The log cabin Democrat., 1906-07-19
A WEEKS NEVIS
 BRIEFLY NARRATED
LATE EVENTS OF THE WORLD.
tn Foreign Lands, In Washington, and Particularly In the
 Great Southwest
NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY.
 WHERE.

Denver passenger train was wrecked near Rome, in Wise county, and three negroes killed. The train was carrying a car of Texas negroes to Pueblo, Col, to work in the smelters, and in the baggage car was also the body of the negro Rufus Martin, who had been hanged in Fort Worth and shipped to Trinidad for inter ment.
 Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.,, Ltd, firm at Newcastle-on-the- Tyne, have contracted to build for Brazil three sister battleships, each to cost more than $5,000,000.
 The biggest rattlesnake ever seen in Texas was killed near Gonzales. It was 6 feet 8 inches long and 10 inches around the body, and had 21 rattles.
 Adit.- Gen. John A. Hulen of Texas has issued an order command ing the Texas national guard to as- eemble at Austin August 5 for their annual state camp of instruction.
 The plant of the Independence (Kas.) ) Milling Go. was destroyed by fire, together with 30,000 bushels of wheat.
 A. P. Jackson was shot and killed by Robert Beatty at Annona, Tex. Several shots were fired, two taking effect. Self-defense is claimed.
 Joe Cantrell, boy, was accident ally shot through the bowels while out hunting near Roanoke, Tex, and died before he could be taken home.
 The grand jury at Conway, Ark, indicted John and I'illman Demp- sey for murder in the second degree for killing John Earnheart in Greenbrier last March. Their bond was fixed at $4,00O.
 Ole Jensen, a butcher, aged 22, made a balloon ascension and para chute descent at Lake Manawa, Ia. He dropped into the lake and was drowned.
 Mrs. Edmund W. Pettus, wife of United States Senator Pettus, of AL abama. died at her home in Selma, aged S2 years.
 The fifth fire in a few weeks in the American Cotton Dock X Trust Co.'S plant at Tompkinsville, N. Y., destroyed the remaining storehouse, with about 5000 bales of cotton. There was no insurance.
 Gen. Kozlov, of the headquarters staff, was shot and killed in the park It Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia, by a well-dressed man, who was ar rested, but not identified. It is be- lieved Gen. Kozlov was mistaken for Gen. Trepoff.
 NIT. and Mrs. John Hickey, Lin coln, H., celebrated sixty-fifth we'd ding anniversary.
 Orphans of drunkard suicide sue Kansas City (Kas.) joint keepers and brewers for $S0,000 damages.
 George Jones, Bevier, Mo-, re proved by his wife for spreeing, set the house on fire.
 Associate Justices Riddick and Wood, of the Arkansas supreme court, granted a stay of execution in the case of Govan Beard, a negro sentenced to be hanged at Helena, the stay to be effective until further orders of the court. At the same time they directed the attorneys to file with the court their motion for a rehearing of the case. The ne gro was sentenced to hang on the sworn testimony of Mrs. Annie Hartley that he had assaulted her. Now the woman comes forward with a signed statement that she swore falsely.
 A city house-cleaning party placed 150 negro men and women on board a passenger train at Lake Charles, La, and shipped them out of town and parish. House after house was visited, in the tough district, and the inmates, not even being given time to dress, were taken out and turned over to a guard. The motley group was marched under guard of pistols to a water tank about a mile from town, passenger train was stopped, and the negroes were put aboard and their fares paid as far as the parish line, members of the guard riding that far with them. Some of the negro women were shipped away in their night dresses.
 The Edwards Walker case, in which Miss Lola Walker, of Ashe- vile, N. C., is sueing Col. D. A. Ed wards. of Union City, Tenn, for $5O,000 on charge of breach of promise, came up in special session at Union City.
 Julius H. Rule. superintendent of