Putnam patriot., 1909-06-18
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The storm center of Europe hns shift cd from the Balbans to Pefsia. storm centers are always with us although they seem to shift. A battleltook place Inst week between large reyolHtiona. " force, in Albania and 10000 Turkish troops. The former were defeated. A teieg gram from 1he northwest province of Persia, says the wild tribes favaged wide district there, killing 5,e0o per sons. The inhabitants have appealed 10 Russia for protection.
 The earthquake agitation was in France, which destroyed Two towns, last Friday and lo0 persons perished. In Italy shocks frightened the dwellets In Messina. Near PadanR, snmntfn, n town was devastated by an earthquake shock and tidal wave which killed 2}0 persons, the tidal wave swept away tie native huts like eorks.
 The French government has appfov. ed an appropriation of $500 iooo,eoo for balileships, to be expended within the next ten years. Eng land, Germany, and the United States must do The same to insure the worlds peace.
 After syndicate of British, French and Germans had signed contract for the financing of the iiankow Sze- chuen railway, connecting all the ini- pofianl cities of China, to the amount of s2f ,5eo, ,DaU-Ghina withdrew the contract h let in powerful American syndicate of capitalists. This was ac- com mplishcd through the American Am bassatior. Great Britain k now most desirous thnt an amieable arrangement be made between British and Amen can tinanciers to secure the s2I ,ooo,W' to iinance the railroad.
 An organization of six of the lafges gum factories of the United States as the "Scn Sen thiclet Company, with a capital of q, ,1ao ,tHp, shows whal m immense industry the small article of chewing gum has got to be Iht slol machines foster the increase oi th, gum chewing habit
 Announcement has been made thal the New York, New Haven x Hart ford Railroad company voted unani. mously that the i0 and 5 per cent re duetion, made some time ago In the sa laries of officers and employes, should be restored, the restoration to take et feet on July next, and to apply To all below the rank Of Nice-rvsident.
 Much interest was aroused, particu arly in Chicago, To have the Unite, States government to make "A ittoo deep waterway from NJ, Louis to th, Gulf. The board of engineers lo whom the matter was referred for tnvestiga ton, have just made their report k Congtess They declare that the pro ject Is not desirable. Such waterw ay would cost slss,ooo,ooo to eonstrue, and Sa0ao,ua annually for mainte nance. The railroads now take latg' share ef the freight that could go b, water. and there Is no possibility Q increasing freight business to warrant the outlay of any immense sum, Thi' may dampen interest in other water way projects.
 The Executive Committee Of the Ma tionai Civic Federation has decided that a National Conference for the St curing of uniform legislation in ths States on important questions, now oI nation wide interest, shall be held in Washington January D, 6 and |.
 The Qaeensboroi bridge from Man haitan 10 Queens county, l.. l., Is de serving passing word. IL is the larg est traffic bearing bridge of its kind in The world. The length of the entirs < cantilever is STss feet, with it's highest tower rising over ao0 feet in the air. Il can accommodate about DO ,oo persons per hour. IL has four elevated railroad tracks. The ceremonies of dedication were the climax oi more than eight ycars of work and the expenditure oi above $i7,Uo, ,oo.
 Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, ehicago,lis the first woman elected pre- sident of the National Conference of Charities and Correction.
 The export of goods to China is again increasing China Is, as rule, the largest purchaser of American cottons, but in The years isos and isos The ex- ports of cotton cloths 10 that country fell to a small fraction of these et the immedialespreceding years.
 In a field six miles back of Pitts. burE, al Millyale ,.nr. AllenJ. Wiiletis, Professor in the Carnegie Technical echool, discovered mushroom which, fos sire and weight, appears to have surpassed anything in history. The mushroom weighed, after some pieces hsd been broken of In getting II to the scales, as l-e pounds. IL measured 2. I.e by a2 inches on the top. and was ? s-. sAs