St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-05-20
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings Of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
nsnersl Resume Of important Events
Presented In Condemned Form
for Our Busy Readers.

A California 5-year-old was burned
to death while playing with matches.
A tornado swept Texas and Oklaho-
ma, killing one man and injuring many.
John W. Gates, famous New York
stock market plunger, settles lawsuits
by Tipping coin.
Roosevelt was received quietly In
London by an immense throng Of peo-
pie, owing to his sad mission there.
A Chicago club man committed sui
eide by jumping from 13th-story win
dow and landing on marble pave
ment.
DR.. Hyde, Of Kansas City, has been
convicted of numbering his wealthy pa
tient, Col. Swope, by giving him cyan
ide Of potassium.
A negro convict In Alabama set fire
20 the stockade in which the convicts
were kept at coal mine, and 36 con-
victs were burned TO death.
To prove that she was married for
love alone California girl decided to
her brother every cent Of her 500, 900
estate Just before her marriage.
Albert J. Hopkins, an attorney Of
Chicago, win get Si4,219 as his fee In
settling the estate Of Charles T. YER
kes. He sued the estate for.sbo, 900.
Z. B. Carriott chief forccsster Of
the United States weather bureau, Ia
dead.
The Herschel Parker Mt. Mckinley
expedition has sailed from Valdez for
Seldovia.
Mourning over''the death Of King Ed
ward has hushed all political troubles
In England.
Il Ia announced that California's new
primary law is piece Of patchwork
and wocfully inefficient.
Remarkable attentions paid TO
Roosevelt In Germany are causing
much comment In Europe.
A woman who had boon bitten by q
rattlssnake was taken 80 miles In an
auto 10 doctor by the Louis W. Hill
party. now touring Eastern Oregon.
Roosevelt arrived In London a spe-
cial American ambassador TO attend
the funeral Of King Edward, which
will cntitle him TO the highest honors.
Tho food Of emigration from the
United States 10 Canada 10 beginning
70 worry officials Of the departments
Of agriculture and commerce and labor.
Advices from Changsha. China, tho
capital Of the disturbed province OF
Human, state that tho Yale mission In
that city has been plscarded for do
struction by fire. The foreigners, who
were beginning 10 return 10 Changshs,
are again living on boats In tho river.
Harry +. Waugh. Of Seattle. a min
ing prospector, member Of the Arctic
club and leader Of the Waugh sledge
expedition TO the delta Of the Macken-
sie river, committed suicide by hang
ing himself. Failure TO interest cap
italists In his mining project when sue
cess seemed within his grasp Ia be-
iieved 10 have been the cause.
Forest iires In Wisconsin have des-
troyed six farm houses.
An alleged combine In the fish trade
at San Francisco Is under probe.
Eight high school students..at Wilkes
barre, Pa, were drowned while boat
riding.
- II Is rumored at Washington that
Peru and Ecuador will come To open
war soon.
Three hundred pounds Of powder ex-
ploded In a magazine near Logansport.
Indiana, killing one man and injuring
about 20.
w. Cooper Morris was found guilty
OF embezzling $75. 900 Of the funds Of
the Oregon Trust 4 Savings bank at
Portland.
An explosion In. the Wellington coal
mine In England has entombed 1877
miners. Fire has broken out and there
10 no hope Of saving any Of the men.
A carload Of dynamite near Tacoma
Jumped the track and exploded. blow
ing two brakemen TO bits and tearing
mp the track for considerable dis
tance.
More than a hundred persons were
thrown into the waters of Great Salt
Lake by the collapse Of "a stairway
leading to the pavilion. All were res
cued, and none seriously hurt.
That the four great express compan-
ies get net returns Of from .4S To llb
per cent more, ON the capital employed,
In actual express operations, was
stated in a report issued by the Mer-
chants association Of New York.
Eastern senators disagree with Hey
burns statement that "water competi-
tion is fiction"
Havemeyer, the sugar king. Is be-
lieved TO be implicated in the Friar
land deal In the Philippines.
The Panama canal commission has
built and launched q barge made Of
concrete, for use on the canal.
Emperor William Of Germany warm
ly welcomed Roosevelt and party at
the entrance TO the imperial palace.
Forest fires in Wisconsin and North
ern Minnesota are destroying vast
areas Of fine timber and threaten many
towns.
+. August Heinze. Of the Mercantile
National bank of New York. was ac-
quilted Of illegal fnanciering In the
panic of 1907. He now claims the