The Brinkley argus., 1910-06-10
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.
National League.
American League


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 The Scandinavian-Ameri steam CT United States. which went agrount in the fjord off Christiansand Satur day. has been foated. The vessel re turned to Copenhagen Her passen gers were taken off and brought tt this city immediately after the acci dent.
 The house bill authorizing the en try of the surface of coal lands fol agricultural purposes was passed by the senate.
 While making a flight to win his aviation diploma from the Aero club Edouard Six fell with his machine St feet at Dunkirk, France. Both arms and his nose were broken and he was seriously injured internally.
 The Confederate monument in Oak Grove cemetery, near Paducah, Ky was unveiled June with elaborate ceremonies. A handsome shaft was erected in memory of the Confederate dead who are buried there.
 State Senator D. W. Hoitsiaw is the first of the selfconfessed bribe-takers of the Illinois general assembly to ac- cede to the demands of the public and press of that state and resigned his office.
 Fairyiew, the Mount Vernon of the Southland, celebrated the one hundred and second anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis. One thousand per sons gathered at the memorial park that marks the spot where the first and only president of the Confederacy opened to the light of day
 The railroad pill, which has been under almost continuous discussion in the senate since March 15. passed tha. body by a vote of 50 to I2. The measure is now being considered by q conference committee.
 President Taft in an address at Ada O, Saturday, proclaimed Socialism as the greatest problem that confronts the American people, the issue tha1 is socn to come and that must be skill fully met"
 One of the most remarkable anC puzzling of all the natural phenomena in Yellowstone National park has beer recently discovered by Winter Keeper Runson r. Norris. It is geysei which plays regularly every 24 hours and throws stream 135 feet high but the water is ice cold instead o boiling hot
 Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, son O Lord Longattock, accomplished the feat of flying across the English chan mel from Dover 10 Calais and bacl without a single stop on French soil thus making the first round trip eyel accomplished.
 While 13 stations in the corn anC wheat belt of the northwest reported temperatures at or below freezing Thursday. June 2, hot winds swep Oklahoma with a temperature oi l10 t' 1l5 in the shade.
 Twenty-two railroads in Ohio, Indi ana and Illinois have filed freigh schedules. raising rates from 10 to 4 per cent, with the Interstate Com merce commission to take effect Jul. | The move by the railroads is re garded as exactly parallel to that il the middle west, and which the gov ernment is contesting in aa injunction suit.
 A federal grand jury at Chicago Il investigating the fixing of butter anC egg prices in Chicago and Elgin. Th' Inquiry is the result of an inyestiga lion by Attorney General Wickersham
 At St. Paul Minn., Capt. Timoth, Murphy of the Volunteers of America who said that he was kidnapped ant robbed of $1.25O belonging to the or ganization on March F last, wa found guilty of larceny.
 More than 500 persons have bee drowned and many ships lost in tel rife cyclone that swept East Afries according to meager dispatches r' ceived from Mozambique.
 A Folk-for-president banquet va held in St Louis by the Missoul Democratic league, at which forme aOSGt HUI JOSEbu Ci'A w indorsed for president. The guest honor, in ad address, said he was wi ling to respect the party's wishes.
 The British Antarctic expedition s' sail from London June 1. The stear CT Terra Nova will pick up Capta Scott in New Zealand and the 10,0' mile voyage into the Antarctic w then continue December, 1911, is u time set for the arrival at the sou pole.
 Ben Brown, known as the lit man with the big voice" for 15 yea a train caller at the Union depot St. Louis, who has been heard by m lions, died at his home from bio clot on the brain. His voice fail him q week ago.
 The Jeffries-J ohnson fight is to ta place in San Francisco. The board supervisors granted the permit wi but two dissenting votes. i The supreme court of the Unit States has restored the corporati ,s cases, heard last spring, to the dock | for reargument before the full ben'