The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-06-17
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.

her dalers. with large holdings III
West Virginia, Indiana and Louisiana
was adjudged bankrupt by Federai
Judge Dayton at Parkersburg W. a.
on voluntary petition.
Joseph Cullen Root of Omaha SOW
ereign commanded of the W. u W.
said that a special committee would
report favorably on the proposal 10
erect a $750,000 building from Il 10
10 stories high at Omaha.
Two $50 gold pieces from the onltea
States mint at Philadelphia IN Is :
were sold at the Numismatic club 10
William H. Woodin OF New YORK loi
$4,000 each, the highest price ever
paid for an American coin
That there is to be no let-up III Tue
investigation of the federal authorizes
into the affairs of F. Augustus Heihze'
the former copper king, is attested py
a new batch of grand jury subponehaS
that have been issued.
Gideon Taber Stewart, for sixty
years prominent in the country pro
hibition movement and in 1879 that
party's candidate for vice president
died at his home in Pasadena, Gal, at
the age of So. He pract1ced law III
Ohio and during the war ealIeo
naners in Toledo, Norwalk and DuDu-
que, Iowa.
President Castro, of Venezuela ana
his wife are living quietly IN villa
near Sanstander, Spain There is no
evidence that he is planning to assist
financially rumored filibusterlng eX-
petition.
Henry C. Ide, the newly appointed
American minister to Spain, presehleo
his credentials to King Alfonso. ne
drove in state to the palace Where
the king received him surrounded D!
his ministers. The ceremony Was
brilliant. a..
To investigate what opportunities
are open to American finance III ue-
welcoming China, several of the prom,
nent financial houses and banking III
stitutions of the United States shortly
w;,, send an agent to the orient.
Joseph Floria, an Italian, was d.,
rested in Albany, n. Y, after ne hau
called at the residence OF Blshop l.
M. A. Burke of the Cathollc diocese
where he is alleged to have maze
threat that he would shoot the blshop'
Bishop Burke was in Troy at the tihhe'
The minister of French colonies mas
received adyices from Morocco that
on June 5 French detachment re-
pulsed an attack by band OF aohei'
ents Of the rebel chief Maelainln on
tho outskirts of Moudzerid. The en-
envy lost ten men killed, whiie 'he
French casualties numbered three.
The Berlin Tageblatts Aleppo cor
respondent states that the Turkish au.
thorities last week executed twelve OF
the ringleaders, including SIX Arme-
mans. concerned in the Adana mas
sacres.
Secretary Dickinson received from
Cen. Marshall, chief Of engineers re
ports of two boards of engineers Whlch
Investigated the project for deep
waterway from St. Louis TO the Guil
of Mexico. In accordance with the
desire of several members or congress-
the reports will be forwarded TO tha'
body at once They will not be maue
public until submitted.
On her first visit 30 New YORK anu
her first ride in an elevator, MISS
Lena Schoonmaker, 10 years OLD, was
crushed to death Monday afternoon
when her head was caught between
the floor of the elevator and the sixth
floor of the Flat Iron building,
Murad Bey, editor and proprietor OF
Nizan at Constantinople, has been
sentenced TO life Imprisonment al
hard labor for participation in the
revolutionary movement Of April IL.
Representative Rodenberg tllll In
troduced a resolution providing TOT
nm appropriation of 100000 for part
,c,nation by the United States in the
Brussels exposition.
disastrous foods continue among
the Rocky Mountains and traffic Is
completely tied up at some places on
tho main line of the Canadian Pacihc
Rev Aaron S. Watkins, OF Ada, o.
in 1908 candidate for vice president or
the Prohibition ticket has accepted
the office of president of Asbury col
lege at Whitmore, KY
Forest fires which swept over NOR
than 100 square miles in western
New Brunswick last week are prae
t,cally under control. 1t is estimate
that fifty square miles of eXceiien
timber land have been fire swept
Members of the Modoc and Klamat
indian tribes have filed complain
with the secretary of the interlo
agent here against II. G. wilson II
aiar agent in klamath reservation