The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-10-04
News of
A Week
Ioaragraphic Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

America, has put 1t up 10 tne New
York Yacht club to say whether there
is to be a race for the Americas cup
next year or not. He is eager to chal-
Ienge. but unless he can get a race
under the present rule of measure
ment there will be no contest. There
is no designer in England who VIII
build boat for him under the OLD
rule. The report is current in yacht
ING circles that movement is on foot
TO organize German syndicate to
send boat to contest for the cup
4 An equestrian statue of Washington,
a Gift to New York by ex-Register
James R. Howe of Brooklyn, was IN
yelled at the Williamsburg bridge
/ plaza. Brooklyn. Mr. Howe. who ran
\ for office in 1899, promised that If
elected he would return to the city all
the fees that came to him over and
above the amount he considered a fair
salary. He was elected and made his
return to the city in the statue of
washington. costing about $4,000
All Adams, the policy king whom the
/ late Norton Goddard sent to Sing Sing.
| shot and killed himself in his apart
ments in a New York hotel. He was
| for thirty years head of a penny swim.
! die game. for eighteen months con
! Wet. making mats in a prison work
| shop: since then a hacker of bucket
shops and for nearly twoscore years a
| successful real estate operator. He left
a fortune of several millions.
President Roosevelt on board the
yacht Mayhower visited and inspected
the north Atlantic fleet, off Cape Cod,
under the command of Rear Admiral
Evans. his principal object being to
watch the target practice of the big
guns at sea. He won the hearts - the
men on the Missouri, the best shots
in the navy, by partaking of dinner
with them. The president and his
family have returned to Washington.
Secretary of State Elihu Root has re
turned from his visit to the South
American republics and has resumed
charge of the state department. While
not commenting for publication, he
showed to til use who met him that he
was gratifiea with the results of his
trip. He said nothing was left undone
by South Americans TO show honor to
this country.
The president of the Mormon church,
Joseph f. Smith, was arrested in Salt
Lake City and bound over on the
charge of living unlawfully with five
| wives. In the Reed Smoot investiga.
ton testimony President Smith admit
! ted some of the charges made against
| him. His enemies allege that the cause
of the present prosecution is political.
After three months work Professor
Frederick g. Novy of the University
of Michigan has discovered the e',nse
of the sleeping fever which ye'"y
kills thousands in India and Area.
Professor Koch the great German b'c
teriologist, spent two years il -. a
in an unsuccessful attempt to tina tic
germ.
In Peekskill, N. Y, is one of the fAw
il not the only church owned thaa en-
In the United States. st. Mary's CHEF
owns the playhouse The pastor, she
Rev. Father ]. T. Curran, mp reTed
the plan in order that the pariskioners
might see under the chArch influence
the best attractions of the stage.
Near Mahanoy City, Pa, a great
vein of coal extending mile in length
and an eighth of mile in width, with
an average thickness of twelve feet
has been discovered in the Mahanoy
valley. Experts say it contains mil
lions of tons valued at 100000 ana
that it will last over fifty years.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, and three
other Harvard students were arrested
and taken to a police station in Bos
ton following a student frolic, in which
a policeman was badly hurt, but were
quickly released when it was found
that they had no connection with the
assault
Senator Thomas G. Plat of New
York and his wife denied positively
that there was an estrangement be
tween the couple. The story, SO the
senator said, was a maliciouH lie There
is trouble between Mrs. Platt's daugh
ter and the latter's husband.
Frank Wisnewski, only witness t.
the killing of BARLEY I. Horner. save
Horner's accused son-in-law, DR. James
w. Simpson, has been found and taken
back to Kings Park State Hospital Fol
the Insane. He will never be compe-
tent witness.
The estate of John w. Russell, an
octogenarian of East Orange, n. ].
who died in November, is to be divid.
ed, half going to New Jersey and halt
to Canada The property is worth
100000 No will and no heirs have
been found.
Bertha Beilstein, a wealthy young
woman of Allegheny, Pa, who has
been confined in the insane asylum at
Dixmont, Ha., since her conviction for
the murder of her aged mother eight
years ago, has escaped from that in
stitution
The new meat inspection law has be-
come operative. Secretary Wilson and
the bureau of animal industry have
been working hard to get affairs in
shane for making the change without