The Nevada County picayune., 1906-08-17

Christian Union, died in Ev,a.@ @ Springs, aged 6s.
 John McMakin, former |, commissioner of New York no; aaos himself by accident, and s9ls| d;ss great agony.
 The king of England and ,he q. man emperor will confer with M u N czar of Russia regarding cond;t;saa of his government.
 The Pennsylvania railroad =. agement denies that it contemnl..l aa' suit to test validity of the naT r'.ss 1s and pledges cooperation fo, '' x strict observance.
 It is reported at Tangier that ;. sultan intends to transfer tho .. ital from Fez to Moscow city, o,;1s to the strategic insecurity of Y former, and by the earnast .d,.. of the leading tribes.
 King Haakon of Norway has d. ficially received H. H. D. Pis,s. the new American minister to M way, who presented his eredsnt,L
 After an unexplained absenc. :. 31 years, Prof. Charles H. Fr. former superintendent of the 0E' cago normal school, has returnI home. One of his first acts upon |, rival at his home was to hand { ra of crisp s100 bills, totaling s50Oa to his wife, with the remark: aAs| me no questions"
 Mme. Dis De Bar, under vbis name she was known in AmeT;n but who posed in England as N Swami" has been released i'm Aylesbary prison, after ssryinp r term of imprisonment on the sen tenes of seven years penal sevitud. l passed on her In 1901. N| "Swami's" offenses, under the nan of spiritualism, created a tremendm| sensation in England.
 Wrapping a sheet about him s| ! that it's folds made a perfect shrcul J. W. Brown, an East Des Moins Ia., commission merchant, lay al the floor of his bathroom and inse,tl ing d gas tube into hic mouth, iH| haled a sufficiant quantity to aua| death.
 Dr. J. ". Pendley, official phH clan for McCracken County, Ky,| was the victim of a vicious assault by Gabe Fletcher, negro, on hl street of Padueah. Fletcher vx| captured by a crowd of citizens, vh' beat him and a companion sevsd! befors he was rescued by the poiul
 At Bellefontaine, 0. because dl pact said to have been na&| between husband and wife, hfl neither would permit post-mora examination upon the other, U. ! Davis defed the Coroner and his ' sistants, guarding the body of M dead wife with a revolver.
 Jacksonville, Ky, city of 7,M people, has no street lights. Th city council was estoppsd by the sr'l cult court from putting in ns'| nicipal lighting plant, and the llsat| ing company was then ordered ? the council to take all their vlx and poles from the streets.
 W. w. Taliafero, of ArdmoHl Okla. has in his possession an sa battle flag which was made and ps sented by the women of Boon'llla1 Mo, the home of Mr. Tallafero, tss local company raised there at f beginning of the civil war. It VI a very handsome flag of silk, Dula now presents battle-scarred Y pearance, shot full of holes.
 o. J. Anderson, a BurlingM bfskeman, was killed at Brlgnl1, III. He fell between the can, as his remains were scattered aIonS
 track. His home was at BeardstSv4 III.
 With the waterwoYks broken l the breweries prevented by law ira making deliveries, and there belngs saloons, Kirkwood, Mo-, is undefv ing protracted reign of thirst
 Clement Staser, an expert ssI mer, was drowned in the MlSsslr river at St. Louis while "'n0s- off,"
 William Lynn, aged 50, supp11s' n paupsr, died in East st. Louls! d'.' Ii leaving $1, 400 in cash and pIa... !. insurance policy for ss,5oo. n'' been living on charity. M
 William H. Lacy, an Iron l0; < tain conductor, dropped daa
 troat of the Quinn hotel at TT BluA, Mo. .-l
 Disappointed in love, h,s. ...'