The Monmouth inquirer., 1906-10-11
News of
A Week
Paraeraphie Photographs Of the
Worlds Doings

A0SC ONCt AbC 4NdSSdu CO0hly W. l. y
circuit His time for the 297 miles
over the speedway was 4 hours so
minutes 10 % seconds. or at an aver
age speed of 61.41 miles an hour Italy
took second place with Lancia, who
drove 120 horsepower Fiat and made
the ten laps in hours So minutes
% As seconds. None of the Americans
entered finished better than sixth, al
though Tracy, who won the elimination
race, made the fastest single lap of
the contest, doing the 29.7 miles in 26
minutes 20 As seconds. More than
100000 spectators saw the race. One
man was killed by the car of e. F.
Shepard.
Either a central government bank of
issue or the enlargement of the present
note issue privilege of national banks
SO that their right OF issue shall not
vary with the ownership Of United
States bonds is the method favored by
the commission appointed by the New
York chamber of commerce last March
to inquire into the condition of the cur
rency and suggest changes.
In Binghamton, ~ Y, from the body
of the dead burglar who was shot
and killed in that city Coroner q. L.
posed was Oil. He placed the bottle in
his case and took it home. shaking 1t
around unconcernedly. Investigation
showed that the bottle contained
enough nitroglycerin to have blown up
large building.
John Alexander Dowie's plan for an
American colony in Mexico was aban-
doned in obedience to command re-
ceived by Dowie in a misunderstanding
to Deacon Arlington, one of Dowie's
followers. The scheme was relinquish-
ed in favor OF another that contem-
plates the raising of $1,000,000 in Chi
cago for the purpose of restoring
Dowie's power.
Speaking on the race problem in Au-
gusta, Ga, Senator Tillman of South
Carolina said There are some people
who say that a race problem settles it
self, but | make the prediction that in
less than ten years, l fear less than
five, there will be an immense number
of race riots north and south beside
which the Atlanta riot will pale into
insignificance"
C. A. Mosher of Wichita, Kan, re-
ceived commission as a general in
the Cuban army and next day was
asked to resign owing to American
intervention. He intended to raise a
regiment of rough riders similar to
the one led by Theodore Roosevelt in
1898. He received 81 200 compensa-
tion from the Cuban government.
Charles r. Sager of Madison, Wis.
twenty-eight years old; his wife. who
is the mother of his two small children,
and another woman, to whom he was
married unlawfully, have been living
together since May. the lawful Mrs.
Sager acting as servant. Although all
three seemed to be contented, Sager
was arrested for bigamy.
With a large white handkerchief
huttering as a signal of distress.
Charles Jones and Herbert j. Hanson
were picked up in Boston harbor. They
were drifting out to sea on an old raft
upon which they had made their eS
cape from Deer island prison They
were returned to Deer island by the
police.
DR.. Frank Brouwer OF Toms River,
N. j., was placed on trial for his life
on a charge of wife murder Mrs.
Brouwer died Sept. =. 1905, after two
weeks illness. The contention of the
state is that the woman was poisoned
by her husband while he was pretend
ing to cure her of some trifing ailment
Secret service agents are investigat-
ing charges that several of the largest
and most costly battleships in the navy
are equipped with thousands of boiler
fiues which We're never subjected to
government tests and that many of
them We're placed in the vessels after
they had been rejected as defective
District Attorney Jerome of New
York has had Frank E. Xavier, editor
of the Yonkers On. " Herald. indict-
ed for criminal libel An editorial ap-
peared in the paper in which it was IN
timated that he entered into Il con-
spiracy with life insurance officers not
to prosecute them.
The Phipps Fairgrounds, which We're
fitted up for the poor children of Ale
gheny, Pa. by Henry Phipps, the phi
lanthropist. were closed forever be-
cause of disagreement between Mr..
Phipps and the officials of Allegheny
about the payment of taxes on the
property.
Attorney General Malone of Massa
ehusetts is trying to enjoin the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road, the allegation being that the
road has subscribed for the stocks and
bonds of certain domestic street rail
ways, business not authorized by Its
charter.
The Chicago baseball team has won
the peunant in the American league
Both National and American league
pennants will fly in Chicago next year
The first interleague championship
baseball game was won by the Chicago