The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-05

crease ever KNOW III Ill inc lllStOIN VI
the country. These facts are
brought out in the annual report OF
Commissioner of Pensions Warner,
which has just been completed. The
report shows that in the entire his
tory of the country the total eXpend-
iture on account Of pensions has
been 50, 459, $50, 81, Of which only
500, A., IA had been paid out prior
to the beginning of the civil war.
Apalachicola, Fla, also suffered
from the storm. Warehouses and
wharves were damaged or destroyed.
Fish and oyster canning factories
on the water front were ruined.
The thirty-third annual conven-
ton of the National Women 5
Christian Temperance union will
be held in Hartford, Conn, Octo-
Der 20 to 81 inclusive
A gulf hurricane caused great loss
to shipping at Pensacola, Fla, also
to wharyes. warehouses, residences,
railroads and farms. The city Of
Mobile, Ala. was almost inundated,
and ships, warehouses, wharyes and
buildings were destroyed. It )
feared that many lives were lost
along the neighboring coast. The
storm extended along the coast from
New Orleans TO point south OF At
lanta. moved northwest into Mis-
slssippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
continuing northwest TO the 1t.
Lawrence valley. In the gulf states
great damage was done 10 cotton,
rice and other crops.
Paul O. Stensland, the Chicago
bank convict, Was put to work IN the
sorting room Of the broom factory,
where ne viii labor by the side of
John A. Linn. the ex-clerk Of the
superior court Of Chicago, under
sentence for embczzlement
A natural gas franchise, winch
gives the Kansas City-Missouri Gas
company the right TO serve the city
with natural gas for thirty wears, at
an average rate of twenty-elght cents
per 1000 feet, has been passed by
the city council and signed by the
MAYOR of Kansas CITY, Mo. The rate
for manufacturing purposes is to be
/ as low as the price IN nclghhorlng
cities, some Of which pay eight
cents.
President Roosevelt has appointed
II. : organ Shuster as member of
the Philippine commission, to fill
one of the vacancies caused by the
designations Of Governor General
Wright and Governor General lde.
The other vacancy recently VS.
filled by the appointment Of Judge
Charles +. Magoon, American min
lister to Panama, ard governor of
! the canal zone
News has been received here, saw
Honolulu dispatch, that Along. the
we'll known Chinese capitalist, for
merly of Hawaii. died in China on
! Tuesday, September 25. Along mar
ried a half-breed white woman, by
whom he had two sons and thirteen
daughters. The daughters are ex-
ceedinglv handsome, and married
well, one becoming the wife Of Rear
Admiral Whiting Of the United
States navy.
Bertha Bellstein, & wealthy Young
woman of Allegheny, Pa, who has
been confined in an asylum for the
insane at DiXmont, Pa, since her
conviction Of the murder of her
aged mother eight years ago, es-
capped from the institution al night,
and her present whereabouts is I'M
kno- n. 1t is said she left BY the
fire escape and was whirled away IN
an automobile.
Secretary Roots diplomacy la
restored confidence III the init
States on the part of South Anne.
lean countries.
Punching house No. l of the Her
cules powder plant, at Lamonte,
Mo-. was blown to atoms by a ter
rife explosion. Boone Thompson,
Fred Murray and Henry Fowler
were at work in the structure and
were killed instantly. This is the
third fatal explosion at the plant
within the past year A few months
ago one of the punching houses was
/ blown up, and two men were killed.
The Texas state board Of educa-
ton has purchased for the seho |
fund 1854, 900 of Texas state from
tier bonds, fives, the same maturing
July /, 1909, on a per cent basis.
The school fund now possesses 50,
100000, of which sum 100000 is
yet uninvested, but is limited TO
Texas state. county, city and school