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6eysnty-nine men gave their lives
to save the foreAts of the west.
Mr.. Bryan has been making some
4 speeches In Speaker Csnnon's Illinois
district.
Philadelphia defeated the Cubs and
Won the championship pennant.
7 + Edgar Allen Poe has been declared
entitled to place in the hall Of fame.
4 The Norwegian steamer Bluef1elds
\ I. believed to have been lost In the
4 West Indian hurricane.
4 Theodore Roosevelt has put the
stamp Of approval on the republican
candidates in Michigan.
Theodore Roosevelt spent his 62d
] birthday in the thick of the fight for
!! the New York republican state ticket.
4 The bodies of seven men. all vie
Tins of the recent hurricane. were
washed up BY the waves at Panta
Gorda, Fla. sis2a 81 "
The validity of the Carmack amend
ment to the Hepburn rate law 10 be-
ing, tested in the United States So
preme court.
Dispatches received at Duluth say
that the steamer Langham was
burned in Lake Superior, but that the
crew was saved.
Lniggi Lucheni. who assassinated
| the emperor of Austria in 1908. COM
| mitted suicide in his cell in the pris-
on known as l'Eveche.
l. Memorial services for the late Sen
ator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa
were held in Washington in the
Foundry Methodist church.
Society has given up its attempt to
reconcile Colonel John ] acob Astor
and Mrs. Ava Willing Astor. the beau
tiful wife who divorced him.
Fire destroyed twenty-seven build
ings at Mayeri. town OF Oriente
province. Cuba, short distance from
Santiago. The loss is estimated at
/ $250.000.
A provision prohibiting the third
degree" in police investigations was
introduced in the Arizona constitu-
ational convention as part of the pro-
posed declaration OF rights,
BY decision of the Interstate COM
meroe commission. 1t is not Lawful, ffoT
interstate freight carriers to advance
the rates on shipments during the
period of their transportation.
| A brutal murder was disclosed at
Cincinnati in the finding OF the dead
body of woman whose throat had
been cut and her head almost split
open, apparently by an axe.
| The question of seven-day labor in
| continuous process in the iron and
steel industry will be investigated by
"a committee appointed by E. H. Gary.
chairman of the United States Steel
corporation.
Three women and one man, each
reputed to be more than 100 years
old, were among those rescued when
a fire broke out in the cellar of the
home Of the Daughters of Jacob in
New York
( The Illinois Daily Newspaper asso
citation at it's annual meeting direct
ed acommittae to draw a bill to pre-
sent to the next legislature penal
izing the malicious giving OF false
news to newspapers
The state convention of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance union in
session in Hutchinson, Kas., pledged
sufficient money to place a Bible and
hymn book in the hands of every man
on the battleship Kansas.
Orlando F. Altorre, FORMER post
Office clerk, pleaded guilty in the
United States district court to the
enibezzlement of $4,000 from the Los
Angeles postofice while he was en-
ployed by the registry department.
A cable from Rio Ianeiro to the
New Dreams Picayune says: 1.-THE
steamship Wally was wrecked near
the lighthouse at Arrosales off Para
and is a total loss. Some of the pas
sangers were rescued, but 1t is be-
neved that nearly fifty were drowned"
New York's Chinatown is to be
cleaned up as it has never been
cleaned before. This is the decision
Of the new police administration, it
was learned at headquarters, and be-
ginning at midnight, the police we're
instructed to order all white persons
from the district.
With those national currency asso.
Citations already formed and those in
process OF formation, officials OF the
Treasury department believe the
financial centers Of the country are as
amply protected against financial
stringency as they can be by any aid
8of the Payne-Aldrich law.
One OF the naval changes and pro-
motions resulting from the retirement
Of Capt. u. S. G. White on account OF
age was the advancement Of Com
mander Robert 3. Peary, the Arctic.
explorer, to the rank Of captain Peary
has been the only civil engineer In
the navy with rank Of commander.
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