The log cabin Democrat., 1906-07-19

Canada will build 5000 miles of railway this year.
 Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to be made great recruiting station.
 George Kern, in St. Louis, killed wife and mother-in -in-law, Mrs. Anna Lutz.
 Edmund Belt, believed to have been the richest man in the world, died in London. He was the Dia- mond King of South Africa, and ownod half of the gold and diamond mines in that country. His income was estimated at $1,000,000 per week, and his accumulated wealth had reached $1, ,000,000,000.
 A proclamation, clandestinely cir oulated in Odessa, Russia, by revolu- tionists, jubilantly acclaims the death sentence "avengingly executed on Chouknin for the martyrdom of Lieut.. Schmidt" adding that all the leading bureaucratic enemies of the people will be similarly and sum- marily removed.
 Some portions of the vatican, the papal residence in Rome, are de clared to be unsafe; in fact, to be practically falling to pieces.
 Bills were passed by the French chamber of deputies and senate re- habilitating Capt. Alfred Dreyfus and Col. Picquart in the army, the former with the rank of chief of squadron of artillery and the latter as brigadier- general. Both were promptly signed by President Fail Heres. The passage was attended by wild scenes, out of which one bloody duel resulted.
 Guatemala and Salvador have de- clared war. Ex-President Regalado of Salvador was killed in battle while leading the Salvadorean troops against those of Guatemala at Eliicaro, in which the Guatemal- ans were victorious.
 No lives were lost when the steam CT Quincy, of the Diamond Joc line, struck a snag in the Mississippi river, near Trempealeau, Wis. The passengers were all safely landed, and were cared for at Winona, La Crosse and St. Paul.
 Thomas ". Alexander, head of the firm of Alexander < Alexander, cotton factors of Augusta, Ga, has disappeared, and there is said to be discrepancy of about $145,000 in the assets of the concern.
 Jacob Keyser, a German farmer five miles northeast of Fort Worth, Tex, is the lucky discoverer of a new oil field. In digging well on his place he struck a very fine grade of oil at a depth of S5 feet, and is now drawing it out by the bucketful. The oil is of the same type as is found in the Indian territory. Mrs. George J. Jackson, whose husband is said to be the son of a millionaire of Fort Worth, Tex, drank a quantity of carbolic acid at Los Angeles, Cal. The act is said to have followed a quarrel between the couple.
 Mrs. Caroline Merriwether Good let, of Nashville, Tenn, founder of the order of the Daughters of the Confederacy, was seriously injured by falling down a flight of steps at her brothers home in Clarksyille, | Tenn.
 Henry Keiser, said to be the old est Odd Fellow in Missouri, died at Hermann, at the age of 92 years and months. MT. Keiser had been a member of Robert Blum lodge, l. o. o. F., of Hermann, since 1854.
 The committee on awards has an- nounced the prizes connected with the Kentucky homecoming celebra- tion, as follows: Left state at ten derest age, Mary Alice Baker, 3, St. Louis; left state at most advanced age, Mrs. Mary A. Medcalfe, Mar low, I. T. absent from state longest without returning, R. H. Smith, Boone county, Mo-. travelled longest distance, James D. Gardner, Mel bourne, Australia; nearest kin to Daniel Boone, Miss Hattie Tender son, Fulton, Mo-; most aged Ken tuckian, Gordon Boiling, Windsor, III.
 H. Clay Evans was nominated for governor by the Tennessee repub- lican convention at Nashville.
 At Cedar Rapids, Ia., seven girls, ranging in age from Z to 16, were drowned in the river, where they had l COna uadiDO ac an incident tO a nic