East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-06
GENERAL NEWS.

OF labor temple at Kansas City, cor
ner of Fourteenth and Woodland. 1t
will cost $4,000.
The New York Central company
was fined $4,000 in the federal court
at Rochester, N. Y, for failure to
file rates on a shipment of oil for
the Standard Oil company. A mo-
ton for new trial was denied.
At Ration, N. NJ, bunch of pris-
oners in the county Jail made break
for freedom on the Fourth. Jailer
John Gale shot and killed one named
Brown and with a revolver in each
hand backed the remainder into their
cells.
At winona, Mimi, Roy Van Sick
len, aged II, dared" to climb an
electric light mast $50 high, on July
4. Just as he reached the top he
came in contact with live wire, lost
his hold and fell to the ground. He
fell on jagged rocks and was killed
instantly.
At the Fourth of July celebration
at Los Angeles, 26 persons sustained
injuries sufficiently serious to re-
quire surgical attention. OF these,
but one is regarded as fatal-that OF
Eugene Cline. boy who was injured
by the ignition OF an explosive In his
| pocket
The Chicago Tribune of July
says. Thirty-seven men, women and
children are dead and 215S are
manned, lacerated or burned as re-
suit of yesterdays excess of. patriot
ism in the United States. The num-
ber of dead does not include five
drowned during the day.
The tug Sac Benito, built in Ham
burg for the Hamburg South Ameri
can steamship companies Amazol
service, foundered in the Bay of Bis
cay while in tow for Brazil. TIL
captain and six men aboard the tut
: were drowned. The tug went dow
in 1000 feet of water.
Next week Saratoga is to have tn
1 honor of entertaining the thirtiet
/ trienniaI conclave of the grand en-
D campment, Knights Templar of tn
4 United States, an honor that has nc
= been accorded to any city in the stat
t of New York since the formation G
n the grand encampment in New Yor
: city nearly 100 years ago.
Denver was chosen fos the ne1
l. meeting place of the Western Federa
ton of Miners, and 1t was decided
retain the federation headquarte1
: there. Butte was the only compel
q .a, Go, +t,a naxt convention of miner
T. Bisbec, Ariz, Tcnopah. New, .ar
:, Douglas City, Alaska, being witt
a drawn. Denver won 222 to ia f.
o Butte.
/ In Yell county, Arkansas, recent
Il Miss Nellie Henderson and JOSEF
10 Giffen were to have been married
$ a country church. On the way bo
l. were drowned by the upsetting
IL their buggy at ford. Rev. Hora
Gilmore, who was on the way to Il
church from the opposite directi'
II to perform the marriage ceremor
was killed by his horse running ava
The losses by fire in the Unite
q States and Canada during June,
=. compiled from the record of t
- Journal of Commerce and CONNIE
cial Bulletin, aggregate $14,765,0C
% This brings the total fire waste I
: the first half of 1907 up to $117,45
:. 500, as compared with sS77,665,5 ,5
for a like portion of the year 19'
=, but these latter figures include S2S'
= 900, 900 chargeable to the San Fra
l. cisco conflagration.
le Investigation by State Mine Inspe
Ie tor Walton Rutledge of Illinois, h
IS revealed that an Internal machir
h made by placing loaded revolver
,e a tool box containing 25 pounds
,r giant powder, and connecting t
trigger by copper wire to the lid
the box, caused the explosion in Co
solidated mine No. II at Connel
Vile on July 1, costing the lives
a. Louis Colonia and August Genett
70 John Welsh, miner, was dangeror
ly injured. All the employees of Il
mine are unionized.
lg In the matter of homicides, t
e, record of the year 1885 presents
toal of 1903, or 1922 to the milli
IN population; while in 1904-the lat
l. date of compilation-the total
le S4S2 or 1914 to the million popul
r. tion. AS against the number of hoi
icides in the United States there we
only 321 reported in Germany, with
n population of 6O,O00,00O inhabitan
ed only 1923 in England and Wales, wi
d. a population of 32.5O0,0 900; but 526
n France, with a population Of $500
Id 900, and 81 in the Dominion of Ca
ada, with population of 100000