The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-08
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GENERAL NEWS.
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On July was laid the cornerstone
of a labor temple at Kansas City,
corner of Fourteenth ana Woodland.
1t will cost $4,000
The New York Central company
was fined $4,000 in the federal court
at Rochester. n. Y. for failure to file
rates on a shipment of oil for the
Standard Oil company A motion for
a new trial was denied.
At Ration. N. NJ. a bunch of pris-
oners in the county Jail made break
for freedom on the Fourth. Jailer
John Gale shot and killed one named
Brown ana with a revolver in each
hand backed the remainder into their
cells.
At Winona. Mimi. Roy Van Sicklen.
aged Il. JARED to climb an electric
light mast $50 feet high. on July 4.
Just as ne reached the top, he came
in contact with a live wire, last his
hold and fell to the ground. He fell
on jagged rocks and was killed in
stantly. . .
At the Fourth of July celebration
a Los Angeles, 26 persons sustaine
injuries sufficiently serious to require
surgical attention. OF these. but one
is regarded as fatal-that of Eugene
Cline. a boy who was injured by the
:gnton of an explosive in his nocket.
The Chicago Tribune of July 5
savs: Thrtyseven men. women and
children are dead and 2153 are
inclined. lacerated or burned as re-
sult of Yesterdays excess of patriot
ism in the United States. The num-
Der of dead does no. include five
drowned during the day.
The tug Sac Benito. built in Ham
burg for the Hamburg South Ameri-
can steamship companies. Amazon
service. foundered in the Rav of Bis
cav while in tow for Brazil. The cap
tain and six men aboard the tug were
crowned. The tug went down in 1000
feet of wafer.
Next week Saratoga is to have the
honor of entertaining the thirtieth
+riennial conclave of the grand en-
canprent knights Templar of the
United States. an honor that has not
been accorded to any city in the state
of New York since the forma- ion of
the grand encampment in New York
city nearly 100 years ago.
Denver was chosen for the next
meeting place of the Western Fedora
ton of Miners. and it was decided to
retain the federation headquar- ers
there. Butte was the only competi-
tor for the next convention of miners.
Risbee. Ariz.. Tonopah, New, and
Douglas City, Alaska, being with
yt-it1 Id,
Butte.
In Yell county, Arkansas recently.
Miss Nellie Henderson and Joseph
Giffan We're to have been married a
Ia country church. On the way both
We're drowned by the upsetting of
their buggy at a ford. Rev. Horace
Gilmore. who was on the way to the
church from the opposite direction TO
perform the marriage ceremony. was
killed by his horse running away.
The losses by fire in the United
States ana Canada during June, as
compiled from the record of the Jour
nal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin. aggregate S147650 GOO This
brings the to-al fire waste for the
first half of 1907 UP to s117,457. 500. as
compared with S377665.55O for like
portion of the year 1906 but these lat
ter figures included S2SO.O0O. 600
chargeable to the San Francisco con-
fiagration.
investigation by State Mine Inspec-
tor Walton Rutledge of Illinois has
revealed that an internal machine
made by placing loaded revolver in
tool box containing 25 pounds of
giant powder. and connecting the
trigger by copper wire to the lid of the
box. caused the explosion in Console
dated mine No. Il at Connellsville, on
July l. costing the lives of Louis CO.
lonia and August Genettie. John
Welsh. miner. was dangerously in
jured. All the employees of this mine
are unionized.
In the matter of homicides the rec
ord of 1885 presents total of 1908. or
1913 to the million population: while
in 1904-the latest date of compila ton
the total is S4S2 or 1O44 to the mil
lion population. AS against the num-
Der of homicides in the United States
there were only 321 reported in Ger