday, August
20, was declared oh! and so the one of
August 22 is to be regarded as tho first
oC the series of five to be run for the
honor of the cup.
The- armored cruiser Philadelphia
was launched on August 22 from the
yards of the Wir.am Cramp company,
the launching being witnessed by one
of the largest assemblages that has
over gathered at these yards. The new
cruiser was christened by Miss Cora L.
Quay, daughter of United States Sena
tor Quay.
The widely discussed Humbert trial
in Paris came to an end on August
22, when all the Humberts were found
guilty, the principal conspirators be
ing sentenced to five years' imprison
ment and a fine of 100 francs.
Monotti Garibaldi, the eldest son of
the Italian patriot, died in Rome on
August 22 and his funeral was held
at the expense of the state, all the
military and civic authorities attending.
It was announced from St. Peters
burg on August 23 that the Russian
ships that were recently ordered to
Turkish waters to support Russia's de
mands on the sultan growing out of
the assassination of the Russian con
sul at Monastir, have been recalled in
consequence of the sultan giving com-
plete compliance to all of Russia's demands.
On August 26 bids were opened at.
the bureau of insular affairs in Wash
ington for the sale of $3,000;000 of
Philippine certificates of indebtedness,
the sale being for the purpose of sup
plying and maintaining the gold re-
SaUoT th6 P1""PI,lne cur
News was received at Fort Crook,
JSeb. on. August 24 that tho Seventh.
Twenty-second and Twentieth regi
ments of infantry are to go to the
Thirty or more passengers were in
jured by a peculiar collision at the
junction of two railroqd lines near
Bloomington, 111., on August 24, when
a stock car became detached from the
engine and crashed into a passenger
coach.
The democratic state convention of
Nebraska met at Columbus on August
25 and placed in nomination for judge
cf the supreme court John J. Sullivan,
who is the present incumbent of that
office. This nomination was indorsed
by the populists of the state, .in con
vention on tho same day at Grand
Island, Neb., and in turn the demo
cratic convention indorsed the pop
ulist choice of William O. Jones of
Adams county and Dr. E. O. Weber of
Saunders county, as regents of the
state university. The platform adopt
ed by tho democrats reaffirmed the
last national platform of the demo
cratic party, and dealt with local conditions.
The second race for the American
cup took place on 'August 25 between
the Reliance and the Shamrock III.
and as in the first race resulted in a
victory for the American yacht, the
Reliance, the Shamrock being defeated
by oho minute and nineteen seconds.
It was definitely announced from
Oyster Bay, L. I., on August 25 that
under date of August 19 Secretary of
War Root had presented his resigna
tion formally to the president, and
tho resignation was accepted with the
understanding that Mr. Root shall
continue in office until January 1 at
least. Governor General William H
Taft of the Philippines will then suc
ceed Mr. Root, and General Luke E.
Wright will be appointed as Mr. Taft's
successor in the Philippines.
The national convention of the Na
tional Fraternal congress met at Mil
waukee, Wis., on August 25 with sev
eral hundred delegates attending. One
hundred and sixty-six societies with
nearly twenty millions of members
were represented.
The board of conciliation met at
New York on August 25 for the pur
pose of deciding five important ques
tions in the arbitration proceedings of
tho anthracite coal strike board. It
is stated that if the conciliation board
On August 26 the people of Naples,
Italy, and vicinity witnessed a re
markable spectacle when Mount Ve
suvius broke into violent eruption.
One thousand feet below the central
cone of Vesuvius the side of the moun
tain opened and a stream of lava ran
down the side of the mountain, the
stream being in some places fifteen
feet wide. The mountain also threw
up redhot stones into the air for a
distance of seven hundred feet
The annual convention of the Amer
ican Bar association opened at Hot
Springs, Va., on August 26 with about
200 lawyers in attendance. All the
states except Nevada were represented.
natives had perished. This was fol
lowed on the 24th of August by th
reports of awful atrocities committed
Ly tho Turks in the disturbed ree on
Twenty-two villages were burned after
the inhabitants had been massacred
It appears that the Turks have obi
tained the upper hand in the recion
about Monastir and fhnf , "
gents will therefore transfer the cen.
ter of their activity close to the Bui
garian frontier. The city of Krusche
vo, containing about 2,000 houses and
10,000 inhabitants, is now a heap of
ruins, being almost entirely destroyed
by the Turkish soldiers. It was an
nounced from Sofia on August 26 that
at an immense rass meeting the Mace
donians held there on that day it was
lesolved that a memorandum should
bo presented to the representatives of
tbe powers, asking the powers to take
action in the bloody embroglio. A
Jist has been issued of seventy villages
that have been pillaged and destroyed
in the vallev nf MnnnQtir r,i u ,.,
declared that if tho atrocities continue
manner iortnignt- there will be no
Macedonians left to save.
Because of the increased American
interests on the Pacific coast, it has
been decided as Washington to estab
lish the Southern Pacific station and
to maintain a cruiser squadron there
U from three to four protected cruis
ers. The field of operations of this
row squadron will be south of the
isthmus.
The first important event of the
week m the Macedonian disturbance"
ereport on Au&ust 22 of the
annihilation of the insurgent garri
sons of three Bulgarian villages it
being announced that hundreds of 'the
In the third of the races between the
Shamrock III. and tho Reliance on
August 27, the wind was so light that
the race was declared off as was the
Case in tho firsf pnnnaf nr Ai,o-,,4. on
Although officially it was no race, the
iicimuuea victory was decisive over
the Shamrock, which trailed along two
miles after the American vessel.
Tho east-bound daily express traia
from Budapest to Constantinople was
blown up near Bulali Burgas, about
twenty-five miles south of Adrianople,
on August 27, seven persons were
hilled a.nd fifteen injured. Dynamite
bombs were used and every car of the
train was smashed. It is.believed that
.the outrage was the work of revolutionists.
On August 27 the state department"
at Washington received a cablegram
from Minister Leischman at Constan
tinople announcing that William C.
Magelssen, United States vice consul
at Beirut, Syria, had been assassinated
.u .ueuat o. -me American minister
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