Putnam patriot., 1909-07-23
Latest News Condensed.


 After great earthquake shock tn Messina. shocks were felt in France, in South America, and disastrous one occurred Thursday, in Greece which demolished 4o0 houses in the village Of Havari, causing the death Of thirty persons besides the injured. Ali the houses of another village Bere render. ed uninhabitable. Some 3DU persons were killed altogether, in the province of Els, besides an immense amount of prope riy destroyed.
 Morocco k in state of anarchy, and intervention by the European powers Is looked for Mulai Hatid, who feyol- ted against his brother inst year, and himself became Sultan, is now likely to be oxefthf8Hn bY another brother W ha k seeking Ia become sultan. The Spanish troops had A taille with the rexotiHg Moofs, and suffered great loss.
 The Shah of Persia has been deposed and his son, Ahmed Mifza, was chosen ruler in his stead. When the city of Teheran, the capital, was captured by the fevolHtionisi-, the Shah fled, talk ing refuge with the Russian embassy. When A deputation of feVolutionists came to treat with him, he admitted he was deposed, but would not have anything more to do with the deputa= ton. The condition of things in Per. sia at present Are very similar to those in Turkey when it's Sultan was depos= ed. The army sides against the shah, and will uphold the new ruler.
 The bnbonie plague has broken out in the island of Trinidad, N :, which K dangerously near To our coasts, and It's large amount of commerce going or constantly.
 Pacific coast people are pleased witl The attendance al the big Yukon A las ka Exposition at Seattle. The expect cd a large crowd, but the crowd has ex ceeded their expectations. For thu first foits-two days ttic attendance wa 1,0lb,252 This K about the same as th' total for the first month at the World ! Fair at Chicago. But better than all Il will pay expenses.
 The death roll ef the Fourth Of Jul, now amounts to iii, a large proportion being from one of the most agonizini maladies known to man-tetanus. Al this agony for the sake of acting lik' wild savages. Good people all over th' country should unite, get right-dowi mad and put an end to the sasager' forever
 IL Is only little more than n yea since il was first definitely known tha high.gradc steel could be made In elec tric furnaces. Now there are 60 sucl establishments in operations.
 The Director.t General of the Brazi that the microbe of smallpox, whici is of animal origin, has been discover ek by baclerloloeioal researches at th, oswaldo Cruz Institute.
 Al the time of the rennsylv rail road strike in is97 the county wascom pclled to pay strike losses aggregaIin, xai,11,eoo
 A wireless telephone has now beer put in operation, which worked wei within radius of "A few miles. Ex periments to make II more perfect ar being carried on in New York.
 New York law makes it misde meanor 10 sell the pumage of the he ron. Recently some sl ,sa worth 0 aigrettes-the plumage of the whit heron--werc seised by the customs of ticials. Through the efforts of the Na tional Association of Audubon Socie ties the government has ordered then b be destroyed instead Of being sold s auction.
 Daude Chawa kampala, boy King Q Uganda. East Africa, Is looking foI ward with the greatest glee To meetin ..Sultan Roosevelt lie says, "Fron travellers and British officials 1 hay heard of the great good he has done | the blacks in America, and shall rs ceive this man, who was henefacto 10 my race In a strange land, in a mos royal manner.