The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-09-03
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.

their red brothers threaten to take the
war path Following the filming OF the
chiefs, they were put in jail and the
other Indians Immediately sWoopeu
down upon the Jail, rescued them ana
fed.
Bloodshed is threatened in fight
that has developed in Houston, Tex,
between the Southern Pacific railroad
and an interurban company engaged
in building a competing electric line.
Alarmed at the prominence given
by newspapers at home and abroad 10
stories of Russian discomfort, plots
and executions. the car directed the
st. Petersburg telegraph agenty, prac-
tically 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 parliament,
in accordance with his promise, or
yielding his crown.
Dispatches were received reporting
the loss of the British steamer Dun
earn with 81 members of her crew III
a typhoon off the island of Port katu,
China. Only two members OF the
crew were saved.
Jesse l.. Liyermore's attempt 10
make himself the cotton King was
definitely abandoned when the price
of October options tumbled $3.50
dragging others with it for dollar or
more. Livermore is said to have lost
$4,000 900 of the profits he had plled
ND in his remarkable campaign.
Determined to Guido every other
country in its welcome to the AmeH-
can fleet Oct II, the Japanese govern
ment has decided to send the entlre
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 M. Mansfield, traV-
cling salesman of Ell Paso, Tex, Miss
Mary Field Verne of Chicago, a pretty
and talented young woman. committed
suicide by walking into the lake
Cigarette smoking is henceforth for
hidden on the Rock Island system.
Supt. +. J. Eisley has just issued
bulletin to the effect chat any en-
ploye caught using the white-rlbbed
stick will be discharged.
Canned campaign speeches may
be driven off the market by canned
campaign songs" if the Prohibition
national committee has its way. 1t
has been announced that in addition
to photographic records of speeches,
it has decided to send broadcast cam
paign songs on talking machines
Worsting a burglar who had invad-
u her home, Mrs. p. II. Cannon, VIE
of Q 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-
lions with the L. s. customs o1ncl2ls
in connection with the demand Tor
$4,000 duties on art treasures brought
to this country by her friend, Mrs.
Chadbourne, of Chicago, says that no
demand has been made upon her by
the government and disclaims all the
responsibility for the importation OF
the articles.
Funeral services for Baron Speck
Won Sterpberg, the German ambas-
sador to tho United States who died
in Heidelberg will be held at Lutch-
ena. near Iiepsic Many men promi-
nent in Germanys public life as we'll
as members of foreign diplomatic
corps will attend
Competitor that promises to mean a
cui in meat prices is scheduled 10
make an appearance in the beef trade
about oct. j. An independent concern
has been Incorporated under the name
of the Chicago Stock Yards and Tran
sit co. 1t has a capital stock of 81
500 GOO. of which nearly half is to be
spent for a packing house and other
structures.
Receivers of the Minneapolis and
Northern Elevator Co. subsidiary
company of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Co, have called on Minneapolis banks
for 100000 and have failed to get
it. They have in their hands 80 ele
vators in Minnesota and North Dako-
ia which they are unable 10 run be-
cause they no funds.
A passenger train on the Galena oil
vision of the Northwestern collided
head-on with a 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 10 obtain a colin In Coor
Valley. Wis, where her 2-year-old sor
died, Carrie Peterson, after two days
Journey. reached Lacrosse with th'