The Nevada County picayune., 1908-08-13
NEWS BREVITIES

Washington-Capt. Baldwin hoe succeeded in fulfilling the first renniro ment of his contract with the govern ment for supplying a dirigible hal. loon for the signal corps of the armv The board of officers at Fort Nyer ao cepted it as far as it's construction ;s concerned; the other requirements ro maining to be fulfilled are the speed and endurance qualities of the aeriaI craft
 New Orleans, La.-Mentally unbal. anced by the unexpected informatior that he is heir to a fortune Of $7 ooo 900 and to the Italian dukedom o, Verona, Bartholomew Albanese 9t years old, once a night watchman for railroad, but for ten years q man n, no occupation, is confined to his homo at 170S South Rampant street and is permitted to see no one
 Minneapolis-Th Pillsbary.Wasb. burn Flour Mills Co uimitpd5 said to be the largest milling company in the world, was placed in the hands If receivers as a result of a petition hv certain stockholders and holders n, paper of the company. The receiver. ship is declared to be a step to re. organization and the action k held to be a friendly proceedings
 London-General William Booth commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army. sailed for Cape Town on three months tour of South Africa The aged Salvationist, who is almost so years old. has mapped out an itjn erary that would tax the strength of a much younger man.
 Atlanta, Ga.-Georgia is aroused over the disgrace of disclosure of con ditions which have long existed in her penitentiary system. The story of cruelty atrocity and graft. has come out in the two weeks probe of the legislative Investigating committee.
 To guard against the possibility of the city being plunged into darkness as a result of the threatened strike of electrical workers, Minister of the In. terior Clemenceau informed the heads of all the electrical plants that a corps of army electricians had been summoned to the city as strike break. CTS.
 Dr. Jacob E. Force, formerly presi. dent of the Northwestern Life Insur. ance Go. of Minneapolis, convicted May 29, 1906, of grand larceny and sentenced to three years and six months at hard labor, is parGled from Saltwater prison
 Swarming from jails and back from banishment under protection of that amnesty which accompanied the sul- tan's recent grant of constitution, thousands of long exiled or impris- oned Turks are spreading mixed joy and terror throughout the country
 The bodies of 20 sailors, the crew of the British steamer Kirkwail, were found in the wreckage of the steamer which sank at the mouth of the Elba river as a result of collision with an unknown boat, the latter also sink. ing. Capt Matthews of the krkwall was among the dead.
 C. w Trickett. who was appointed a special attorney general by Gov Hoch to enforce the prohibition law at Kansas City, Kan. Is arrested on a charge of malfeasance in office former joint-keeper is the complain ant. He accuses Trickett of having "a a nies the charge and attributes his ar rest to spite work.
 Harry Hill, of Callaway. Mo, at rested, charged with forging cfecRs on the Rhineland (Mo9 bank was fined S10 and costs with the undef' standing he would be released "heh he reimbursed the bank.
 J. l.. Livermore has more co'toh than any other man in New fofk' III fact, he has so much that the 'shors in the cotton market are scurt!ihe about trying to cover Livermore na' covered the visible supply Of @sVVV bales, worth about $1 5000 President Roosevelt himself deciaie' just before he left Washington 'ha' the Maryland lawyer would renain 'A the cabinet until March i.
 With l2.0O0 mechanics already on strike and every shop on the eanasnu Pacific railroad closed down n union strikers promise that inSioe U a week practically all the condae'o.' engineers and firemen ea the sys'eI will follow their example or'he"s the operation of the big railroad '" let