The Colorado statesman., 1907-04-13
NEWS OF TIE WEEK
Lost Important Happenings Ct the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from AL
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Beneht of Our Readers.
Personal.

Inc jury IN lHe cdse ol Mrs- Ammo
Rugg of Ell Reno, Ok, charged with
poisoning her husband returned
verdict of not guilty.
Gen. Manuel Lizadoro Barrillas ex-
president of Guatemala was assassi-
mated in a street car at City of Mex
ica recently.
Walter Ferguson representative
from the fifth legislative district OF
Kansas died recently at his home in
Valley Falls.
Stanford Newell ex-minister to the
Netherlands died recently at his
home in st. Paul, MINI.
Judge Josiah Turner of Michigan
is dead at the age of SO years.
John f. Stevens, retiring chief en-
gineer of the isthmian canal, predicts
that the canal will be opened in jan
uary 1915.
Private advices from Venezuela
say that President Castro has suffered
a relapse.
Postmaster General Meyer has an
nounced the appointment of DR.. John
A. Holmes as his private secretary.
Secretary Taft held long confer
ence while at Panama with President
Amidor and Secretary of State Arias,
regarding various complaints of the
Panama republic.
Judge Jacob w. wilkins, for is
of Illinois, is dead at his home in
Danville, aged 20 years.
Commander Robert L. Peary has Sc
cured the necessary funds for another
expedition to the far North. His ves-
sci, the Roosevelt, is nearly ready, and
he expects to set out the last of June.
NJ Takahashi, the Japanese finan-
cial agent, arrived in New York re-
Gently on his way to Japan from
Paris and London where he arranged
the big five percent loan for his
country.
Bishop James N Fitzgerald, of the
NJ. E. church, who with his family,
has been on tour of the world, died
recently of pleurisy at Hongkong,
China. His home was in st. Louis.
Judge H. F. Thompson, of Mime
apolis, Kan, prominent attorney,
is dead at his home of paralysis.
The congress of the Christian
church recently held in Cincinnati
has elected Rev. w. F. Richardson,
of Kansas City, Mo-, president, and
Rev. Wallace C. Payne, of Lawrence,
Kan; secretary.
Martin Flores, who came from San
Antonio, Tex, has been arrested in
New York charged with making
threats against the president. He
was sent to Bellevue hospital. -
Miscellaneous.
The strike of the St. Louis Brewery
workers has been settled. The mat
ters in dispute were compromised.
For the first time in the history of
Illinois woman was elected justice
of the peace in Evanston, the fashion,
able Chicago saburb at the recent
election.
In a recent New York tenement fire
Mrs. Sotupo and her four children met
death by suffocation.
The Nebraska Legislature has adopt
ed resolution endorsing the posi-
ton Of President Roosevelt in his
controversy with f. II Hartman.
Puerto Cortez and Ceiba two Hon
duran cities have been captured by
the Nicaraguan forces
The United States is now importing
more than $1.000,oOO worth of cocoa
per month, while importations of cof-
fee and tea are declining.
Representatives from all over the
conference of the Mormon church at
Salt Lake. Utah.
The department of the interior is
to bring suit at once against the
Southern Pacific railroad to cancel
all patents to land in the White
Horse Mining district of Nevada, is
sued to the company, on the ground
that the land was agricultural.
The safe of the bank at Redfield,
Kan, was recently wrecked by rob-
bers. But little money was secured
by the cracksmen.
Only three minutes were consumed
at Cincinnati recently, in indicting
Bartholomew Cavagna, former teller
of the First National bank, accept
ing plea of guilty of embezzlement
and sentencing him to six years in
the penitentiary.
Because Emperor William disap-
proves the movement to hold a
worlds exposition in Berlin during
1913 has been abandoned.
BY premature explosion IN the
Black Diamond mine at Joplin, Mo-,
two miners were instantly killed.
Announcement has been made at
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, Pa.
Of another gift to the endowment
fund by the founder amounting to
sG,00O.O0O.
Gov. Folk of Missouri has com
muted the sentence of Mrs Aggfe