St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-05-27
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings Of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume Of important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

Railroads are boosting freight rate
on sugar and coffee.
The department Of justice is huntin
for an alleged lumber trust.
Eighteen persons were hurt In
wreck on the Southern railway n.Vir
ginia.
President Taft has signed proc
lamation reducing the Idaho forest re
serves by 100, 900 acres.
A man convicted Of sugar frauds ant
pardoned has returned voluntarily u
testify against the sugar trust.
Louis W. Hill and party have com
pleted their 1,500-mile tour through
Oregon and say that no state contains
greater possibilities.
The American Aeronautical associa
tion has been organized. II will bt
entirely Independent OF the Wright
Brothers Aero Club Of America.
A Marshfeld, Oregon, man has
raised his own tea supply for several
years. He says the Pacific Coast car
raise tea just as good as japan OF
China.
An anarchist threw a bomb at the
monument erected to victims Of the at
tempt against King Alfonso on his we'd
ding day. No one was injured but the
anarchist himself, who then committed
suicide.
In order TO win 81 wager TO buy
groceries, an Arkansas man lcapcd
from n b0-foot bridge into the creek
below and started TO swim ashore, but
was drowned. The wager was given
20 his family.
The sugar trust admits II Is In NOR
tal fear Of the cartoonists.
A severe wind storm did much dam.
ago In Clay county. Kansas.
Army engineers approved the plan
for FREQ government. locks at Oregon
City.
Jewish families 10 the number Of
$50 have boon expelled from several
largo cities In Russia.
A hundred-million dollar combine OF
Chicago street car lines and terminal
companies is proposed.
Il 10 said the death Of Of King Ed
ward leaves Kaiser Wilhelm In much
moro prominent light than formerly.
George sontag. .cx-train robber. des-
pcrado and convict, will lecture on the
uselessness and folly Of life Of crime.
Count Jacques do Lesscps crossed
the English channel In Bleriot mono
plane. He intends 10 return by the
same method.
Socialists at their national congress
refused 10 vote ut elections whore their
candidates have been eliminated from
the ticket through the commission
form Of city governments.
The Worlds Sunday School eonven-
tion at Washington elected President
Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, King George
of England, President Diaz OF Mexico,
and w. ]. Bryan m life members.
A partly wrecked areoplane was the
only accident that marred the aviation
meet at Sutherlin. Ore.
Firemen on the Delaware. Lack
auwanna n Western have been given
mn increase of IL per cent In wages.
A Greeley. Colo. man paid up all
his old debts so he might die with n
clear conscience when the comet came.
Thieves stole package containing
&32. .024 from the express office at Oil
City. Pa, while the agent wasn't look
ing.
A woman In San Ana. CAL, went in
sane and another tried TO commit suicide
through fear Of the coming Of the
comet.
George Pepoon. Of Northport.
WASH. was found guilty Of murder in
the first degree for poisoning his wife
last August.
j. Voliva, former overseer on the
Dowie farm near Chicago. has begun
suit 10 recover control Of the property,
valued at 81. 900. 900.
Many farmers in Wisconsin removed
he lightning rods from their buildings
~ precautionary measure against In
ury from the effects Of the comet.
Twenty-eight bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins Of the barracks
It Pinar del Rio. Cuba. which were de-
Itroyed by AN accidental explosion Of
|ynamite.
George Westinghouse has invented I
IN air-spring for vehicles which will do +,
way with pneumatic rubber tires. !
md reduce the cost of automobiles
'bout one-half. I
Prohibition was defeated in Denver |,
ity elections.
Henry Watterson says "yellow Jour I
lalism" 10 causing the press 10 lose its I
'old upon public opinion. G
A pair Of scales, exact duplicate of
hose used in weighing sugar ut the
ustom houses, were exhibited In the
ugar fraud trial In New York, and II I,
vas plainly shown how they were !
made to weigh nine pounds short ON !
ess than thousand.
Two dogs at Condor. Ore., were 30 =
'adly injured In a fight with a porcu- u
line that they had to be killed. o
A Tacoma man. his wife and daugh- a
Or, are critically III from eating what z
hey supposed were mushrooms. z
Millions Of dollars were secured
rom cotton buyers all over the world