Putnam patriot., 1908-07-17
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 New England is suffering from q protracied drouth-Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, especially where destructive fires have prevailed for the past week. When fire leaps half mile wide, as It did in The vicinity Of MI. Kineo, Me, if fs evident that only drenehing rain can save that stricken territory. Connecticut has been blest with occssional showers--heayy in some parts and light in others. This vicinity had the latter, bull everything growing k doing veil.
 Delaware promises to supply the country with : .eeo ,0e baskets of peach- es, but Georgia is doing better than than that. ] II. Hale, of south Glas- ionbury, says the oeofgfa peach crop k tie largest ever faiSedt halt of which is already harvested.
 Paid railroads for .090 cars. ssf1a9u Afm8urs for .eing, z5Aseih Crate aud basket makers, anHH Labor in orchards, lp4h Commission merchants North, ls3lHfb Gost of harvesting half crop, sl l,9l5,a99 Dtulstfcet reports That the new buiId- ing going np the past month K great. er ihan any month since the paric- the reduction from Jnne last year be- sng only per cent.
 sMfs. Harriet w. Brand, President of the National Nemanis Christian Temperance nion died In hospital In Evansville, Ill, July T.
 The crime Of bomb. throwing for fe- senge and intimidation has increased frighifully within the past i've years. When the cnlpfits are caught, witness: es are afraid to testify so powerful k The nBiaek Hand" organization. One was caught In New York, Tuesday, in hallway of tenement house, put. ting light to a dynamite bomb, to de stray m inmate who had refused a de- nand to pay the organization sa, ,too.
 General Erastus Elakcslee, soldier, clergyman. author and editor, known in the sunday school world as the atl- thor and publisher of gfaded sunday school lessons, died at his home in BrooklIne, Mass, lasI sunday, aged n. The Philippine island of Mindano l. inhabited almost entirely by thieves and eut-thnoats, who rnb and murder natives of other islands ns well as Ame- ileans No matter how many of their number get killed, squads rnaef iead. srs continue their mnrdetina dertcda- tons. Last Friday one Of these out. laws, intfenehed with A party in n mountain fort, was attacked by the na- tive constabuiary, led hy an American, who killed is of the desperadoes, who had recently committed several alfo- eions murders.
 There k evidence of a revolt in the labor ranks against the command al Gompcrs for the memhefs of the Ame= riean Federation ot Labor to line up in support ef Hryan.
 The election of ohalda the new Pfez sidenl of the Republic of Panama, took place last sunday without the least disturbance Ricardo Afla, hts orpo- nent. withdrew and refused to vote, as the people, al theif recent municipal elections had shown They favored obal. ala.
 Although blessed with an unusual crop, Kansas is mol clamoring, as in pas. seafs, for harvest hands, as help i> plenty. The director ot the free eai- plosment Bureau sent out a call for ou. .tsu men. last month, and the fes- ponse was immediate and ample, half of the demand being supplied from out side the State and the rest from with. in. No grain will be lost this year tot want of hands Ia gather II in,
 Thomas o'Rrien, American Amhas- sador to Japan, has just arrived a, San Francisco. He says, "i have been in Japan less than year, and In all tha. time have never seen the slightest in- s.ication of Ill feeling toward America or Americans. IL k absurd to think that Japan wants war with this coun' try
 The x. Y, \. Fl. X H. road has re- gently adopted electricity on trains en- tering the New York station, and Il is experiencing some of the eocentricities of that motive power. During Inc SC were electrical storm tha, visited that city las, Tuesday, the lightning struck the overhead wires where along the line, and good bunch of electtici- ty followed the line to the po~er-hoase al New Rochelle and psrsllsaed the whole system. Although against city ordinances, trains have since been haul. ed into the station hs steam.
 Olympic games, such A delighted the youth of Greece before the hris. rian Era, are heing revived in London but with rather pooE success. This year some ef lhe gllded-sonth oi thl, country have entered The lists as con feststants, and have won fair shsfs of fame, standing sres.:.a Ia the Eng fish against the other conieuding eoun' tries.