The log cabin Democrat., 1906-08-23
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSE-
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FROM EVERY WHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly
 From the Great
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OOAii 1SDooIldI, Peb9oOhSOi eioAhN manager of the Rock Island and the St. Louis X San Francisco rail roads, has arrived in New York, re- turning from an extended business trip through western Europe. He said that his trip abroad had been for the purpose of investigating the possibility of European immigra- ton to the western and southwest ern states He said he could not yet give out any definite statement of results, but that, on the whole, they were encouraging. MT. Sebas- tian said that he paid most atten- tion to the prospects of securing immigrants from Germany, Italy and Holland.
 J. E. Clark, a dealer in fancy horses, from Sedalia, Mo-, is in jail at Oklahoma City. Okla, charged with killing I. s. Deford, travel ing salesman. Both had been drink ing, and upon reaching the top of the stairway of hotel a quarrel ensued. Clark is alleged to have struck Deford with his fist. Deford fell down the stairway and his neck was broken.
 A contract has been awarded by the city council of Enid. Okla, for 90 blocks of asphalt paving, amount ing to about $225,O00.
 Rev. Joseph Warren Cross, the oldest graduate of the Harvard uni versity, and the oldest Congrega- tionalist minister in the United States, died of old age at the home of his daughter, in Lawrence, Kas. Rev. Cross was graduated in 1908, and was graduated from Harvard in 1928. He was a friend of Dan iel Webster, and was at Harvard with Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Sumner.
 Assistant Attorney-General Jewell P. Lightfoot of Texas has gone to St. Louis and Jefferson City, Mo-, to pursue his investigation of the Standard Oil and and the Waters Pierce oil companies. He will also inquire, it is said. into the opera tions of the Price committee of the Southern Lumber Manufacturers association, which has its headquar- ters in St. Louis.
 News has reached Austin, Tex, of labor riot in a Mexican Central railroad construction camp near Marfil. Five Mexicans were killed and a number of others wounded.
 William l.. Frazer, of Columbia. Mo-, has filed suit at Marshall, Mo-, against Dr. A. H. W. Sullivan, a wealthy citizen of Miami, Mo-, fol $6O,0O0, based upon two letters tc young woman, in which the plaint- if alleges he was slandered. The let ters are filed in evidence.
 Leroy T. Foote, who died al Springfield, H., aged 61, was born at Unadella, N. Y., and for many years been one of the Alton railroad engineers. His death brings to mind the famous Glendale (Mo.) trair robbery, when he was in charge o1 engine No. 150, on the Chicago 6 Alton, running between Slater, Mo-. and Kansas City, one of the fast runs on the line. The Jesse James gang held revolvers to Foote's hea6 1 and forced him to smash the express car door with an ax, and the ban dits proceeded to rifle the car. Foott was robbed of his watch and money ] and the entire train was footed.
 Claud Ingram and a negro were struck by lightning in Lamar coun ty, Mo-, while riding mules. The ne gro and his mule were killed. Arthur Davis was also struck and killed Il Kaufman county, Tex, while in melon patch.
 If George E. Ward, formerly O Shreveport, La, and later of Daw son and Fairbanks, Alaska, can b' found, he will receive information of being one of the heirs to an es tate valued at $5O0,000. The legac, was left by his father, and consist largely of cotton and sugar planta tions in Louisiana. Until all thu heirs have been located the estat' can not be settled.
 Two hundred kegs of powder ex ploded in the press mill of the loea powder plant at Fontanel, Ind, kill ing one man. The explosion was fel at Terre Haute and Greencastle and was at first thought to hay been an earthquake.
 After royal reception in Monte video, capital of Uruguay, Secretar. Root departed for Buenos AYres, Ar