The log cabin Democrat., 1906-07-26
4 WEEKS NEWS
 BRIEFLY NARRATED
LATE EVENTS OF THE WORLD
In Foreign Lands, In Washington, and Particularly In the
 Great Southwest.
NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY.
 WHERE.

| In l1e pTcScuce OI IWO tSliHeute of artillery, on the parade ground of the EcOle Militaire, in Paris, Maj Dreyfus, the erstwhile prisoner of Devils island, but now fully rehabili- tated in the French army, was in- vested with the insignia of chev- alier of the Legion of Honor.
 Russel Sage, the veteran New York financier, died of ailments in- cident to old age, somewhat sudden ly at his summer home "Cedarcroft," " in Lawrence, Long Island. Had he lived till August f he would have been 90 years of age.
 According to the report of Super intendent of Insurance Kelsey of the state of New York, the life insurance companies doing business in that state wrote $151,724,85 less insur- ance in 1905 than in 1904. Operators in the anthracite coal region authorize the statement that profound peace and activity reign, and that the output of coal is nearly normal.
 A Seaboard Air Line passenger train collided with an extra freight near Hamlet, N. O., with disastrous results. Thirty-eight persons were killed and "A injured. Most of the victims were negroes.
 Latest reports from St. Petersburg by way of Buda Pesth, said that the imperial troops refused to obey or ders, that the Peterhof palace WAS burning with 10000 workmen be- sieging it, and that the RomanofTs were in imminent peril. This is nn- confirmed.
 The Pan-American congress, which is expected to have important results in establishing the relations of the smaller South and Genital American republics, on basis of comity, is in session at Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
 Edmund Bailey, who killed Jay Lawder, wealthy mine owner, at Mexico, Mo-, as he claimed, under the "unwritten law" was found not guilty by the jury. Lawder employed Bailey as a miner.
 It is said that a deputy sheriff will be on the pier at New York to secure service on John Rockefel- Ter for violation of the Ohio stat utes.
 Reports continue to come from Mexico of threats to drive out all Americans, and make "Mexico for Mexicans." A revolution is also said to be brewing, headed by Gen. Reyes, governor of Nuevo Leon. Guatemala and Salvador have agreed on peace. The commission CTS were taken on board the U. s. cruiser Marblehead, and came to terms within 24 hours.
 Gov. Frantz of Oklahoma has ac- cepted the resignation of H. c. Beamer, superintendent of the ter ritorial deaf and dumb school for ten years, and appointed R. l.. Dun ham, of Guthrie, to fill the vacancy.
 J. D. Hume was fatally injured in a fire in the residence of Tom Jones, in Edmond, Okla, from which he was assisting in removing the furniture, when the brick chim- ney fell, pinioning him underneath.
 The postmaster-general has or dered the establishment of city de- livery at Newport, Ark, ill Novem- Der.
 At Springfield Ri, Evan Futile, anci f5, grasped live wire and was 1 instantly killed. His mother wit messed the accident.
 Theodore Bohlsen, aged 2S, one of the largest men in Kentucky, died at the home of his mother in Louisville. He weighed 400 pounds Death was due to stomach trouble, said to have been complicated With fatty degeneration of the heart. Ow- ing to his unusual size, special coffin was constructed.
 Leonard Wilkerson, a Cherokee, of Muskogee, is charged with an at tempt to bribe the enrolling clerk of the Dawes commission to enroll his wife. He was arrested and placed under $500 bond by United States Commissioner Hoyt.
 Lady Curzon of Kedleston. wife of the former viceroy of India, is dead, after a ten days illness, in London. Lady Curzon was Mary Letter, daughter of the late Levi z. Letter, of Chicago. She never fully recovered from the illness which followed her return from India.