Fair play., 1907-11-16
NEWS or THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

Six persons were injured and 300
were driven in panic to the streets
by fire in tenement at Rivington and
Forsythe streets New York during
which police battled with maddened
men on fire escapes and a woman,
about to leap from window and
policeman clinging to a shut were
rescued.
Elhu Root, secretary of state, is to
retire from President Rooseyelt's cab
met within month or two Incident
ally he will quit political life permant-
ly 1t is the second time Mr.. Root
has made mp his mind that the prac-
tice OF law is more suited to his liking
than the intricacies of International
diplomacy
Five well dressed cracksmen dashed
into Florence KY, in red automobile
dynamited the safe in the Florence
Deposit bank, partially wrecked
building and firing six shots at citl-
zens who rushed to the bank. gave
them the laugh and sped down the
pike.
Five thousand marriages which have
been performed in Hammond, Ind,
within the last five years have been
declared illegal in an opinion at Ham
mond by Attorney Loren o. Bomburg
er to Ernest l.. Shortridge, clerk of
the circuit and superior courts.
With six cases of bubonic plague
reported, Seattle offers ten cents for
each rat tail delivered to the city
treasurer
A boy was burned to death. a wom-
an and her 12-hour-old babe probably
fatally hurt, and several other persons
injured as a result OF a fire which de-
stroyed a three story tenement at 399
West Fourteenth street Chicago, in
the heart of the congested Ghetto dis
trict Fourteen families were trapped
in the building, and the flames spread
so rapidly that escape was cut off.
V. l.. Kline a jewelar of Goldfeld,
| New, said to be worth 100000 was
shot dead in battle with a sheriff's
posse after he and an accomplice had
been detected in the act of stealing
the plates of the Ncvada-Goldfeld Re
duction Co.'S plant
With s10,00000O in gold in her strong
box and a new transatlantic record
written in her log, the Cunard turbiner
Lusitania steamed past Sandy Hook
light ship at 1:4O Friday morning. In
one grand performance the great ves-
sci broke her own worlds record and
brought to the relief of the money
market in New York $lO,000,0O in gold
in unprecedented time. The westbound
trip was made approximately in days
10 hours and ten minutes.
The recent death Of Gertrude Folks
Of Clark county, Kansas, brings about
an unusual condition by which j. +.
Folks, against whom she secured a
judgment for $4,000 in the district
court of Clark county, inherits half
interest in judgment against him.
Wilson, the republican candidate for
governor of Kentucky, is elected by
about 10000 majority, carrying with
him the entire republican state ticket
Beckham may be opposed for the
United States senate, the defeated
democratic candidate for governor.
Vicomtesse Vigier, formerly Sophia
Cruvelli, the famous prima donna, is
dead aged 81 years She created the
leading roles in Vcrdi's Ernani and
Attila. The husband Of the vicomtesse
was an equerry to Napoleon III.
DR.. Julian y. Thomas Of New York
has purchased from Oscar ErbslOeh
the balloon Pommern, in which the
German aeronaut recently won the
international cup race.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson was elected
mayor of Cleveland o., for the fourth
time, defeating Theodore +, Burton,
the Rooseyst-Taft candidate, by ma
jority of 9,.3l3. He ran on a platform
favorng municipal ownership and g.
cent fares on street cars.
Finding that high wages and coun-
try dance given in their honor did not
suffice to keep hired men, Walter
Smeetson, wealthy farmer residing
near Wagner. S. d., has offered to pur-
chase an automobile for the use of his
farmhands.
With women working at the polls
and school children parading the
streets of Jacksonville and many
spectacular incidents in other Illinois
towns, the first elections under the
new local option law resulted in a
decided victory for prohibition,
While the minister of her church
was prOnouncing funeral services ovet
the supposed dead body of Mrs. F'rel
Harsoll of Monterey, Mex. the wom-
an stirred, sighed and then sat up in
the coffin, TO the astonishment of the
relatives and friends. The minister
tainted.
Edward Lee Stockton, II years old.
Is on trial at Bardwell, KY, charged
with attempted murder. grand lar
ceny, arson and assault and battery.
II Is said that he attempted TO kill
his uncle anu aunt so that he might
get money with which to marry.
Col. Webb C.. Hayes. president OF
the Chinese battlefield commission
left San Francisco for the orient to
place the bronze tablets on the nonu-
ments erected at Tiehtsin and Pekin
In honor of the American soldiers and