The Ordway new era., 1909-08-27

oo So'ou university In given Sl0o :.
Voo by the will Of Cornelius c. CuvIe,
the New York banker, who was hi,,sS
1ecehtiy In an automobile accident In
France. s'ue"' III
Ihe London Daily Graphic assert.
that orville Wright, the American
aeroplanist. has been engaged to make
demonstrations with his machine in
England two months hence under tn.
auspices OF the British government.
according to advices received At
rome from Tehteran. the recent AT.
.empt OF the young shah to commit
suicide was really an attempt TO as.
sassinate the boy OF his father the do
p'oeu s"ah. who struck the boy with
a poniard
N''orhey General McCarn OF Tenn.
essee personally offers to pay s5o re.
ward Tor the first proof brought TO him
OF violation OF the prohibition law
ny white man on or after Aurus,
IL ana before the opening OF the Grim.
maj Court on the first Monday In Sent.
ember.
General Booth OF the Salvation army
IL suffering from septic poison OF the
eye, condition that has necessi,ated
the abandonment OF his religious cru.
sade In the provinces and his return
10 London He has also postponed his
proposed American and Canadian tour
set for this fall
MiA Kate NJ. Gordon of New Or.
leans. chairman of the Susan %. An.
thony fund. wants to raise a million
dollars for the cause OF woman suf.
frage. Her plan is to get 100 women
TO give $1,000 each and 1000 women
TO give 800 each to this memorial
fund to Miss Anthony.
ID. G. c. MacNeill. British consul in
Colima. is authority for the statement
that engineers OF $. Pearson 4 Son.
Limited. have prepared plans for ex.
tensiHe harbor improvements at Ma
zatlan. Mexico, and that the English
lirm Will do the work. II is stated that
the plans contemplate expenditure OF
about $3o.o00.0O0 Mexican currency.
George Cabot LoGge. son OF Sena.
tor Henry Cabot Lodge and private
secretary TO his father. died suddenly
at Tuckerneck Island. Mass. from
heart failure. superinducCd by an
acute attack of indigestion. Mr..
Lodge was 80 years old and gradu.
ate OF Harvard. A widow and three
children survive him
Twenty casks and nine cases con-
tanning specimens. trophies Of the
hunt, collected by the Roosevelt expe.
f...
to New York on the 18th inst. on the
steamer Provincial. from Marseilles,
The specimens. representing twenty
different kinds OF animals. will be for
warded to the Smithsonian institute at
Washington.
The Memorandum signed at Muk.
den. Manchuria. August 10. by repre-
sentatives OF the japanese and Chi.
nese governments practically closes
the Antung-Mukden controversy. Ac-
cording to the terms of the under.
standing China agrees to afford Japan
every assistance in the reconstruc.
ton of the AntungMuk railroad
and withdraws all her objections.
A military automobile with Malcolm
Il. Parrot of the national guard of
New York at the wheel, left New York
for San Francisco on the Goth inst.
bearing dispatches for Major General
Weston commanding the department
OF the West. The trip will cover S,693
miles. On its success. it is said will
largely depend the establishment OF a
regular automobile service for the
army.
James NJ. Smith, millionaire plant.
er. former state senator and once can
didate for governor of Georgiais ac-
cused of employing agents to kidnap
negroes, who are sent to his planta-
ton in Oglethorpe county and there
held in peonage. The charges against
Colonel Smith developed at the trial
OF Sim Rousse, negro. who was ac.
cused of kidnapping. Witnesses sworc
Rousse was one of Smiths pres gang
and he was held under heavy bonds.