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

tho Debolt Building and Loan associa-
ton of Cincinnati, who was found
guilty Of embezzling $4,000 from that
institution, was sentenced to serve
nine years in the Ohio penitentiary.
| Everett Carleton Crear of Albany, N.
Y, cadet at West Point, denied that
he was chewing gum when asked by
the officer of the guard. Crear was
tried and found guilty of making a
false statement and was dismissed
Chief Justice Melville Weston Full
Ter, for nearly twenty-five years the
presiding officer of the United States
Supreme court, died suddenly July
at his summer home In Sorrento, Me.
His death, which was wholly unex-
pected, was caused by heart failure.
All the rooms Of the White House
will be accessible to the public during
the coming summer for the first time
in many years. Before leaving Wash
: ington President Taft gave instruc-
tons that the buildings should be
thrown wide open.
Members Of the Order of Red Men
from northern Indiana and Ohio went
to Roanoke, Ind, to celebrate the one
hundredth birthday Of Mrs. Anthony
Revarre, an Indian princess whose ma
tive name is Kilso-Quah.
Five thousand regulars took part in
Chicago's sane Fourth" parade and
opened big military tournament to
last ten days.
The Catholic Educational association
began its annual meeting in Detroit,
among the notable persons present be-
ing Mgr. Falconio, the apostolic dele
gate.
Angelo Hamilton, convicted of MUIR
dering Mrs. Sallie B. Hix at Lynchburg,
Va, last June, was electrocuted at
Richmond. Va.
| Many of the cotton mills of the Uni
ted States were shut down until July
II to curtail production. One hundred
thousand operatives are affected.
Freight rates on lemons from south
ern California to eastern destinations
were reduced from $1.15 to 81 by the
interstate commerce commission, to
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Engineer e. B. Jolley and Fireman
H. Mitchell of west-bound passenger
train No. of the Atchison, Topeka q
Santa Fe railroad, were killed at Cedar
Point, Kan, in a wreck caused by an
open switch.
John William Hallahan ILL.,, promi-
nent junior member of the Philadel-
phia bar, husband Of a daughter Of the
late Daniel O'Day, Standard Oil mil
lionaire, was killed by being caught
between the floor and an elevator in a
hotel at Cape May. N. J.
Two negro men who robbed and
killed a white man were taken from
the county jail at Charleston, Mo-, and
lynched by crowd of $50 whites,
most of them being farmers.
The failure of the First National
bank and the First Trust and Savings
bank at Billings, Mont, which closed
their doors, came as a great surprise
to commercial and Industrial circles
of the state. 1t Is believed they will
pay every dollar.
Meat prices will remain high till the
fall at least. The best authority in
the country made that statement-the
man who has more to do with fixing
prices the packers send out than any
other in the country. Ogden Ar
mour, when he returned after eight
weeks in Europe.
Pleading for a united party and
urging the elimination of rancor and
strife, many county conventions In
Iowa adopted resolutions calling upon
President Taft to remove from his cab
met those who have attempted to read
out of the party the Insurgents.
w. ]. Bryan returned to Lincoln,
Neb., from his six weeks trip to Eu-
rope. He will remain ten days in Ne
braska, devoting his time to state poll
tics. Just what form his political &C.
tivity will take Mr.. Bryan is not pre-
pared to say.
The convention of the National Edu-
cation association in Boston began
with sessions of the National Council
of Education. .-.-
A masked bandit held up the mail
and express stage which runs between
Placerville and Norwood in San MI
guel county, Colorado. Several pas
sengers were lined up along the road
and compelled to surrender their val.
tables.
Prof. William F. Babe Of the Uni
versity Of California will soon under.
take an expedition into the Klamath
region Of Asia Minor to excavate
cities Of the ancient tribes of Hitties,
which flourished several thousand
years before the Christian era.
Collector Loeb's figures for the fiscal
year just ended show he collected in
duties and fines at the port Of New
York $234,250, 000.01.
Reports from London say that Mrs.
Anthony ]. Drexel, Jr., who before
her marriage few weeks ago was
Miss Marjorie Gould, Is suffering
from an abscess in the ear, which may
make dangerous operation necessary.
Philip Schanz, secretary and cash
Ter Of the Aldo Sommers Drug COM
pany at Quincy. ILL.,, has disappeared