The Globe-republican., 1909-06-17
Domestic Items.


The Minnesota Bankers association
held its twentieth annual convention
at Lake Minnetonka.
A census of New York's state pris-
on shows that of the $50 alien con-
victs 319 are liable to deportation as
they were convicted within three
years of their arrival in this country.
OF this number 1877 are Italians.
A gas well running 100000 feet
per day has been struck on a farm
ten miles west of Wooster, o.
By order of the city's chief execu-
tive the flags in Boston were at half
mast while the last tributes were be-
ing paid the memory OF Edward
Everett Hale.
Corporal Crabtree fatally shot Capt.
John c.. Raymond at Fort Des Moines
then shot and seriously injured two
other men and turning the weapon up
on himself fired a shot that may
cause his death. Crabtree had been
reprimanded for oyerstaying leave
of absence.
Lightning struck the steeple of
Holy Cross Catholic church at Bay
Settlement north of Green Bay, Wis,
killing one man, shocked and injured
16 others, two of whom may not sur
vive, while mass was being sung.
A charter has been issued by the
secretary of state of Missouri for a
reilroad to be built from the Missouri
river through Carrollton Is miles.
A vessel Of remarkable character
has been launched in Brooklyn. 1t is
the auxiliary yacht Carnegie to be
used in carrying on ocean surveys to
correct compass data Practically no
magnetic metal having been used in
its construction.
The annual conference of the Evan
gelical Luthran church of America
opened at Clear Lake, Ia, with 800
in attendance.
French Ambassador Jusserand and
party are visiting the Alaska-Yukon-
Pacific exposition as guests of the
management.
The frame and mechanical parts of
Walter Wellman's balloon in which he
hopes o reach the north pole has been
shipped to his starting point in the
north.
The National Conference Of Charl-
ties and Corrections is holding its 36
annual meeting in Chicago. Earnest
P. Richnell director of the .,.Ional
Red Cross is president of the confer
ence.
To search for skeletons of the
oretaceous dinosaur, the four toed
ancestor Of the horse and other fossil
mammals, two expeditions organized
by the American Museum of Natural
History will start this week for Cen
tral Montana and Wyoming.
The taking of testimony in the trial
of Patrick Calhoun at San Francisco
has been finished and only the argu-
ments of attorneys remain. The case
was commenced January 12.
Miami University at Oxford, O.,
celebrated its hundredth birthday in
connection with its annual commence
ment exercises.
The wheat harvest has commenced
in Oklahoma. One field of 900 acres
on the 101 ranch near Bliss being
among the first ready.
Postoffice inspectors believe they
found evidence, when they arrested
Sam Lima Of Marion, o., and other
parties in various cities, that Marion,
O., is the headquarters Of the BLACK
Hand" society In this country and that
business men in different cities have
been paying tribute to the gang
Two thousand delegates attended
the twentieth annual convention OF
United Norwegian Lutheran church
Of America which opened at Des
Moines, la, for nine days session.
Every state OF the United States was
represented and delegates were there
from every prosInce Of Canada.
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