| Show american officer has the union jack lowered rochester N Y july 6 A protest has been filed with the canadian minister of marine by captain simmons of the canadian schooner acacia because the port collector duane bump compelled him to lower the british flag on his vessel in the harbor at charlotte on july ath collector bump was informed that the acacia had floated a large union jack on the morning of the fourth and he ordered captain simmons to haul it down saying it was an insult to the national holiday sammons refused and threatened to shoot the collector it he boarded his vessel finally simmons lowered the flag when threatened with refusal of his clearance papers SMALLER TRADES IN GRAIN new york july C at a meeting of the new york grain trade at the produce exchange it has been decided to authorize trading in grain future contracts of 1000 bushels the present minimum is bushels athla will it Is argued have the effect of diverting direct to new york a langs largs amount of grain now shipped by the farmer to interior markets the plan proposed is to have two rings tor wheat trading the larger one being tor bushel lots as at present and the smaller one for 1000 bushel lots GETTING FOREIGN CONTRACTS new york july 6 american interests have obtained a contract tor the electrification of an italian railway and have also closed contracts tor electrical equipment to be installed in japan the value of these contracts Is about the japanese contracts arc for equipment of the kanazawa electric light company A large hydro electro plant is to be built at kanazawa the plant has been shipped overland by way of the pacific coast FAILURES IN UNITED STATES new york july C commercial in solvencies solven cies in the united states during the first half of 1905 were in number and in amount of defaulted indebtedness according to tha journal of commerce numerical ly this shows scarcely any alteration in comparison with the failures in the corresponding six months of last year but a decrease appears when last years liabilities 0 are considered MEN DESERTED victoria july 5 A report received ber efrom aatu attu by the steamer ventura states that the sealing schooner carmencita on which captain alax mclean at san francisco with others interested in the ventura for take seals illegally is cruising in that vicinity and on may 13 the schooner lost four men by desertion they stole a boat and rowed ashorn t aatu attu the carmencita had only may ATHLETIC championship portland ore july 6 friday and saturday ot this week the pacific northwest athletic association championship pion ship track and field meet will take place on the lewis clark stadium this will be the first annual championship meet of the new pacific northwest athletic association seven events will occur friday and eight events on saturday entries for friday are yard dash 16 pound shot put yard dah running broad jump one mile run yard low hurdles throwing 66 pound weight entries tor saturday yard dash running high jump yard dash throwing 16 pound hammer yard high hurdles throwing discus pole vault relay LEFT IN CHARITIES new york july 6 the late baron alphonso de rothschild left to be expended in charities of various kinds without distinction of religion says a paris dispatch to the new york herald |
