Putnam patriot., 1908-08-14
Iatest News Condensed. i.

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 Illinois. following the lead of other Western states, adopted primary law. and lhe first municipal election under that law took place in Chicago on Monday. There i. no reason t9 Ind faaft eith Its first tfiai The voters Of the two parties who participated Tn the primary elections, succeeded in asecting the men they desired. fl they were mol the besl, and lhey defeated inc machine candidates. The law com- Tuends itself to thinking people. In the place of nominating candidates ill caucus. the entire voters are permit ted to name whom they want for can didates.
 American farmers ~ ho have for some yeats been settling on ti1e rich, fertile lands in the northwest part oi the i1o- ninion of Canada, gaze evidence Of being progressive in their ideas NJ" Australia is making an organized effort Co attract some Of the same elass to setile on some of it's waste fertile iields which need Irrigation.
 The first bale of Georgia cotton of the present season vas marketed bt Deal Jackson, negro farmer He thus fe- fains hts title of the first bale farmer of Georgia, which he has held fef the past six years Better than that lie gets an extra high price for his cotton. In a manufacturing town @ miles southeast of Budapest, Hungary, ! inc tory collapsed 1T hurricane, Inst M. taTday, and hundred persons were buried in the ruins.
 John Miles, now one ef New York merchant princes. rose from cash boy ai s.i..a week. to be one 6f Inc mest fofelble, eniefpfising and dislneiiSalN original merchants in that city. Among hi- aAioms afe.
 Do nll lhe good yoa can,
 Tn nli the ways you can,
 Al ail the times yaa ean,
 fo nl the people Naa enn,
 A long as ever you can.
 aAmeficn, says John Miles "exeels inc world in tbe manufacture of high grade silks, ribbons and selNeis, and vel American women imagine their choicest silks and ribbons are import ed.
 To nYenge lhe execution oi an anaf- chist guilty ef high crimes in i'afeeio- ma, spain, Il bomb was exploded in il fefryboat by some of his associales, i'll. iufinK three persons seriously. on Il railroad running out of Birmingham, Ala, a passenger train was fired into bs some striking miners. and three in- noeent persons killed and eleven wann. ded. How utterly degraded must ha- man beings reach who afeage faaeied wfongs on innocent people.
 strike ou the Canndtan Pacific rail- road last week, extending its whole i.nRlh, last week, suspended all tratlie fo5 time. The enuse wHs thc demand ftt m eighlshoar day ln lime, nnless better splfit pfeN ail. iii labor unions, they will surely he able h close down all mechanical industries in country. Such an attempt was made in France, recently, but was defeated by the ae lion of the government
 A aefce slfagele between the em. ployers' and the united trade fedora. lion m Gopenhe..ssea Denmark, isgoit..s. on An but the socialist paIsrs nave been suspended ea account ef strike and II lockout of all workmen has been declared in the shipbuilding and half q dozen of the other principal indus. tries unless the strike dispute k speed fly settled.
 Carnegie has offered thelsea a S'a ,ssn library building to replace the one lest In tho recent fife. The gift k on con. dltion that the city provide so,,s1 Il seAf taf maintenance and tise the saa,- ua insurance tecei ed, for the purchase oi looks.
 The iilth anniversary of the corona. tiua of Pope Plus, Was celebrated ia the Vatican, last sunday, in the pres. enee ot the Pope, all the dienitafic> of ihe court and church, the Roman afis. teefacy and the Knights ef Malta. The Archbishop of New York and other American prelates matehed in the pro- cession.
 Word comes through tonstan,inople that Tabris and all the A1erhaJ ian pro yinees have seeded from Persia, and have declared allegiance to Turkey The ,ribesmen whom the shah brought To protect his person, have made him 6 prisoner to estoTt money from him.
 Al the Old Orchard annual meeting of the Christian Alliance, last Sunday, The religious ferNof reached stage of hysleria while the contributions for missions were taken up, Five thous- and men and women struggled to gsie their money and jewels. Women strip ped themselves oi their rings, earrings. and dropped their lorgnet,es and even ie~,ied combs into the baskets. Men turned their pockets inside out, and their cuf buttons, studs, watches and scarf pins added to the lales. There were six h1sheis of Naluahles collected. nf. Simpson announced that about s2 ,etu in money and pledges had been received, and Naluseles worth Saa. .Asl sstara