A YANKEE TRUST BATTLE.

Southland Times, Issue 19194, 4 November 1903, Page 3

A YANKEE TRUST BATTLE.

AN OBSCURE ARMENIAN FUED. RUSSIA IN THE PERSIAN GULF. DEATH OF A GERMAN SACiE. PRANCE'S ELECTRIC PISTURB- .-■■*• ANCE. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 2. Reuter reports that owing to the failure oi the Mediation Committee the re-apeni»g; of the Amalgamated popper Company's mines in Montana has been postponed until a special meeting of the Legislature is held. It is expected to take weeks, perhaps months, to solve the problem caused by the judge's decision which led to the shutting-down of mines. The Receiver of the United States , Shipbuilding Company declares that 68 million dollars worth oi stocks and bonds have been issued against properties whose book values are 12£ million dollars, with an earning power of 2| millions. He characterises the business as remarkable plunder. A bomb timed to explode in two hours was delivered! at the domicile of Kureghian, editor of the Young Armenian, who volunteered to identify Krikorfan, associate of the murderer of Sagouini. Another moderate in London ha 9 also been threatened with death. leader of the moderates in Switzerland, was stabbed in the back, but. not fatally. . Russia proposes ' to permanently station a warship, in the Persian Giilf.

A fire occurred in private apartinerits oveY the Vatican library, and three rooms were burned. The books and manuscripts were uninjured. Roman firemen co-operated with thos^ of the Vatican.

Ministers of State and mayors have been invited to eater the Vatican in their official capacity for the first time since the fall of temporal power.

A U.S. Court , refused to extradite the Irish prison-breaker Lynchehann. on the ground that his assault on Miss Agnes Macdonald at Achill. Ireland, was the. result of political discrtntent with landlordism.

Obituary -r- Professor Mommseu, German historian ; aetat 86. The Sultan of. Morocco was received with indifference at Fez. Paris was isolated during +he electric earth storm. Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Norman Lockyer, and Mr "Wm. Boy<i Dawkins, of Owens College, attribute the phenomena to fiery storms in the sun rather than 1 to sun spots. Further magnetic disturbances are predicted. The strike at Bilbao has terminated, the employers agreeing to pay ■wages weekly and abolish the truck system.