Sharp County record., 1907-01-11
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST I'M
PORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
4 Carefully Digested and condenss7
Compilation of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.

sOt the JulLGQ states gov tIulutA' VAC
Sg4O.O7l III. The cash balance on
hand in the United States treasury, in
cluding the S15O,OOO,OOO reserve fund,
was SS8S, ,997O7G. .
During 1906 the national banks in
creased their circulation S55, PAS Id,
making the total circulation Of that
GLASS of securities S596,1G2 469
-Four white men, one negro and
about thirty Mexican laborers lost
their lives in d wreck on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railway near
Volland, Kas. Two fast trains col
Iided, the wrecbage taking fire and
cremating the bodies Of the MeXicans,
A number were burned alive. A 49,
ytar-old operator with orders to hold
enc Of the trains, allowed it to 90 by.
He notified the officials, and for five
minutes hundreds Of employees on the
system knew that the wreck would
occur at the expiration of that time
The report of the board Of engineers
NJ adverse to the deep waterway from
-he lakes to the gulf.
The amir of Afghanistan is on his
way to pay an official visit to India.
He is accompanied by a great retinue.
Considerable Importance is given to
The visit by the British, who are try
ing to impress him with his greatness
and their greatness. The amir has
given it out that he can put nearly
mali d million men in the tield.
The conviction is general through
out the iron industry that the present
tremendous rate of consumption will
continue during the first haH Of the
current year.
During 1906 the imported mercAan-
disc received at the port of New York
was S9SLG52, ,45G; in 1905 it was $705-
0l1,4S7.
Hot Springs, Ark, was visited by
the heaviest rain in its history. Cen
tral avenue, the principal thorough
fare was a seething river carrying
debris of all descriptions.
Near Darlington, KY a large arti-
fetal lake broke through its dam, de-
stroying residences and flooding rich
country There was no loss Of life, as
people were notified by comiers and
telephones to fee to the hills.
AT Terra Gotta, a station on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad, in the District
,of Columbia, a freight train going 60
miles an hour plunged into the rear
end of a local passenger train The
. engine plowed through three coaches
heavily loaded with humanity so
crowded the people were standing
in the aisles Thirty-eight people were
l,Iled and over GO injured. Among the
injured several will die, The evening
WAS foggy and the engineer Of the
Freight says he did not see the danger
signals.
% Baroness BUrdett-Coutts, one of the
richest women in England, is dead,
aged ~. She had /. remarkable his
? tory having known William w., and
was present at the coronation OF Vic
1oria. Sne was q peeress in her own
right, and was greatly beloved for her
charity Twenty-Five years ago she
married William Ashmead Bartlett, a
young man who was born in Massa-
,chusetts, who took his wite's name
and ne is now a member of the Brit
jsh parliament,
John d. Rockefeller, in statement,
says ne is sorry that he is misunder-
stood; that he bears no i'll will to any
body. and that lit is great thing to
think that this is so by the grace OF
God" He says that Capitalization Of
business had 20 come; that we must
adopt ourselves to new conditions. 1T
can't be otherwise
Only six railroad receiverships were
appointed Curing 1906. There were
small roads, aggregating total Of 2O2
miles. Eight roads, 2G2 miles, were
sold in foreclosure.
A cold wave cauEed considerable
damage to vegetables in Florida, The
thermometer went as low as "a in
northern Florida. Heavy frost showed
as far south as Tampa, and was quite
chilly on the Manatee river.
Sailors from the United States cru
ser Cleveland caused q panic in q
public park Of Cenfuegos, Cuba, where
a concert was going on by engaging
in fight and tring many shots. The
police restored order by arresdng sev
aral of the sailors,
Near Anderson, California, a Mrs
Stewart, widow, left her thre, small
children alone while she went VIII
1ng. The house burned and the chill
dren perished. The distracted woman
tried 10 kill herself.
The Methodist church viii attempt
10 raise S1,OOOOOO for home missions
A message was found in bottle on
the north coast of Ireland, containing
a message from several members OF
the crew Of the steamship Huronian
The Huronian has not been heard
From since 1902. When the message
was written the vessel was sinking
East.