The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-03
TIE LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSE-
 " NARRATED
FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma. ton, and Particularly From the Great
 Southwest.

Grindell and his party, who left Douglas, Ariz., in June, 1904, on an exploring expedition to Tiburon is- land, located in the gulf of Califor- nia but who was never afterward heard from, have been found in a desert in Sonora, Mexico, where they perished, evidently for want of wa ter. Letters were found with the remains, they leading to identifica- tion.
 The bureau of American republics plans railroad system from Alaska to Cape Horn.
 Mrs Martha Fitch Denby, widow of the late Charles Denby, former + United States minister to China, died at a hospital in Evansville, Ind, from old age. After being knocked insensible in a prize fight at an Elks entertain ment in Fargo, \. D., Calvin Good, a negro. died. The coroner returned verdict that Good dieH of pneumo- mia. and that the violent exercise merely hastened his death. During the celebration of mass at a church in Oriental Negros, in the Philippines, a woman fell in a fit, crying for help. A panic followed in which II persons were killed and many injured.
 Mr. James Bryce, the new British ambassador to Washington, will as- suge his duties in February.
 At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, MT. Louis c. McPherson, who was assistant to the late President Spencer of the Southern railway, defended MT. John D. Rockefeller, declaring that Mir. Rockefeller has done much good.
 Great excitement was caused at Fl Reno, Okla, by a negro soldier of the Twenty-ffth infantry throw ing the wife of a prominent physi- clan from the sidewalk. There are threats of lynching if the negro is caught.
 It is stated that Sir Henry Nor timer Durand, who is retiring as l British ambassador to Washington, will be elevated to the peerage for his services.
 J During the year 1906 there were over 16,000,000 head of live stock received at the Chicago stock yards, valued at $314,300,000.
 Christmas celebration in Missis- sippi, Louisiana and Alabama cost 26 lives, many shooting atfrays oc- curing.
 Secretary Wilson has notified the manufacturers of glucose that their packages under the pure food law must bear labels stating exactly what the package contains.
 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bischoffe- sheim, of London, have donated $2O0,000 to the imperial cancer re- search fund.
 In an interview at Topeka, Kas., William J. Bryan stated that "such high honor Is the presidential nom- nation that no man should decline ] Gaqui Indians, in the state of So- nora, Mexico, are on a raid, murder Ing and plundering.
 It is stated that thirty million peasants will need assistance in the Russian famine districts.
 Government may recover stolen lands In Creek nation, though stat ute of limitation prevents criminal Prosecutions.
 | There Is talk of new king in Seryla, and threats that the present Dynasty will meet the fate of King Alexander and Queen Draga, who Were murdered.
 Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist church, south, died at Asheyille, N. c.
 At the Colby iron mine, Bessemer, Mich, two miners fell 300 feet and Were instantly killed. Two others saved their lives by grabbing a rope.
 The midcontinent oil field (em- Oraclng the state of Kansas, Indian territory and Oklahoma) produced three years ago an average of 10000 barrels of oil per day. Today the J. ame field will produce So,ooO bar !eis per day, s5 per cent of which IS beng produced in the future state @ Oklahoma.
 n Arkansas supreme court decides