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NEWS BREVITIES-

1OTh, WHcIe senator 1IdLl hdu +i9
Amen corner, is closed.
Former Governor Yates telegraphs
Chaplain Rutledge Of the penitenti-
airy at Chester, H., denying that he
exacted a promise from him not to re
veal the prison abuses, but the min
lister tells of other promises and again
refuses to furnish book containing ex-
posures.
President Roosevelt springs a sur
prise by appointing John S. Leech of
Illinois to the post Of public printer,
from which Mr.. Stllings recently re-
signed
Seth Low heads delegation from the
National Civic Federation which APP
pears before a congressional commit
tee to urge passage of amendments to
the Sherman antitrust law.
In a seven-up game for the affee.
tons of a fair Mississippan woman
In the case shoots and kills man,
who had asserted he was cheated in
the contest.
Voters in Indiana are puzzled as
to what the campaign is to be like,
owing to the similarity in the plat
forms of the two big parties.
Colonization plan adopted by the
Rock Island road to aid deserving
poor in large cities, number of fam
lilies being placed on farms near
Plains, Kas.
Homesteads in a 245,000-acre tract
to be opened in the Big Horn basin in
Wyoming May II are easy to obtain
under Carey act, only 80 days resi-
dence being required
Russia seeking a way out of the diff
ficulty precipitated by the refusal of
the United States to recognize her
pretensons in Manchuria.
Shah Of Persia fears a plot to rob
him Of his jewels and has more secret
vaults dug.
Judges in England again order the
cato -nne-tails used on robbers guilty
of brutal assaults.
British admiralty plans more wire
less stations along the coast for com
munication with fleet.
Deal of American interests for the
Spanish River Pulp Co. of Ontario is
temporarily blocked, and Americans
are said to have asked for return of
100000 deposit or a new deal.
John Bresnahan, a New York po-
liceman. with a day off, was shot and
oil ipbt ~,
Sergeant James Nerney. Both men
were in plain clothes and neither
know the other was policeman.
Announcement was made Friday
night that Andrew Carnegie would
donate $5,000000 to the fund of the
Carnegie founder, for whatever pur-
pose that may be deemed necessary,
10 include the pension of aged profess
sors of the state universities.
1t is thought that the coal mine OPP
orators and the miners of Illinois will
arrive at an agreement within a week
or ten days.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her party left
New orleans Friday night over the
LOUISVILLE a 4NdSHNllIt IdlllOdu iol
Washington, where they are SEIZED
uled to arrive Sunday.
The prospects for the recovery OF
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman seem
brighter now than a week ago. Con.
valescence, however under the best
of circumstances will be very SLOW.
Fire. which started on the fourth
floor of the elevator of the Corning
Distilling Co.'S plant at Peoria, H.,
did $4,000 damages to the building
and contents
Mary Green, aged %, the daughter
OF sea captain, attired herself in all
the finery she had planned to wear at
her wedding at Easter time and then
committed suicide by gas asphyXia-
ton at New York Thursday,
Senator Overman of North Carolina
Thursday introduced to President
Roosevelt Hayne Davis, president of
the North Carolina Peace society, who
invited the president to attend and
first anniversary OF the peace society.