The Harrison times., 1911-02-11
NEWS Of THE WEEK
LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings in Foreign Lands and
Throughout the Nation Chron-
icIed in Paragraphs.

The taking OF evidence IN lhe ulai
of Genkyo Mitzunga, the Japanese boy
accused OF numbering Mrs. Katherine
Wilson in her home on Capitol NIL,
Denver Colo, last May, has begun,
The little japanese, who admits that
he was in the Wilson home when the
murder occurred, but declares a white
man was the murderer, was the pic
ture of fear as he sat in the court
room. Many Japanese Of prominence
are attending the trial.
Seven or eight persons are reported
to have been killed and many injured
In the wreck of the Missouri Pacific
passenger train No 4, bound from
Kansas City TO st. Louis, seven miles
west of Lamont, Mo, December 2.
The first inumation as to the sent-
nent among members of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers on
sixty-one western railroads came when
1t was announced the Southern Pacific
engineers at points on the Paclilc
coast had voted to strike.
Mammals on fire." the 4-year-old
son of Mrs Tennie Whitaker, at Mem
phis, Tenn, told the tiremen who re
sponded to an alarm from the home.
They found the woman burned to q
crisp in front of an open CRATE.
The initial step in adding to the navy
the four submarine torpedo boats au-
thorized at the last session Of con-
Eress will be taken February 6, when
proposals for constructing these yes
sells by contract will be opened at the
navy department
The Pullman Sleeping Car Co., in a
hearing at Pullman, ILL.,, before Inter
state Commerce Commissioners Lane
and Clark, offered substantial reduc-
tions in its present rates for both
lower and upper berths to satisfy the
public demands for lower fares.
The population Of the United States
and its possessions, unofficially esti-
mated by the census bureau to be l0O,-
100000 may fall 100000 short of
these figures, according to careful
computations.
During a sudden tempest in the Cas-
plan sea, landing stage at Asuak-
han, Russia, on which were 800 Per-
sian dock workers was dragged from
Its moorings and swept out to sea-.
The storm was so violent that at
tempts at rescue were futile, and all
were lost.
His right foot caught in the frog Of
. railroad switch an unidentified man
lost his life at St Louis when Frisco
train passed over both Of his ankles in
the Frisco yards. The mans right
arm also was pulled from its socket.
He was dead when discovered by a
Tack walker.
The conference OF governors in ses-
sion at Frankfort Ky, has received a
sequest from the committee on conges-
don of population OF New York city
that methods OF distributing popula-
non be taken up for consideration.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given Vassar
,ollege s150,0OO for the construction
81 a new residence hall or dormitory
It will be called The Olivia Jasselyn
Nall" after Mrs. Sage's paternal
grandmother.
The population of the state of iii.
nois is 5,GSS,59l, as against 4,S2l, $50
In 1900, according to the enumeration
report issued by the census bureau.
In his annual report to the secre-
tary Of the interior, Walter +. Clark,
governor Of Alaska, handles the coal
land situation in vigorous language,
In view OF the widespread and bitter
discussion OF Alaska coal lands. fol.
lowing the charges OF Louis r. CLAWS
resulting in the Ballinger.Pinchot con.
troversy, the opinion and recommen.
dations of Governor Clark are de.
clared timely.
A safe containing $4,000, stolen
from a sub station OF the Wells Fargo
Express company in Muskogoe, OKLA,
was found under a residence porch,
All the money was in the safe when
It was opened at police headquarters.
George ]. Mackin, a saloon keeper
of Columbus, o., obtained a verdict OF
$500 against Chief Of Police Carter
and six patrolman who wrecked his
saloon in a raid February q. Mackln
asked for $4,000,
Twenty Rremen barely escaped
death in a fire which destroyed the
general merchandise establishment OF
A. Lurie & Co., at Chicago, with loss
of $4,000
Almost a million dollars damage
was done, and the entire town OF Rum.
melsberg, Germany, was Illuminated
when four huge tanks containing
$500, 900 gallons Of gasoline exploded.
The entire town was threatened with
destruction.
Because the Western Union Tele.
grsDh company failed TO transmit a