The log cabin Democrat., 1908-01-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.

Ing the months or July, August ahu September, 1907. The report shows that the number of casualties on rail- roads during that quarterly period were 23,063, including 1889 killed and 21,724 injured. This is an in crease of 157 in the number killed and 3,056 in thenumber injured as compared with the corresponding pe- riod of 1906. Collisions and derall- ments in the quarter numbered A. 279, including 2,245 collisions and 2,O34 derailments, of which 320 col lisions and 222 derailments affect ed passenger trains. The damage to cars engines and roadway by these ac- cidents amounted to $3,605, ,696. This shows an increase in the number of collisions and derailments of GOT over the corresponding period of
 Uncle Sam's $1 bill prized in the West for its scarcity, has no charm for Game Warden James Halliday, of Elk Point, s. D., who some time ago promised to give to his wife every $1 bill that came into his pos session. When he went up recently to the county seat to draw his salary the treasurer paid him 215 one-dol- lar greenbacks, and then was cruel enough to call up Mrs. Halliday by telephone and tell her what he had done. If one woman's active support and the solid backing of all her friends will avail, Treasurer Webber never will want for reelection in that county.
 As a result of the invention by Hudson Maxim of a new and power- ful explosive known as Maxlmlte, which can be used as the propelllng power for torpedoes, the navy de- partment is drafting plans for bat tleship which will be a complete revolution in that type of warships. The new ship, instead of big guns, will have broadside batteries of tor pedoes of the highest speed. These torpedoes can be propelled at a speed of sixty miles an hour, are unerring in aim up to seven miles and cannot be diverted from their course.
 The first shipment through the Sabine Lake canal, the last cut Tn which was made by the government Saturday morning, was of export lumber for England by the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company of Or ange, Tex. The shipment consisted of ,OOO feet of lumber, which was sent out of Orange Thursday night and laid along side the dredge until the canal was opened. Congress has expended $536,5o0 on this canal. It is fifteen miles long, connecting the Sabine and Neches rivers. Dredging began January II, 1906.
 A desperate feud among the ice men of Sioux City, Iowa, came to a climax when a big charge of dyna- mite, laid, it is said, by the rival dealers, blew up the Missouri river ice field of H. M Nickum and Charles Lungren Friday night, de- stroying $3,0OO worth of the pro duct. The detonation rattled all the windows in Sioux City and sub urbs, causing a general alarm lest a gas tank or a big boiler had eX- ploded. The dynamite tore a hole out of the river ice as big as four city blocks,
 Owing to the large number of un. employed persons in the vicinity o1 Tarrytown, N. Y, John D. Rocke feller has given orders to his super irtendents that the hundreds ot Italians working on his estate be lalC off and local men be given employ ment
 Chief Forester Pinhcot declares that of the estimated 400,000,0o( feet of standing hardwood, 25,oo0, 900 is cut yearly, at which rate tho supply will be exhausted in sixteer years.
 In both the Senate and house al Raleigh, \. C., bills were introduced for an election on state prohibition to be held in August, the measure if carried by a vote of the people, tc become effective January l, 1909.