The Nevada County picayune., 1908-05-21
NEWS BREvITIEs

Wives of millionaires in Chicavo and elsewhere are mulcted for thou. sands of dollars by book agents. through scheme resembling oola lightning rod game" Congressman Charles E. Littlefa,a of Maine, speaking at a banquet a, the Union League club, Brooklyn characterized congressman as tbo most cowardly class in America. Countess Gianotti, daughter of tba late Francis s. Kinney, the tobacco king, is coming from Rome to Amer ica to settle his estate. Expectations are that the wheo. crop in the Canadian west this yea, will be 120,000,000 bushels, the ,n creased acreage being about 2,0O0 Ooo acres.
 Threat of railroads to cut wages of employees unless freight rates ara increased stirs shippers, business men and rail employees.
 Last delegates to the Republican national convention are chosen and Secretary Taft has clear majority insuring his nomination on the first ballot.
 Mrs. Alice Chatworthy, leader Q, anti-suffragette movement in New York, says this feminine fanaticismn will fail.
 President Roosevelt in address to Methodist points out the best way to assure the nations future through morality based on sound family life New York investigator detects fraud in spiritualistic seance and finds a little girl is giving the whole Der formance
 The Laporte county council has ap propriated s9,000 for the use of Of fcials concerned in the developments in the Gunness case. This assures the continuance of Sheriff Shutters investigation at the death farm and also makes certain the plans of Cor oner Mack for chemical analysis of portions of some of the bodies
 The licenses of eight fire insurance companies and of five life companies to do business in Illinois were revoked by Fred w. Potter. state superintend ent of insurance, because of the fail. ure of the company officials to file annual statements with the Illinois insurance department, as required by the laws of the state.
 After six months travelling about the country. during which, it is al legged. he passed more than 150 worth less checks, aggregating sl0OO0 Frank H. Tyler. 2G years old, of West ern Springs. Ill, was arrested. In his meanderings Tyler has covered good part of Illinois. Ohio, Indiana Wisconsin, Texas and Missouri Hotet keepers were his chief prey and he left trail of forged paper behind him. Hope has been abandoned of saving the hull of the big German stee ship, the Peter Rickmers. which rn ashore on Jones beach two weeks ag and from which her crew of 30 men ard about GO shore workers barely es capped with their lives when a seconi storm week ago drove the shr higher on the sands. The heavy sea have been pounding over the wrecs ever since that time.
 The Bellonia hotel in New Brun; wick. N J., in which Commodor Vanderbilt laid the foundation of th. Vanderbilt fortune, has been sold d auction for $l5 There are sl5.66 bsci taxes due on the property, and tn sale was subject to a dover rsnl which, if estimated at the above hs' ures, would make the total cost al the property $45.99.
 Late reports from the cyclone Northern Texas show 15 addition deaths and great property loss. ln town of Ben Franklin was wrecsN by the wind and 40 firms suffered loss of $100,000, Twenty bushes houses in Linden were wrecked, Ti losses amounting to $250,000
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 suited from the free-for-all fist hgM the state senate. in which the pesce maker, Senator Eek Brook. receN" a stinging blow on the jaw; Sens'a Reuben M. Roddie of Ada, ols'' eye: Senator J. s. Morris of HooSs a skinned nose, and Senator nA Johnson of Calumet, decide'l bruiser head.
 No contesting Bryan delesaus' from Minnesota is likely to go 10 'N Democratic national convention ''' Johnson's victory in the state csn''a tion was so complete that the 'a of bolt in favor of Bryan has ''s'