The Ketchikan miner., 1907-06-08
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occurred in the province of Hsingk- ing early this morning in which fully five thousand people met their deaths. The buildings for miles around were shattered and thrown to the ground. In many places the earth opened in wide cracks which after hours of shaking slowly closed. Hundreds of people committed suicide thinking that the end of the world had come. The government has sent commission to investigate the needs of the people of he district most of who have lost everything they possessed.
 Shanghai, June 4.-Governnent authorities state that they have abso- lute proof that the arms of the pres ent uprising in this country were imported from America and that parties in the United States, desirous of securing concessions in case the revolution succeeds, are furnishing the cash necessary to put the move ment on its feet. There is no deny ing the fact that the greater number of arms now In the hands of the in surgents are of American manufac- ture, but it was generally supposed that they had been purchased by Japanese money and smuggled into China from Japan. It appears now. however, that many of the eases shipped in as agricultural machinery really contained arms and ammuni- tion.
 Boise. June flowing to the sick ness of Haywood. his trial has been postponed until his recovery. The jury is kept in the charge of the sheriff. strictly guarded no one being allowed to get in touch with them. With the approval of the attorneys for both the prosecution and defense the court has appointed censor to l examine mail addressed to the jurors who will be allowed to receive their mail upon his approval. This is a new diparture in this state, but is only fair way of treating the jurors as they will be on the case for weeks and months. Haywood's sickness is not caused by the trial, but com es from something he has eaten not agreeing with him. Mover and Pettibone are in the best of health and anxious that the trial of their companion be pushed so that they can have their liberty.
 Seattle, June 4.-Charles McLaugh- lin, a Fairbanks mining operator dropped dead while talking to the landlady of the house in which he was stopping. Heart disease is sup posed to have been the cause of his death.
 New York, June 4.-Word has just reached this city from Europe that i the $50. GOO, 900 loan which the Union Pacific railroad has been trying to negotiate in the monied centers ] of Europe has been turned down. Hartman planes the attacks which have been made on him for the failure and sees season of hard times ahead for the railroads of this country.
 Hammond, Indiana. June 4.- Children in family of this city, playing with lighted matches. dropped one into a can of gasolene. The result. five sisters under seven years of age burned to death
 New Orleans. June 1.-The supreme court has refused to grant the stay of execution demanded by Gaynor Green in his appeal. and the law will now take it's course.
 San Francisco, June 4.-High ex- plosives were discovered under the street car tracks on Haigh street this morning. It is supposed that striking street car men are responsible for their presence there.
 Uniontown, Wash, June 4.-Mask- ed men held up the post office here this morning securing about hund- red and fifty dollars in cash.
 Washington. June 1.-Senator Till man, of South Carolina, he of pitch fork fame, sprung somewhat of sensation at a banquet in this city last night when he made the declara- ion that he had irrefutable proof that President Roosevelt was scheming for third term, and that Secretary Taft was party to the scheme. Till man maintains that all this talk about Taft being Roosevelts successor next year in buncome, that is fact the proposition had long ago been lined up to land Mr. Roosevelt back for another four years and make Taft chief justice of the United States Supreme court. Tillman's assertions are taken as Washington is in the habit of diposing of Tillman cratic assertions, with grain of salt, but still the impression that still persists in sticking in the minds of so many is the possibility that the man from South Carolina is perhaps right