Sharp County record., 1907-01-11

special for or against Bailey pri
mary election. He regards his re
election to the senate as assured.
The dowager empress of Russia is
said to he insane Since the death OF
General Trepon, by assassination, last
September. sh- is said to have been
demeuted One story is to the effect
that she was in love with the general
and another is that she realized that
the royal family had lost an iron
handed protector. She is now in Den
mark and viii later be removed TO the
Riviera.
Tn power Of Raisula, the bandit Of
Morocco is reported broken.
Mr.. George B. CorteIyou postmaster
/ general, announces that he viii retire
as chairman Of the republican national
committee March 4, upon taking his
/ place as secretary Ol the treasury. 1t
/ is believed that Nh Harry New, Of In
diana, will succeed him.
A japanese paper, styled The Rev
olution," published al Berkeley, CAL
comes out n English language boldly
advocating the assassination Of Pr5si-
dent Roosevelt, the Mikado and others
in authority.
The statement is issued from the
White House that the president does
not contemplate a trip to the Philip
pines next summer.
In a railroad collision near Ar.
broath, town between Edinburgh and
Aberdeen, Scotland, caused by heavy
snow, 1G persons We're killed and over
thirty seriously injured
Arctic weather has prevailed
throughout central Europe. In Great
Britain violent gales and snowstorms
were accompanied by thunder
Efforts on the part Of the United
States to effect a peaceful settlement
in Cuba are not meeting with encour-
agement from the Cubans. 1t is the
impression Of public men generally in
Washington that the better element
of people Of Cuba desire annexation.
Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Meth
odist church, south, died at Asheville,
n. C.
The director of the mint has pur-
chased 100000 ounces Of fine silver, to
be delivered at the philadelphia mint,
at 7O.15S cents per ounce.
Speaker Cannon wins fight for
precedence over the chief justice Of
the supreme court at social functions.
w. s. Keyes, a banker and pioneer
business man Of San Francisco was
found dead at his club from natural
causes.
The internal revenue receipts for
the first five months of the fiscal year
amounted to $11G175,4O7, an increase
over the same period CT 1905 Of So, ,722,-
S5S.
Lawrence Iceberg, who was lynched
at Las Animas, Cal, for murder, was
recently released from the asylur. at
Promo, Utah. The superintendent of
the Utah institution believes the Colo
RADIO mob lynched .unatic.
1t has been announced at the state
department in Washington that the
United States will support measure
adopted by England to ameliorate the
sufferings Of people in the Congo
country.
Frederick Camp, one of the most
prominent men in Connecticut killed
himself He was sick and despond-
ent.
Sir William Peace HOwland, former
ly postmaster and finance minister of
the Dominion Of Canada, and later
lieutenant governor of Ontario, died at
Toronto
The Church of the Assumption a
Catholic institution at Detroit, was de-
stroyed by fire. At the rear Of the
structure was a grotto, to which many
invalids jouneyed. 1t was said that
miraculous cures had been effected in
the grotto by prayer.
John d. Rockefeller has given near
ly S3,O0O,O0O additional to the Univer-
sity Of Chicago, the bulk Of which goes
to the endowment fund and the re
mainder to be used to pay deficits and
increase salaries Of the faculty.
The archbishop of Paris, Cardinal
Richard, and the titular head Of va
rious other religious orders in Paris,
who always in past have been among
the presidents guests at luncheon,
were not invited New Years.
Thomas sIarris, % years Old shot
and killed his stepfather, Henry Mil
Ter as years old, at Miller's palatial
home, 37O4 Hartford street The
young man claims that Miller was
abusing Mrs. Miller who is the young
mans mother.
AT Joplin, Mo-, w Troy shot and
killed his wife Ptosia, and was re
moved to the Carthage jail for future
security.
William Rosser Cobbe, for many
years well known character along
Park Row, and VINO was said to have
been at one time u man OF high posi-
tion in educational and social circles
| in the west was found dead in a hall