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A-eSS bttl pSSAgtNS1 Nlkll June oNtu-
Ministers of the Swedish Free
Church of America, in conference at
Rockford. Illinois. voted TO marry no
divorced persons hereafter.
King Edward has conferred on Nine.
Melba the decoration for science. art
and music. She is the first woman
on whom 1t has been bestowed
II is announced that Whistler's IA
nous Peacock Rooms" which is now
being exhibited in London. has been
acquired by an American collector.
Eight earthquake shocks are report
ed to have occurred recently in the
states of Guerrero and Chinapas. Mex
leo. A number OF sharp shocks were
also reported from Colima.
The premier of New South Wales. Sir
John See. has resigned. He is retiring
from public life Thomas Waddell.
colonial treasurer and minister OF rail-
roads. will form new cabinet.
John Alexander Dowie, who be-
lieyes himself to be Elijah the
Prophet. has been having strenuous
times in London. where a mob seems
to be in waiting for him wherever he
goes.
The Kansas railroads have made re-
duced rates from Kansas City. Leaven-
worth. AtChison. St Joseph Tokeka,
Fort Scott Chanute and Cherryyale to
all sections in the wheat belt for har-
vest help.
The only unidentified body of the
victims Of the lroquois theater fire in
Chicago was buried a few days ago
at Montrose cemetery with this in
scription on the casket The I'M
known. December so. 1908"
Fire at Nosales. Arizona. June 9th.
destroyed the federal custom house.
the Southern Pacific and the Sonora
railroad depots and the interior of the
Wells Fargo express office. The dam
age will approximate sl,00000o.
The Russian war Office has adopted
recommendations made by Lieutenant
Botkin embodying the use of the Unit
ed States army model tents These are
convertible into ponchos for the pro-
lection of the troops during the rainy
season.
The National Packing Company has
absorbed the R.ddy Brothers Packing
Company. who b plant Is in Armour
dale. Kansas. 1t is said the considera-
tion was about $500. coo The Ruddy
Brothers Packing Compny employs
1s0 men and the daily slaughtering ca
pacity is $50 cattle. 500 hogs and 300
sheep.
Professor Metchnikof OF the Pas
teur Institute. lecturing in Paris on
old age. strongly indorsed the theory
that senility is due to a special mic
erobe which he had attempted to iso-
late. As result OF a close investiga-
tion he stated his conviction that the
habitat OF this microbe was the large
intestine
A contract has been let for the cree
tion at Tacoma of SIS. 600 hospital
building for the Northern Pacific Rail
road Employees Association. This hos
pitaI will occupy more than one city
block in Tacoma and will shelter the
injured and sick employees OF the road
II is under the direct cont oil Of the en-
pioyes Of the road
The War Department has approved
plans for a field meet al Fort Russell,
Wyoming. July 9Th. and a comprehen-
siye program of sports has been pre-
pared for the occasion. In addition to
the events included In regular meets.
there will be squad waIl-climbing con-
tests, equipmen races. drivers con-
test for the artillery. etc.
The Tangier correspondent of the
London Times says. "A well-organized
plot to depose the Sultan exists
throughout Morocco. II has no connec-
rion with the late rebellion. but orig
mated with the religious and educated
classes and is supported by many
shereefs and other influential persons.
including members of the Moorish gov
ernment"
Rudolph Bingham. father OF the Pro-
hibition party in Camden county. New
Jersey. died few days ago in Cooper
hospital. Camden, aged eighty. Sew
eral years ago he began to subsist on
diet OF bread crumbs. whole corn and
wheat. believing ii would prolong his
life. Physicians told him the fare was
killing him. but he refused to
change it.
Gen: Ricciotti Garibaldi has issued
a proclamation in which he declares
that the armaments of Austria can not
be but against Italy. rendering impos-
sible her opposition TO an Austrian
march through the Balkans to Salon
lea General Garibaldi urges the Ital-
ian youth not to provoke a fight with
Austria. but to hold themselves in
readiness.
Joaquin Miguel Artal. who. on April
18th. attempted TO assassinate Premier
Maura of Spain. was tried in the as
size court at Barcelona found guilty
and sentenced to seventeen years i'm
prisonment. He declared that he act
ed on an irresistible impulse to attack
Senior Maura in order to ayenge the
proletarians who were the victims of
governments.
After a journey of $1,000 miles on
bicycle through foreign lands. Rev
Henry Spickler. graduate OF the Chica-
go University OF Divinity, returned TO
San Francisco a few days ago on the
transport Logan from Manila Mr.
Spickler started three years ago from
Upper Alton. Illinois. and since that
time has visited nearly every country