Putnam patriot., 1908-05-15
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army Of @.NW fft%is aFe hiafthti'h '' attack seaport city.
 Guatemala pIoi io assassinate Pfest. dent CaFfefa came nearly saeeeeding A punt4r Of the plotier- were seized and sammariiy shot. Instruction and revolution n the Republics cannot 1e easily stopped until the people teeone more enlightened. II is D0l zo long SEQ ihnt Mexico was as unstable as any e it's southern neiRlibofs. But is now governed bs the Lest ideals under which iis people are prosperous, enlightened and happy
 The kaeonie plagne which was ai- lowed to spread h the seaport eities of Venezuela until il threatened tue de strucfton of hundreds of it7 own i'ss= ple datiy. and also threatened other na. Hons with which Il had commercial III. tercourse. has, by energetic mehsufest materially reduced lie plague cases. II ls the most deadly plague known.
 The tnt1Ierable coercion act that has harried the people Of Ireland so long l. likely 10 be repealed, having passed i,s second reading in the House oi Commons. In time Ireland Will have It's local Parliament.
 One af MT. CarneRie's latest giits is that of s2po .oD0 to the General rocie- ty of Mechanics and rradesmen' Of the city of New York, te which he had be fore given za27 ,DDo, whosc Income is to be used for the evening technical etasa- e of the Institute. Poor anneRie lie believes Il ls wrong to die fieh. He has el, en away slbo,opo,o'd In order to be- come poor, and yet he k richer iuahS lhan when he begnn giving away hls money.
 Tn Rnssla May I, the priests oi the 0rthodax creek church, Invited the Baptists of q remote province to eon- ference On assembling the priests were found afaIed with ieadly weapons, aHd they commenced fn massacre the Zap. lists. Killing t~o women and wounded filIy men.
 Mrs. Russell sage oilers half a mil. lion dolaTs 10 lhe Amefiean Bible -o- eleiy on condition that II gets as much more from contributions befo-e the end of Inc calendar year.
 Mount lalna Is III active eruption aez .anpanied hy earth shocks. The de= tnnaslens Ia terrified the inhabitants oi The sillaFce lhe Vicinity at the vol eano se they ca,n. u the open nif
 The vacant lot association in Phtla. delphia. organized in lsa3, as means of supplying food and work iof desii. ute families, last year invested so,~'o, and the use of vacant and unpfoduc. tive land, and realized sai ,9. worth of vegetables and fruit fol worthy needy people,
 The school garden idea has eeen re. markaeIs developed i'll sm Antonio. Texas, which k snld lo have moc gar. dens attached lo ils schools lhan anY other placc of its sife in the ~efide There are g40 oi these eultiA ated plots attached to the sa schools, the gafdens varying from one tenth to one quarter of an acre.
 The international Woman suffrage Alliance will hold iis annual meeting in Amsterdam, Holland, June la to T ;. inclusive. Mrs Carrie Chapman tati, al New York, k President, and Mfss Rachel Foster Avery, of Philadelphia, the Secretary France, Germany, hn@ land and Holland are also represented op the official board
 The old Pepuot House, New l.onont celebrated as resort in the annals ot seaside rlea~utine and watching, @aS totally destroyed es fire last Thursday morning
 Npnl'. Hires in this country and Ca nada represen, sao ae0, ,Ua worth ol pro. lerty wiped oil the eatth-a dead loss. The loss tn April last year WAS ssi ,9sA,. l. aaa; in spsl. la@a, Mas seas ,9ol la,l-= but of course @an Efanciscoss earth quake fire eNplaia> tha' enormeas loss. ghelseas sl0,Aa.ea ire explains the abnormal April isass lhi, year.
 Emma. the best known cat n North Carolina, Ma> killed at AshNilie, by a train last Friday. and large nambcf ofpeople attended the funeral. Annm. ber of years ago Emma dashed al roh- hers who were compelling her master lo unlock his safe. This enabled him to seise a pistol, shoot one of the men, and raise general alarm.
 There could have been no more sur prlsing welcome to Inc shores of 8 far Eastern nation than that which greet- ed secretary raft snd his American visitors as he landed al the dock. They wec startled by the ~ ale yell' hy 4 dozen lusty.lunged Chinese, making them feel al home. They were a group Of Chinese Yale graduates, who deter mined that their Alma Mater should te fittingiy remembered on the ocea- sion of \ Nisi, of fellow graduate.
 There k ,stiil in Hartford real daughter of the Revolution, the honoi being held by Mrs. Nealtha A l.ynde whose father, Isaac Peek, Was \ soldier in the Continental army. she wa born in ls.sl. when her father, ho died four years later, wss sa sears old. He must therefore have been born In lsss and was ss years old al the tune u the battle af Iezingian.