St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-06-10
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of important Events
Presented In Condemned Form
for Our Busy Readers.

dead beneath their overturned auto.
The International Horse Show Il
open in London, and King Edward ID
badly missed.
Maya Indians In Yucatan have re-
belled against Mexico and sacked the
town Of valladolid.
Railroads have agreed to withdraw
all proposed rate increases, pending q
general conference.
Congress has authorized Oregon and
Washington to fix the boundaries be-
tween the two states.
Chairman Nelson, Of the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigator commission, says
conservation has run riot.
The Illinois Central railroad has
been bilked about 100000 by crook
ed officials and big shippers In col
lusion.
Lightning struck the spectators at a
ball game in Pony, Montana, badly In
juring many and tearing of one wo-
mans corset and shoes.
The corruption fund which defeated
the fisheries bill In the Illinois legisla-
ture has been traced 10 its source, and
Il seems certain that the bribe-giver
will be convicted.
While swinging by his arm from
the limb Of a tree, In Dillon. Mont,
Frank Harkness, aged IL, struck the
point Of a pair Of sheep shears, hung
on nail in the tree with the blades
outwards, the steel piercing the boys
heart and instantly killing him.
When George Cooke, paymaster for
the Hans Rees Sons Tanncry, Ashc-
willie, N. c., reached the company's
Office, after drawing 200 out Of the
bank 10 meet payrolls, he found 10 his
utter astonishment that the money was
not In the suitcase where he had placed
Il. He believes he was a victim Of
shrswd broad daylight robbery.
Il 10 believed that sentiment In the
South 10 turning against prohibition.
President Taft views the increase Of
Socialism with considerable apprchcn-
sion.
King George has called conference
Of party leaders 10 settle the house OF
lords dispute.
An equestrian statue Of General Gus
Ter has been unveiled ut Monroe. Mich
igan. Clusters homo.
James M. Lynch has been reelected
president Of the International Typo
graphical union by $4,000 majority.
All union teamsters and ESQ union
mschinists Of Portland. Or. are on
strike for higher pay and shorter hours.
A wealthy man Of Ottawa, ILL.,, has
bequeathed $4,000 TO aid worthy
young mon. provided they do not study
theology.
Mrs. Helen Flagg Young. superin-
tendcnt Of schools OF Chicago. was
given n reception by Ave thousand
teachers Of that city.
A suit for 500. 900 damages for
false imprisonment has been begun by
a Los Angeles man against the Burns
4 Sheridan Detective agency.
Excessive heat has injured the raisin
grape crop Of California.
Il 10 reported that Madriz has lost
all his artillery and 400 prisoners.
ex-governor Folk Of Missouri. would
like the Democratic nomination for
president In 1912.
A banker Of Minneapolis has been
fined $1,000 for smuggling two pearl
necklaces at Hoboken. N. j.
Taft would appoint Roosevelt chair
man Of a commission 10 tour the world
In the interest Of UNIVERSAL peace.
A prisoner at San Quentin. CAL,
haunted by the face Of his victim. has
confessed TO killing a man In a boxcar
at Spokane.
Interest 10 growing rapidly In the
proposed long-distance aeroplane races
In the United States, and many big
purses will be offered.
Tho trial Of the "golden rule" chief
of police Of Cleveland. Ohio. ON charges
Oh linfnorutty anu uiuhhVhNcc h"'S
failed almost entirely.
A British army officer in an Ameri-
can aeroplane crossed the English
channel and then returned, without
alighting. In 90 minutes.
Suit has been commenced to set
aside railroad land grants in Oregon
aggregating 8. 900. 900 acres, and now
valued at about $50, 900. 900.
East and Middle West railroads have
filed notice of an increase In freight
rates. nearly every road In the country
now having given such notice.
II is reported that an American en-
gineer operating with the Estrada
forces In Nicaragua has been captured
by Madriz, and the government has
been asked to procure his release.
Charles II. Treat, ex-treasurer Of the
United States, died Of apoplexy.
Four principal British colonies In
South Africa have formed union.
A tidal wave swept the Oregon coast
at Tillsmook, damaging the tamwsy
Of the life-saving station.
twenty-five Western railroads were
enjoined from putting into force on
June I. q general advance In freight
rates.
President Taft told Bryn Mawr stu
dents that educated women make the
Sest companions, also that unmarried