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4 Boiling Down d the More Impor.
tant Events Here and There
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"a claim never before challenged in
modern times.
The protocol with the United States
for the reference of the Alsop claim to
King Edward for mediation was
signed by the government OF Chile.
The cabinet of Premier Giolitte Of
Italy resigned.
The ministerial commission which
has been discussing with business
men various matters Of trade, has ap-
proved the suggestion Of placing tax
OF seven-tenths of one cent on each
pound of cotton grown in European
Russia, Bokhara and Khiva.
Admiral Togo, chief Of the general
stan Of the Japanese navy, retires
from the naval command and becomes
member Of the military council. He
10 succeeded in his earlier office by
Vice Admiral Sir Zero Ijuin.
An individual believed to be insane
and having an imaginary grievance
against the war department, shot and
seriously wounded General Verand in
Paris on the steps of the Hotel Con.
tinental 1t was later discovered that
he had made mistake in his man.
It is nineteen days since the Her.
rera line steamer Maria Herrera left
Santiago, Cuba, with a cargo of cattle.
bound for Ponce, Porto Rico, where
\ she was expected to arrive November
liz The steamer, however, has not
been heard from and it is believed
that she was foundered.
Five more men were added last
week to the bankers colony at Fit.
Leavenworth penitentiary.
j. P. Morgan has secured control
Of the Equitable Life society.
The British house of commons
adopted a resolution Of censure of
lords.
Mexico will maintain neutral atti-
tudesin the Nicaraguan rnmpus
The Richard Gleason bid for the
Jeffries-J Johnson fight, to be in Cali
fQrnia, was accepted.
President Taft has taken steps to
put the Red Cross society on perma-
nent business footing.
Congressman Hinshaw says Cannon
\ cannot be elected speaker at the ses-
sion Of the next congress-.
Following charge OF murder at st.
Louis against Mrs. Doxey Of Colum-.
bus, Neb., q requisition was issued.
The president will exert all his In
{ fiuence looking to changes In the In
3 terstate commerce act.
Duke Karl Theodore of Bavaria died
from kidney trouble.
D. =. Winchell, president OF the
Rock Island, has been elected Presi-
dent Of the st. Louis & San Francisco
road.
John Harvard, a negro preacher, who
had committed murder, was burned
at the stake near Cochran, Georgia
According to an official dispatch
from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, several
small villages in that vicinity have
been destroyed by an earthquake.
More men are killed as the result
Of playing football in one year than
I are killed In labor troubles" says
John Mitchell.
Z President Taft soon Is to receive q
call from the legislative committee Of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, for a
conference upon matters pertaining to
pension legislation this winter.
The Kansas state treasury will re-
gceiye $25, 600 cash, as an Inheritance
tn, from the estate Of James Clarke.
farmer m Marshall county. This
q the largest tax yet assessed against
Kansas estate under the new Law.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
! lege 2-year-old Angus steer, King
1 Ellsworth, won the grand champion
ship as the best steer Iii America at
the internal ionaI Stock show II Chi
I cago,
Secretary OF War Dickinson advo-
Gates changes In army affairs IN an
nual Feport
strike o. switchmen involving
over two thousand men was i1,auguar.
I ated III st. Paul, MINI.
Senator Brown says the Insurgents
wiz b eyid ence at the coming SEES.
non of congress:
5ss Csreenvilles Ohio man killed his
naofhsf and 4 deputy sheriff wounded
{ fNo others and committed suicide.
fanator Aldrich says the panic Of
I f905 c:oSt tho country y. 900 ,vo0, 0O0.
sec g6yer has proposed sweeping
slchanss IN - ny
ttorn IN General Wickersham. SEN
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