The state herald., 1907-05-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Iten,s Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
BENEFIT of Our Readers.
Personal.

oeCTeldTy ldll III speech AT Il Dan-
Quet in Cincinnati expressed the belief
that the Panama canal would be com.
pleted In eight years.
A. e. Stilwell and a party Of &c
capitalists who took trip over the
lines of the Orient railroad in Mexico
have returned.
John Mitchell. president Of the
United Mine Workers, has submitted
to an operation which is declared to
have been successful and no danger
is anticipated.
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator. who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco In the
early seventies, is dead at his home
in Alameda Cal.
Admiral Dewey was the guest OF
honor at banquet held in Washington
to celebrate the ninth anniversary OF
the battle of Manila bay.
Gen. Kuroki, of the japanese army
who won fame in the war with Russia,
Is now in this country.
&Charles II. Hinton, an assistant ex-
aminer of the patent office, dropped
dead in the lobby of the Y. NJ. C. A.
building in Washington, where he had
Just responded to a toast at banquet.
John Cudahy, the well-known Chi
cago packer, is critically i'll.
Capt. Edgar Macklin, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, has been acquitted by
the court martial which tried him In
connection with the shooting up of
Brownsville Texas.
Arthur Melvin, chief editorial writ
er on the New York American, died
recently in Hamilton, Bermuda, of
heart failure.
President Castro, of Venezuela, is
again reported seriously i'll.
William f. Corey has been re-
elected president of the United States
Steel corporation.
Miscellaneous.
Counsel for Meyer. Haywood and
Pettibone have issued formal state
ment denying that their clients were in
Idaho at the time of the murder of Gov.
Steunenberg.
William A. Brewer. Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, was fined $500 at
New York recently for making false
returns 10 the state superintendent
of insurance.
A warm welcome was extended Gen.
Kuroki and suite upon their arrival
In Seattle. In addition TO the thous-
ands of Americans. hundreds Of Jap
anese were on hand to greet their
general.
Serious anti.European riots have
occurred at Rawalpindi. British In
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildings, pillaged mission church.
md looted the post office.
q William Cross. his wife and two
Sons were asphyxlated In New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Newton Youngblood. lG.year-old
Oklahoma boy .has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
has been arrested for selling counter.
fit money. In his room was found
several hundred dollars of tho green
good"
Thirty thousand acres Of irrigated
land near Billings. Mont, are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
ment about July /.
Ten men OF the United States gun.
boat Tacoma, while on shore leave at
Santiago, Cuba. were attacked by the
city police and badly injured. An In.
vesugation by the authorities was I'm.
mediately begun.
On the last day of April snow eov-
cred the entire state OF Iowa TO a
depth OF from three to eight Inches.
A bomb was thrown at the carriage
of President Cabrera In tho streets OF
Guatemala City. but the official cscap-
cd unharmed although the horses were
iAcd.
After being ontombed for more than
four days seven miners were rescued
alive from flooded mine ut Johns-
town. Pa. They were In nm ex-
baustcd condition but will recover.
The transport Duford sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu recently
with party OF % congressman who
visit Hawaii at tho Invitation Of
Delegate Kalanainaole. to ncquaint
themselves with conditions there.
-Four mon have been arrested In
ST. Louis on suspicion OF having
started tho fire by which two mon
were killed and eight others injured.
-Four hundred men have been made
idle by tho destruction OF tho plant OF
tho National Stove company ne
Lornin. o.
France Ia moving for a commission
like that appointed by the United
States to adjust tho tariff with Ger
many.
Tho first Kansas state convention OF
tho Society Of Equity. tho farmers
union. held two days session In