The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-05-30
NEWS Of THE WEEK
Host Important Happenings CT tie
Past Seven Days.
lnterestins Items Gathered from All
Darts of the World Condensed
late snail Space for the
DeneAt Of Our Readers.
Personal.

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csc officer paid visit to Gen. Grants
tomb and placed thereon laural
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.
G. o. Bartlett, cashier of the Madi-
son Coal Corporation of st. Louis. has
been arrested and has confessed to a
shortage of between $4,000 and $780,
900 in his accounts.
w. G. 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 II. Butler, who was charged
with the murder of the Marvin boy at
Dover, Del, has been released from
custody, for want OF sufficient evil
dence against him.
A. E. Stilwell and party Of 80
capitalists who took 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
been offered the presidency of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology
Lyndon B. Phifer, IS years old, OF
Rich Hill, Mo-. has been awarded a
bronze medal and $4,000 by the Car
negie Hero Fund commission.
Dr. 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. s
Judge Thomas Ryan, of Kansas,
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 home 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 9. 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.
Mlsceiisneous.
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 ar
Internal machine which exploded in
the police bureau.
A portion Of the report = 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 ant
advise the annulmen. c. TIC ,Sr.c:.,
agreements.
Abraham Ruef, the former politica
boss OF San Francisco, created &
sensation in Judge Dunns court by
pleading guilty to an indictment fol
extortion. Sentence was deferred fol
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 ant
caused considerable damage to sur.
rounding property.
The Illinois legislature has taken 6
recess until October next
The recent fair at the metropolitan
opera house in New York realized
$75, 900 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 oil
the school board who refused to re