The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-15
Id dooming them to slow death

was held up near here and the pass enEers in the sleeping cars relieved
 of their money and other valuables by the bandits
 WASHINGTON. July 10. - I'm peaChment charges made by the jul dietary committee against Judge Arch ibald. of the commerce court. will come up for hearing before the
 house probably next Friday. 1 WASHINGTON. July 10. - Sen
 ator Lorimer in the senate this
 morning began the defense of him
 self in the effort now being made
 Q unseat him.
 Senator Jones. of Washington, al
 so spoke in favor Of Lorimer He
 announced that he would cast his vote for Lorimer and that the
 case against Lorimer was based | upon perjury and nothing else" PORTLAND. July 10. Herman 1 P Emory, stage manager of the
 Pantages theater in this city Is dy-
 ing from a bullet wound inflicted by Otto w. Pence. of Tacoma, Wash. . Emery Was illl bN q bulitl lnttuutu
 for George Sellinger. who Pence be-
 lieved had supplanted him In the
 affections of Miss Carle Lowe an actress.
 1 Pence was released from the in- sane asylum only two weeks ago. ] SEATTLE. July To- - From pres
 ent indications the congressional
 probe into the charges against Fed
 eral Judge C. N. Hanford will last
 at least two weeks more.
 The congressional committee con-
 ducting the investigation will hold night sessions to take up the docu-
 mentary evidence already presented | 10 the committee.
 The Seattle Bar association will
 meet on Friday and appoint com mittee from it's members to aid the 1 investigators.
 1 WASHINGTON. July 10. - There
 is no relief as yet from the hot
 wave that Is now sweeping over the
 East and Middle West Tempera-
 lures vary from 80 to 95 degrees. l There are scores of deaths and pros trations in New York and Chicago.
 ATLANTIC CITY. July 10. - A i body supposed to be that of Melvin | Vanniman. the aeronaut who was | killed by the explosion of his dirig- 1 ihle balloon on July 2. was washed 1 ashore here this morning. The body and clothing were GOV
 cred with sand but otherwise un- i injured
 i STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 10.- 1 In the semi-finals of the 200-metre
 run. Ralph Craig, of Detroit, won ! first ir 2l 9-10 seconds. In the second heat, Clement P. Wilson, of 1 Coe College Iowa, was beaten in the 1 same time by Appligarth, an Eng 1 lishman. Charles Reidpath, of Syra- ! cuse University. won the sixth heat | in p 1-10 seconds.
 VITERBO, July 10. The eight
 members of the Camorra, who were
 convicted and sentenced to life i'm 1 prisonment this week, have given
 notice of appeal. and will endeavor
 to escape the severe penalty in a
 new trial.
 SEA GIRT, July 10. Samuel | Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, arrived here yesterday and Is now in conference with Governor Wilson. Gompers declined to state the object of his
 visit, but it supposedly Is In the interest of the labor organization
 which he represents.
 l SEATTLE. July 10. - The steam 1 ship Cordova, the vessel which was 1 purchased on the Atlantic coast for use on the Alaska run, arrived here today from the East, via Cape Horn | and San Francisco, from which city she was last reported. LOS ANGELES, July 10. While Job Hartman, Socialist candidate for mayor of this city in the recent
 campaign, was testifying in behalf of Clarence Darrow today, District Attorney Fredericks indirectly charg-
 ed him with knowledge of the plot
 to dynamite the Times building
 Fredericks also made the statement
 that Hartman was aware of the bribery of the McNamara jurors
 and that he was in league with all
 of the schems of the dynamiters.
 both before and after their trial.
 CHICAGO. July 10. There has
 been no letup to the heat in this city. More than a dozen fatalities and many prostrations have been added to the list today, and there is apprehension among the residents of the crowded districts who have no means of escape.
 ST. LOUIS. July 10. - Seven sue
 cumbed to the excessive heat in this city today and fully a score were prostrated.
 SEATTLE, July 10. MT and
 Mrs E. Struthers Bunch are mourn ing the loss of an infant daughter
 which died yesterday only an hour after birth.
 WASHINGTON, July II. - Inter-
 national complications over the pend- ing Panama canal legislation will likely be the result of the action
 taken by the British government Right Hon. James Bryce, ambassa. dore of Great Britain. this morning presented to the state department a request that final action on the Panama canal legislation be deferred until statement can be filed with the United States in behalf of Eng land.
 England makes the contention that the provisions in the bill now be- fore the senate would make 1t i'm