The Nevada County picayune., 1907-04-12

tlldl, HOW LII Us tNtlltll Ntch, VIII be finished this week now seems al- most certain. There k no sign of any more delays. The case has already has extended long beyond the time ever before required to try mur- der Case in New York. Whether tha defense will call more witnesses l. Probl'matical. it is stated that they expect 10 require no more than an hour te complete their case. If this Is rua, there is no reasC7 why the case should not go To the jury Thur lay.
 At the general meeting of the German iron and steel manufac- turcr> held here Friday. unanimous objection was voiced against the proposed world exposition in Der lin in 1918, the 25th year of Elm peror William reign, IL was char actcrtzcd as futile and improbable.
 The president has taken up the complaints affecting the commissary department on the isthmus of Pan- anna that have come to him aS tho result of recent visits of members of congress to that place. He has d. >ured his callers that the allegations aIfec.iag graft in that department and other complaints shall be looked into promptly.
 The executive eomimttee of the organlzation known as the Mover Haywood Protest Conference. at New York, announced Saturday night that 1t had sent to President Roosevelt letter protesting against the reference to Mover and IIav- wood III the letter addressed to Rep re.enlatiye James :. Sherman and recently made public in connection with the F. II. Hartman letter ill eideHs
 Ih" military board of survey. which has been investigating tbc accounts of the assistant adjutant general of this state, appeared bc- fore the grand jury Friday after noon and secured the indictment of Col. A. S. Hutson, who has he'd that office since 1899. during three state administrations, on the charge of embezzIement of $500.
 fhc Republican club of KanSa, CiN, Mo, Friday appointed com mittee of prominent citizens to raise Sl00,00O to bring the republican national convention of 1908 To that citH.
 The seyenty-eighth annual con ference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints began al Salt Lake City Friday in tbc Mormon tabernacle, representative, of Mormon colonies all over the N"tIl btlnG present.
 Gov. Folk Friday vetoed the bill making 1t mlSdcmeanor for miner 10 misrcprcsent his age 10 secure intoxicating liquor.
 The Shanghai correspondent of the Morning Post says in q dis patch that the Chinese government proposes to raise q foreign loan of $,,390,0o0 for the purpose of erect ing and equipping arsenals and for the construction of a railroad from Pekin to kalganm, 125 miles to the northwest.
 The Nicuye Courant, breaking through the reticenee of the Dutch press regarding the probable out como of The Hague peace confer enec, eNpresse, regret that mutual distrust, ill spite of the improve ment in international relations, should prevent the various govern lilIiS run Qlt NVSS4OH eo IluIclN and academic q question as the linn itations of armaments without po- itical prejudice.
 The death Is announced of the Rev Malcolm MacColl, canon of Ripon. He was born in 1888. Twenty-Five persons are known 10 have pcrishcd in the tornado which swcp across the state of Louisiana lrida. and fears are expressed for many more. From 50 10 100 persons were injured and property was dam aged 10 The extent of more than $looo,ooo. Tho storm also swept through Alabama and Missississippi and left d path of 800 miles marked by wrechage. Four towns were prac- ticallv destroyed.
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