The log cabin Democrat., 1906-08-09

George McNeal, Tn jail at St. Jo- seph, Mo-, for alleged forgery, att tempted suicide by swallowing a dozen peach seeds and puncturing his heart with wire. He can hardly re- cover.
 James B. Williams, a section hand, drowned himself at Palmer Lake, Col, because Dora Collins, I years of age, refused to marry him
 Charles D. Brooks aged SS, died at Warrensburg, Mo-, and his wife, aged 86, followed him in a few hours. They had been married e years.
 James B. Postlethwait, employed in the clerical department of the Michigan Central Railway Co.,, at Detroit, lasted 49 days for the ben- eft of his health, and died of ex- haustion.
 A total of 12 cases of chagres fever were taken from the steamer Whitehall at the quarantine station below New Orleans.
 Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was &C., quilted on the charge of murder in the killing of Mrs. Mary Rode at Salida, Col, last June, after her husband had confessed intimacy with Mrs. Bode.
 Ed. Misener and his wife and son have just completed trip from Chicago to Ridgway, Minn., via the Chicago drainage canal, the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in an 1S-foot launch, without mishap on the trip.
 Chancellor Hart of Pulaski coun- ty (Ark. chancery court has grant, ed temporary injunction in the case enjoining the city administra- tion from proceeding further with the erection of the proposed city hall, jail and auditorium.
 A submarine craft, the plans for which were rejected by France, has been launched at Krupp's works at keil. The vessel will have radius of action of 5000 miles, a surface speed of 12 knots and a speed of knots below the surface. It will be driven by electric motors.
 President Roosevelt has made 1t plain, in letter to Senator Gull lom, that he will make no western trip this fall.
 A negro farmer named Frank Johnson, near Van Buren, Ark, went out to kill chicken with 8 22-caliber target gun. He was fol- lowed by three-year-old son. When he fired he missed the chicken, and the bullet, striking a rock, glanced and struck the child, with fatal re- suits.
 The judge of the court in Paris which is to hear the divorce case of the Countess Castellane has granted a petition of the count for the custody of his children during certain portion of the courts va cation.
 More than 76,00O acres will be taken by the infants of the Co., manche, Kiowa and Apache towns as allotments under the recent act allowing the members of tribes born since June, 1901, to select each a quarter section of land in the Xii owa-Comanche pasture. The chil- dren coming under the provision number 476.
 The Spanish generals who were concerned in the surrender of Santi- ago, Cuba, will reply to attacks in the press by issuing manifesto lay ing the blame for the surrender upon politicians.
 Emil Lesser, president of the Ger man Immigration Society of Ala bama, reports, after personal in- vestigation at Lockhardt, Ala, that no trace of peonage exists in the camps of the Jackson Lumber Go.
 A ferryboat on the South Canadi- an river, on the road from Minco to Noble, Okla, swamped in mid stream under a heavy load. George Graham, his wife and small daugh- ter were thrown into the water, to- gether with a four-horse team and wagon loaded with household goods. Graham was critically injured, and his wife and daughter were nearly drowned, being resuscitated with diff culty.
 Postmaster Jonathan Neal of Van Buren, Ark, aged 67, died after an illness of two months. The deceased served through the war in the north ern army, was twice elected to the