The Ketchikan miner., 1908-05-30
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| lv marfed by te frlhle accldenl which occurred here today resulting l in the death of two of the sailors oi the fleet. A Lake Whatcom street car running at high rate of speed dashed into Sailors Stanb and Lulln- sky of the batttleship New Jerse! killing them almost instantly. Lulin- sky was one of the popular heroes oI the tackles, as he won the champion ship of the fleet in the light weigh boxing contests at Los Angeles recently, and had developed sucl. ability and skill that he had been matched against Battling Nelson for i' contest. The men were to have met the thirtieth of this month at Coloma and the entire fierce of enlisted mer Il the navy will mourn the untimel.
 nd of their champion.
 New York, May 23.-The great steamship Lusitana crowned her pre- vious record with the marvellous tril just completed. breaking her own rec ord by three hours. By this preform- ,nce she wins the British mail subsid, offered conditional on the time made n passage, amounting to seven hun fred and ifty thousand dollars.
 Seattle, May B. The federal grand lury has returned an indictment
 against Private Holt, the Fort Warden soldier who recently con nfossed shat he killed Musician King.
 Washington. May 25.-It is an bounced today that the voyage of the treat feet has cost the governments uly five million dollars for coal llone. An official invitation has beer received from Australia asking to lave the fleet visit Melbourne ano other Australian ports and offering, as m nducement for the long trip sufi- .ient coal absolutely free to carry tn,
 essrls the entire distance from Aus rala back to New York. No answer las yet been announced by the depart oent.
 Washington, May D. The present esson of Congress is drawing rapidly an end and the odds and ends ol eyislative matters are heinz cloanoc if the slate as quickly as possible. Since the deadlock in the conference ,ver the Vreeland and Aldrich cur reney bills, all hope of any currency egisation has been abandoned Un- ess unforeseen contingencies develop, is very probable that the session will end some time tomorrow.
 New York, May 5.-The ship Ar thur Sewall has been officially posted ny Lloyds as missing. The big vessel aied from Philadelphia for Seattle md is long overdue. The owners tate that they believe that the otfi- CTS and crew, numbering thirty-fiNe !n all, may be stranded on some desert sland in the Pacific ocean, and on this possibility will organize an expe- littion to search for them.
 New York, May 25.-A special edition of the Sun just appearing states that Harry Thaw will be acquitted on condition that he be talk en South at once and placed in a pri- vate sanitarium. His mCthsr has .inallv agreed to do this, and is said have suggested his removal in this manner if released by the court.
 Tacoma. May 25.-The famous Chester Thompson trial will be finally ended Wednesday of this week ac- cording to present indications. The alienists who have examined him thoroughly many times have finally agreed that he is not now and never was insane.
 Seattle, May 25. Seattle is war ship mad, and nothing is heard of tr thought of but the presence of the great fleet which is now in the harbor. arriving Saturday afternoon with the greatest celebration ever given on the Sound. The great ships entered the harbor in perfect order attended by hundreds of steam vessels, and were welcomed with shrieks of thousands of whistles and shouts of welcome from tens of thousands of human threats. Every available steamer vas packt d and the water front for miles was black with spectators. The city is in gala trim for the great parade tomor- row, when fifteen thousand men will be in line. All day yesterday the steamers earned immense crowds out to the fleet, tens of thousands of vis- itors seeing the big vessels.
 St. Petersburg, May p. is learn ed today that eleven revolutionists who have been tried here by court martial for political otfenses, have been found guilty and that every one of them was summarily sentenced to death. Included in the eleven are four women.
 Seattle, May p. The Customs officials today intercepted three launches which were coming into poi { from British Colum bia, finding twelve Chinameu concealed aboard who were attempting to enter this county.