Fair play., 1908-01-04
NEWS OF the WEEK
TIE LATEST NEWS or THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.

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appointments as thai whicr caused
the resignation of Admiral Brownson.
New marriage license law in New
York requiring that both bride and
groom must apply in person for per-
\ mir 10 wad eees ig-,. feet.
Governor hughes. it is said, will
recommend that the office of state
superintendent be abolished and the
work done by three commissioners at
salaries of $4,000 to $4,000 each.
In d toast to Admiral Dewey on
the occasion of his 10th birthday an
niyersary. President Roosevelt says
that of all living Americans. he has
brought greater glory to the nation.
Five persons were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the house
of John Clark at Wa.ertown, suburb
of Boston. Every member of the
CLARK family met death in the flames.
Twenty persons We're killed in a
railroad collision near Libbiana, in
Northwest India. or tHe dead four are
Europeans and the rest are natives.
The crash was between two passen-
ger trains. Both weto running 30
miles an hour.
Heavy reinforcemcnts were dis
patched to guard over the Russian
consulate at Urun,ah, Persian Ar
menia, where ute. anarchy prevails.
Murders are being committed by the
score and bandits are attacking every
caravan which enters the country.
j. e. Cain, convicted Of the murder
of Frank Morris, mine operator and
sentenced to life imLiisonment cut
his throat with razor in the Polk
county (Iowa) jail in nour before he
was to leave for the renitentiary. He
secured the razor from the jailer to
shave.
Anti-oriental feeling in Lethbridge,
Alberta, smolderins f3r months, burst
into flames on a report that Joseph
Smith, citizen. had heen murdered
in Chinese restaurant. Mobs of sew
eral hundred persons descended on
the oriental quarter ard smashed the
doors and windows 9nd in some cases
the entire fronts OF buildings.
A foot and part of mans leg
were found in a sack which had been
thrown into the yard of the Pitts
burg Plate Glass Co at Ford City,
Pa. From the sack emanated a strong
odor of acid. Buggy tracks leading
to the river caused the authorities to
beiieyc-that the rest Of the body was
thrown into the river. There is no
sclew.
Under orders from the pope, Car
dinal Ferrari, archbishop of Milan, has
published from the pulpit of the cathe-
dral of Milan the edict of the greater
eXcommunication" against all con-
cerned in the publication of the
monthly review, II Rnnovammeto.
The pronunciation among other
things, deprives those against whom it
is directed of Christian burial, and
relieves the faithful OF all duties re-
garding the bodies and souls of those
denounced, whether :he are alive or
dead.
Depleted treasury balance may
cause Cortelyou to ask bankers to
Discovery of antimony in army bul-
lets points to guilt of negro soldiers
in Brownsville raid
Arkansas mob chases sheriff with
negro TO state prison gates,
The Utah Consolidated Smelter Co,
will close its big plant Jan l as a re-
suit of the opposition of the farmers,
who say they are being ruined by the
fumes, and G,000 men will be thrown
out of employment until new plant
can be constructed in another loca.
ton.
Sixteen mills of the Laughlin tin
plant of Martins Ferry, o., resumed
work, after an idleness of several
weeks. An order was also given to
repair the furnace of the other seven
mills.
Too i'll to stand while speaking to
the jury Clarence Darrow, chief coun.
sci for the defense in the Pettibone
trial at Boise, Idaho, sat in his chair
Thursday afternoon as he outlined his
case. He spoke with effort at times
and never raised his voice above a.
conversational tone. The members of
the jury and an audience that crowded
the courtroom listened to every word
from the Chicago attorneys lips as he
explained the theory of the defense.
Darrow's statement made it evident
that to great degree the same line
of defense will be followed as in the
Haywood triai
G.. Hauge, the Norwegian minister
to the United States, died in Norway
while on a snow shoeing trip.
The body of the late King Oscar
II. was Thursday laid beside those of
past Swedish royalties In Rydarholms
Cathedral, His funeral was the most
magnificent Sweden has ever seen.
Checks for s4.OOO.OOO in dividends
due Jan. 22 were mailed by the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad man
agement, the action being taken to
relieve the financial stringency Many
other corporations are paying interest
and dividends In advance.
Japanese bellboys have been intro
duced into Boston hotels with a sue
cess that indicates that many negroes
and whites will be dismissed. The
discharge OF a number of the Japan
ese from the United States warships
has made Japanese labor plentiful In
New York and Boston.