St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-04-29
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings Of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume Of important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.


for Our Busy Readers.
Anew York girl committed suicid
on the beach at Naples, Italy.
Thirty-six hundred miners Of Phoen
TX and Greenwood, B. c., are on strike
100000 subscribed for a Lincoll
monument funnd 40 years ago Is los
and cannot be located.
Governor Hughes of New York, hal
been appointed associate justice Of th'
United States Supreme court.
A sealing steamer with 1877 men OF
board is believed to have gone down of
the New Foundland fishing banks.
Zeppelin II, one Of Count Zeppelin'I
best airships was torn from its mornings
by a fierce storm and totally wrecked.
The bean crop in Mississippi ha,
been totally ruined by the freezing
weather. Ice half an inch thick was
formed.
The loss Of the cotton crop In the
South from frost will total millions,
and 10 the worst calamity that section
has known since the Civil war.
Convicts IN the state penitentiary At
Canyon City, Colorado, revolted. and
two are dead and two are badly wound
cd. Ono guard was wounded. None
escaped.
With her port bow smashed and her
boom and cathcsd carried away, the
barkentinc Kohala put into San Fran
cisco In q disabled condition, the result
Of q collision with an unknown two
msstcd steamer. just of Farallon Is
lands.
j.. J. Hill and party Of New York
bankers arc en- route 10 see the North
west.
The proposed American South Polar
expedition has been abandoned for this
year.
Coalition Of British Liberals and
Irish has blasted the hopes Of tho Tor
lee In parliament.
Edward Payson Weston passed
through Syracuse, N. Y. on his walk
scross the continent.
Three lives werc lost and six per-
sons are missing ~ the result Of ho-
tsl FIRE IN Cincinnati.
President Taft has ordered tho rc-
moval Of the Alaskan district attorney
and tho United States marshal.
\ Il 10 believed that tho Milwaukee
road will tap Willspa Harbor, Wash,
and then build direct TO Portland.
Charles J. wesler. accused Of mur-
dering his mother-in-lsw at Gig Har-
Dor. WASH, has made full confession
Of the crime.
In an address before the highest In
tellectual personsges Of France. Roose-
welt put human rights always above
property rights.
Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for
years m the richest and shrewdest
business woman In the world, will |
soon retire from active business life, Il |
II understood, and will turn over the |
handling Of her immense fortune, es-
timated at $50, 900. 900, TO her daugh-
ter. Sylvia. now Mrs. Sylvia Astor
Wilkes.
As q sequel to the suspension Of ID.
p. Crawford and Harry Horton from
Stanford by the student affairs COM
mittee, T.. M. Leaf, editor Of the col
lege magazine which published the
charges which led TO the dismissal Of
tho two athletes, was seized by a
crowd Of students and thrown into
Lake Laguintas.
Two Eastern postofiice thieves got
ten years and SO, 900 fine for stealing
stamps.
1t Ia claimed Australian beef can be
sold In the United States cheaper than
the home product.
A Kansas woman lost her life trying
10 rescue the pictures Of her parents
from her burning home.
A big freight steamer, loaded ready
10 sail for Boston, was destroyed by
Are at her dock In Rotterdam.
While playing In farmers yard
near Colfax, WASH, a 6-year-old child
was run over by a hog and its leg bro
ken.
President Fallieres, of France, ex-
changed calls with Roosevelt and the
audience in French theater rose to
greet him.
Attorneys, principals and clerks en-
gagged In general fight In a Sacra-
mento court room. Deputy sheriffs
them.
Four cases Of appendicitis in five
years, and three Of them within the
last six months, is the record Of a Col
FAX. WASH, family.
The government cotton inquiry will
70 deeper than originally expected.
A daring thief has looted the cathe-
iral Of Moscow, Russia, of precious
stones from the pictures of the saints
and the image Of the virgin, to the
1alue Of $500. 900.
An expedition will leave Copenhagen
his summer to retrace Cooks route
through the Arctic and recover instru-
nents and supplies which Cook claims
70 have left at certain points.