The log cabin Democrat., 1907-05-30
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly From
 the Great Southwest.

on the Frisco stood invitingly open, bandits risked lives and liberty to rob store two blocks distant.
 Phillip R. Dunn, a stone mason, 45 years old of Sedalia, Mo-, com mitted suicide by shooting. He leaves family who can give no cause for the act.
 Secretary of State Schmall of Minnesota Retail Lumber Dealers Minnesota, formally denied to the association the right to incorpora- ton are n conflict with the state antitrust laws.
 That the history and present op- eration of the Standard Oil inter- ests "show throughout the past thlr- tv-fve years a substantial monopo- lization of the petroleum industry of the country, a deliberate destruc- tion of competition, and a conse- ouent control of that industry by less than a dozen men, who have reaped enormous profits therefrom," '" largely through abuse of transporta- ton facilities, is charged in a report just submitted to President Roose- welt by Commissioner of Corpora tions Herbert Knox Smith.
 Several of the more important witnesses, summoned in behalf of the state in the trial of William D.. Haywood, for alleged participation in the assassination of t.ormer Gov ernor Steunenberg, have arrived at Boise. The prosecution had hoped by this time that a trial jury would have been impaneled, but it Is now evident that all twelve seats in the fury box will not be satisfactorily filled for several days.
 Lawyer Abraham Hummel, epi- cure. man about town and "first- nighter' at the theaters is making preparations for years stay i'll Blackwell's Island.
 The crew of the steamer Morena, which went on a reef off Cape Ray, abandoned the vessel at sundown Sunday, her bottom having been beaten out by pounding on the rocks.
 Owing to the many duties requir- ing, her attention, Queen Victoria has given up the idea of nursing the prince of the Asturias and a nurse has been obtained for him from the province of Santander.
 Americas industrial invasion of the far east is now in full swing, and Japan is pouring a golden stream into the United States for steel rails. cars and locomotives.
 Charles Frederick Cutler, of Mor- ristown, N. J., president of the New York Telephone Co.,, died suddenly from heart disease at the Saranac Inn, Saranac lake.
 The United States supreme court will thrash out the fight that has been commenced to drive the brew cries from Kansas.
 Thomas J. O'Brien, American minister to Denmark, who will be- come ambassador to Japan in Sep tcmber. and Mrs. O'Brien will leave for London June 5.
 The immigrant faces an increase in steerage rates from Europe with in six weeks when the United States law increasing the head tax from $2 to S4 for every alien entering the country goes into effect.
 Ships of the Pacific squadron have won the highest honors of the United States navy for every class of which it contains a vessel.
 ~en>at tiors) governments are an ticipated when the contest growing out of tEt 2-cent passenger rate act of the last Arkansas legislature Is aired in court. It is now practically settled that the railroads operating in Arkansas will contest the validity of the act, and the chief feature of the fight vii be based on Gov. Lit ties connection with the bill.
 Semi-oflcial announcement of the candidacy of Speaker Edward D. ShurtIeff for the republican nomina- ton for governor was made Mon day by one of his closest personal and political friends in Chicago.
 Matthew Morrison, head of the