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majority of 75S votes.
After five weeks time there are
but five men in the jury box in the
Mcnamara trial at Los Angeles and
even they are still subject to chal-
lenge
The most disastrous fire in Grand
Forks this year started in the Hart
Grocery store at 2 o'clock this morn
ing in the Norman block. The dam
age is estimated at $4,000.
The Guild of ST.. Barnabas. COM
posed of nurses of the United States,
Canada and several other countries,
assem- bled in Chicago today for it's
twenty-fifth annual council meeting.
A. Delacy Wood, founder of 80
newspapers in the northwest, died of
pneumonia in a Duluth hospital last
night. He was born in 1855. He
organized the Minnesota Editorial as
sociation.
John Smith, for 80 years at the
head of the Mormon church, and
nephew of joseph Smith, its founder
and first president, died at Salt Lake
City last night of pneumonia. He
was 70 years old.
James A. Savage, taxicab driver,
who several months ago ran down
and killed William H. Stanford an
aged dru ggist, on one of the principal
streets of Newark, N. j., was placed
on trial there today on a charge of
manslaughter.
An island suddenly has risen from
the sea in the Serpent's Mouth Strait
between Trinidad and the Venezue-
Ian coast. The phenomenon was pre-
ceded by an extraordinary commotion
volumes and smoke.
Marcus Vanrie, aged 80, while
hunting alone in the country ten
miles north of Kewanee, Ill, was
killed by the discharge of his gun
while he was crawling through a
hedge fence. His clothing caught
fire from the powder~and his body
was burned.
The proposed canal across the State
of Florida, which has been under dis
cussion for many years, was brought
one step nearer to becoming an ac-
complished fact today, when the
board of army engineers appointed to
determine the most feasible route met
in Jacksonville to prepare it's final
report to the War Department.
An event believed to be without
precedent in the history of Freemas-
onry was furnished at special COM
munication of the Masonic order at
Palmyra, ILL.,, today, when the degree
of Master Mason was conferred on
seven brothers. The brothers are Al
bert, Morris, Robert, Charles, James
Edward and William Ross, all farm
ers, living near Palmyra.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia which convened for it's au-
tumn session at Richmond today is
expected to take up next week the
appeal in the case of Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., the young man now un-
der sentence of death for the murder
of his wife. Should writ of error
be allowed it is probable that Beat
ties second trial will be set for the
January term.
The first postal savings banks in
the Panama Canal Zone were opened
today The establishment of the pos
tai savings system here is very graft
flying to residents who have long de-
sired to put their savings in the
hands of the government for safe
keeping. The system established here
differs materially from that in the
states, in that no interest will be
paid on the deposits, the object be-
ing merely to provide a depository
for the funds of the Canal Zone in
habitants.
At the Frankfort, KY, state CAPT
| FOL this afternoon Droe;don+ Toft
Henry Watterson and other speaker:
of national fame delivered eulogies
of the deeds and virtues of Abraham
Lincoln The occasion was the un.
yelling of the statue of Lincoln. a gif'
of J. E. Speed of Louisville to the
State in which the 'Great Emanci.
pator'' first saw the light of day
President Taft and his party arrived
at Louisville from Cincinnati thi'
morning and with the other distin
guished guests Of the occasion, in
Guiding several visiting governors
were entertained at luncheon at tn,
home of Governor and Mrs. Wilson
/ Immediately after luncheon the presi
1 dent was escorted to the capitol fol
the unveiling exercises. The Lincoln
statue unveiled today is Of bronze ant
was designed by A. A. Weinman, tn,
well-knoWn New York sculptor.
pleasing feature in connection witt
the unveiling was the presence as in