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sage to congress bearing on recipro-
city with Canada.
The postofice appropriation bill
was passed after the department has
received a round scoring in the
house.
Lawyers have pronounced the viii
Of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy to be void.
Virginia wants the supreme court
to shift part of her staggering state
debt on West Virginia.
There is q movement among house
democrats to frame a new code OF
rules for the next congress.
The house defeated the proposal
to increase salaries of circuit judges
from $1,000 to $4,000 a year.
Emil Munsterberg, a brother OF
Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Har'
ward university, died at Berlin.
President Taft Is concerned owe
the formation of the republican pro-
gressive league at Washington.
Ship subsidy promoters are repre-
scented as having sought to buy the
support OF a New York newspaper.
At the second trial of men accused
of taking part in the Berlin strike
riots fifteen of the defendants were
found guilty.
At Aberdeen, S. D., the division
headquarters. local freight houses
and passenger station of the Milwau-
kee railroad, were burned. The loss
! 10 aCtiynotnd 81 e1nA nnn
At Danville, ILL.,, J. S. Mead, an am
bulance driver, and Robert Shut, a
veteran of the soldiers home. were
shot and instantly killed by Howard
Tucker, another veteran.
At Los Angeles, Howard Wilcox.
driving a National, broke the Ameri-
can five-mile competition speedway
\ record at the motordonle. His time
was 3 minutes Fl seconds.
With a greater number of delegates
in attendance than eve before, the
United States Civil Service Retire
ment association convened in wash
ington in annual convention.
Oscar Johnson, a farmer living near
the Pierce county (Nebr.D line, at
tackled his wife with a butcher knife,
and after killing her he committed
suicide with the same weapon.
President Taft. who was invited to
attend the Kansas state fair to be
held at Hutchinson next fall. has de-
cided to accept the invitation. The
president will be there September 25
or &c.
Theodore Economu and George p.
Calogera, New York Greek importers,
were sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment for being parties to a
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of duties.
Reno, Okl., Frank Arkebauer showed
that he has AGA cubic inches lung ca
nacity. which breaks the 436 cubic
inch worlds record of Paul Van
Broeckman of New York.
The Peruvian insurgents have oc-
cupied the heights of Tayabamba.
200 miles north of the capital and
are awaiting an attack by the gov
eminent troops which have been
sent to dislodge them.
The petition for a rehearing of the
Judgment and order sentencing Abra-
ham Ruef to San Quentin for fourteen
years on a charge of bribery of the
Ruef-Schmidt board of supervisors
was granted by the California SUI
preme court.
Caution in the extension of federal
control over the issuance of securi-
ties by railroads was urged by Mar
Of directors of the Chicago & North
western railroad in the hearing of the
securities commission.
Nearly half the members of the sen.
ate judiciary committee are said to
have taken positions against the con-
firmation of Judge William H. Hunt.
now serving as a member of the court
Of customs appeals, and promoted 10
a circuit judgeship.
The Japanese who assaulted United
States Consul Williamson at Dainy,
last month, were convicted and given
a light fine, according to news
brought to Victoria, b. c., by the
steamship Oanfa, from Yokohoma.
The men were reprimanded and as
sessed a fine OF $3.50 each.
James j. Gallagher, who shot Mayor
Gaynor and Street Commissioner Ed
wards on a steamship in dock at Ho-
b0ken last August, was taken TO the
New Jersey state prison to serve
twelve years at hard labor. The sen-
tence. including a fine of $1,000, is
for his attack on Edwards.
The purpose of the George Wash
ington Memorial association was ad-
vanced when $1,000 was donated by
q New York financier. This gift prac-
tically makes sure the collection Of
$500, 900, which the association has
set itself to get before a site is de-
cided upon.
Personal.
The Missouri legislature has NO
Smiths and Oulv ONO prCvvo