The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-08-20

The British old age pension bill IL
now a law. having passed both houses
of Parliament.
The convention of the international
Typographical Union VIII meet III hos'
ton, Massachusetts, on August lo'n'
The Beriner Zeitung publishes as
patch from Constantinoplc. saving tha'
the sultan of Turkey Is preparing 10
declare himself emperor OF the MOS
lens, abrQgatlng the title OF sultan
Associated Blacksmiths of the Unit
ed Kingdom are planning an 'amnisa'
nation of ell existing unions OF black
smiths throughout the entire King
dom.
Richard " Oulahan, for many years
the Washington correspondent OF the
New York sur, will have general
charge of all the literary work of the
Republican national committee, and
will have his Headquarters in New
York City.
Samuel T.. Moffat forty-eight years
old, member of the editorial staff OF
Golfers Weekly, and a nephew OF
Mark Twain, was stricken with apo
pleXy and drowned in the surf at Nor
mandie-bythe-S New jersey, on the
10th inst.
The executive council of the Modern
Woodmen of America, at its July meet
ing decided to withdraw at once from
the National Fraternal congress and
will send no representative to the Put
in-Bay convention. This action is due
10 the adequate rate controversy.
Work is to be begun almost imme-
diately on the restoration of the gov
ernor's room in the New York city hall,
which is to be put in exactly the same
condition as it was a century ago. the
money for the work, $4,000, was given
to the city by Mrs. Russell Sage.
BY the will of Gen George Sherman
Bachelor, judge of the International
Court at Alexandria, Egypt, who died
in Paris early in July, his spacious
summer home at Saratoga, New York
worth 100000, will at his daughters
death become free public library.
l.. n. Scott of St. Paul and A. Leo
Stevens, the well known aeronaut,
have completed the preliminary ar
rangementS for balloon race to take
place from St Paul or Minneapolis
about September LIST. The race will
he open to all corners and suitable
prizes will be offered.
A transcontinental balloon race
starting from either Los Angeles or
San Francisco, with the Atlantic sea
board as the objective point, is being
planned by the Federation of Ameri-
can Aero clubs. The race is to be
held in November and a cash prize Of
$25, 900 is to be offered for the COM
pletion of the trip.
Emperor William and his party ar
rived at Stockholm August Srd on
board the imperial yacht Hohenzol-
lern on a short visit to King Gustav.
A fleet of Swedish warships met the
imperial yacht at sea, and later the
King and Queen of Sweden welcomed
the imperial party aboard the Swedish
royal yacht.
Following up his crusade against
the appearance of unclothed women
in the Paris theaters, Project of Po-
lice Lepine has given orders that the
sale of obscene pictures on the boule-
wards, which has been for so long a
disgrace to the city, be vigorously sup
pressed The establishments produc-
ing these pictures will be prosecuted.
On account of rate and publicity rul-
ings of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, the Canadian Pacific, Great
Northern, Northern Pacific, Southern
Pacific. Oregon Short Line and Santa
Fee roads have served notice upon
shippers that they will so out of the
export trade to China, Japan, Australia
and New Zealand November list, and
practically will abandon the import
| trade. 1t is feared that this will cause
the abandonment of all the Oriental
| steamship lines. which, it is predicted,
will fall into the hands of the Japan
csc.