The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-23
Spain and France have arranged

| iuC pIOtCCtlOl1 OI lOlClSAS3S pNAcA~ the ratification of the Algericas con- vention and the installation of the international police, which is not expected to take place before Feb- ruary l, 1907.
 l William Randolph Hearst has filed a statement of his expenses during the late gubernatorial cam paign in New York. He certified to the secretary of state that he spent $256,37o.
 A great rush of railway traffic to the gulf ports is reported.
 1 Near Asheville, N. C., posse shot to death negro desperate, and the coroner's jury returned yer dict that ''he came to his death at the hands of publc-spirited citi- zens, who at the lime were in the fearless discharge of their duty"
 At a convention of roadmasters in St. Louis, resolution was adopt ed declaring the organizatin "unal- terably opposed to foreign labor of the Italian and Greek brand, that takes from the honest American la- borer the money and work rightful- l ly his" The delegates agreed to cooperate for securing American born labor for all track work.
 "Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water- way' was organized at St. Louis during the deep waterway conven- tion. It was resolved to ask con- gross to appropriate $31, 100000 for the purpose of constructing deep water course from the lakes to the gulf.
 | President Roosevelt, on his visit to Panama, went into the great Gu lebra cut of the canal. He boarded steam shovel, and talked almost half an hour with the engineer, who explained to the president how the thing" worked, and then told the president that the engineers of steam shovels were not paid for overtime. The president promised to look into the matter. It rained torrents while the president was in the cut, and he came out vet to the skin and covered with mud. Wher- ever he found an American at work he shook hands with him.
 The federal court for the Texar- kama division, Western district of Arkansas, convened the other day, Judge John H. Rogers, of Fort Smith, presiding, and J. K. Barnes representing the government. After the grand and petit juries had been drawn and impaneled, the case of Benjamin E. Pillow against the Texarkana Traction Co. was taken up and is now on trial. This suit grows out of street car accident two and half years ago in which two children of the plaintiff were killed and a third was maimed for | life. Plaintiff asks $50,000 dam- ages.
 At Naldosta, Ga, J. c. Raw lings, for the fifth time, has been sentenced to death, Monday, Decem- Der 3, being fixed as the date of his latest execution. Before sentence was passed, Rawlings protested the innocence of himself and his sons, concluding with a warning to the court: If you do not give us a new trial, our blood will be upon your hands," Rawlings, his three sons and Ali Moore, a negro, were convicted of the murder of two children of the Carter family, near | Valdosta, more than year ago. One son was given a life sentence, the other four being under sentence of death, to be executed in Decem- | ber
 Richard Fenby, for twenty years auditor of the Texas X Pacific rail- way, is lying in a critical condition at his home in Dallas, Tex, as the result of a wound from a pistol in his own hands. The ball entered beneath the chin, ranged upward and shattered the left jaw, coming out beneath the left eye. Hopes are entertained for his recovery, but
 The charges against Postmaster Coykendall, of Piedmont, in Cana dian county, Tex, have been with drawn fnllnMino a rioid eyamina-