Putnam patriot., 1909-06-11
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 Association will be held in Seattle July Isl to 7th. During thai week Woman < Day will be observed al the Alaska Yukon Exposition in compliment 10 ihe Convention.
 A tornado passed through Texas a week ago and killed md Injured over 2i0 persons. Philadelphia had stflke of street car employes, and when men were hired to take their places, they made furious attacks upon them, over coming the police. Over an persons were injured. some of whom died. The Iwo calamities were of different char. aeter. however.
 tt4chools like this one, and tniXefsi. ties like Princeton, must pass out of existence unless they adapt themselves to modern life, T sas the declaration Of President Woodrow Wilson, of Prince ton University He deplofed the mis- nse of wealth. the too great interest In athletics and exciting shows, and too lftle intellectual progress.
 Leo l.. Mccullough, President of the Boston Common Council last year, was sentenced 10 serve Two years at hard labor in The House Of Corrections and ]. T. Cassidy, an attorney was senten- eed one year Al hard labor in the same inslitulion, having been convicted Of conspiracy to deffand the city and of stealing. And ex=Aldefman c. r Bat lis was sentenced to three years at hard labor In the same institution for lafee- ny Of money in making purchases for the city.
 Money losses and strong drink are given A. the chief causes ot insanity among Ffcnchmen, according to the Department of the iseine, France, who have published statistics of l eoo in- sane persons who came under their care last year. In the list Of causes athe loss of beloved person. was given but IT times out of the 4,D0o.
 Emphatic denials have been made by the Turkish embassy at Washing ton, io the reports that .0, ,ooo to so, ,ooo persons were massacrcd at Adana and other places in Asiatic Turkey during the recent troubles. Not more than 4,00o, il is claimed, were killed. IL k better to accept the story of the mission. aries who were on the spot, and have verified them, than those who are in. teresled Tn minizing those horrors, per. hAps had hand in the atrocities.
 President Richard eockburn Mac iaurin was formally inaugnrated as the new head of the Massachusetts lnsti tule of Technology, last Monday, with ceremonies of unusual impressiseness.
 All the French Canadian organiza- tlons in New England will for the first time this year, unite and celebrate in Providence, June 2l, the Feast ot NJ. Jean Bapiiste-pairon saint of the Pro vince of Quebec. This new departure Is 10 honor Governor Poihicr--the first French Canadian lo be elected execu- tive of one of the United States.
 Says the x. Y Tribune "Eafth- quakes at Panama, earthquakes at Mes sinn, earthquakes al Singapore, and where mol else' Really, the old globe seems 10 oc getting triiie giddy,e
 Great Britain now has 4i4 fighting ships under ao years old, against tue aDO of Germany and the 2.ia ef France, England has now as submarines and I'll testroyers, against the submarines and a5 deslroys1s of Germany, Yet England K in anefVeus fright.
 ~uifraeette-~We believe that wo' man should get man \ wages.
 Married Man-Weli, judging Iron my own experience, she deess
 abi pulp mills in the United states used up s.s4h. lO6 cords al wood aud made ;, lis,a47 tons ot pulp, laNi >eaf.
 A family la Lexington, ky, has sui fered great iess of leMelty. money and other xaluahles ttom thefl, anh had discharged several servants on saspl cion. but the thelts continued, even at' ter detective aas employed. Al lasi the mystery was unTaNeled when a pei crow was seen to fly from the house te it's nest with shining article in its mouth. tn investigation, the nest was found te contain gold watch, dia' mond brooch. two sio bills, one N gold piece, and other articles ot more oE less value.
 The Roosevelt expedition still keeps closely followed ap and reported. II has just started for the interior, where there ae no railroads, telegfaphs or other regular means of communication, and il may l,e los, sight Of for time during it's two years of investigation be. fore Il returns.
 The first warm days of summer have been marked in ~l Petersburg hy an alarming increase of cholera.
 William ] Bryan whe has avoided speaking politically on the temperance question, proposes 10 make II party Issue hereafter He says.
 aAGtef ihe fall election theee ought te hs a conference of Democrats to plan Tor nexl year 5 campaigns, The lianae question is likely la tx an issae. Last winter the iiqaof Mteresl defeated The initiative ana fhts FetFrfntfnfn and l feel sufe they viii net he permitted io ao su again. k'af Is NuaFs 1 have hesn eagasesi ia dAS1u ssIne oghSF questions,