The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1910-07-14

I, Cnetie, near new YORK city, TOT speed
ing an automobile.
The federal agricultural department
Is experimenting with red species Of
sheep, imported from Africa, said to
be extremely prolific and of early ma
turing qualities. The department hopes
to be able to produce spring lamb by
Christmas.
A four-horse stage coach carrying
II passengers bound for Ell Portal,
CAL. the gateway of the Yosemite Ma
tional park, went over a cliff into the
MERGED river, fall of 100 feet. Sew.
eral persons were slightly hurt. Two
horses persisted.
Nineteen persons were killed and 81
others injured by the derailing of a
train near the station of Kisilarwat.
! Asiatic Russia, on the trans Caspian
/ railway.
Rev. C. De Witt Sharp and Eunice
G. Whitaker, aged fourteen, who
eloped from Schenectady, N. Y, are
under arrest at Kansas City, Mo.
Nearly hundred thousand MEM
bers of the Order Of Elks gathered In
Detroit for the annual convention and
session Of the grand lodge.
The American Institute Of Homeo-
pathy met In annual session In Pasa-
dena. this being its first convention
west Of the Rockies.
Since January 1 eighty-six railroads
and industrial corporations in this
country have increased their disburse-
ments or declared initial or resumed
dividends to the extent Of $57,625. 900
year. Twenty-three Of these cor
porations are railroads, their increase
alone representing $15,O00,000. ,.
The combined defense of force OF
American planters and merchants and
the Estrada soldiers successfully
baked an attack against Pearl
Lagoon, Nicaragua, when the Madris
gunboat San Jacinto, backed up by
the gunboat Venus, directed a heavy
fire into the center of the town.
The Wisconsin forest fires are esti-
mated to have cost total Of nearly
| 100000. The losses are tabulated
as follows: North Of Chippewa Falls.
| $1,000. 900; in Marinette and Wausau
and the vicinity, $1.000.000; near Med
ford and Prentice, $1.00O.000. The
danger Of fire Is now ended.
Cleverness on the part Of the en-
gineer prevented three youthful and
apparently inexperienced bandits from
robbing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Southwestern flyer, No. 3, near Lari-
more, about fifteen miles from st.
Louis. Three young men were ar
rested as suspects and are in jail at
st. Louis pending investigation.
An examination of the Modern
Woodmen of America, fraternal so
ciety with more than 100000 mem
bers, has been requested from the
state insurance department by F. 8.
Webb Of Chicago, a member Of the
society since 1885 and for several
years manager of the advertising de-
partment of its monthly journal.
Mrs. Charles D. Norton, wife Of the
secretary to the president, was opera
ted on for appendicitis at the Beverly
(Mass.) hospital. Speedy recovery is
expected.
A Brooklyn trolley car left the rails
after a burst of speed and crashed
into an iron pole, killing George Ben
gel, a resident of Brooklyn. Eighteen
other passengers were injured.
| On petition Of the international Pa
| per company Federal Judge Colt ap.
pointed John Norris of New York and
| Charles f. Weed receivers Of the Bos.
ton Herald company.
The Democrats OF his home town
and county at their county convention
made 1t possible for w. J. Bryan to
60 into the state convention at Grand
Island, Neb, on July 26 with delega-
ton committed to county option and
prepared to make a fight to incorpor'
ate a plank in the state platform de-
claring in favor Of 1t.
The wildcat" mining law, passed at
the last session Of the Nevada legtsla'
ture, was sustained by a decision
handed down by the state supreme
court.
The fourth an-American conference
opened in Buenos Ayres. the capital OF
the Argentine republic. All the Amer
lean republics were represented. the
United States delegation being headed
by Henry White. .-.
Congressman Walter Preston Brown
low of Jonesboro, Tenn. Is dead al
Johnson City, Tenn. He had served
In congress since 1897.
After a special meeting Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmer
held at Harrisburg, Pa, 1t was stated
the sentiment was largely against 6
strike of Pennsylvania railroad EN-
ployes. 4
James Madden was found intoxi
Gated floating on the North river a
New York and became annoyed wher
sailor. with a boathook. rescued
him.
In a letter to the trustees of thu
state normal school at Chico. Cal.
Governor Gillett has ordered the boart
to investigate charges of immoralit!
against the president of the institu
ton, DR.. c. G. Van Lew.
President Taft has appointed B. 8
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