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ney general.
With Senator Perkins as chairman
Of the senate committee on naval af
fairs, as all concede he will become
drought the death of Senator Allison
the Pacific coast will be given strong
position Of advantage. Mr.. Perkins
was once sailor before the mast.
Naval recruiting officials are in high
feather, as they say recruiting has
y never been better than at this time
Last week from the recruiting stations
alone there were returns Of 473 re-
cruits and more applications are being
received both at the stations and al
the bureau OF navigation than ever be
& fore,
8 The commissioner OF internal reve
nue. has informed w. M. Hough, attor-
ney for the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers association, that there is am.
pie authority of law for the govern.
menti to prescribe the marking OF spir-
Its and liquors in the hands of recti.
fiers, as is the case of marking the
4 products Of distillers
lg1 + &. L - E u
New coaling records have been es.
4 tablished by three Of the battleships
attached to the big feet On June IL
: the battleship Georgia toook aboard
Its tons OF coal in five hours and
twelve minutes, an average of 342 tons
per hour. On June % the battleship
Rhode Island took on Ito tons in
1 four hours and forty-seven minutes, an
average OF s57.7 tons per hour.
Casualties.
A passenger train ran into q wash
out near shoshone. New, killing the
L engineer, fireman and one passenger,
Two cars crowded with excursion
& lists collided near the city limits of
Chatam, Ont, killing four passengers
and seriously iniuring seven others.
The death roll of Alpine climbers
4 this year Is record one In the
month of July alone fourteen persons
i were killed and two seriously in
4 jnred
While applying carbolic acid to an
aching tooth, William Heller of Sault
Ste.s Marie. Mich, accidentally swal.
lowed some of the poison. The man
died before aid reached him.
81 The timber fire that has been threat.
ening Sand Point, Idaho, has been
placed under control with practically
mo damage to the town Much stand
4. Ing timber has been burned.
Ripeton, a mining camp located nine.
miles from Ely, New, with a popula
ton of 400, was almost completely de
stroyed by fire that started in sa
Il loon by the explosion Of a lamp. The
a loss is estimated at 100000.
Henry, Brown OF Lone Tree. Iowa
poured kerosene on the stove and was
\ badly burned in an explosion. His res.
taurant and It's contents were destroy
ed BY the IRE and the opera house
Hiding, in which the restaurant is
located, was damaged.
ss8 When an automobile plunged over a
steep embankrnent on the Mitchaw
road, near Sylyania, Ohio. Charles w.
Pohlmann, q wealthy Cleveland i'm.
porter and merchant tailor, and Father
George vahey, pastor OF Columkill
parish, Cleveland, we're Instantly kill
ed beneath the car
In trying to pass under the bow Of
the Kingston, large passenger boat,
ehe Titania, q small passenger boat,
{ was struck BY the big boat ana sank
In ten or twelve feet Of water at Roch-
3oster, N j. Twenty persons on the
Titania were thrown into the water,
but all were rescued.
Escaping gas in the building cccu-
pied BY Mrs. u. S. Gavin as d millinery
store and residence at Wheeling, w.
Va, caused . FIRE which resulted in
y the death OF three persons and the
possible fatal injury Of one other,
while SIX more were compelled to
1 Jump from thira story windows TO es.
cape the flames. The dead girls were
daughters OF Mrs.. Gavin and were suf
located as they slept on the third
4 moor,
fall Of twenty feet into IN old
quarry pit and not seriously injured is
/ the miracle which Mrs. nj. y. Caneff
y aged eighty.four years, enacted al
Il Rock well Il Iowa. She was gathering
Y flowers At thn ed &c Of the hank and In
the act Of throwing some weeds over
the wall lost her balance and fell
/ Str king on her shoulder among tLe
.si rock No bones were broker and