The La Jara chronicle., 1906-09-14

Jamaica to form food reform COM
mittee. in order to get the people to
develope the agricultural resources Of
the colony and discontinue the i'm
portation of corn, peas and other
foodstuffs
A Santa Fe passenger train went
| into the ditch near Lewis, Kan, and
one mail clerk was killed and two in
jured. Several other persons were
| hurt, but not seriously.
Another massacre of Jews has oc-
CURED in Russia, this time at Sled.
lee. where 200 Hebrews were killed
and 5000 wounded
The one hundredth anniversary of
the unfurling of the American flag
in Kansas will be celebrated under
the auspices of the State Historical
society, beginning September &c at
the site of the old Pawnee village
near Republic City.
Under the terms of an agreement
between the receivers of the C. ].
Devlin estate and the receiver of the
First National bank at Topeka, Kan,
The depositors of the defunct bank
will be paid in full.
F. w. Blees, head of the military
academy bearing his name at Macon,
Mo, was found dead In a room at
the Southern hotel at st. Louis. It
was rumored that he had committed
suicide, but this was denied by the
physician who examined the body.
The publication of the first Es-
peranto journal ever published in
America has been commenced in
Oklahoma City, Ok. More than 40
journals are published in this pro-
posed universal language in Europe
All the directors of the wrecked
Philadelphia Real Estate Trust com.
pany have agreed to Receiver Earle's
plan of reorganization and the insti-
tuition will again resume business,
the depositors being paid in full
The court martial which tried the
girl member of the flying group" of
Russian terrorists who assassinated
Gen. Min sentenced her to be hanged.
Cambridge won the great interna-
tional boat race at Putney, England,
beating Harvard's crew by wo
lengths.
Another American fishing smack,
the Hatteras, has been held up by a
Mexican gunboat while well outside
the shore limit and the state depart
mcnt has been asked to take some
action for the protection of American
fishing vessels:
H. E. Cuney, negro. was recently
arrested at the national capitol for
stealing valuable law books from the
n an Of h. IT~tt
senate.
Adolph Segal, promoter. W. r.
North, treasurer, and Marshall s.
Collingwood, assistant treasurer of the
defunct Real Estate Trust company of
Philadelphia, have been arrested in
connection with the wrecking of that
institution.
letter found on the person of a
man arrested at Douglas, Arizona.
recently. shows that revolutionary
uprising is planned against the Mexi-
can government,
The international conference on
tuberculosis was opened at The Hague
with a good attendance in the pres
ence of Prince Henry of the Neither
lands.
In an exhaustive report to the state
department, Ambassador Thompson
declares that the published rumors of
the incubatins of wide spread in
surrection in Mexico are without
foundation. He asks for the suppress
sion of the Mexican Revolutionary
junta located in ST. Louis.
Cuban insurgents recently destroyed
w Ito hri1 ho
Western railway between Pinar del
Rio and San Luis.
Secretary Shaw has issued a circular
letter to all national bank depositar-
les reminding them that government
funds on deposit are not to be loaned
in New York for speculative pur-
poses.
Tyro. Kansas, has a contract for
natural gas at two cents thousand
which is believed to be the cheapest
on record.
Almost 1000 college presidents, pro-
fessors. instructors and university on-
cials have agreed to use the simpli-
fed spelling in their correspondence.
The 14th National Irrigation con-
gress closed its sessions at Boise,
Idaho. after voting to hold the next
convention at Sacramento, Cal. and
electing Gov. Chamberlain, of Oregon,
as president Resolutions were adopted
heartily approving the work of the
federal reclamation service.
The state department has been mott
fed that the sultan of Morocco will
lnterpose no objections to the remov-
al Amnricn nf Paul
the defaulting Chicago bank president
lie will be brought back by the men
who captured him. Assistant States