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EVENTS OF THE DAY
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ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.
The Lewis and Clark fair is fast gain
ing friends in congress.
Corea has told Russia she must not
interfere with rioting soldiers.
The Panama canal treaty is safe, the
Democrats agreeing to vote for it.
Correspondents say the last note of
Japan to Russia is stronger than the
first.
The new Chicago theater ordinance
will close nearly every house in the
city.
The French begun the Panama canal
we'll and America will not find her task
great.
Maryland's legislature is balloting
for senator to succeed McComas with
out result.
Senators MacLaurin and Money, of
Mississippi, have been elected to sue
ceed themselves.
Governor Vardman, of Mississippi,
in message to the legislature, says
education is the curse of the negro.
German, Mclean and Murphy have
formed an alliance to fight Hearst as
Democratic nominee for president.
Louisiana primaries show that the
reelection of Foster for senator and
nomination of Blanchard for governor
to be certain.
Bryan says the Kansas City platform
is sound in every plank.
The czar will not yield to Japan's
demand regarding Manchuria.
Hall Caine, the noted novelist, is
suffering from general breakdown.
Russia fears America more than
Britain in the present Far Eastern
trouble.
The United Mineworkers of America
are holding their annual convention in
indianapolis.
A hot fight is on in Ohio between
Hanna and Foraker as to the indorse-
ment of Roosevelt.
A new religious sect has sprung up
in Boston. One of its teachings is that
the millennium is to come in 1915.
George Francis Train, author and
traveller, is dead. Heart disease follow
ing an attack of acute nephritis was
the cause. He was almost rs years
old. 4
The Chicago city council is framing
a new theater ordinance, which is
much more stringent than the present
one and they will see that it is en-
forced.
Britain has abandoned hopes of peace.
The American guard at Seoul, Corea,
has been increased.
The Illinois medical society will
fight the anti-toxin combine.
A month of debate is ahead on the
Panama affair in the senate.
The Japanese minister at London
says war must come now or later.
Pure food experts find America is be-
ing grossly deceived by French wine
makers.
Bryan will issue a daily paper in st.
Louis during the national Democratic
convention.
James L. Blair, a prominent st.
Louis attorney indicted for forgery,
has died from worry.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
America should wake up in the matter
of breeding fine animals.
The house expects to pass an apprO-
priation bill week until all supply
measures are out of the way.
The jury in the case of R. H. Ken
nedy, the Hillsboro, Oregon, minister
on trial for burglary, has returned a
verdict of not guilty.
Ex-Governor Asa s. Bushnell, Of
Ohio, is dead.
The Panama canal treaty is sure to
be accepted by the senate committee.
Japan's reply to Russia's latest note
has been given. 1t is denial of every
material proposition.
France threatens retaliation unless
the United States removes the export
duty on Manila hemp.
A bill has been introduced in
congress granting pensions to all union
veterans so years of age, who served 80
days.
The Corean press is urging the peo-
pie to slaughter all foreigners. The
American minister says he will protect
his people.
Havre, Mont, was almost entirely
destroyed by the fire few days ago.
After it was thought to be under control
it again broke forth. Only one business
house of any consequence is left. The
loss is placed at sS5O,OOO with $145,-
600 insurance.
Judge De Haven has ruled that a
Chinese born in this country may be
resdmitted on return from abroad.
A gang Of Italian robbers has been
caught at Irrigon, Oregon, with much
loot.