The state herald., 1908-05-15

King Edward and Queen Alexander
returned to London on the 4th Inst.
from their Scandinavian tour.
The steamer Empress of India has
brought to Vancouver news of series
of disastrous conflagrations at Pekin,
involving the loss of many lives due
to incendiarism.
Residents of Saffarana, Etna, Lin
gagossa and many neighboring vii
lagos are fleeing in terror on account
of the threatening aspect of the vol
cano, Mount Etna, which is in erup-
tion.
The citizens of Auckland, New Zeal
and have appointed various commit
tees to arrange for an adequate well
come to the American fleet of battle.
ships when they call there next Sep
tember.
From $50 to 800 officers and cadets,
including members of some of the prin-
cpal families of the Japanese nobil-
ity, We're drowned April 3Oth when an
explosion in a powder magazine sent
the cruiser Matsushima to the bottom.
John Murray, the London publisher,
has obtained a verdict of $37 800 dam.
ages against the London Times be.
cause the Times accused the publish.
ing firm of eXtortion in selling the let
ters of the late Queen Victoria at a
high price.
Count Henry De La vaulx, Jacques
Faure and Alfred lie Blanc, the
aeronauts, have been selected as the
French representatives in the interna.
tional balloon contest for the James
Gordon Bennett cup in Berlin October
llth.
The London postal authorities have
learned that two bags of mail from
London, containing securities and val.
uables worth 100000 were stolen H.
New York the latter part of March.
Both bags disappeared in transit be.
tween the steamers and the postoffice.
The news of the conclusion Of the
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Japan has been well re.
ceived at Toxic and 1t is believed 1t
will remove whatever suspicion exists
regarding the mutual relations of the
two countries.
The twenty.fifth delegated session
of the general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church. at Baltimore,
was begun on the 9th inst, being
called to order by Bishop Henry W.
Warren of Denver. Delegates and Wis.
itors were present from twenty-four
countries.
Edwin l.. Brennan, lawyer of Butte,
Montana, was arrested in the office OF
/. Augustus HeinZe In New York
charged with attempting to extort $40,
900 from Heinze. Heinze alleged that
Brennan had threatened Heinze to eX
pose some Illegal copper transaction
OF which he Brennan, knew, II he was
not paid 100000.
Wright brothers, aeronauts, now at
XIII Devil hill, near Manteo. North
Carolina. made n first flight in their
new aeroplane on the 9th inst. Al.
though but a test flight. 1t was success
full In every respect, the machine IN.
der the perfect control OF its two
makers, travelling 1000 feet. 1t was
made to alight with ease and In per.
feet safety.
Blackie. the only cat In the Yorld
with private fortune of 100000. died
at Wilkesbarrc, Pennsylvania, a
few days since. being chloro.
formed to end his pain when II
was seen that his illness was hopeless.
Blackie and his dead sister Pinkie,
were left $4,000 by the late Benjamin
+: Dllley, OF Wilkesbarre. the income
TO be used in providing for them as
long as they lived.
Frank ]. Bruno OF Colorado Springs
addressed the delegates TO the national
conference OF charities and correc.
iion at Baltimore. urging the estab.
llshment OF L national sanatorlum for
the treatment OF consumptiycs, MS tho
most economic way OF relieving GER
tain bad conditions among sufferers
from the white plague. lie argued
that the Rocky Mountain region was
the preferable situation for such an