The Nevada County picayune., 1909-06-10

Rev. Aaron S. Watkins, of Ada. O., in 1908 candidate for vice president on the Prohibition ticket, has accepted the office of president of Asbury col lege at Whitmore, Ky.
 After spending his weeks salary drinking and gambling in Chicago, John Freyer, F years old, committed suicide.
 Suit was begun by the federal gov ernment in the United States district court at Salt Lake City against the Central Pacific Railway company, the Southern Pacific Railway company and the United States Trust company to declare invalid certain patents for lands About 600 acres of land are involved
 In an encounter between two wom- en at Merminie, Pa, Mrs. Michael Bratta is said to have hurled a kettle of boiling water at Mrs. John Petak, scalding her seriously. Mrs. Petak's two-year-old child was playing on the floor and received most of the boiling water. Physicians say the child prob ably will not recover.
 Cornelius Martin, alias Frazier, who April l shot and killed Charles Wormsley while both were prisoners in the St. Louis workhouse, was sen tenced to 50 years in the penitentiary. It virtually was a life sentence, for Martin is nearly 50 years old.
 The Lincoln Memorial association accepted the gift of Mrs. Frederick II. Aims of s10O,000 This gift assures the erection at Cincinnati of Lin coin memorial which will equal any thing of it's kind in the country. The whole fund will exceed s250,o00.
 E T. Bade. employed by an ice company of Houston, Tex, was killed by an electric shock from a cash register which he was attempting to work
 Dr. John T. Binkley of Evansville, Ind, S2 years old was found in his room at the Wellington hotel in Chi cago, and while the police and hotel officials call it suicide. Dr. John T. Binkley, Jr, is confident that his father was murdered by burglar.
 Gov. Haskell issued a proclamation re-opening the state liquor dispensing agencies that were established under provision of the prohibition law and which were closed last fall when proposed constitutional amendment was voted down.
 The will of Bridget Torpy. for 27 years a cook in the family of Mrs N. B. Taft. of New York City, as filed for probate, leaves s30,000, the say. ings of life time, to James Edward Johnson, a negro, who had been her assistant. She died from cancer in house tenanted by negroes, at the age of 70.
 Chief Master at Arms c. Cetrlck, or the Newport naval training station, and Ivan Kenney, fireman of the tor pedo station, fought ten round draw. The battle, it was said, was for the lightweight championship of the navy.
 The Denver & Rio Grande railway tunnel at Tennessee Pass, which was blocked by a cave-in of tons or dirt and snow two weeks ago, was re- opened for traffic. The bore has been entirely cleared of debris
 Bloomington and Decatur of the Three I League. broke the worlds professional record for long baseball game in a contest which went twenty six innings. Decatur won by score of two to one.
 Six passengers and the engineer were slightly injured when Georgia Central passenger train No 1 was de- railed near Martindale. Ga, thirty miles east of Chattanooga.
 It was reported that a contract Tor 1O5 locomotives had been placed with the Baldwin Locomotive works by the Hartman lines.
 Philippe Ii. Roy, former speaker CT the legislature of Quebec and presl- dent of the Bank of St John, was found guilty of falsifying returns on the banks condition. Two days ago. Roy attempted suicide by shooting
 Give and William Newman, hold-up men. were sentenced at Greenwood, B. C., to twenty years in the penlten' tiary for having held up and robbed the Great Northern railway agent at Bridwell. B. C., last December The men committed the crime in company with Ben Hart, who turned kings eVi' dence and who was allowed his frfee- dom.
 The latest name under consideration as a possible successor to MT. ROCK hill the American minister to China is that of Prof Jeremiah w. JenKs' of Cornell university.
 Senator Beveridge of Indiana has introduced an amendment to the tarih l hil1 -nrnhihitine- any dealer or man