The Nevada County picayune., 1908-11-19
NEWS BREvITIEs

tion that the British navy sb,,,, kept up to the two power stanaass excites much. enthusiasm. Representative p. P. Camnheu .s Kansas intends to push his anti.on tion bill in congress, a measure s;n,d, at bucket-shops and option deaIora
 Republican leaders in Nebr.s,,. have declared war on the saloon ona brewery interests, believing that |. was this element in politics tha. caused the defeat of Governor Sheldon
 While sleeping with his brotbor Andrew Rumfelt. 22 years old uho lives six miles southeast of here woe shot and killed. He was single The brother, Martin. who is a few vaars Andrews senior, has been charged hv the coroner's jury with the act
 Heedless of the-warning of tba co, man Reichstag and the federal couno;, of the German empire, Emperor Vii liam is determined to uphold his nor onal power and to exercise inst os great a personal influence in both foreign and domestic affairs in tho future as he has in the past.
 The pope has instructed the vati. can representatives. accredited to ,be powers that possibly will take mart in the expected congress- to settle tho Balkan situation, to use their influence in favor of peace
 The muddle over tax matters in Oklahoma is still further complicat. ed by the discovery that several of the cities and towns of the state that already have made tax levies may have to make new ones. Questions have been raised as to the legality of the city levies at Enid, Oklahoma. Shawnee and Saltwater, Oklahoma City has cancelled it's first city levy and has made a new one.
 Segregation of the sexes in Chica. go high school is to be put to an ella borate test in the near future if the plans of F. G. Cooley. superintendent of schools, are carried out
 Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, an uncle of Emperor Nicholas, died in Paris of pneumonia. The grand duke had lived in Paris almost continuously since his retirement from the position of supreme director of the navy, which he had for twenty-four years
 Raymond Hitchcock. the actor who has been out on $7 ,500 bail. since his ] acquittal on two of six indictments found against him on charges brought ! by three little girls. was discharged from the necessity of continuing the . bond, and District Attorney Jerome acknowledged in court that the actor would never be brought to trial on the four remaining indictments.
 Fourteen true bills charging Il. linois Republicans and Democrats with having fraudulently conspired to defeat John J. Healy, states attorney. for renomination, were voted by the special grand jury in Chicago.
 It was announced Friday that Proi. Mark w. Harrington, once one of hte best known scientists in the country has been found hopeless lunatic m the New Jersey Asylum for the ID sane. after a search for. him that lasted ten years.
 Following midnight conference al the department of justice over me $29, 000,000 case of the Standard oii company Uncle Sam's legal sharps De gan the work of writing a petition TOT writ of certiorari before the supreme court of the United States. Several m portant questions raised by the circul' court of appeals at Chicago in It's fe cent denial of the government mouon for a rehearing will be solved.
 William J Bryan and his wife VIII leave Lincoln in few days Tor an eA tended western and southern Hip' which will probably include stay At a health resort in Mexico.
 Henry L.eidy, negro attacked M,'' Elizabeth Hauser, white, 16 vars o'u near Biloxi, Miss. He was arres'e. and identified by his victim. A ihV' stormed the jail and taking Leios Point Cadet lynched him.
 The Zeppelin Airship conpAn. headed by Count Zeppelin, mas % nouneed it's intention of seeSihs .I north pole by means of diris'' balloon. An airship will be punt meet the special demands of p0's trip and the start will be made h0' Northern Sweden.
 In announcing for the last year the biggest postal denci' III a aa history of the country $l6slo'1'o' General Meyer susse's a means by which such denclts 'aa in the future. He Wan,s special local parcels post estaoi''' on rural routes. s.uoi
 Greatly angered because ie .a.g to have the pope annul the ma'l of his daughter, Helen, from oaAs nso Clarkson, Martin Maloney may bably renounce his papai tue hor i. a,al nI.o bic p0St aS Cua"N