The Delta independent., 1907-05-10
NEWS OF. THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tbs
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts Of tho World Condensed
IAto Small Space for the
Benent Of Our Readers,
Personal.

| T0t00U8Js
! John Mitchell. president of the
United Mine Workers, has submitted
to an operation which is declared to
have tcen successful and no danger
Is anticipated.
Secretary Taft in a speech at BAN
quot in Cincinnati expressed the belief
that the Panama canal would be COM
pleted in eight years.
John Noble of Oklahoma City was
found guilty Of murder and his punish
ment fixed at life Imprisonment in the
the Kansas penitentiary.
A. E. StIlwell and party OF 80
capitalists who took a trip over the
lines OF the Orient railroad in Mexico,
have returned.
Rumors are in circulation in Wash
ington that Secretary Loeb is to leave
the president and take the. presi-
dency of the Washington Railway and
Electric company.
Senator Penrose Of Pennsylvania.
was a recent caller at the white
house. This is his first visit to the
president since the publication Of the
alleged conspiracy against Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Rev. John Fulton. editor OF the
Church Standard. an Episcopalian
publication. is dead in Philadelphia.
His early work was done in st.
Louis.
United Mine Workers. is I'll at the
home Of a friend in Chicago. His
illness is not regarded as serious ct
present.
James Bartlett Hammond. inventor
of the typewriter bearing his name.
has lost his mind and is confined to
Bellevue hospital at New York for
observation.
wolfman c. Fuchs, an expert In the
use Of the X-ray. is dead In Chicago
Of cancer contracted from coming in
to contact with the X-ray apparatus.
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.
Harry s. New. acting chairman Of
the republican national committee.
was in conference with President
! Roosevelt at the White house re-
Gently.
Mrs. Lawson Sheldon. mother Of
Gov. George L. Sheldon. Of Nebraska.
Is dead at her home in Nehawka-
She was 73 years old.
y. Prof. Ritter Won Mosetis -Moorhof,
the famous Austrian surgeon and in
troducer Of iodoform. was recently
drowned in the Danube river.
Victor II. Olmsted. an employc OF
the agricultural department. has gone
to Cuba to supervise the taking OF n
census Of the island.
Brig. Gen. John W. Buff has been
| placed on the army retired list. lic
| was in command OF the Department
of the Dakotas with headquartero IN
| st. Paul.
Frederick I. Allen. commissioner OF
patents, has rendered his resignation
to President Roosevelt to take effect
June 1.
Alan r. Hawley made a balloon as
cention at st. Louis and landed safely
| at Carrollton, ILL.,, CT miles away.
MIsceilsneous.
In an explosion in a mine at Black
| Diamond, Wash, four men were
killed. five fatally and Il seriously
J injured.
! A reunion OF all the descendants OF
the signers OF the declaration of inde-
| pendence Is planed for the James,
town exposition on July 4 next.
A treaty Of peace has been signed
between Nicaragua and Salvador at
| Amapala. Honduras.
The Illinois legislature has passed n
bill forbiddlng the sale of Intoxicating
liquors within II miles of military
| or naval reservation.
| The Wisconsin freight depot at
Minneapolis was recently totally de.
stroyed by fire causing a loss of
100000.
For the first time in many years
| the president and his entire cabinet
were recently absent from the nation-
al capital.
Commander Robert e. Peary, who
penetrated to within 174 miles OF the
north pole on his last trip. may be
| Obliged to abandon his second dash
which he planned this summer. for
lack of 100000 to finance the expe-
dition.
| This country consumes over 6.O00,-
| 1000 pounds of sugar per unnum or
78 pounds for each person, but one
fifth OF which is produced at home.
A treaty Of arbitration has been
| signed between Portugal and Denmark
and their differences will be hereafter
submitted to The Hague tribunal.
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