The Nevada County picayune., 1909-06-03
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

It was announced at Fort LeaYen- worth that the war department is con sidering the concentration of the field artillery at Sparta, Wis, during the coming summer fer experimental hr- ing.
 Philippe H. Roy, former speaker CT the legislature of Quebec and presl- dent of the Bank of St. John, was found guilty of falsifying returns on the banks condition. Two days ago, Roy attempted suicide by shooting
 Give and William Newman, hoid-up men, were sentenced at Greenwood B. C., to twenty years in the penlten- tiary for having held up and robbed the Great Northern railway agent at Bridwell B. C., last December. me men committed the crime in company with Ben Hart, who turned king eNl- dence and who was allowed his trlee- dom.
 The latest name under consideration as a possible successor to MT. ROCK hill the American minister to emma is that of Prof Jeremiah W. JehhS' of Cornell university.
 Senator Beveridge of Indiana mas Introduced an amendment to the tafln bill, prohibiting any dealer or man ufacturer o1 tobacco from giving away coupons or devices entitling the pur- chaser to a gift or prize.
 Roatswain Alexander Hamilton or fhe United States cruiser PennsylFa- mia. who was injured while the snip Mas dropping anchor at Seattle sur tfered amputation of both legs ana may not recover Capt. A. Wliner bas ordered an investigation of the accident.
 If was with difficulty that scores or men and girls escaped from Ire Whlcn attacked the lard house ot SchWarz9- . child & Sulzberger at the Chlcaso stock yards. The blaze started on 'he ninth. or top floor, of the the building and spread to the eighth, where u was checked.
 A H. I.otze, head of the firm or A. I,otze Sons & Co, Cincinnati Well- known manufacturers of stoves eoli- mitted suicide by placing a reVoiFeI to his mouth and firing bullet iii'o his brain. He was sixty years olu' Cause was despondency over ill health.
 Mrs. Beecher Bingham, oi 9prlhs field. Mass, was sentenced to t"" wears in the penitentiary Ill coihhho" nleas court at Cleveland. O" aIteF pleading guilty to the charge or man slaughter. She shot and Killed he'
 ,., 1ou husband Iemuel Bing ham. few weeks ago.
 The Dutch ship Nederlahd' whlen sailed from Melbourne, Australia TOT Falmouth on March 23, has arrived at Coouimbo in distress. Captain Spa rud four seamen and boy were washed overheard off Cape Horn.
 The senate committee on finance met Monday and acted on number of minor amendments to the tatln hill. The lumber tariff is to be re- written. but it will not be disposed or finally in the senate for several days
 Edward F.. Coyle, for the past ten years a newspaper correspondent at washington. died Friday night at the home of relatives in Baltimore. Md.
 w. K. Vanderbilts Oversight won the prix la Rochette of SoooV a' eleven furlongs at the Longchamps corrse MT. Vanderbilts Nasotoi hn- ished second in the prix du Prince oe Gales at a mile and hall
 Jarrv K. Thaw and his mother Mary Copely Thaw, both issued state ments attacking the affida"t made and statement issued in New 4ork py clifford w. Hartridge, formerly or couneel for Thaw in which the lawyer sa;d that he had spent approAimately ,Ao ooo hush money" to conciliate narsons who would otherwise have ln- iured his client.
 Dr paul Ritter, newly appointed minister of Switzerland to the U hileu states. and Amos P Wilder united states consul general at Shang Hal' arr;ved from the Orient on the Mp pom Maru. ..a o,,,t,, .ha murder of her mother, Mary y,no at Montevallo, Ala, on March last. and was sentenced to serEe 70 vears In the pentitentiary. Mrs' rope ssore down when the verdict was an nounced. >,,no
 . .,ax M Wetherill of the Nine ,senth infantry was "Wednesday :, ', or sered % to du:y at the s.;h Alasha-4 yash ah0n' pacific exposition at Sea''ie, a'n
 s wiu report to the president oi inc exposition by May To-
 The senate program TOT tNls Weeh s ,,c,udes nothing but the tarif and .here is no prospect for any or that spice which is said to be the t,le result to oi Sarietv The sessions will continue te