, 1907-08-22
OF THE WEEK
,st Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
..-esting Items Gathered From all
of the World Condensed
Into Small Space tor the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Personal.

August H. Havemeyer OF New YOrk
led at his home aged 62 years.
| Prince vi who headed the Korean
hmmission to The Hague and who
now in New York, has been notified
hat his government has condemned
I'm to death and his associates to
H. Imprisonment.
i Lieut. Graetz of the Prussian army
I'm start from German east Africa in
attempt to cross Africa in a motor
pr.
II is agrain reported that Richard
tansfield the actor is seriously i'll.
Sergeant Wesley Merritt. of the
ospital corps, one of the first to be-
|ome infected with yellow fever in
TUBA. is dead.
william Allen White. of Emporia,
kan. is said to be writing a novel.
Edwin NJ. Morgan has been ap-
postmaster of New York to
lucceed Will Cox. resigned.
Francis f. Leupp, commissioner of
Indian territory affairs, has returned
10 Washington after a %protracted abb
|cnce.
Prof. w. II. Isely, dean of Fair
.ount college in Wichita. Kan, is
lead at his home in that city.
| The republicans of Maryland have
dominated George r. Gather, of Bal
Iimore. for governor.
Maj. Harry +. Hodges has entered
hpon his duties as purchasing agent
bf the Isthmian Canal commission,
with headquarters in Washington.
In an interview at Reno, Nevada,
H. Hartman declared he would
bwn all the railroads in the country
eould he get control of them. He
stated he would answer all
questions of the government when
Failed upon again.
Postmaster General Meyer has an
bounced that he will urge the estab-
|ishment of a parcels post system and
postal savings banks by congress in
bis forthcoming report.
o. w. Hite. assistant warden of
the Kansas ~penitentiary, is dead in
Lansing.
The Army of the Philippines in ses-
sion at Kansas City, elected Capt. H.
Grow, of Connelisville, Pa, as COM
nander-in-chief.
Former President Cleveland is re-
to be still confined to his
Princeton home by illness.
Miscellaneous.
Thirty thousand acres of land is
now available for entry under the
Carey Act in the Eden Valley in
The land is irrigated by
government works.
Telegraph operators of the Asso-
ciated Press at Kansas City have join
I'd the employees of the Western Union
md Postal telegraph companies and
' for increased pay and better
.o.ne.,.yna.
The final report of the investiga-
ing committee regarding the frauds
n connection with Pennsylvania
capitol building has been sub
nitted to Gov. Stuart with a econ
that the attorney general
be instructed to begin proceedings
the guilty parties at once.
Gov. Folk has instructed Attorney
General Hadley to bring custer suits
Prosecuting Attorney John
son and Sheriff Herpel of st. Louis
for failure to enforce the Sun.
lay a~nti-saloon law in that county.
The government has filed in the
'ederal court in New York a suit to
.ompel e. H.. Hartman to answer GER
ain questions regarding his connec-
ion with TIE Chicago and Alton rail
Dad. He refused the information to
he Interstate commerce. commission.
prices to American consum-
."' while lowering them to the export
Secret agents of the government
re said to have found evidence tend
ng to show that rebates have recent
y been paid by the st. Paul road
o tue packing Arm of S~chwarzschild
Y Sulzberger of Chicago and Kansas
5ity.
A Missouri Pacific motor inspection
ar was run down and demolished
lear Sedalia recently. The occupants
# the car saved themselves by jump
A census of the Panama canal zone
hows nearly $4,000 inhabitants 20
cent of whom are white.
The state board of railroad commits
toner's has issued an order requiring
il railroads uoing business In In
to equip their lines with auto
latic block signals.
The Georgia legislature has passed
bill DISTINGUISHING negroes.
h lsthmian Canal commission is
dVertising for bids for furnishing ~
locomotives for use in canal construc-
ion.
The principal part OF the business
ection of Princess Anne, the county
eat of Somerset count, Maryland,
'as recently destroyed by fire.
a ranntnnr hos hoo --- E.