, 1907-09-12

nost-graduate course, was drowned
rowing in the Kaw river at Law
renee.
Six persons were killed outright and
$50 injured in a recent wreck on the
Canadian Pacific railroad at Horse
Falls, near O~rangeville, Ont.
The motion az the attorneys for the
San Francisco grafters to dismiss the
bribery indictments against them mas
been denied by Superior Judge Law
lor.
In an address at the National 1rri-
conference at Sacramento, Cal,
Clifford Pinchot, the government for-
ester, declared the lumber supply OF
the country would be exhausted inside
of 20 years unless the forests were
protected.
Ouicksand caused the drowning of
three young men in the Illinois river
near Peoria recently. When found the
bodies were standing upright with
their heads barely under the water.
A witness in the reformatory inves-
tigation at Hutchinson, Kan, declared
the records had been falsified in the
case of the death of a negro inmate.
The story created a sensation.
One young man and two young
women were drowned by the capsiz-
ing of a boat at McAlester, l. T.
A clash between the marching I'M
ion labor men and strike breaking
street car employees resulted in the
shooting of two men at San Francis
CO.
The breaking of a cable in the
zinc mine near Springfield, Mo, let
two miners fall 200 feet to their death.
Complaint has beer made to the
railroad commissioners that the cars
can not be secured to handle the
large broom corn crop of Kansas.
The American Agriculturist esti-
mates that while the products of
American far ms this year are ten per
cent less than last, they + greater
in value to the extent of $1,000,00o,-
600.
H. H. Tucker, Jr., former secretary
treasurer of the Uncle Sam Oil COM
pany, has been released from the
Leavenworth Jail after serving a
three months sentence for %reflecting
on federal judges.
At Lathrop, Mo-, While his wife
was t%estifying in a justice court
against a negro charged with attempt
to kill her. Gerland Carter, a farmer
drew a pistol and fired two bullets
into the body of the prisoner, fatally
wounding him.
The Kansas board of railroad COM
missioners have ordered the railroads
of the state to put in a flat two-cent
passenger al beginning October /
next. The railroads have made no
definite announcement of what ac-
ton they will take in the premises.
Cholera is reported to be spreading
in European Russia.
The subcommittee of the United
States immigration commission, which
has been making a tour of Europe, has
returned with valuable data and will
make important recommendations to
congress regarding changes in the i'm.
migration laws.
Eleven persons were killed and
eve others injured in a wreck on the
| Rock Island railroad at Norris, Ia, re
Gently.
The resolutions adopted by the Ma
tional Irrigation congress in session a
Sacramento, Cal, indorse the policy O
President Roosevelt in connection with
irrigation, forest preservation and con
s%ervation OF resources.
Seven brewing companies have Civ
en- up the fight in Kansas, agreed t.
pay all the costs of the cases agains'
them in the supreme court and NOV,
out of the state.
News has been received of the prob
able loss of the Don Duchess O
Berford, which carried the Anglo
American Arctic expedition. Three
members of the expedition are report
ed missing.
A moyement is in progress in New
York to form a worldwide typewriter
trust.
The International Harvester Co
pleaded guilty to a violation of the
Texas antitrust law and paid a fine OF
$4,000. A perpetual injunction was
ais issued by the court forbidding /,
to operate in Texas.
New York city is threatened with a
milk famine.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Il. e. Clark has agreed to act as trbi
traitor between the western railroad
managers and the brotherhood OF
Trainmen.
Watson & Co, grain and commits.
sion brokers of New York, have failed
for Sc 1000.
Inc Missouri board of railroad com.