The Nevada County picayune., 1908-09-03
NEWS BREVITIES


 Chicago for the organization of ma tional Law and Order league that Will include only negroes in it's organiza- tion, according to letters from promi- nent negroes in those cities.
 Nashville, Tenn.-The announcement that former Senator E. w. Carmack, who was defeated for the guberna- torial nomination of the Democratic party in Tennessee recently by Gov. M. R. Patterson, would return to news paper work, was authorized by the management of the Nashville Ten nesseean. MT. Carmack assumes the edtorship of this paper, succeeding II. NJ. Suter, who remains with the pa per.
 Orange, N. J.-Following an inspec- tion of the libraries of the public schools of this city, the board of health has decided to disinfect every book in the schools between now and the time the schools open on Sept. s. There were more than the usual num- Der of cases of scarlet fever in the schools last year.
 Mystery surrounding shooting of Baltimore man in Atlantic City deep ems. Statements are contradictory.
 United States battle ship fleet reaches Melbourne, Australia, and is cheered by thousands.
 Wabash railroad wins it's suit against the city of Buffalo for recovery of s901 ,000 paid for the Hamburg canal strip.
 Col. Tom J. Landrum of Louisville, Ky. we'll known in St. Louis, where he formerly was proprietor of the Planters hotel, died from heart dis ease at the Chicago Beach hotel, Chi cago, Friday night.
 Victoria. B. C.-Because two Indian chiefs were confined at Salmon Arm, south of Kamloops, for Illegal fishing, 100 of their red brothers threaten to take the war path. Following the fining of the chiefs, they were put in jail and the other Indians immedi- ately swooped down upon the jail, res cued them and fled.
 Houston. .TeX-Bloodshed is threat ened in a fight that has developed be tween the Southern Pacific railroad and an interurban company engaged in building a competing electric line. 1 The railroad has refused to allow the | interurban company to cross its tracks on the Harrisburg road and 1o hl l rails.
 St. Petersburg-Alarmed at the | prominence given by newspapers at l home and abroad to stories of Rus sian discomfort, plots and executions, the czar directed the St. Petersburg telegraph agency, practically the only channel through which such news can reach the public, to stop giving out such stories.
 Teheran-The seed of revolution sown in Tabriz is bearing bloody fruit all over Persia and Shah Ali Merza faces the alternative of convoking a parliament, in accordance with his promise, or yielding his crown. l ] ceived reporting the loss of the Brit
 ish steamer Dunearn with 51 mem bers of her crew in a typhoon off the 1 island of Port Gatu, China. Only two members of the crew were saved. New York-Jesse l.. Livermore's at | tempt to make himself the cotton king was definitely abandoned when the 1 price of October options tumbled S3.35, | dragging others with it for a dollar or more. Livermore is said to have lost s2000,000 of the profits he had piled up in his remarkable campaign. to act as an escort for the 1G Ameri- can ships. Japan will utilize the oc- casion for a series of navy maneuvers before the arrival of Uncle Sam's fleet.