The log cabin Democrat., 1906-09-06

] ! kaiser can not visit St. Louis, as he can not cross the ocean for mere show.
 A line of steamers will be started on the Missouri between St Louis and Kansas City. The river has been practically abandoned for the last twenty years.
 Gen. Mien. a close friend of the czar, was shot five times and killed by mere girl at the railway station in St. Petersburg, where he was with his family. The generals wife seized the girl by the head and held her until she could be arrested. William Jennings Bryan received an ovation at Madison Square gar den, fully twenty thousand people being present. Mir. Bryan declared the trusts would be the important question in the next presidential campaign. He favored an income tax, arbitration between capital and labor, government ownership of rail- way trunk lines. and independence for the Philippines.
 The interior department prom ises to establish agents with data about lands in Oklahoma at various centers; the sealed bid plan Is un- changed.
 Oklahoma may be able to formal ly enter the union of the United States by July 4, 1907, but it has many details to work out before en- tering.
 Texas Cattle Raisers' association and others seek to reopen the cases of rate complaints before the inter- state commerce commission.
 The Japanese have opened Dalny as free port
 The last day of August broke all heat records in England. The off, cial instrument at p. m. regis tered 91 degrees in the shade and l29 in the sun, degree of heat the average Enqlishman is not used to.
 Tom Crutchfield, 10 years old, bricklayer, fell from bridge, at Pa ducah. Ky, and broke his neck. He was riding a wheel in the dark, and, no one seeing the accident, it Is not known how he happened to fall.
 The public will reap no benefit in express rates under the new rate law The rates of every company will be identical with those of every other.
 The colored troops that caused so much trouble at Brownsville, Tex, have reached Fort Reno, Okla. They will not be allowed to visit Fl Reno without passes.
 David R. Francis, president of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, was entertained by King Edward at Ma rienbad, Bohemia, where the king is sojourning.
 Imports and exports for July ex- ceed by many millions those of the corresponding month of last year, and the imports and exports for the seven months of the present year exceed those of the seven corre- spending months of last year by $85, 5,000,000.
 F. s. Wills, for more than 20 years superintendent of the Atchison (Kas.) Water Co.,, is dead, aged 73. Mir. Wills was Atchison's first rall- road ticket agent, in 1866.
 The home of Mrs. Mary Freeman, at Corsicana, Tex, was wrecked With dynamite. The explosive was placed under the corner of the parlor, and the sleeping inmates thereby es- caped. The force of the explosion tore hole about four feet square in the floor. Every window in the house was broken, and much of the glassware and ohinaware was shat tered. A piano fell through the hole made by the explosion, and was de- stroyed.
 The body Of Lieut.. Clarence Eng land, who was accidentally killed on the cruiser Chattanooga at Chefoo, China, July 2S, arrived in Little Rock, Ark, in charge of an escort, representing the United States navy, and his brother, Capt. Lloyd Eng land, of the United States army. The interment was in Little Rock.
 The city of Fort Worth, Tex, has raised the sum of $25,000 for the fat stock show amphitheater that IS to be constructed there by the Ar mour and Swift interests. A like sum is guaranteed by the stockmen of the state, making total of S50,- 900 put up as a guarantee of tho permanency of the live stock exhibit,