Putnam patriot., 1909-09-24
Latest News Condensed d.

A steamer coming through the Gulf Of Mexico to Galveston, August 10th, encountered three streams Of oil bub- bling np from the gulf i69 miles south. east Of Galveston.
 An important archaeological discove- " was recently made by Professor Ra. mon Mepa, who headed a government expedition to Otumba, in Mexico, that has uncovered buried city of gfeht antiquity. A pyramid similar to that at San Juan de Teetihacan, has been exposed. Ii Is 60fcet high and 200 feet square at the base. The remains indi. cate that the city WAS built and occu- pied in the time Of the Toltecs.
 For the last seven years statistics ot Injuries received on the Fourth of July have been prepared. This year the number Of deaths due to accidents on that day was 2i5, and b,goa persons were injured. There were l50 letanus eases this year, as compared with I6 eases last year, The blank cartridge s-~As responsible fnt most Of them. This increase eenaffed iDspite of the many special efforts nll over the country to diminish the fatalities.
 Fl Roehi, leader of the rebellion against the Saltan Of Morocco, who recently was captured and taken to fcz in an Iron cage, wns put to death Inst Sunday, at the palace In the presence of the imperial hafem. The execution appears to have been the infurated sultans reply to the protest of the French Consul against the torture h. fiicted by the Sultans soldiers on the Moorish rebels who had been taken captive to Fez. "fheir habitations are the habitations of cruelty"
 The Irish people are fast tegainins their national rights andlwith cores. bonding national prosperity. The las' deadly blow aimed at the old land ten ure that kept the irish peasantry in ab feet poverty, Is the Irish land bill, just passed the House of Cammons by the large majority of l7i to bl, The Lords II isiexpected, will have to pass it, but reluctantly, especially the clauses re garding the compulsory acquisition o land.
 The new Tariff Board will probably hold it's first meeting within the neNi len days, for the purpose of outlining working plan of operations. Among its duties the ltoafd k charged to secure information Ia enable the President tt determinei whether this country k be ing diseriminnted against by foteigt governments in the matter of tariff rates and eNactions, that he may issu' or withhold his proclamation imposing the minimum rates of duty prov ided II Inc new tariti act.
 The Presidents South Carolina ap pointments arc pleasing To the Charles ton News and Courier, which runs owe The lists and remarks; "All these met are white men--a number of them ar, Democrats, and the majority of then are natives of the State. We think tha is good record. ]"
 Dr. Benjamin F. Traehlood, of Bos ton, President of the American Peac' Society. who Is a passenger on the os car II. with Br. Cook, has sent the fol lowing message by wireless to the Bos ton Post; ",'ook absolutely genuine incapable of falseheod, manly, brother ly. America should welcome hlm witl absolute confidence Ne one has sai, that of Peary-nor can.
 The plan Of municipal governmen by commission Is spreading with extra ordinary rapldits al the West and tn Southwest. The latest to adopt Il i Joseph, Mo. A mayor and fear fellow commissioners, elected al large, talk the place oi the old city council an, executive. The new charter provide for the initiative, the recall and all tn other "modern Improvements, n X, officer knows he Is being closely watch ed, and II net ap to theimatk he vii he promptly retired anu another. i'm mediateiy takes .hls. place. That k great incentive to do ones best.
 Continued improvement Is being se cured in flying nschlnes--they now g' higher, fly master, travel longer dis tanees. make swiiter movements in al directions, regardless Of winds. and tra vel is safer-the best teatuFe-than ever year ago. urSiile Wright, last Fri day, al Berlin, in the presence of thi Empress and her household, asssendes te height of 7a5 feet-the best fecots ever made.
 4 lot eg genseel sconndfels who wen sentenced 10 prison ioI bank swlndles made what TON they could against thl keeIer and wanted him removed. Al investigation showed that the keepe refused to discharge some subordinate. ard replace them by some suggested hs the complainers, and that he conpeli- ed them to eat with "common herd.