The Harrison times., 1911-01-21
LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings In Foreign Lands anu
Throughout the Nation enron
icled in Paragraphs,

special message urging lHe lol uhNo
ton of the Panama canal and recon-
mending an appropriation Of S5OoO'-
600 for the work, at the present ses-
sion of congress.
Sixteen New York firemen were
hurt. three of them so seriously that
they had to be taken to hospitals, in
five fires which caused $Sll5,OOO and
kept the firemen on the jump.
AT a Joint caucus of Republicans
Of the Wyoming legislature Senator
c. d. Clark was chosen, A to S9, as
the nominee of the party to succeed
himself,
Three persons are known to have
been killed, the booy of fourth Is
believed to be buried in the ruins, and
is others, mostly young girls, are
severely injured as the result of
gas explosion and fire that wrecked
the building of the j. g. McCrory &
Co. s and 10-cent store in Connells-
vile, Pa.
After believing herself a widow 23
years and finally marrying again, Mrs.
yda Mattox, wife of Rev. c, L. MattoX,
Baptist minister in Springfield, Mo-,
has learned that she has two hus-
bands. Mrs. MattoX's first husband,
A. B. Dial, instead of being dead, as
she believed, has been found to be
living in Hill county, Texas.
At the conclusion of testimony the
subcommittee of the committee on
naval affairs of the house voted to
report favorably the bill making Capt,
Robert e. Peary a rear admiral.
In the probing of election frauds
In Adams county, Ohio l,4O5 confes'
sions have been made, Prof j. H.
Young, principal of the Churn creek
district school, discovered that he
has five-year "cinch' on his posi-
ton. Out of the 150 voters in the
district, he is the only one who has
not been disfranchised for five years
for vote selling.
Charges that Senator Gore, the
blind statesman from Oklahoma, was
involved in an Indian land steal
with the men he accused of trying
to bribe him were made before the
special committee of the house in
vestgating the Gore charges, by Den
mis- Flynn, counsel for f, McMur-
ray.
Driven suddenly mad without appar'
ent cause, Edgar Henry, a farmer 20
years old, ran amuck with a Winches-
ter at Mount Vernon, Faulkner county,
Arkansas, omptied his gun into a
school room crowded with children,
killed Or. II. A. Davis, shot a horse
under man, and injured two persons
who were not able to get under cover
before he spied them.
Dug" Lester Kentucky tobacco
grower, was arrested at latan, No.
In Platte county, on the charge OF
burning the tobacco barn of w, w.
Kyle and 25,00O pounds Of tobacco.
Commander w. S, Sims Of the Unit
ed States navy was officially repri-
manded by President Taft for his
blood is thicker than water speech
In London on December 3.
Killing Harry Chesmore, police
man who had arrested them after a
hold.up Of the Hotel Mckay in Du'
luth, Mimi, William MuEzary and AL.
got Johnson, each 10 years old, are
the quarry in the hottest bandit hunt
Duluth has seen in years. Both are
heavily armed and a desperate battle
Is expected when they are run down.
Judge Carpenter, sitting In the
United States district court in Chi
cago, decided that the government
can proceed with criminal prosecu-
ton Of the packers under the Sher.
man antitrust law. He held that the
present action was not barred by the
injunction granted in 1908 by Judge
Grosscup in the United States cir
cult court
ROYAL Stanton, a student Of New
York in the Western Theological sem
mary VI t1NNeNAis W. A"S ANNN'NNN -
letter fro the Arctic circle written
by Meme" an Eskimo, who was with
Peary on two dashes TO the north
pole, declaring neither Peary nor
Cook reached the pole, but that Cook
went as far as anybody. He declares
Cook is loved by all and Peary hated
for his cruelty.
Three bags Of registered mail, sup
posed TO contain letters and yaluables
worth $4,000, have been stolen from
mail wagons somewhere between San
Francisco and Oakland.
Several miners Of the west coast OF
Prince Of wales island, southeastern
Alaska, have been killed and eaten by
wolves during the past year, accord
ing to Charles A. SulEer, a brother Of
CONGRESSMAN Sulzer Of New York,
who has just returned from the north.
When officials Of the First National
bank Of Elm Grove, suburb Of
Wheeling, W. Va, opened the doors
they discovered that robbers had
haen here during the night and