The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings &C tie
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World CONDEMNED
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our Readers.
Personal.


| wreath.
Mamie Wing and Matte Doris, Is
years old were drowned at Wheeler
park, Oklahoma City, Ok, in the
presence of 500 persons.
Gen. Baron Kuroki and his party
paid visit to Yale University.
C. o. Bartlett, cashier of the Madi-
son Coal Corporation of st. Louis, has
been arrested and has confessed to a
shortage of between s25,OOO and $780,
900 in his accounts.
w. C. Phillips, clerk of the district
court, Lincoln, Neb., has been indicted
by the grand jury on charge of en-
bezzlement.
E. H. Conger, Ex-United States
minister to China and ambassador to
Mexico, has died at his home in Pas
adena, Cal.
Frank H. Butler, who was charged
with the murder of the Marvin boy at
Dover, DEL, has been released from
custody, for want of sufficient evi-
dence against him.
A. e. Stilwell and party of 80
capitalists who took a trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico
have returned.
Mrs. John Dillon, wife of the Irish
leader in the British parliament, is
dead
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president
of the University OF California, has
ha af hn
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Lyndon B. Phifer, 13 years old, of
Rich Hill, Mo-, has been awarded a
bronze medal and $4,000 by the Car
negie Hero Fund commission.
DIR. Klopsch, editor of the Christian
Herald. has been decorated with the
| Order of the Rising Sun by the EN-
peror of Japan. for his efforts to re-
| lieve famine sufferers in that country
last year.
T. ]. Moore, owner of the Pittsburg
Headlight, has been elected chairman
of the Kansas republican state COM
mittee.
assistant secretary of the interior, has
had a relapse and is again confined
! to his home in Washington.
[ Rev. William H. Roberts, of Phil
adelphia, was elected moderator OF
the 18th general assembly of the
Presbyterian church at Columbus. o
Edwin Conger, former minister to
China is critically i'll at his homs in
Pasadena. Cal.
B. H. Fulton, of Marysville, has
| been elected grand commander of the
Kansas knights Templar.
| Admiral Dewey presided az ban
quet given in honor of Gen. Kuroki
at the Hotel Astor in New York re-
Gently.
Alonzo B. Jones, retired yachts
man of New York, was killed recently
by falling from bed.
G. r. Sprague, of Wichita, has been
! elected president of the Kansas
Eagles. The next state convention
will be held at Galena.
Miscellaneous.
The Kansas attorney general has
| filed custer suits in the supreme court
! against four more brewing companies
| The chief of police of Odessa and
| two chief detectives were killed and
a number of persons injured by an
| Internal machine which exploded in
the police bureau.
A portion of the report of Attorneys
Kellogg and Severance TO the Inter.
state Commerce commission regard.
ing the Hartman railroad deals has
been published in New York The
attorneys declare that the Sherman
antitrust act has been violated and
advise the annulmcnt &C thc ycricr-
| agreements.
| Abraham Ruef, the former political
| boss of San Francisco, created a
sensation in Judge Dunn's court by
| pleading guilty to an indictment for
extortion. Sentence was deferred for
| two weeks.
An explosion of powder in a rail-
road camp at the foot of Lookout
mountain in Tennessee, killed three
trainmen. injured several others and
caused considerable damage to sur
rounding property.
| The Illinois legislature has taken q
recess until October next.
The recent fair at the Metropolitan
opera house in New York realized
| $4,000 for the Actors fund.
The American Baptist Missionary
Union has received during the past
year $976.072 for missions.
Mayor Busse of Chicago has sum-
marily removed eight members OF
the school board who refused to re-
sign upon request. The action was