The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-09-10
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

1t is reported that Mrs. Roosevelt
has engaged a house at Khartoum,
Egypt, where she will meet her hus-
| band when he comes out of the
Jungle.
A verdict of not guilty was
| brought in by the jury in the case of
Thomas Broadhead, ex-Chief of Po-
lice of Los Angeles, charged with
having accepted brides to protect re-
sorts in the old restricted districts.
Mayor Franklin p. Story, of At
| laLtic City, was arrested on a war
rant charging him with ignoring an
order of State Attorney-G General Will
son, which notified the Mayor to en-
force the law against Sunday selling
of liquor.
William Clyde Fitch, known to
playgoers in every part of the world
as Clyde Fitch, the successful Anne
rican playwright, died, following an
operation for appendicitis. Mr.. Fitch
udu DCCH opCuulu6 TIC ouLhlICl Iho-
toring through Germany and was en-
route to Paris when seized.
F. J. Heney, prosecuting attorney
in the bribary-graft cases in San
Francisco, and who is candidate
for District Attorney, upon his re-
turn from an extended vacation in
Alaska, received an ovation at
local theater, which was packed to
the doors with friends and support
ers of Heney and the graft prose-
cution.
w. j. Bryan narrowly escaped in
jury at Springfield, Mo-. when a
motor car, in which he. was being
taken to make an address, got be
yond control, going down a steep
hill The brake broke, but the car
was stopped just on the edge of an
embankment.
Isaac Brock, of Waco, Tex, who
claimed to have seen 26 Presidents
elected, is dead at an age said to be
121 years. According to Brooks
| family Bible and other documents,
he was born in Buncombe County,
North Carolina, March /, 1888.
The full return of prosperity to
| the railroads of the United States
is evidenced in reports just published
of the gross earnings of rs roads for
the first half of August. For the
first time since the panic of 1907 the
aggregate weekly gross earnings ex-
coed the high records reached in
August, 1907.
Six hundred tons of barnacles
have been taken from the bottom
of the armored cruiser South Dako-
ia at the Mare Island Navy-Yard,
making the vessels hull rise four
and a half inches from the water.
The barnacles fastened themselves
to the ships bottom during recent
trip to the South Sea Islands.
The Legislative act prohibiting
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liquor in the State of Tennessee was
upheld except as regards sales for
shipment outside of the state, in an
| opinion handed down in Chancery
Court at Chattanooga by Chancellor
T. M. Mcconnell.
The awards of the contracts for
| the two American dreadnoughts OF
| 10000 tons each the battleships
Wyoming and Arkansas, will be
made to William Cramp & Sons, of
Philadelphia, and the New York
Shipbuilding Company, at Camden,
N. ].
William R. Hearst, at meeting
of the Independence party's county
committee in New York, declared
that he was prepared to use all his
power in an effort to defeat Tam
many at the approaching municipal
election. He announced himself as
favoring fusion with the various an
ti-Tammany organizations if he were
satisfied that the organizations were
loyal in general to the principles OF
the independence party.