The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.

only two other presidents, John
Quincy Adams and Benjamin Har-
rison, the distinction of having had
q father or grandfather high in the
government service. Mr.. Tafts
father, Alphonso Taft, was attorney
general and also secretary Of war IN
the Grant administration, says the
Wall Street Journal. Taft will also
be the only secretary of war to be-
come candidate for president while
serving in that position. The War
Department, however, has most
distinguished record, and it has been
prolific in statesmen. Two men who
afterward became presidents served
in that office-James Monroe and
Gen. Grant, and another secretary
Of war, Jefferson Davis, wrote his
name large upon the pages of his
tory as president of the Confederate
States. Lewis Cass, who was secre-
tary of war in 1881, was candidate
Of his party for president in 1S4o,
and John Bell, who served as secre-
tary of war in 1S41, was candidate
for president in 1860.
In terrific explosion, which rip
ped up the decks of the big Ham
burg-American liner Arcadia, in the
Delaware river at Philadelphia, Sat-
urday, three negro longshoremen
were instantly killed, five received
injuries from which they cannot re-
cover, and 25 others were nurt. 1t
was disclosed that a powerful bomb
had been placed in bale of goods
shipped from Hamburg, the infer
nal machine being fitted with cleo
trio wires and so constructed that
when a longshoteman struck the
bale with his hook, the shock could
cause the explosion. In the minds
of the chief Of police, the coroner
and all officials, who are investiga-
ting the tragedy, there is no doubt
that the machine was slowed away at
Hamburg when the freighter, one of
the biggest making this port left for
America.
Joseph E. Bishop, secretary of the
Isthmian Canal Commission, arrived
at New York Wednesday from Co.
Ion, and will go to Washington to
make a report on conditions in the
canal zone. Mr.. Bishop said that
work is now progressing so speedily
that the men on the commission as
sert that the canal will be ready for
ocean-to-ocean transportation at the
end of five years.
The will of Oliver H. P. Belmont,
who died recently at his country
home, at Hampstead, l.. T., was filed
in the surrogate's Office Wednesday.
Under the will, Mrs. Belmont is to
receive all the real and personal
property and she is named executrix
of the estate. The value of the es-
tate is not given.
The finest specimen of a deer seen
near Waterbury, Conn, this season
was resting in Benton's rye lot in
Woodtick on Friday with a two-foot
black snake reposing contentedly on
one antler. The deer and the snake
seemed to enjoy the strange compan-
ionship.
B. F. Langston, prominent bust
ness man of Shelby, Miss, commit
ed suicide Thursday morning about
o'clock by shooting himself through
the head with a pistol Langston's
health was failing him and it is be-
lieved he had brooded over his con-
dition.
A crusade to stop the selling of in
toxicating liquors in disordorly re-
sorts, and ultimately to drive the
places out of Chicago, began Tues
day when indictments against 25
to 80 keepers were returned by the
Grand Jury.
A ship brought to Boston a ton of
hair from China taken from dead
Cinnamon to make "rats' for wo-
men.
The jury in the case of Jesse Cox,
the Maiden (Mo.) boy on trial for
the killing of Patrolman L. F. Har-
vey in Muskogee, Okla, on March
10 last, returned a verdict of not