The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-05-13

| day which destroyed two barns next
to the Garfield homes. Shifting OF
| the wind saved the Garfield places.
Canon Arthur w Behrens, aged IS
| years. chaplain of St Adams school
| for boys at Knoxville, committed sui
eide Thursday by drinking carbolic
acid. He had been in poor health
and was In constant fear Of insanity
or paralysis. He awakened his wife,
saying that he had taken poison and
vas anxious to die.
The National Daylight association
was organized at Cincinnati Thurs
day night TO carry on an agitation for
/ more daylight" The plan is TO move
the clock two hours ahead between
May l and October /. this having the
effect Of bringing two daylight hours
into the leisure period OF the day.
VI. Gilbert, a retired merchant of
Paris, whose declining years have
been made miserable by speeding
automobiles. has bequeathed his en-
tire fortune TO churches in certain
French cities for masses for the re-
pose OF the souls Of the victims OF
the @diahollcal machines which have
poisoned my last days
Wesley. 3. c. a lumber town. was
practically wiped out b. fire early
Wednesday. The loss included the
Yale Columbia compang's mill, all
the lumber in the vicinity. all the resi-
dences and the other buildings in the
place.
Government inspectors, after in
vestigating conditions among the
Tama Indian reservation in Tama
county. Ia, will report TO the govern
ment TO grant the Indians full rights
Of citizenship on the grounds that the
wards of the government are full land
owners and consequently too trouble
some
Ortis Hamilton. former adjutant
general of the state u Washington,
was arrested Wednesday at the in
stance Of Gov. Z. VI. Hay, charged
with embezzlement and forgery. Ham
ilton is alleged to have stolen $4,000
from the state military fund.
Former Mayor and Congressman
William Maybury died at his home at
Detroit, Mich, Thursday, following
sudden relapse of his old illness. Mr..
Maybury had been victim OF uremie
poisoning.
II was stated that Gov. Harmon will
resign as receiver Of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Co June
Five thousand dollars We're sent BY
the Red Cross society to American
Ambassador Leishman at Constantine
Die Wednesday to be used by him at
his discretion for the relief OF suffer
crs in Turkey.
The senate Tuesday confirmed the
nominations of James Thomas Will
Jams. Jr.. of South Carolina, to be
civil service commissioner, and Thos.
K. Lyons of Aalaska to be United
States district Judge in Alaska.
priaee Karl Won Wrede was I'M
horsed Tuesday while riding in the
Radena steeplechase. The prince sus'
tanned a severe conclusion Of the
brain. His horse was killed.
More than 1000 automobiles took
part in New York's annual carnival
parade Tuesday Prizes aggregating
81 900 were distributed TO the bes;
decorated vehicles. More than ZOO
900 persons, it was estimated viewed
the five mile line.
Bert Russell. arrested at Waubay,
S. D., Monday on charge Of beating
his wife over the head with sharp
instrument inficting probably fatal
injuries broke away from the officer,
seized a knife and cut his throat,
dying instantly.
The very Rev. John Marshall Lang
chancellor and principal of Aberdeen
Scotland) university, died Sunday
He was born in 1884 and was noted
writer and lecturer.
Rear Admiral Sir Hedworth Lamb
ton, commander OF the English squadron
anchored in Yokohama harbor was
granted an audience with the emperor
Monday,
President Taft has been an uncon-
scious speed maniac" and his friends
are apprehensiye that he will figure
in a serious smashup II he continues
riding at the fearful pace his chauf-
feur now maintains.
Brooding over a quarrel with his
sweetheart, Alexander Jennings, q
years old and the son Of wealthy par
ents. threw the congregation at a
crowded country church at Little
Hickman. Ky. into panic Sunday
by firing a bullet into his brain.
An agreement between the United
states and Russia, which was nego-
tatcd by the late John Hay, former
secretary of state, in December, 1904,