Antonio Gonzales Mendoza, presi
dent of the Cuban supreme court dur
ing the intervention, is dead at Ha
vana.
Mgr. Augustin Ravoux, 'ons of the
oldest men in St. Paul and the oldest
Catholic priest in the Northwest, is
in
Charles E. Hughes, counsel to the
legislative insurance investigating
committee, now plans to sail for Eu
rope about Feb.* 1. Mr. Hughes in
tends to rest for a month or more^ be
fore resuming his law (practice.
Thursday, Jan. 18.
The Tri-State Grain and Stockgrow
ers(' convention is being held at Fargo,
N. D.
Hugh S. ^uohy, the oldest clerk in
the treasury department at Washing
ton, ii dead. He had been in the
treasurj- forty-four years.
It is announced that the exports of
Germany to the United States during
the year of 1905 amounted to $123,
724,321, an increase of $14,484,096.
The -engineers and firemen on the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
systems, it 'is reported, are dissatis
fied with their pay. It is said they
are preparing tp ask for an increase.
Joseph Brennan, an adtor, was shot
and probably fatally wounded at Chi
•Cago in a quarrel with Michael J.
Walsh, -also an actor. Walsh surren
dered to the police. He says he acted
in self-defense.
Friday, Jan. 19.
Dr. Swan M. Burnett, a noted ocu
list of Washington and the former
husband of Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett tjie authoress, died suddenly
of nearl" disease.
The directors of the Amalgamated
Copper company have declared, a
quarterly dividend of 1 y2 per rent.
The two previous quarterly dividends
were of 1% per cent each.
The Christian home for orphans of
Council Bluffs, la., has received 145.
000 in cash as- the proceeds of be
quest made several vea^s ago by Mrs.
Mary E. Robinson of Sheboygan, Wis.
