Putnam patriot., 1908-07-17
,,te.s News Condensed.

e,, homsward voyage i''St i''. s'as a.
 E ,, .. il ran into a number Of whales
 k psnks of New Foundiand, and
 q ', s,bsm began racing with the ship.
 '.1 .a;ne-going down after breathing
 ''aaoin front of the liner, il was
 hv the prow and cut in t.o-the
 - .I,sr finishing it's destruction as
 ..;mal came up on its back on the
 ,sra side of the ship. It was an
 ,.o.s,ing experience, but horrible
 boOdy sight
 Castro, President of the Venezuelan
 ..,,h;e has withdrawn his ambassa-
 from Washington, thus sevefIng all
 Tnlamotic relations with this country.
 m us is A pig headed despot, who disre-
 s,,as all rights of foreigners who have
 '.sssted money in the various natural
 a.aarees of his country, seizing their
 nroerty when they have made their ..tsrprise, successful, and when they .nr.al to the courts they find the judg- l 2 mi creatures of Castro, appointed to an his bidding. and when they appeal :. ,bsir home governments, these are ,,ls thai the courts have decided the .a.es complained of, and nothing more be said. Not only Americans have s.., th,,s treated. but French, Italians s.d HoIIandef, have suffered likewise. smoothing vii have to be done 10 se- eafe redress.
 peary. who has started on his mis- .,on to reach the North Pole and there pIant the starts and stripes, has aeom- 1elitor in Lieut., Ernest Shaekleton, a gritish naval officer, who started from I,ondoa year ago to plant the Union
 Iaek at the North Pole.
 4 National Prohibition Convention k icing held at Columbus, Ohio, which K Ii put Presidential ticket i'll the field on brief but direct platform. It i, yet uncertain who the candidates are b De.
 The action of the Democratic Gonyen- lion in adopting plank in it's plat form to exclude Asiatic laborers from this country. is highly displeasing to he Japanese. as such declaration is an infringement of their treaty rights.
 Rev R. A. Torrey, who made such a successful evangelical tour around the world two years ago, is now doing tent aefk in New York city. He was heard b declare in one of his appeals, that it Nas DO sin fer a man to desert his wife c laI a wife 10 desert her husand in or def 10 seek spiritual life and go to hea- Fea IL is as anwise all assumption la say, as that it. was no sin for a hgsband To kill his wife or wife her hasband in order 10 secure salvation. Neither can iaslly be supposable.
 Historic Quebec, on the occasion this month of the tercentenary celebration u its founding, is planning a agreat his l0fie, military and naval pageant to show to the world, i'll a series of draln- ate pictures, how history was made in Canada. The heir to the throne of the British Empire is coming to show his respect 10 the memory of Canada's founder, samuel de Champlain. The eeebraiion begins July 19, and conti- naes through the month.
 l woman named Mrs. Jennie An dfews of Ninsted, was stung by hor- net, and became worried over it. In a few minutes after she was found sitting ln q chair in q dying condition. A doctor was summoned, but she was dead. The doctor pronounced death dae to a general shock.
 They have made an interesting dis eosery at Erie, Pa. There was plague o English ,parrows. Two owls moved into squirrel house in tree on the courthouse lawn. The janitor noticed laat the sparrows were rapidly dimish- Ing. He took occasion to look into the 'qalfrel house, and there found it liter aliy tlied with sparrow bones and fea- Ihefs.
 The best feature of the current crop 'epori Is the part which relates te corn. bosh acreage and condition are above what they were last year, and indicate harvest of 2,726, 900 900 bushels, com- pared with the 2,592 300 900 bushel- Field in 1907.
 Alfred soderman, connected with the ,'ase Agricultural commission,is grow hg potatoes and toma atoes on the same me, sl the experimental station at oFcester. Last February MT. SodeE- nan grafted Lorillard tomato plants v posato ines. and now has numDer double plaRts-above ground are oaha tomato plants loaded with toma- 'ss' while in the ground are potatoes ne s'ze of sn egg.
 iae hoodlums of Lincoln, Neb., tore 'osh tue Republican Banner stretched T'oss one of the streets. This is MT. elsan1s home, and when told of the IliseAief, he said:
 an very sorry 10 learn of 1t. IL ! ss .s me xeusable. If the man who did sloaghl he was helping me or the ! i.s..'sf ssss !. a'le party, he Was wofully mis- hartford is preparing to have a big E- salioa incidental 10 the opening Of '-s alS Connecticut river bridge and ..s sas a ays ta it. The general com s'ssSe having in charge all arrange sestiS t.r ka se~,,,..f g.y4...,.s.,,. - haze