The state herald., 1909-12-03
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
eAYINes, DoiNes, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Since the recent lynching at Cairo
ILL.,, committee of fifty business
men has been organized to bring about
4 better enforcement of the laws. The
mayor has closed all gambling houses
The TX" Club. University Of
Kansas organization, has started an
agitation for the building of $4,000
stadium at Kansas City. 1t plans to
build the structure within the mex,
year.
The steamer Empress of China re-
Gently brought a consignment Of 116
barrels of eggs from Shanghai, China
to Victoria, B. c. This is said to be
the first shipment of the kind to
America.
The Union depot of the Rock Island
and the Ell Paso & Southwestern at
Santa Rosa. New Mex. was burned on
the morning Of November 23d. most OF
the railroad records being destroyed
The loss is estimated at about $25. 1000
Hon. Lyman ]. Gage, formerly secre.
taAy VI thS ~" iSoiaNhe va
San Diego, Calf. was married at San
Diego on Thanksgiving Day to Mrs.
Ada Ballou, q widow of thirty-five
years Of age. Mr.. Gage is seventy.
three.
At Danville. ILL.,, few days since,
charge of dynamite was exploded
under the fruit and wine house of 10.
seph Mascara, demo'ishing five build.
inss and doing damage Of about $780,.
600. Mascara charges members Of the
Black Hand with the crime.
wilbur and Orville Wright and
other avintors may soon be made de-
PENDANTS in suits brought by Prof. ].
J. Montgomery of Santa Clara College.
Calf, to establish his exclusive right
to certain devices which are now used
in the most successful aeroplaAes.
Cortland F. Bishop. Of New York.
president of the Aero Club Of Ameri.
ca. announced at the annual dinner Of
the Aero Club of New England that
an effort is being made to have the
international contests for balloons and
flying machines take place at Denver
hext year.
At Auburn. Calf, after being out
one hour and fifteen minutes, n Jury
composed largely of sturdy mountain.
eers acquitted Alma Bell of the mur.
der Of her lover. Joe Armes. on the
ground that the young, unlettered
mountain girl was temporarily insane
when she shot Armes.
Judge Smith Mcpherson OF the
United States District Court. at Coun.
Gil Bluffs. Ia. has issued an order
postponing until March s the trial OF
]. C. Maybray and others. indicted
on charges Of using the mails to pro.
mote fake racing schemes and other
alleged swindling devices.
Among the conventions to be held in
Colorado next summer the most un.
usual will be the worlds congress OF
the deaf. TO be In session In Denver
and at Colorado Spsings August 9th
TO 18th. at which time the most prom.
inent deaf mutes In the United States
viii convene.
In order that q clearer atmosphere
may be assured for the study of Mars.
DIR. Lowell Of tho Lowell observatory
at Flagstaff. Ariz.. is installing n IL.
inch telescope on San Francisco peak
At an altitude Of nearly 1900 feet.
Prof. V. II. sllpher will have charge OF
the task OF erecting the big telescope
BY virtue OF an agreement between
the Union Pacific and Northern Pa
cific railroads for uts OF tho latters
Portland.Tacoma track for Union and
Southern Pacific trains the Hartman
roads will begin to operate trains into
Seattle January ist. Between Seattle
and Tacoma the Union Pacific has Its
own track. owning u half interest In
the Milwaukee limo connecting these
cities. Until the Union Pacific termi
mails and tunnel at Tacoma arc com
pleted, the Hartman trains will bs
run through Tacoma on the Northern
Pacific tracks.