The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1908-09-04
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From all
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft Of Our Readers.
Miscellaneous.


proposition to cooperate in the
present difficulty with Venezuela.
Fred Proctor. a life convict i'm the
Kansas pcnitcntiary from Oklahoma.
dressed in a suit of clothes belonging
to Frank Haskell, son Of the warden,
succeeded In making his escape the
other day
The returning athletes from the
London Olympian games were given
warm welcome in New York. One
OF the greatest parades ever seen In
that city was feature. Each ath.
lete was presented with a gold medal.
Henry Weber, farm hand, has
been arrested at Lakin. Kan, charged
with attempting to wreck train on
the Santa Fe.
The Kansas Red Cross society has
issued an appeal to the people Of the
state for money contributions for the
relief OF the food sufferers in South
Carolina and Georgia.
All but two of the bodies Of the 10
persons drowned i'm the flood at Fol
som, n. NJ. have been recovered. The
property loss is estimated at 81. .OOO,-
OOO But four of the 20 odd store
buildings in the town are left
Dispatches from Teheran state that
all the Persian provinces are in
state Of anarchy and that the country
Is on the eve of a civic war.
George G. Perry, United States mar
shal OF Alaska. has been summarily
removed for disobedience of orders.
Robbers dynamited the vault OF the
Bank of Easton, Mo-, the other night,
but succeeded in getting only $3.50 OF
the postofiice funds for their trouble
The president has denied pub.
lished statement that he was to at
tend the Mississippi congress at
San Francisco on October s.
Bank Commissioner Royce of Kan.
sas has reinstated the Central Ma.
tional bank of Kansas City. Mo. as
reserve institution for Kansas
banks.
The crop report just issued by Sec
retary Coburn of the Kansas state
board of agriculture places the wheat
yield for 1908 at 73,50O,OO0 bushels,
just 100000 more than that Of 1907.
The corn crop he estimates will be
about the same as last year.
Several buildings in Augusta. Ga,
have collapsed since the flood there,
owing to undermining of the founda-
tionS.
The British steamer Duncairn was re-
Gently lost of the coast Of Japan dur.
Ing typhoon with ali but two OF the
So members of the crew.
A shooting affray in which one man
was almost instantly killed took place
In the midst OF a carnival crowd at
Macon, Mo. The wounded man fell
across a baby carriage and girls
eyelashes were sngcd by the ball.
The last appraised valuation of the |
estate left by Russell Sage, just made |
public, amounts to $64 1855, ,SOO.91.
A fire in the commercial district OF |
New Orleans burned three blocks Of |
business buildings, causing a loss OF |
more than sl,0O0,000.
A food in the Cimmaron river
washed away number of houses at
Folsom, y. NJ. Fifteen persons were
drowned. Considerable damage was
also done at Ration.
Twenty-nine funerals of victims of
the Haileyville. Ok mine disaster oc-
CURED in one day recently. The town
was draped in mourning and all bust.
ness was suspended
The recent census of the canal zone
gives the present population as 50,003,
of which 6,s63 are Americans.