The log cabin Democrat., 1908-01-30

stitutional convention at Lansing, Mich, by the Committee on Liquor Affairs. The section reads as fol- ! lows: "The manufacture and sale ot malt brewed, vinous and intoxicat- ing liquors shall be forever prohlb- ited in the state after May l, 1909, except for medical, scientific, sacra- mental and medicinal purposes" Night work will probably be un- dertaken to expedite the the work on the Panama Canal. This announce ment was made before the Senate Canal Committee by Colonel Goe- thals. chairman of the Canal Con- mission. He also declared that, with l the locks of the canal increased to a width of no feet, they undoubtedly would accommodate the largest ves- sels built in many generations.
 Director North of the Census Blu reau has asked the House Committee on Census for an appropriation of $14, ,000,000 to defray the cost of talk ing the census of the United States for 1910. He said that $500 addi- tional clerks would be needed in the Census Bureau, some of them to serve from one to three years, and that 60,000 enumerators would be re- quired.
 The city hall at Portland, Me, containing the municipal and county office departments, and the police building, in which were the supreme, judicial and municipal courts, was completely ruined by fire Friday, which endangered many lives and destroyed valuable records dating back over century. The loss is estimated at $1 ,0O0,O00.
 A special from Scottsboro, Ala, says that there is much feeling in the eighborhood of Paint Rock over the killing of a little girl by Ava Sloan, a young man. It seems that a group of children were teasing him, and he fired his gun in their direc- tion to scare them. Sallie Counts, aged two years, was in the way and was shot dead.
 Guarded with the utmost secrecy, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder and head of the Christian Science church, was removed by a special train, with all her household attend ants, from Pleasant View, in Con- cord, N. H., where she has lived for nineteen years, to new home in the fashionable Chestnue Hill section of Brokline, Mass.
 Herman Summeriot, 4443 North Market street, St. Louis has offered reward of $1, ,OO0 for the arrest of the slayer of his father, Michael Summeriot, aged 62, whose body was found in the woods, near Fair Oaks, Ark, December IS. The skull was crushed with a railroad spike, and $115, and valuables were stolen.
 The biggest fire that has visited Baltimore since the calamity of 1904 Thursday night resulted in the death of three fremen, and the injury of 10 more, among the latter being George Horton, chief of the depart ment. The damage is estimated at from $40O,O0O to $500,000.
 The Mexican boil weevil has made it's appearance in Amite County, near Rosetta, Miss. A specimen in- sect was sent from that neighborhood by s. A. Robert to Prof. Glenn w. Herrick, State Entomologist, and the latter positively identifies it as the nuine weevil.
 The Morgan line steamship Fl Valle arrived at Galveston, Tex, Saturday from New York with II men rescued from the Spanish bark San Jose. encountered in sinking condition in the Atlantic last Mon- day. Two members of the crew were drowned.
 An exploding bomb wrecked the front of an Italian bank building on Elizabeth street, exposing $40,O00 ir silver and gold, which the bankers Pasquale A. Pati & Son, had piled in the windows as evidence of theil ability to pay depositors on demand