The log cabin Democrat., 1906-08-16
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSe-
 " NARRATED.
FROM EVERYWHERE E
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly
 From the Great
 Southwest.

city council was estopped by the cir cult court from putting in a mu- nicipal lighting plant, and the light ing company was then ordered by the council to take all their wires and poles from the streets.
 w. W. Taliafero, of Ardmore, Olla., has in his possession an old battle flag which was made and pre- sented by the women of Boonville, Mo-, the home of Mir. Taliafero, to a local company raised there at the beginning of the civil war. It was a very handsome flag of silk, but it now presents a battle-scarred ap- pearance, shot full of holes.
 o. J. Anderson, Burlington brakeman, was killed at Brighton, III. He fell between the cars, and his remains were scattered along the track. His home was at Beardstown, III.
 With the waterworks broken and the breweries prevented by law from making deliveries, and there being no saloons, Kirkwood, Mo, Is undergo ing a protracted reign of thirst. ;, Clement Staser, an expert swim mer, was drowned in the Mississippi river at St. Louis while showing off,"
 William Lynn, aged 60, supposed pauper, died in East St. Louis, H., leaving $1 400 in cash and a paid-up insurance policy for $2,5OO. He had been living on charity.
 William H. Lacy, an Iron Noun tain conductor, dropped dead in front of the Quinn hotel at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
 Disappointed in love, Miss Lulu Williams, 19-year-old daughter of a Crane Mo- farmer, threw herself in front of a Missouri Pacific pas senger train and sustained fatal in- juries.
 The Japanase seal poachers who were captured at the time their companions were killed by an Amer ican patrol, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. They were "caught with the goods" to-wlt i: Seal skins and small arms.
 At Waterloo, H., Mrs. John Stumpf, aged "A, burst blood vessel in fit of coughing and died.
 Grand Duke Alexander Michael ovitch is slated to replace Gen. Ire poff as governor of St. Petersburg, and it is intimated that his govern ment will be strong, but liberal.
 In reply to President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, Chairman Shonts defends coolie la Dor for the Panama canal and con- tends that diggers do not come un- der the eight-hour law. West h. dian laborers in the canal zone are to supplanted by Spanlards and Chi nese.
 Says dispatch to the New York Herald from Panama: An alleged plot to assassinate President Amador resulted in the arrest of several men said to be in sympathy with Colum- bia.
 Mrs. E. NJ. Smallwood, aged AS, was run over and killed by an elec- tric car at Dallas, Tex.
 Oscar Peyton, aged 75, was killed by train at Leonard, Tex.
 After three years of peace, the Maya Indians in the state of Yuca- tan, Mexico, have again gone on the warpath. A force of government telegraph linemen were attacked, and five of them killed and others wounded. A strong force of troops has been sent against the rebels.
 Grain rates from Missouri river to Chicago have been restored to II cents.
 John A. Cooke, former city clerk of the Chicago circuit court, who was found guilty of mishandIing the funds of his office, was senteaced to an indeterminate term, not to ex- ceed five years, in the penitentiary.
 c. w. Butterworth, who was ap- pointed commissioner at Tulsa, l.. T.. and later found that the govern ment had failed to attach a salary to his job, has notified the powers that be that he is no longer holding the job, and has turned over his books to Judge Hyams at Sapulpa. Judge Butterworth resigned a com missionership at Sapulpa 10 take the Tulsa job. Another man was ap- pointed at Sapulpa, and now But