Sharp County record., 1907-01-04
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and condensed
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.

Secretary Wilson has notified the
manufacturers of glucose that theil
packages under the pure food law
must bear labels stating exactly what
the package contains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Bischoffesheim
of London, have donated 100000 to
the imperial cancer research fund.
In an interview at Topeka, Kas.,
William j. Bryan stated that such
high honor is the presidential nomi-
nation that no man should decline"
Yauqi Indians, in the state of So
nora, Mexico, are on a raid. numbering
and plundering.
1t is stated that thirty million peas
ants will need assistance in the Rus
sian famine districts.
Count Eugene Zichy, who died at
Budapest recently, left an estate val
ued at $10,0OO000 He b'queathed a
splendid collection of paintings and
other works of art to the city Of Buda-
pest.
Andre Giron, who achieved notoriety
three years ago by clipping with the
then crown princess of SaXony, has
married Mile eanne Bream, who is
IL years older than Giron. The crown
princess of Saxony lost all her royal
rights through her escapade, while
Giron went unpunished
The coasts of England have been
visited by terrific gales, causing loss
to shipping.
At the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Association for the Advancement
of Science, Mr.. Louis G. Mcpherson,
who was assistant to the late PreSi-
dent Spencer of the Southern railway,
defended Mr.. John d. Rockefeller, de-
claring that Mr.. Rockefeller has done
much good.
During the year 1906 there were
over 16,000,000 head of live stock re-
ceived at the Chicago stock yards, val
ued at $314,30O,00O
The fourth son of Emperor William,
Prince Augustus Wilhelm, is betrothed
to Princess Alexandra Victoria, of
Schleswig- -Hostein-S n-Sonderburg- -Glucks-
burg the second daughter of a duke.
Great eXcitment was caused at Ell
Reno, Okla, by a negro soldier of the
Twenty-fifth infantry throwing the
wife of a prominent physician from
the sidewalk. There are threats of
lynching if the negro is caught.
1t is stated that Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand, who is retiring as British am
bassador to Washington, will be ele-
waited to the peerage for his services.
Mr. James Bryce, the new British
ambassador to Washington, will as
sume his duties in February.
During the celebration Of mass at
church in Oriental Negros, in the Phil
ippines, a woman fell in fit, crying
for help. A panic followed in which
IA psrsons were killed and many in
jured.
nh NIB Filipino people are elated over
a report that President Roosevelt will
visit the islands next summer.
Secretary of State Root and Jap
anese ambassador hold conference on
San Francisco school controversy.
Government may recover stolen lands
in Creek nation, though statute of lin
itation prevents criminal prosecutions.
Norman Vaughan, who killed Hay
den Loring, is pardoned by Gov. Folk
on requests of trial judge and prose
cutor
Senator Bailey, of Texas, cancels
Dallas engagement in order 10 recan-
vass Comanche county, where interest
in controversy is intense.
The Roosevelt children had merry
time at the White House, on Christ
mas until nearly midnight.
Christmas celebration in Mississip
pi Louisiana and Alabama cost &c
lives, many shooting affrays occurring
A riot occurred on a street car al
Leavenworth, Kas., in which colored
soldiers are alleged to have shot.
John L. Saphore, veteran actor
who played with the elder John Drew
and the actors Of the old school, dice
at the Edwin Forest nome, at Phila
delphia Mr.. Saphore was II years o
age.
]. Pierpont Morgan and other prom
inent citizens of New York have ad
dressed a letter to Secretary Of State
Root asking that the moral influence
of the United States be used to cor
rect alleged "fagrant inhumanity'
said to be practiced on the natives o
the Congo Free State by government
authorities.
Half the town Of Africa, in the prov
ince of Tacehle, has been destroyed
by an earthquake, and other towns il
the neighborhood have suffered NOR,
or less severely.
Standard Oil Co.'S counsel chal
lenged right of government to sub
poena officials.
Fire in the shipyards at Newpor
News caused loss of 100000.
An unknown traveller dropped
bomb in the railway station, at Khar
kov, Russia, upon alighting from al
incoming train. Two passengers wert
Jillad and many werp wounded h\