Sharp County record., 1906-12-07
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M.
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully oisestad and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

school of the University OF Nebraska,
has posted a letter from Chancellor
E. Benjamin Andrews, ordering the
expulsion of students who chew TO-
bacco.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
snapped his fingers in the face of H.
d. w. England, a millionaire, and
president of the Pittsburg chamber of
commerce, and altogether stirred up
the animals wnen he notified the
members of the chamber that they
did not amount to so much. The row
is over the location of a new post
office.
William Mckinley, the Pennsylva-
mia railroad engineer who ran the en-
gine of the train on which President
Lincoln rode to Washington to be in
augurated, is seriously i'll in Wash
ington.
The president of the British board
of trade, in reply to a question, as
sured the house of commons that the
board of trade was carefully watching
a scheme being organized in the Unit
ed States to regulate the price of cot
ton by means of storage and gradual
sale.
Secretary Metcalf who was sent to
San Francisco to investigate the al
legged discrimination against Japanese
in the schools of that city, has made
his report to the president, but it has
not been made public.
The Catholic University of America,
at Washington, D. c., is entirely free
of debt
One of the first acts of the presi-
dent, after his return from the trip
to Panama and Porto Rico, was to
direct the dismissal of the district
attorney of Porto Rico, whose action
the president said, amounted practi-
cally to malfeasance in office"
King George of Greece, on his re-
cent visit to Rome, hesitated before
calling on the pope. 1t is said that
France and Great Britain urged him
not to do so, while the Vatican, backed
by Austria-Hungary and Germany,
pressed the adyisability of a visit
Italy was the only power Indifferent
Guarded by 40 detectives, Senator
Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina
lectured on the Annexation of Cuba"
at Chicago. The colored population
of Chicago had demonstrated and
threatened, but the event was pulled
off.
The coasting steamer j. H. Jones
was wrecked on Cape Cocker, in
Georgian bay, Canada, and at least 2S
lives were lost.
The president believes the Porto
Ricans are ready for American citi-
zenship
An unknown man in a small boat
was swept over the Horseshoe falls
at Niagara. Two men in a boat made
daring attempt to rescue him.
Congressman Bartholdt of Missouri,
in Washington, says he will ask for
an appropriation of S5,O00,000 for the
Missouri river.
The Moroccan situation has reached
high degree of tension, and war is
almost sure to follow.
Hongkong advices report a erturn
of anti-missionary feeling at Lieu.
Chow, where property was pillaged.
Shelby M. Cullom, clerk of Arizona
supreme court, nephew of Senator
Cullom of Illinois, died at Phoenix,
Ariz., of consumption, aged So.
Near Hutchinson, Mimi, three sons
of Peter L. Hudson, aged 10, II and 8
years, were drowned in Lake Marion
They slated into an air hole while
hunting muskrats.
Active military preparations are be
ing made by Japanese in northern Ko
rea, according to advices received by
steamer from the Orient, at Vancou
yer, b. c. The Korean Daily News
says the preparations indicate Japan's
intention TO pick quarrel with China
regarding the ownership of Kando, the
island province inclosed by the head
waters Of the Yalu at Tumen river.
A report is current in London thai
the British South African Co. has of
fered the Salvation Army 1,0OO,00(
acres of land in Rhodesia for coloniza
ton purposes, with the stipulation
however, that in the event of coloniz
ing scheme proving failure the lane
should revert to he company,
At a Thanksgi ing dinner in Lon
don, Edward Littleton, head master a
Eaton, declared President Roosevelt tC
be the most important figure in con
temporary civilization.
Eleven dead and 104 severely in
jured is the record of the football sea
son of 1906, according to The resume
of the seasons accidents in the Chi
cago Tribune. These figures are com
pared with the casualties of 1905
when IS players were killed and Is!
severely injured.
The French torpedo school ship Al
gesiras, station in the harbor at Tou
Ion, France, was totally destroyed by
fire at late hour at night, recently
There were 500 men on board wher
the fire broke out, and all were saved
with tho aynaptiop IF tbrpa who pOulj