The Nevada County picayune., 1907-03-22
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High water has prevailed III west ern Pennsylvania and along the up- per Ohio, doing great damage.
 Dr. Charles W. Needham, prcsl- dent of George Washington uniyer- sity, in an address at Washington, D. C., rcclared that there Is no such thing as tainted money" Coin of full weight is moral, and no matter where it goes it is good, IS his argu- mcnt. Having this view of good money, l will accept 1t from any man who owns it, says the doctor.
 It is reported from China that a Wesleyan mission has been destroyed near Ningpo, and that their mis- sionarics were killed. The report Is not confirmed from foreign sources.
 Owing to the effect of 25 per cent money and a generally pessimistic sentiment, leading shares on the New York stock exchange suffered severe breaks, relief being expressed that there were no failures from the strenuous drt ing delivered.
 John Alexander Dowie, in a fu- neral sermon prepared before his death, declared he would return to the earth in another form and have vengeance upon his prosecutors.
 Four guards detailed to assist EIsor Biggy in guarding Abraham Reuf have been given quarters in the room adjoining that which the prisoner occupies.
 With the rapid reccding of the waters in the Monongahela, Ale gheny and Ohio rivers, conditions are rcsumlng normal proportions. Pittsburg suffered severely, losses nearing the ten million mark. Fire followed the flood and did great damage at Wheeling. W. Va. Spring field, Dayton and Hamilton, O.. are other towns among the heavy sui ferers.
 "The worst week the boerse has had jn 30 years is the verdict of one of the financial reviewers in summing up last week movements on the stock market.
 (. R. Clark, a prominent citizen of New Albany, Ind. cn route to san Antonio, Tex. for his health, died on a Missouri, Kansas X Texas tram at Pilot Grove, No Mr. Clark was 6S wears old
 Col. George o. Rathbun, a distin- Eul-hcd confederate veteran, who served with Shelby and Marmaduko through the Missouri campaign, died at Springfield, Mo, Sunday, aged IS years.
 Mgr. Thomas P. Thorpe. well known prelate in the Cleveland dio- eese of the Roman Catholic church, died at Cleveland, O., Sunday
 Secretary Taft, accompanied by Senator Kitredge and Representa- tiyes Burton and De Armoud and three civil engineers. are 10 sail for the Panama canal zone March 24 OH the cruiser Columbia. It is expect ed that the test holes on the site of tie Gatm dam will have been exca- y,ted sufficiently by the time the party reaches the isthmus to make possible an examination of the toun- d2tlou of the largest dam to be con- struotaI on the eaanI.
 An important event of this week will h. the conference on Tuesday on railroad affair. between President Roosevelt and President Mcjleu of the New York. New Haven X Hart ford Railroad Go Mr. Mc.'cn will he the only one of line four railroad executives suggested to Mr Roose- welt by J. Pjerpont Morgan to go to Washington The others, McCrea of the Pennsylvania, Newman of the New York Central, and Hughitt of the Chicago X Northern, decided at q meeting in New York City last week not to ask for an interview with the president at this time.
 Illinois anti-saloon league builds political fire under legislators who opposed local option measure.
 Upton Sinclair, whose colony house, Hclicon Hal. Was destroyed by fire early Saturday, admits that three weeks ago he Yo0nd d large quantity of dynamite in the cellar, and the statement is taken to sayor