The Adair County news., 1908-08-05
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BRIEF DISPATCHES
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near Norman, Okla, John W. Holland,
a prominent business man, was
drowned.
President Fallieres Of France has
brought his successful visit to Copen-
hagen to a close and has sailed away
for Stockholm.
The prosperity of the farmer con-
tinues to be strongly reflected in the
improvement of the iron business, says
the Iron Trade Review.
been declared, or would be declared
at any moment, between Nicaragua
and Honduras against Guatemala and
Salvador.
The Atlantic battleship fleet has bid
den adieu to the hospitable shores of
Hawaii and has sailed away to Auck-
land, New Zealand, the next point on
its world itinerary, where it is due to
arrive Aug. s.
Governor G. N. Haskell of Oklahoma
has been rendered the treasurership
of the national Democratic committee.
Major James F. Moline, for sixteen
years past the assistant. treasurer of
the United States, is dead at his home
in Washington.
tally injured in an explosion which de-
molished one of the big powder mills
at Kings Mills, Ohio.
The headquarters in Chicago, from
which city the national Republican
= campaign is to be managed chiefly,
will be opened by Chairman Hitch
cock on Aug. Is.
1t is declared on good authority that
Lasker and Tarrasch will play for the
chess championship of the world dur
ing the congress of the German Chess
Union in Berlin.
Mr.. Bryan has retired as editor of
the Commoner, signed letter in the
paper announcing that his candidacy
for the presidency makes it necessary
for him to take such action.
Preparations for holding the Cuban
election on Aug 1 have. been COM
pleted.
By the flooding of tunnel in the
Bernese Alps, twenty-five railway Ia
borers were drowned.
1t is reported that the Danish and
Swedish governments have agreed on
an offensive and defensive military al
lance.
Secretary Hester's statement of the
worlds visible supply of cotton shows
a total of 2,121,47S, against 2,266,157
last week.
Business failures in the United
States for the week number 263,
against 25S last week and 155 in the
like week of 1907.
Matthew Cummings of Boston was
reelected president of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians, defeating ]. E. Do
Ian of New York, by vote of 275 to
1873.
The seventeenth universal peace
congress is in session in London.
Extensive preparations are being
made in Lincoln for Bryans notifica-
ton on August II.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the honorary presidency of the Peace
and Arbitration League.
Chairman Norman E. Mack will es-
tablish Democratic headquarters in
the Auditorium Annex in Chicago.
]. E. Dodge of Maiden, Mass, and
Lockwood Reed of Port Henry, N. Y,
near Port Henry.
The Chinese government is complet-
ing it's preparations for the entertain
ment of the officers and crew of the
fleet of American battleships at Annoy
Three trainmen were killed and
three others more or less injured be-
tween Goodland and Hugo, Ark, when
a Frisco passenger train was derailed.
The Saratoga Racing association
will open the Saratoga meeting of
fourteen days on Thursday of this
W0ch. IhC LII ChlSHC
gregating over 100000 are offered.
The Dutch government is dispatch
ing the cruiser Gelderland to Venezue-
la waters.
Three men were drowned by the
sinking of a gasoline launch in the
Monongahela river at Pittsburg.
To fly as the birds fly is one Of the
problems which Henri Farman, the
French aeroplanist, hopes to solve.
Returns from the Texas Democratic
primary make it certain that Governor
Campbell has been renominated by
majority of about $4,000.
T. F. Dove, sixty-two years old, an
attorney, dropped dead at his home at
Shelbyville, Ill. He leaves an estate
valued at about S1,000,000.
Two persons are dead and two seri-
ously injured as the result of col
lision at Glen Head, L. l., between an
automobile and an express train.
Edward Sothern, it is said, will con-
test the action for divorce brought by
his wife, Virginia Harmed
Fire in the business portion of Port
land, Ore, caused a $250,O00 loss In
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