, 1907-08-15
EWS OF THE WEEK
|ost Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.

william Allen White, Of Emporia,
AN, was a guest, with Attorney Cen
ral Bonaparte. of President Roose-
kelt at Sycamore Hill recently.
Judge Thomas Ryan, of Kansas,
assistant secretary of the interior,
las written n letter to a friend in
which he states that his health is so
huch improved that he expects to re-
eeptember.
Territorial Secretary Atkinson, Of
Hawaii, has resigned.
Secretary Taft will not speak at
lincoln, Neb., as originally intended.
John L. Lozier known as the Fight t.
ing Chaplain" Gied at Mount Vernon,
Ia. Aged rs years.
Gen. Kirkozoff ex-governor general
bf Odessa has been shot and killed.
]. NJ. Scott city editor of the Helena
ARK. World was shot and killed by
BONE persons unknown.
Captain ]. H.. c. Dill, for 10 years
grand secretary of the Illinois grand
lodge OF Masons, died suddenly of
neuralgia of the heart, aged II years.
F. w. Medlar, of Spencer, Iowa,
III pCVh SitStSN Vi liz 2Nh
tional Photographers association.
The works Of Horatio Alger, jr.,
the noted writer of books for boys,
have been barred from the public IL
Fbrary at Worcester, Mass. The reason
given is that they are not truthful
and are too sensational.
- Justice C. B.. Graves, of the Kan
sas supreme court. was recently over
come by heat at his home in Emporia.
He was reported in a serious condi-
tion.
John Sharp Williams has been for
mally declared the nominee for SEN
ator of the party by the Mississippi
democratic state committee. His Off
cial majority in the primary was GAS
over Gov. Vardaman.
Miss Katherine Eddy, of Chicago,
and Senator Albert j. Beveridge, of
Indiana, We're married recently in the
American embassy at Berlin. Only
the relatives and a few personal
friends witnessed the ceremony which
was very simple.
Miss Bessie Emerson, of Odessa,
Mo, was recently accidentally thrown
from a street car in Los Angeles, Cal
and killed.
William Mulkey, the Oldest resident
of Kansas City, recently died of old
age at his home there. He went there
with his mother from North Carolina
in 1928 when four years Of age.
miscellaneous.
The government is said to be in
possession of a special confidential
report regarding the Standard Oil
company, which contains some sen.
sational matters which will ac. as a
bomb at the coming trial of the gov
erment's suit to dissolve the mono
poly.
Federal Judge Lands, Of Chicago,
has refused an offer of $4,000 a year
to become chief counsel for the Peo.
pies Security company of New York.
David Hutchinson, superintendent of
the reading room at the library of
congress, has resigned.
1t is officially announced that GER
tain provinces of 2u. STA are threat
e ed with an outbreak of cholera.
According to the government bull
letin the condition of corn on August
/, was 1913.
The telegraph operators employed
by the Western Union in Chicago
have gone out in sympathy with the
strikers in Los Angeles.
Judge u. M. Valentine, who held
the longest term as a justice of the
supreme court of Kansas, is dead at
his home In Topeka, aged n years.
A dispatch from New York says
Commander Peary has abandoned the
idea Of going north this year. The
delay in the repairs on his vessel,
the Roosevelt, is the cause.
A general strike of the Building
trades has been inaugurated in Wash
ington. d. G..
A detachment of Dutch troops num-
bering As men has been m~assacred by
rebels on the island of Celebes.
Advices from Casa Blanca, Morocco
say that most of the hostile Moorist
tribesmen surrounding the town have
retired after a fight with natives in.
side.
Solomon Frank. business manager
of the st. Joseph Daily volksblatt.
Is dead at his home in that city.
A commission to investigate a plan
for pensioning persons over 65 years
OF g has been appointed in Massa-
chusetts.
A monument in Memory OF the vic
tory of Commodore Perry on Lake
Erie has been unveiled at Put in-Bay,
Ohio.
Judge Lands of Chicago has or
dered the dissolution of the Church
and School Furniture trust which was
recently fined $43. 900.
The British government proposes
to bnild a railroad Ann miIau LONG In