The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-23
A small panic was caused at the

Lyric thcatcr in New Orleans, dur ing a matinee performance by some person shouting fire The audience rose en masse, and was rushing to- ward the exits, when some levelhead- ed person in the audience shouted that it was only small fire across the street, and there was no danger. Several women tainted, but other wise no one was injured.
 Representative F. Livingston, of the Fifth Georgia district, says that as soon as possible after the opening of the coming session of congress he will introduce a bill repeating the statutory provision for tax of 10 per cent upon currency issued by. state banks.
 At Nonconnah Creek, a few miles from Memphis, Tenn, a rail road trestle fell at night under the weight of switch engine, the engine plunging into the swollen stream, carrying with it, Engineer c. V. Peterson and Fireman A. R. Ritchie, who were drowned.
 Express officials are stirred by the Frisco, fearing that action in express line may be initiated.
 Big profits are earned by Texas gardens, and truck farms bring fine results to men of small capital.
 l.. A. DeYoung, a physician of Taylor, Tex, while travelling on the Southern Pacific west-bound train near Bakersfield, Cal, in company with his wife, went into the toilet room of a tourist car and took his life with razor. He was a sufferer from nervous prostration and melan- cholia. Every muscle and artery in the neck was severed, and the spinal column was all that prevented the head from being completely severed.
 Four separate government investi- gations at Muskogee, I. T., officials busy answering questions.
 A Washington astrologer predicts that go cities, including St. Louis, will be destroyed within two years. From now on, it is declared at Havana, Cuba, it behooves the United States to be extremely care full in dealing with the Cuban ques- tion. Late developments reveal an ugly situation, fraught with danger to both countries. Whatever solu- tion may be had, whether the Unit ed States establishes a protectorate or makes way for another Cuban republic, a revolution Is not the worst result that now threatens.
 As a result of the notoriety of the raid in search of evidence for di- vorce suit made by his wife upon a house in New York city, which was followed by the signing of an agree ment of separation, Senator Thomas Collier Platt will, 1t is said, resign his seat in the senate of the United States. Already republican leaders in the state are discussing his pos sible successor, and the name of for mer Gov. Frank s. Black is freely mentioned. There is also some talk of Timothy l.. Woodruff for the ex- pected vacancy.
 That the Monroe doctrine still lives and is not a dead letter, as re- gently declared by Prof. Burgess in his Berlin address, will be vigorous ly proclaimed by Secretary of State Root in his speech before the lead ing commercial men or the west, and in the presence of dozen diplo- mats of the Latin-American repub- lies. The address will be delivered at the banquet of the trans-Missis- sippi commercial congress in Kan sas City next Tuesday evening.
 An uneonfrmed report is in cir culation that Crown Prince George of Servia has become insane.
 The discharge of the three com panies of negro troops from Browns vile, Tex, has begun at Fort Reno, Okla. Maj. Wallace of Fort Sam Houston has arrived at the fort to act as paymaster. The final orders