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EVENTS OF FTHE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF T TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In Condensed Form, Most Likely to Prove Interesting to Out Many Readers. AT Brigadier General G. W. Baird has been placed on the retired list. The Panmaa canal company may not accept the offer of the United States. There i a disagreement between the house and senate over the Alaskan bille. Pope Leo celebrated the 25th anni versary of his accession with imposing ceremonies. Two men are under arrest for hold. ing up the Los Angeles street car. They have been identified. A fierce battle occurred between Turks and revolutionists. While the rebels lost heavily, they succeeded in gaining the mountains. The California legislature appropriated $25,000 to defray the expenses of the national G. A. R. encampment to be held at San Francisco in August. The United Mineworkers of Illinois has raised the salaries of all its officere. The resolution favoring government ownership of mines and railroads was lost. The resolution passed by the senate providing that Rear Admiral Schley be given the pay and allowance of rear admiral on the active list was tabled by the house. The only woman member of the Utah legislature has introduced a bill making it unlayful for a candidate to give away or treat to cigars, drinks or other refreshments or to furnish voters transportation to the polls. The house passed the naval bill with appropriations for more ships. Provision has been made for a cadet at Weet Point from Porto Rico. The powers of Europe have all united in demanding reforms in Turkey. Brigadier General Morris C. Foote has been placed on the retired list. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Tillman has been refused bail in the Gonzales murder case. Wyoming has made an appropriation for the 1905 fair. Colorado will soon be heard from. A bill appropriating $40,000 for the Lewis and Clark fair is now before the California legislature. A bill has been favorably reported in the senate for a delegate from Alaska to be appointed by the president. A party of the North Dakota press association visited Portland and while there pledged their support for the 1905 fair. A hotel at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, burned. A number of persons lost their lives and several others were seriously injured by jumping from windows. The president has announced the appointment of Judge William R. Day to be justice of the United States supreme court in place of Justice Shiras, resigned United States Minister Squiers has sailed for New York from Havana. Robert E. Peary thinks he can reach the pole if he is given hacking to the extent of $200,000. Ex-Senator C. H. Simth, of Jackson, Mich., has accepted the office of prosecuting attorney at Manila. Susan B. Anthony has just sent to the congressional library at Washington a large number of valuable books, autograph letters and scrapbooks. A syndicate of New York capitalists, headed by Charles Green, formerly with the International paper company, will build a big paper mill in New Hampshire. Hay is to be distributed on the TetonYellowstone forest reserves to save from starvation 10,000 elk, whose feeding ground is covered with snow 10 feet deep. The Merchants' national bank, one of the oldest institutions in Philadelphia, has gone out of existence and transferred its business to the Girard national. A section of 200 seats in the Lakeside auditorium, at Racine, Wis., gave way creating a panic among 1,000 spectators and injuring many people, two fatally. Two bills have been reported to the Kansas legislature making it crime for railroad to confiscate any coal consigned to a shipper, no matter how great Its need may be. As penalty for violation, a fine of $1,000 is provided. A local passenger train on the 'Frisco line was wrecked near Pittsburg, Kan., and five passengers were injured. Memorial services for the late President Charles Kendall Adams, of the University of Wisconsin, were held at Madison, Wis. The Standard oil company has de clared a dividend of $20 per share, payable March 16, which is $10 more than the last dividend. Nathan Doros, a diamond broker of Philadelphia, was robbed of $7,000 worth of diamonds within 10 minutes after stepping from a train at Cincinnati.
