Washington telegraph., 1909-07-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD
A Brief Resume of the Items of Inter-
est in Our Country and the World
at Large For the Past Few
Days.

is the result of an automobile accl-
dent which occurred about five miles
from Sylvania, Ga.
Missouri. which has sent to the
1909 convention of Elka the great
est herd of Elks in Elk history, will
have the reunion of the order in st.
Louis in 1911.
Foy W. Dulaney, the young court
clerk of johnson City, Tenn. who
disappeared ten days ago, is alleged
to be short in his accounts to the
extent of about 100000.
Louis Rosenberg, a cigar maker
of Cleveland, O., was murdered on
a lonely island in the st. Clair flats
just above the Joe Bedore summer
resort at Port Huron, Mich.
Ollie Williams, 20 years old, was
locked in the Quitman, Miss, Jail
and Deputy Sheriff Speer says the
boy has confessed in writing that
he murdered his father, Collin Will
hams, one of the wealthiest men in
the county.
Because he was sleeping at the
time set for his marriage to Miss
Safronia Tiplett, a school teacher of
Morley, Mo-, who was attending a
summer term of the Normal school
at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, John IL.
Brown, travelling man, is minus a
bride he intended to have.
What is believed to be the high
est price ever paid for domestic
cat-$525-was given by Mrs, Ly-
mas of Chicago for Rob Roy H.,
England's champion male Chinchil-
la Persian eat. and the winner of
numerous prizes. The animal will
be sent to the United States on
the steamer Majestic.
INVESTIGATION is to be made into
KIM. .df!se OF frequent fires That nave
rl.-ss., ,-x,.,z aboard steamships. cotton
Jadca, bound FOR Norfolk, Va, from
the South. The department of COM
merce and labor at Washington has
instructed the local photographic
Office to ascertain if possible the
causes of combustion.
A new dirigible torpedo recently
patented by Swedish inventor has
aroused great interest in Swedish
naval circles. The projectile is OPP
Grated by electricity. 1t is said to
have a range of 5000 yards and its
course can be altered, while sub
merged from the point of depart
ure, at the will Of the operator.
That marriage gifts from hus-
band to wife may not be reversed
following divorce was a rule laid
down in the Oklahoma state SUI
preme court by Associate Justice
Jesse J. Dunn, in an opinion re-
yersing the district court at Musko-
gee in the case of Jennie B. Thorn
as VS.. Judge John r. Thomas.
Suicide ended the gay career of
a wealthy young Cuban when Juan
Balsinde shot himself in his apart
ments in East Fourteenth street,
New York Nearly 200 scat checks
from theaters. some memoranda
and letter indicated that he had
been infatuated with an actress and
had followed her from place to place
in Cuba and in this country.
A radical innovation was ordered
in the management Of the Missouri
penitentiary when the board of pris-
on inspectors, composed of State
Treasurer James Cowgirl, State
Auditor John P. Gordon and Attor-
ney General &. W. Major, directed
Warden Henry Andrao to prepare
for the practical abandonment of
stripes and to uniform the conyicts
according to grades. There are to
be several grades of clothing. ac-
cording to the merit Of the inmates.
Those who have attracted the high
merit uniform viii be reduced to
the uniform denoting an inferior
grade when they violate the rules.