The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-30
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l lOWH, ana pafdQed ana stoned street cars, the mayor of Toronto, Can- ada, called for government troops. They arrived in few hours and order was restored.
 Bradstreet says the coming holi- day trade will be a record-breaker. Shipments of wheat from Argen- tina prove larger than estimated.
 Royal s. Soper, for many years publisher of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette, dropped dead at his home from heart disease.
 Nineteen bales of cotton sold at Pine Bluff, Ark, for 1S34 cents per pound.
 Receipts of hogs at western pack ing centers are falling off, and the prices of provisions are advancing.
 In an address before the Con- mercial club at the St. Louis club, Secretary of State Elihu Root pre- dicted that the deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf would eventu- ally be realized.
 Heavy wind and rain storms wis., ited various localities in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Ken lucky, doing considerable damage.
 The railroads of the entire coun- try have decided to inaugurate an era of most rigid economy, accord ing to the Chicago Record-Herald. The plans which have been decided on will result in a decrease in ex- penditures during the next twelve months of between SS0,000,000 and $120, 100000, as compared with the sum spent during the year just clos ing
 David R. Francis, president of the Transmississippi commercial con- gress, during the convention at Kansas City, came out strongly in favor of the Monroe doctrine, ex- pressing himself as unalterably op- posed to any European power &C., quiring additional territory in America-North or South. On January a branch of the Deutsche Sud Amerikanische Bank of Berlin will be established in Mex leo City. The bank will have a paid-up capital of 1o,00o,000 pesos.
 During the past fiscal year 220,- 02G miles of railway in the United States earned $2,319,760 ,030. After all expenses and betterments, etc., were paid, the net earnings were $1ST591, ,SI1, being S3,j80 per mile.
 At a session of the National Academy of Science in Boston, Dr. Alex Graham Bell, of Washington, expressed the opinion that the prob lem of flight had been solved by Langley and his flying machine.
 Chiahuahua, Mexico, has been visited by heavy snows, in some places eight to ten inches. Snow is almost unknown there.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw and Wm. J. Bryan were cheered by thousands at the Transmississippi commercial congress at Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Bryan objected to subsidies for steamship lines, as urged by Secretary Root. He said that Mir. Root and Mr. Shaw were the two greatest men in Rooseyelfs cabinet.
 The official count ousts the negro l judge, Ferdinand l.. Barnett. ot ClH,ago, and seats Thomas B. Lam try. Lantry is a democrat. and the only democrat elected in Chicago at the recent election.
 At Norfolk, Va, ten thousand jumbo" torpedocs exploded in a store, wrecking it. A negro porter, who was packing torpedoes for stor- age until Christmas, was blown half way across the street, and was 1 slightly injured.
 At Kokomo, Ind, Mrs. Abbie Ross confessed 10 burning her house for the insurance, and was sentenced to prison for two years. She is a widow with six children.
 James H. Delaney, a Chicago and New York business man, was found dead in a boarding house in Chi