The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Msst Important Happenings CT t-=
Past Seven Days
Interesting Ifenss Gafhered frsn AL
parts Of the World Condezaea
Into Small Space for the
Benefit of Our Reederl.
Personal.

have ken successful and 10 danger
Ia Anticipated
Secretary Taft II q speech zt bar-
qEet In Cincinnati expressed the belle.
thz- the Panama canal would be eol-
pletst IN eight years.
John Noble Of OklzhOuz City Tzs
fo1rd guilty Of murder and his punEza-
nezt fixed al life Imprisonment in the
the Kansas penirsneizry-
a z stHweII and z party of 50
capitalists who took trip over the
lines Of the Orie1t railroad fl Mexico,
have returned
Runors are IN circulation fl WASH
ington that Secretary Loeb Is to leave
the president and take the presi-
dency Of the Washington Railway and
Electric company
Senator Penross, ct Pennsylvania.
Was q recent caller At the white
house This is his first visit TO the
president since the publication Of the
alleged conspiracy against Mr. Roose-
yelt
Rev. J~hn Fulton. editor Of the
Church Standard. an EpiscopzIizn
publication, is dead in Philadelphia
His early work was done in St
Louis.
John Mitchell, president Of the
United Mine Workers, Is III at the
home Of a friend In Chicago. His
illness is not regarded as serious et
present.
James Bartlett Hammond, inventor
Of the typewriter bearing his name,
has lost his mind and is confined to
Bellevue hospital at New York for
observation
Wolfman c. Fuchs, an expert in the
uss Of the X-ray, is dead In Chicago
Of cancer contracted from coming in
to contact with the X-ray apparatus
Dennis Kearney, the Sand Lot
Orator" who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco in the
early seventies. is dead at his home
In Alameda, Cal.
Harry s. New. acting chairman of
the republican national committee.
was in conference with President
Roosevelt at the White house re-
Gently.
Mrs. Lawson Sheldon, mother of
Gov. George L. Sheldon, of Nebraska,
Is dead at her home in Nehawka
She was 73 years old
Prof. Ritter Won Mosetfg- -Moorhof,
the famous Austrian surgeon and in
troducer of iodoform, was recently
drowned in the Danube river.
Victor II. Olmsted, an employe Oh
the agricultural department, has gone
TO Cuba to supervise the taking of a
census OF the island.
Brig. Gen. John W. Buff has been
placed on the army retired list. He
was in command of the Department
OF the Dakotas with headquarterL IN
st. Paul.
Frederick I. Allen, commissioner OF
patents. has rendered his resignation
to President Roosevelt to take effect
June 1.
Alan r. Hawley made balloon as
ceDtion at st. Louis and landed safely
at Carrollton. Ill.,, 67 miles away.
Miscellaneous.
In an explosion in mine at Blacl
Diamond, Wash, four men were
killed. five fatally and IA seriously
injured.
A reunion OF all the descendants oi
the signers of the declaration of indie.
pendence is planed for the James
town exposition on July next.
treaty of peace has been signed
between Nicaragua and Salvador al
| Amapala, Honduras.
The Illinois legislature has passed 9
bill forbidding the sale of Intoxicating
liquors within II miles Of a military
or naval reservation.
The Wisconsin freight depot al
Minneapolis was recently totally de
stroyed by fire causing a loss ot
100000.
For the first time in many years
the president and his entire cabinet
were recently absent from the nation.
al capital.
Commander Robert Z. Peary. who
penetrated to within ia miles of the
north pole on his last trip may be
obliged to abandon his second dash
which he planned this summer. for
lack OF 100000 to finance the expe-
dition.
This country consumes over 6,O00,-
100000 pounds of sugar per annum OF
76 pounds for each person. but one
fifth of which is produced at home,
A treaty of arbitration has been
signed between Portugal and Denmark
and their differences will he haraa ~ or
submitted to The Hague tribunal.
The 100000 Masonic temple at South
McAlester, |. T., was recently dedi-
Gated with elaborate ceremony.
The Journeay and Burnham COM
pany. one of the. Oldest dry goods