Fair play., 1908-09-05
NEWS Of The week
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly from the
Great Southwest.

loops, B, c., for illegal fishing, 100 OF
their red brothers threaten to take the
war path. Following the fining OF the
chiefs. they were put in Jail and the
other Indians Immediately swoopcd
down upon the Jail, rescued them and
fed
Bloodshed is threatened in fight
thai has developed in Houston. Tex,
between the Southern Pacitic railroad
and an interurban company engaged
in building a competing electric line.
Alarmed at the prominence given
b. newspapers at home and abroad TO
stories of Russian discomfort, plots
aud executions, the car directed the
St Petersburg telegraph agenty, prac-
ucally the only channel through which
such news can reach the public, to
stop giving out such stories.
The seed of revolution sown in Tab
riz is bearing bloody fruit all over
Persia and Shah Ali Merza faces the
alternative of convoking a parliament,
in accordance with his promise, or
yielding his crown.
Dispatches we're received reporting
the loss of the British steamer Dun
earn with 81 members of her crew in
a typhoon off the island Of Port katu
China. Only two members Of the
crew we're saved.
Jesse L. Livermore's attempt to
make himself the cotton king was
definitely abandoned when the price
of October options tumbled $3.50,
dragging others with it for a dollar or
more Iivermore is said to have lost
s2oOO.00O of the profits he had piled
w in his remarkable campaign.
Determined to outdo every other
country in its welcome to the Ameri-
can feet Oct. IT, the japanese govern
mcnt has decided to send the entire
navy, in battle array, to act as an es-
cort for the 16 American ships Japan
will utilize the occasion for series of
naval maneuvers before the arrival OF
Uncle Sans fleet.
Despondent because an illness that
was largely imaginary prevented her
marrying George Nj. Mansfield, a trav-
cling salesman of FL Paso, Tex, Miss
Mary Field Verne of Chicago. pretty
and talented young woman, committed
suicide by walking into the lake.
Cigarette smoking is&enceforth for,
bidden on the Rock Island system
Supt. F. ]. Eisley has just issued a
bulletin to the effect chat any EN-
ploye caught using the white.ribbed
stick will be discharged.
Canned campaign speeches" may
he driven off the market by canned
campaign songs" II the Prohibition
national committee has its way. 1t
has been announced that In addition
10 photographic records OF speeches
1t has decided TO send broadcast cam
palgn songs on talking machines.
Worstlng a burglar who had invad
ed her home, Mrs p. II. Cannon, wife
of a tax collector OF Newton, Conn
saved the funds OF the town which
were in the safe in the house and is
the heroine of the whole community
Mrs, Jack" Gardner, whose rela
tions with the U. S. customs officials
in connection with the demand for
$4,000 duties on art treasures brought
to this country by her friend, Mrs
Chadbourne. of Chicago, says that nc
demand has been made upon her by
the government and disclaims all the
responsibility for the importation o
the articles.
Funeral services for Baron Specl
Won Sternberg. the German ambas
sador to tho United States, who died
in Heidelberg will be held at Lutch
ena. near Liepsic. Many men promi
ncnt in Germany's public life as wei
a. members of foreign diplomatic
corps will attend.
Competion that promises TO mean {
cut in meat prices is scheduled tC
make an appearance in the beef trade
about Oct. l. An independent concerl
has been incorporated under the name
of the Chicago Stock Yards and Tran
sit Co. 1t has a capital stock of 81,
100000, of which nearly half Is to be
srcnt for a packing house and Other
structures.
Receivers OF the Minneapolis anC
NortherH Elevator Co, subsidiary
company of the Pillsbury-Washburr
Co, have called on Minneapolis banks
for sl,O00000 and have failed to ge
II. They have In their hands 80 ele
vators in Minnesota and North Dako
ia which they are unable TO run be
cause they no funds.
passenger train on the Gaiena di
vision of the Northwestern collidec
head-on with work train near Platte
Vile, Wis. The engineer and fireman
OF the passenger were killed and the
fireman of the work train and II pas
sengers hurt,
Unable TO obtain a coffin IN Coor
Valley, Wis, where her 2-year'old sor
died, Carrie Peterson, after two days
tourney. reached Lacrosse with tho
body wrapped in blanket. The po
lice there furnished coffin aud per
mitted the woman to resume her jour
ney TO the village OF West Salem
While urging mothers to give great
er protection to their daughters b,
curtaiing their liberties, the granc
Jury at Eastland. Tex, openly recon
mended that the "unwritten law
should be puaced on the statute books
az a means OF protecting the home.