The La Jara chronicle., 1906-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Mes. Important Happenings Of TIE
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from. All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
DeAedt of Our Readers.
Personal.

OVO,uVO " oc uSeu liz
propaganda for international peace.
DIR. Algernon S. Crapsey of st. An
drews Episcopal church, Rochester.
N. Y. has been suspended from the
church for heretical teaching by de-
cision of the ecclesiastical court of re-
view which sustained a decision of the
lower court
Governor Magoon OF Cuba has de-
MED the rumor that he intends to re-
sign.
w. r. Hearst, independence league
and democratic candidate for govern
or of New York has certified to the
secretary of state that his election ex-
penses were s256,370 in the recent
election.
The Countess de Catsellane (for-
merly Anna Gould. of New York;
was granted decree of divorce from
Count Boni de Castellane by the
French court at Paris. The custody
of the children is given to the moth
er but she will not be allowed to
take them out of France without the
permission of the father.
A man believed to be Len Harris,
of Sturgeon, Mo-, travelling sales
man for Armour G Co, was found
dead recently in a st. Louis hotel.
Mrs. Lucy Campbell. colored, age
103 years, died recently at SPRING
field, Mo.
Maj. Horatio Nelson Rust, philan-
throplst and friend of John Brow
and a Civil war veteran. is dead at
his home in Pasadena. Cal.
Mrs. Charles A. Strong. daughter of
John d. Rockefeller, died recently af-
ter long illness at Cannes. France
John ]. Tigert. bishop of the NJ. E.
church, South, has been reported
critically i'll with tonsllitis at Tulsa.
l. T.
Senator Thomas C. Platt. of New
York. and his wife, formerly Mrs.
Lillian T. Janeway. have signed an
agreement of separation.
President Roosevelt recently per-
sonally inspected the work being
done in the Culebra cut on the Pana-
ma isthmus. He also visited the liv
ing quarters of the laborers.
Mrs. Cora McCullum Smith, for
mer professor of efocution and ply
steal culture in the Kansas Univer-
sity, died as the result of an opera
tion at Waterloo, Ia, recently.
miscellaneous.
Mike Ward. a pugilist of Sarnia.
Ont. died recently at Grand Rapids,
Mich, as the result of a knockout in
prizefieht with Harry Lewis, of
Philadelphia.
A specimen of the first cent struck
in the United States mint in 1893,
sold recently in New York for $50.
The Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water
way association effected a permanent
organization at the recent st. Louis
convention.
The package of money amounting
to $1,OS5.5O. contributed by citizens
of Searchlight, New. for relief of the
San Francisco sufferers which has
been missing for months, has finally
been delivered to the relief commit
tee by an express company.
Citizens of the United States paid
out $1OO,0OO.OO0 for luxuries from
abroad during the fiscal year 1906.
The federal grand jury at st. Louis
has returned an indictment against
Receiving Teller D. p. Dyer, charging
embezzlement in connection with the
shortage of SCI. 800 at the sub-treas-
urv in that city.
The supreme court of Indiana has
reversed the verdict of the lower
court by which State Auditor Sher-
rick was sent to the penitentiary
charged with embezzlement OF state
funds. The case was remanded for
new trial.
The Public Health Defense league,
national society for the protection
of health and morals was recently
formed in New York.
The bank of Henderson, Iowa, was
recently burglarized and $4,000 taken.
The grand jury at San Francisco
has returned five indictments against
Mayor Schmitz and Abraham Ruef on
the charge of extortion and selline
protection to disreputable restau-
rants.
Illinois in 1905 produced 3S.4S4.3e4
tons of coal with a spot value of s4o,-
557,592 The state ranks next to
Pennsylvania in coal production.
Spain and France have Jointly ar
ranged to make a naval demonstra-
ton and land marines in Morocco
should it be necessary to protect for
eigners.
The state agricultural school at
Athens Ala, was wrecked by the re-
cent storm.
The charges of bribery against r
NJ. Synder, recently killed In an auto
mobile accident at Kansas City,
have been dismissed in st. Louis.
Thirty thousand passes formerly
held nv real estate agents have been