| OCR Text |
Show news NOTES jtjf wS At Home. NEW YORK. May 3. Tho first annual meeting of the Irish Industrial Society of America, organized to asalpt In the Industrial Indus-trial development of Iroland, has Ju3t been held here. NEW ORLEANS, May 3; -After a long and hard strugglo tho leaders of tho Lily "Whl to Republicans, in caucus today, decided de-cided against tho negro, and It was aerecd to send a solid whlto dclegatlon-at-large to the Chicago convention, Instructed for President Roosevelt. NEW YORK, May 1 Bids wero opened today by Comptroller Grout for J37,W.0 of city bonds at 34 per cent'.. $10,000,000 for ton years and tho balance for fifty ycara. Tho Issue woo overs ubscrlbod about seven times. The highest figure was 100 at 701. FALL RIVER, Mass., May 3. Reports from many of the corporations which havo been shutting down their cotton mills two days each week Indicate that the curtailment of tho past month has been largely disappointing In Its results. A comploto shut-down Is favored. WASHINGTON, May tl.-At today's mooting of the Cabinet Secretary Shaw and Attornoy-Goneral Knox brought up for consideration tho details of tho Panama Pan-ama canal payments, and they were talked over In an lnformul way. SHELDON. la., MiLy 3 The O'Brien county grand Jury has voted four Indictments Indict-ments against Ed C. Brown of the Iowa Railroad commission and president of the failed Sheldon State bank. Tho Indictment Indict-ment charges lrrogularltles In the bank's affairs, one count charging embezzlement of $72,000. NEW YORK. May 3. All the retiring officers of tho United States Steel corporation corpora-tion wero re-elected at tho regular monthly month-ly meeting today. In the finance committee com-mittee Honry Phlpps succeeds Charles M. Schwab. CHICAGO, May 3. The suit brought by the trustees of tho Georgo H Phillips company com-pany to recover from tile Bank of Montreal Mon-treal fc.XO.000 which the members of the firm had deposited shortly before the collapse col-lapse of tho corn corner in 1S02. came to an abrupt ending in the United States Circuit Cir-cuit court horo today. Judge Seamun decided de-cided in favor of the bank. NEW YORK. May 3. In tho Independent Independ-ent of May 5 will appear tho first of three Inntalltncntn of unpublished letters of the lato Herbert Sponccr, with an Introduction Introduc-tion by Georgo Llewellyn Roes. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. May 3, A switch engine on the -Colorado Springe & Cripple Creek railway this morning fell through n trestlo Into South Tejon Btreot In this city. Four trainmen were Injured two seriously. Abroad. LONDON, May 3. Japaneso bonds were marked up Hi on the stock exchange to-dny to-dny on the Japanese successes, while Russians Rus-sians were ?4 down. . VALPARAISO, May 3 Four now cases of bubonic plague occurred In Antofn-gasla Antofn-gasla Sunday. SAN DOMINGO. May 3. United States Minister Powell, who, on account of 111 health. Is compelled to return to Port au Prince, took leavo of tho provisional President, Morales, today. BERLIN, May 3. Tho majority parties of the Reichstag voted today against tho Government's protest to reconstruct tho budget estimates in order to got rid of the necessity for a supplementary loan of 1 $17,500,000. RIO JANEIRO, Mny 3 It Is rumored that orders have been Issued for tho mobilization of Brazilian troops and for tho concentration of all tho forces In the First military district at points on tho frontier where Peruvian troops are reported report-ed to havo crossed Into Brazil. LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 3. The Presidential Presiden-tial eloctlon has resulted In a triumph for tho Union Liberal party In all parts of tho republic LONDON, May 3 An unconfirmed report re-port of sovere fighting between 3000 Ru.-slans Ru.-slans and a similar number of Japaneso at Gonsan Is sent by the Standard's St. PetorBburg correspondent, who nays tho Japaneso were compelled to retire Into Gcneon, both sides losing heavily. |