The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-18
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Covering Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe.
DOM ESTIC.

electricity at Auburn, n. Y, for the
murder of his stepmother, declared his
innocence
Governor Hughes appointed Miss
Crystal Eastman as one of the COM
mission to inquire into the question
of employers liability
Funeral services of the Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale were held in two
churches in Boston; thousands viewed
the body as it lay in state
President Woodrow Wilson in an
address TO Princeton graduates an
alzed the causes of the recent tinan.
cial upheaval.
Cows. Hughes and Fort accompanied
the New York and New Jersey Inter.
state Bridge Commissions on a trip
up the Hudson to inspect the sites pro-
posed for bridge at New York.
Two special Assistant Attorneys
General went from Washington to
New York and conferred with lawyers
for the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining
Company with possible view to
prosecuting the Sugar Trust under the
Sherman act.
Experts doubted the assertion OF
Dr.. 7. Alexander MacNicholl that con.
dtions In the New York schools rival
those of ancient Sodom owing to de.
fective children born of drinking par
ents, but the Board of Health has or
dered an Immediate examination of
10000 pupils.
A. Holland Forbes, in the balloon
New York, won the national balloon
race with fight of 1853 miles.
The battleship Michigan exceeded
twenty knots in her Standardization
tests off Rockland, Me.
DR.. T. c. Nicholl, of the Red Cross
Hospital, told the American Medical
Association that seventy-eight per
cent of the children in the lower
grades of New York schools were ad
dicted to drink.
Postofflce inspectors. rough ar
rests made at Marion, Columbus and
Dennison, Ohio, believe they have
unearthed the headquarters of the
Black Hand society in the United
States FOREIGN,
American women were cool under
fire in Davao, Philippine Islands, and
aided the men to repel the attacks Of
native constabulary mutineers.
A Japanese editor, who was arrest
ed for conspiracy at Honolulu, has
complained to his home government,
charging violation of treaty rights.
Twelve Japanese strike leaders in
Hawaii were held for a trial on a
charge of conspiring to riot and three
on a charge Of conspiring to murder.
Part of a company of native consta-
bulary at Davao, Mindanao, mutineed,
| captured the company quarters at
night and next day attacked church
where Americans and loyal Filipinos
were barricaded.
Two eartHI shocks We're felt along
the Riviera, and it was reported that
eight lives were lost at Lambesc; the
inhabitants of Marseilles and Toulon
were panicstricken.
w. E. Corey, who was injured in an
automobile accident near Palaiseau,
was badly cut and bruised, but his
condition is not serious; the recovery
of NJ. Godilleau, the manager of his
| fTenCn estate, is uOuDt1ul.
Surgeons of the American quaran
tine service in Porto Rico have ar
rived in Caracas, Venezuela, to study
bubonic plague conditions.
Nine. Boursien, residuary legatee
under the will of NJ. Chauchard, the
great Paris merchant, Is expected tt
receive property valued at from $6,
900 900 to S8000,c)0; she has giver
100000 to the poor Of Paris.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate voted, 40 to II, in favor
Of free sugar and tobacco from the
Philippines. Senator Clay said thai
adjournment will not come before
Aug. /, perhaps not until Sept. 1.
The government may sue to dissolve
the American Sugar Refining Com
pGny.
The Senate Finance Committee helt
meeting at Washington, at which
many changes in phraeseology in the
tariff bill were made.
Secretary Dickinson returned tt
Washington after he had presented
the diplomas to the 103 graduates o
the United States Military Academ!
at West Point.
The Senate Finance Committee
with the approval of President Taft
has practically decided to offer al
amendment to the tariff bill placing
tax on the dividends of corporation
as a substitute for the income ia,
amendments.
SPORTS.
The impression Is gaining strength
that Ed. Walsh. the big pitcher of tn
White Sox, is without superior. No
even the great Mathewson can shoy
more effectiveness, the baseball
sharps say
At San Bernardino, Cal, Paul Dor
KUN, of Los Angeles, lowered tn
worlds record for motor cycles b.
covering five miles in a competitiv
race in 4:46 20, standing start
At Syracuse F. s. Wright, Of Buffalo
won the H. w. Smith Cup and tn
| State championship in the annus
shoot of the New York State Sports
I mems Association. His score for tn