The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-07-29
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BRIEF DISPATCHES


Mrs. Carrie Nation was given seat
In the Prohibition national convention
as a representative of the District of
Columbia.
Seven miners were killed and ten
others injured by an explosion of gas
In a colliery of the Summit Branch
Mining company at Pottsville, Pa.
The imperial council of the Ancient
Arabic Order, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, in session at st. Paul, decided
to hold the conclave of 1909 in Louis
vile.
It is said to be not unlikely that
! Chairman Hitchcock of the Republican
committee will make his permanent
headquarters during the campaign in
Chicago.
President Roosevelt by proclamation
has changed the name Of the San ia
cinto national forest to the Cleveland
national forest, in honor Of the late
former president.
The national monetary commission
appointed at the last session of con-
/ gress will meet for conference at
Naragansett Pier, R. l., on July 20.
At the annual convention of the Ma
tional Electric Contractors associa-
ton held at Chicago, G. M. Sanborn
Of Indianapolis was elected president.
A dispatch from Tabriz says that
there is lull in hostilities in that city
owing to the earnest endeavors of the
city elders to obtain amnesty from the
shah.
| A terrific earthquake occurred in
the provinces of Tacna and africa, in
Chila. Considerable destruction of
property, but no loss of life is re-
ported.
The powder magazine Of the North
western improvement company at
Cleelum, Wash, blew up while gang
Of men were unloading car of pow
! der. Nine were killed.
Andrew Williams, q negro, was
found guilty of wife murder at Chi
cago and sentenced to be hanged.
The Elks reunion at Dallas has ter
minated, the grand lodge adjourning
to meet in Los Angeles July II, 1909.
Secretary Hester's statement of the
worlds possible supply of cotton
shows a total of 2,266,157, against q
/ 39S,765 last week.
/ William Hill, barber at the SOL
diers' home at Milwaukee, killed him.
he hoI b. 4 ;c
Joe Biettner, bystander.
The French government has for
hidden further immigration to Brazil.
This step is taken on account of the
new Brazilian immigration regula-
tiOnS
The wins in the Olympic games
now stand: United Kingdom, %;
America, s; Sweden, 5; Norway, 2;
Canada, Germany, France, Belgium
and Italy, each.
The biennial convention of the An
cient Order of Hibernians in America
is in session at Indianapolis
A joint board representing the war
! department and the bureau of forestry
has taken up the matter of preserving
the forests on military reservations.
The schedule of the fifth Olympiad
( for this week consists of events In
which the American team is especially
strong and points to a safe margin Of
| victory.
The Atlantic feet which has been
resting at Honolulu since Thursday, is
expected to start tomorrow on the Sec
ond stage Of the journey across the
Pacific ocean.
A succession of drenching showers
have served to put stop to the great
fires which have wrought damage to
! hundreds Of thousands of dollars in
the Maine woods.
Quebec is the center this week of
the greatest celebration in the history
of Canada, marking the Booth ami
versary of the founding of the settle
ment by Champlain.
Two men were killed and third Sc
riously hurt by an explosion in a mine
at Webb City, Mo.
Ignacio Veintemilla, former presi-
dent Of Ecuador, is dead He was
born at Cuena in 1880.
The emperor of Germany is talking
over with yachtsmen the feasibility of
challenging for the Americas cup.
DR.. A. d. James was nominated to
succeed himself in congress by the Re-
publicans OF the Third Kentucky dis
trict
There is still no trace of the MUIR
derer of Hazel Drew, whose body was
found in Teals pond, near Troy. on
July IL.
President Davilla, the president of
Honduras, has issued a notice declar-
ing that the revolution in that country
Is Quelled.
In an engagement with Korean in
surgents on the Russo-Korean frontier,
it is reported that fifty Japanese sol
diers were killed