The Nevada County picayune., 1909-05-20
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
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NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

defunct State National Bank of Ne" Orleans, of which he was president was placed in the parish prison to await sentence.
 The lower house of the Michigan legislature by vote of 67 to passed @ bill to extend the primary nomlna- tion system to United States senators. The senate is expected to concur.
 Richmond Dean, general manager of the Pullman company, announced that $3,0o0,000 would be spent in the improvement of the car shops at Pull man, III. This means the employment of 12,000 men.
 President Taft will be a welcome visitor at the Boston National League baseball grounds this summer. owner George E. Dovey has designed soilo silver special pass for the chief ex- ecutive.
 Capt Rhodes, commanding two troops of the Sixth cavalry, struck portion of the band of outlaws hedueo by Jikiri near Bamno r. l., Nednes day and in fight that followed hFe of the natives were killed. One ol these was Jammang, noted as trust ed lieutenant of Jikiri.
 Representatives Garner and Dles oA Texas, Stanley of Kentucky Chahalei of Mississippi and Sims of Tennessee all Democrats. have protested lorih- ally to Speaker Cannon because negroes occasionally are served Ill the house restaurant
 It was announced at Fort Riley Kas. that Brig. Gen. Winfield Sedger- ly will succeed Gen. John B. Kerr as commandant of the fort on the lat ter's retirement May 20. Gen. Sedger- lv is now in command of the depart ment of the Dakotas at St. Paul.
 It has been impossible to verify the story coming from the Island or St. Vincent that the captain and crew of the American whaling vessel Carrie D Knowles of Provincetown, Mass have been languishing in Venezuela jail for five years.
 It was reported that Elmer Dover secretary of the Republican natloraI committee, would be appointed short lv as national bank examiner Tor the state of New York by Lawrence o. Murray. comptroller of the currency
 Two dead, third wounded and the authorities in pursuit of another, are the results of pistol fight Ill the tent of wild west show at San An gelo. Tex. The shooting followed the performance.
 The Canadian Pacific railway re- ceiyed a communication from count Poni de Castellane, former husoahu of Anna Gould, asking that arrange ments be made for guides etc, TOT q hunting trip after big game Ill the Rocky mountains in July.
 Gen. J. B. Frisbie, California and Mexican pioneer, died at Mexico Clty' He was born in Albany, N. | lh leZ' and went to California when ooE' He came to Mexico over 30 years ago and was the oldest American resldeht here.
 Gov Haskell and the six other Ok lahomans will, it is stated, move that the federal grand jury, called 10 re- investigate the Muskogee town lot cases be dismissed. This move IS to be made when the jury is organized
 T. c. M. Weaver, alias Professor West charged with operating in At lanta, Ga. several months as a c!alr- yovant. was Monday sentenced 10 serve twelve months on the chain gang and six months in jail.
 Dr. Leon Harrison, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, stoutly opposed the intermarriage of Jews and Christians in a sermon Sunday at the Free syn agogue in New York. He said inter marriage would simply mean-nol that the vast majority would be drawn to Israel, but that we of Israel woDld be overwhelmingly merged and lost in Christendom.'
 The United States circuit court Of appeals Monday decided that the earthquake of April IS, 1906, was not the cause of the San Francisco fire occurring after the earthquake The aecision affects several hundred suits vending against insurance companies for losses suffered in the great fire.
 Cant Alex M. Wetherill of the Nine teenth infantry was "Wednesday or dered to duty at the Alaska-Yukon' Pacific exposition at Seattle Wash. and will report to the president oi the exposition by May l5.
 Otto Suter of Cleveland won the welterweight wrestling championship of the world from Charles Conkle oi Hamilton, O., in Cleveland. Sutei won in straight falls of 46 and min utes.
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