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put y Iuu LlCke In tho u0lO.
John A. DIX was nominated for gov
ernor by the democrats Of New York
Frank l. Mcvsy WA inauguratst
president Of the University Of NORTH
Dakota.
Aviator wynmalen, IN q biplane q
Bovey, France, rose to q height 81
1886 feet.
China is believed to be On thu
verge OF an upheavel similar to that
OF the boxers.
Rear Admiral Charles r. Rocker
retired. died in washington. aged
sixty-nine years.
Virginia Harmed Sothern fled suit
for divorce against Edward T. Soth.
ern in the district court at Reno,
Nevada.
The German ministry OF war an
nounced It would give $4,000 as q
price for an overland aviation com
petition.
Edwin. three-year-old o of C. A.
johnson, republican candidate for
governor Of North Dakota, was
burned to death.
Walter Brookins. the hero OF the
Chicago-to-Springield will attempt a
flight continuously from Springfield to
st. Louis, q distance of eighty-fve
miles.
Private advices from Italy assert
italian emigrants from the cholera
infected districts of that country are
being embarked at Genoa for
America.
A $40. 100000 merger Of all the
powder companies in Canada with the
exception of the Giant Powder COM
pany, branch factory at Telegraph
Bay, has just been effected.
Because of the cholera scare In
Europe, two incoming transatlantic
liners the Lapland from Antwerp and
the Perussia from Naples, were de-
tanned at quarantine for inspection.
The commission named by Presi.
dent Taft to determine how the gov
eminent may best supervise the is
suance of railway securities will hold
Its first session in Washington No
vember %. Quarters will be opened
there at once and a force Of clerks
hired.
The state of Missouri has a popula-
ton Of 3,293, 1896, according to the en-
umeration made during the thirteenth
census, statistics of which were an
nounced by the census bureau. This
Is an increase Of 186,570. or 6 per
cent over the population in 1900 OF
3,I06, COS.
The Los Angeles Times building
was wrecked by dynamite and subse-
Quently destroyed by fire. Twenty or
more lives were lost and a great
printing plant utterly destroyed. The
outrage Is attributed to labor
troubles. the Times having for a
long time been IN open office. So
FAR there IL no clue to the guilty
parties.
The Standard Oil company through
It's official publicity representative, j..
G. Clarke, has announced that the
company has inaugurated a cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
uhA VI CAuCu OlI anu lS IOWGI. |
Ing prices Of kerosene in Europe and
far east. This action follows that
Of August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels l cents a gallon from 9A to
BA cents at the refinery, and refined
oil in tanks from 6h to 5h tents a
gallon. In part the statement reads:
The Standard Oil company has in
augurated a campaign to increase the
consumption of refined oil.
The level Of prices for refined oil to-
day In the United States is lower
than at any time during recent years,
and as a direct result of these prices
the consumption Of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
Icy Is now being actively pursued
abroad"
AS a tragic sequel to the death of
Edmond Poillt, the French aviator,
his ~fiancee, who had shown almost
uncomfortable grief went to his grave
Sunday and fred a bullet into her
heart. Poillot was killed on Sep
Is while making a fight with
a passenger. While at a height Of
ninety feet q wing collapsed and the
machine fell backward.
Advances in trans-continental
freight charges varying from 5 to 10
cents q hundred pounds from points
Of eastern origin to Pacific coast
terminals were suspended by the in
commerce commission until
February !, 1911. pending an investi-
cation by the commission into the
'easonableness Of the increase.
The executive committee Of the
Of machinists. through
Secretary Robert n. Lackey, sent to
he interstate commerce commission
protest against the recent petition
PRESENTED to the commission by Of
lcials Of various organizations of rail-
Dad employees urging that the pro-
advance Of freight rates should
approved.
Personal.
Hoke Smith has been elected tn