The copper era., 1910-04-15
VOLUME 12.
NEWS OF TIE WORLD CONDENSED.

between Cdudud duO NHN States was made public on the 29th. The late Mayor Pingree's brother and successor in business at Detroit, Frank c. Pingree, died on the 21 at the age of 62 For the approaching Parliamentary elections in France twenty women are candida tes in the twenty districts of Paris. David J. Brewer, a justice of the supreme court of the United States who died on the 26th, was buried at Deavenworth, Kansas, on the 2d. The advocates of women's suffrage in Massachusetts lost their annual 6ght in the lower branch of the legis- Iature on the 3lst. The vote was AT to 14S.
 Mayor Gaynor. of New York, has ordered the strict enforcement ot the city ordinance against sales ot fireworks in that city from June 10 to July 10.
 A great storm on the Japanese coast on March 13 brought about the destruction of as many as eighty four fishing vessels, and the death of HOO men.
 The maximum and minimum clause of the Aldrick tariff law of the United States went into effect on the 1st, and President Taft issued proclamation accordingly.
 Charles Sprague Smith. founder
 4h tute of New York, the public meet inps of which at Cooper Union are ot national renown, died suddenly of nneumonia on the 3Oth at the age of ffty-seyen.
 An offer by the Philadelphia trac- tiou company to end the strike by taking back strikers who apply in dividually, so long as vacancies ex' ist. was rejected by the local union bv unanimous vote at meeting on the 4th.
 Tom L. Johnson was reported by the Cleveland Press of the 4th as having improved in health after hls rest in London, and as having gone to Bournemouth, popular watering place and winter health resort on the south coast of England.
 George H. Williams, Attorney Genersl in President Grants cabinet senator from Oregon during the re- construction period, chief justice ol the territory of Oregon at thirty and \ mayor of Portland after his eightiett wear. a man of highest rank as lawyer Of the old professional school died at Portland on the 4th at the O eighty-seven.
 A national mass meeting of farm CTS will be held at the Coliseum, St Louis, May 2 to 8 next, under thu auspices of the Farmers. Educatiora and Cooperative Union of Americi and the American Society of Equity The convention manager is Joh Grady, 52e Commercial Building, St Louis.
 According to Surgeon Simpson 4be revenue cutter Manning 60 pc cent. of the natives of Alaska an St. George and St. Paul islands ar suffering from tuberculosis. The are very few children, he says, wh are not affected Because of lack c water the natives are unable to kee their houses clean.
 The "golden rule'' policy of Chic Kohler. of Cleveland, continues decrease the police arrests in tn; city. For the first three months 1908 there were 2,679 arrests: for u first three months of 1909 arres were brought down to 1,4O5; and u record of the first three months the current year shows only l,2S3 a rests. Chief Kohler calls his poll stations "moral hospitals"
 In order to save a notary fee ot cents, Sacob Wood, Staten lslan New York, hermit who recently dit leaving an estate valued at Soo,O pasted a new clause oyer a clau which he desired to cancel. He le his estate to charitable institute and contesting relatives claim | will is invalid. When he drew the original he paid the legal fee 9 cents to have the signatures witnesses attested.
 As two sheds were burning, M Agness June, of St. Louis, wearl her new Easter hat, passed along street. Sparks from the blaze
 fire to the hat. As she proceeded her journey she noticed passer' smiling and gazing intently on
 beadgear oblivious of the fast thai was ahame. Not until a small shouted, "Your hats afre," did realize she was a walking smo stack. The police report on
 confagratiou showed that Mrs. J' suffered loss of 8 by fire.