The log cabin Democrat., 1906-08-02

The initial steps were taken m St. Louis the other day for the or ganization of society to be known as the Southern society, or some sim liar name, for the purpose of pro- noting closer relations between res idents of St. louis who have special attachments for southern states. The organization is expected to prove a large factor in the social life of the city.
 A party of armed men forced their way into the Bousset printing establishment, in St. Petersburg, and at the muzzles of pistols com- pelled the employes to print 15O,- 900 copies of the Viborg manifesto.
 At Sebastopol a court-martial has passed sentence upon a number ot seamen concerned in the Black sea fleet mutiny. Four were sentenced to death, one to life imprisonment and 32 to varying terms.
 Charles Henry, y,~who has been ac- tive in an attempt to establish an alibi for Albert M. Crone, charged with the murder of Bertha Bowlin in Kansas City, Mo-, is now charged as an accessory.
 Six million acres of public lands in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon and Washington, known to be underlaid with workable coal de- posits, have been withdrawn from entry, to meet possible emergency in the future.
 Lieut.. Clarence England, navigat ing officer of the cruiser Chatta- nooga, was shot and fatally wounded while on the bridge of the vessel as she was passing out of the harbor of Chefoo, China, by a bullet fired from the French cruiser Dupetit Thouars, whose crew was engaged in small-arms practice. Lieut.. England was from Arkansas. He died within few hours.
 The negro congregation of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in Roanoke, Va, unveiled beauti- ful memorial window to Stonewall Jackson, mainly a tribute of the pastor, Rev. l.. L. Downing, to the Sunday school teacher of his father and mother in slavery days. Many ex-confederates and Daughters of the Confederacy attended the cere- mony.
 John D. Rockefeller told the members of his church at Tarry- town, N. Y., that he was glad to be home again, although he had en- loved his visit to Europe. Oil prices fell when Mir. Rockefeller returned.
 At La Grange, Ga, Willie Stew art accidentally dropped chisel he was showing to customer in hard ware store, into a case of dynamite. Stewart was instantly killed, several persons in the store were hurt, and the building and stock were badly wrecked.
 Henry c. Brokmeyer, a former lieutenant governor of Missouri, and one of the best-kncwn business men, writers and politicians in the state, is dead, after long illness. He was one of the founders of the Concord school of philosophy. and was a nephew of Bismarck, the "1ron Chancellor" of Germany.
 It was late in the morning before angry crowds, Mayfeld, Ky, learned that they had been outwitted in their search for Allen Mathis, the negro assailant of a white woman, and that the negro, captured by the po- lice, had been hurried away to Pa ducah in a coffin. A white man had died in the jail, and the coffin had been carried in. The mob pursued the sheriff and his prisoner to Pa ducah, where the police arrested 65 of them, securing a barrel full of weapons of various kinds.
 As a result of eating bologna saus- age, a small child of s. w. Webb, of Lehigh, Okla, died of ptomaine poisoning, and another was not ex- pected to live.
 Miss Millie, l.. c. Giltner and William Aujustine, Americans, who were convicted in the Isle of Pines of constructing a private telegraph line, in violation of military orders, have been pardoned by President Palma of Cuba, on their promise not to offend again.
 Sessions of the Pan-American congress at Rio Janeiro are held in the St. Louis pavilion, the recon structed edifce that served as the pro1il;op b1i1dipr at tho St Ol1ic