The Brinkley argus., 1910-06-10
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 the United Sfates

| lO 0UU pOulluS Ol HlSulg SAplOSlN0 TIT troglycerine bombs Racing at a speed varying from 45 to 55 miles an hour, he will release this deadly car go while at a height of quarter of mile above the earth, raining it down upon dummy Notifications, bat teries. arsenals, bridges, trains and troops.
 Fort Smith, Ark, shipped 150 car loads of vegetables to St Louis in one day It was the first shipment of the season from that place.
 The United States is insisting on a fair tria! for William Whitman. the American who laid the mines at Bluefelds for the insurgents, who was captured by the government troops.
 The plan to have parade for Roose- welt whei. he return to America has | been abandoned, owing to the fact l hat to carry out the wishes of all who intended to participate. it would take at least 10 hours for the line to pass a given point.
 President Taft told the graduating class of young women at Bryn Mawr college he favored the higher educa- ! ton of women, and said he utterly dis scented from the suggestion that high CT education rather units them from the duties of wife and mother Col. Theodore Roosevelt will attend t~e ceremonies inaugurating the new bridge across the Rio Grande connect ing the United States with Mexico, at Brownsville, during the third week in July He will be met at St Louis and escorted to Texas by large party of railroad officials.
 Forty thousand dollars is a purse proposed for a triangular aeropane race from Indianapolis to St. Louis to Chicago and back to Indianapolis
 The Illinois Coal Operators associ- ation have offered the Illinois miners a 3-cent increase in pay, but refuse to pay the shotfirers. The officers of the mine unions say they will not ac- cept the offer.
 John R. Walsh's railroads, the Southern Indiana and the Chicago Southern, will be sold at public auc- tlon in July A decree of foreclosure was entered in the federal court at Chicago and the properties ordered sold. The amount due on both roads is $15,0O0,000.
 F. H. Jennings, president of the Columbia National bank of Pittsburg rated to be worth $20,000000, is sery- ing two months term in the Ale gheny county jail, as penalty inn posed upon him for bribing a council man. He is also to pay a fine of 5500
 Snow fell at Pittsburg, Pa, on May 31. On the same day the thermom. eter in Arizona registered 120, a rec ord for May day.
 A prize of $10,090 is offered for an aviation flight across the state of Mis. souri from Kansas City to St. Louis.
 With the probability of two more members on the bench next October. the railroads between the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers and shippers m the central freight territory are said to be preparing 10 ask for rehearing of the Missouri river rate case" decided by the supreme court in favor of the interstate commerce commission.
 New York newspapers are Vieing with each other ill offering large prizes for aeroplane flights. The World offers $30,00O for the first ayi. ators who would fly from New York to St Louis The Times offers $25,- 900 for a flight to Chicago
 Three men were instantly killed when the boilers of St. Louis, Troy < Eastern railroad engine blew up at the mouth of the Donk mine No. 1, three miles east of Collinsville, III
 Rudolph Spreckels. the young Fris co millionaire, who was a prominent figure in the recent California graft hunt, met number of persons inter. ested in the reform movements in Chicago. T intend devoting the re. mainder of my life to reforms" said Spreckles Capital, labor and poll tics are on a basis of corruption throughout the United States to-day and the beginning of the end is just 1 in sight"
 For the first time in the history oi Connecticut a womans name appears on a regular party ticket for state of. flee. Ella Reeve Blor of Waterbury has received the nomination for secre' tary of state from the Socialists.
 England felt the swish of the "bis stick" in famous Guild hall, the pie | turesque headquarters of London's civ | il authorities. Colonel Roosevelt, in response to the speech making him | an honorary freeman of this city, as sailed England's administration in Egypt and virtually declared that England should rule with stronger hand or get out and leave Egypt to Q more fearless nation.
 At least s20OO00,OO0, which the | American railroads had tentatively agreed to spend in replacements, as 3 result of the increased revenue from the advance in freight rates they hac expected, must now be used to stavt off ruin, according to statement
 made by Slason Thompson, of th'
 Railway News bureau.
 Following the finding of the decom
 posed body of S-year-old Alma Kell