The Alaska citizen., 1912-08-19
Outside Happenings of the Week for Quick Reading

and the most of those buried were victims of the recent hot spell Eighty of the dead were children.
 The demand for hearses was so pressing that many of the bodies had to be taken to the graveyards in cabs A horse attached to a hearse sessions.
 LINDSAY, Ont. Aug. 12. Dur ing the violent electrical storms with in four days eight houses and barns have been struck. three being burn ed. while four persons have been injured and many horses and COWS have been killed.
 L ISE, Idaho. Aug l2 - Predic- tions that Clagstone would win out in the race for the nomination for governor. through the primaries held throughout the state last week. were shattered when the full returns had been counted
 The official figures show that John Haines wins by the narrow margin of Is votes over his oppon- ent
 CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 12-A Turkish warship was blown up in the Dardenelles this morning. The loss of life was very heavy. IL is now thought that none of the off Cers or crew were rescued. It is be- lieved that the ship was torpedoed iV the Italians.
 VANCOUVER. B. C., Aug. 12.- That the new railroad it Is proposed to build to Hudson Bay, provided navigation opens early enough and the bay does not freeze too early. will offer competition with the Pan anna canal route for grain, was the opinion expressed last night at the Vancouver hotel by Hon Frank Cochrane. Dominion minister of rail ways. who arrived on a special train about midnight from Prince Rupert.
 LONDON. Aug 12. In his ser mon at Denoby on Sunday. Arch bishop of York. stated that he had spoken to King George regarding the advisablity of his majesty's de- scending into the coal mining pit after the disaster at Cadeby. when so many lives were lost. and the king was determined to make the descent. His majesty answered the archbishop saying: Whatever hap pens, l desire to share whatever risks that my miners may have to undergo"
 WASHINGTON. Aug. l2. - It is becoming evident that the sentiment of congress is not with the war de partment. in the departments latest recommendation that the military posts in Alaska should be abandoned and a system of constabulary insti- tuted in their stead Several con gressmen interviewed on the sub ject this morning said. if the depart ment comes 10 congress with a scheme looking to the withdrawal of the military forces from Alaska there will be trouble
 Delegate Wickersham declares that the military should be increased
 OYSTER BAY. Aug. l2. - In an interview this morning Colonel Roosevelt declared that he was in this three-cornered fight to stay until the last vote had been counted in the November election
 He said this was not merely a question of curbing the power of corporations or their influences. rath- CT it was one that concerned the whole American people and that win or lose it was a fight worth making"
 hn state central Republican committee Of Ohio. this morning named Gen eral R. B. Brown as the candidate Of the Republican party for governor at the next election. General Brow succeeds Judge Dillon. who was nominated ot the regular Re publican state convention, but who declined to run on account of fac tional differences in the party, rec ommending that someone be chosen who harmoniZed with the various in- terests
 All the Roosevelt members of the committee have handed in their res ignations
 HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Aug. l2. - Another suspect in the now cele- brated Rosenthal murder case in New York was arrested here this morning, on advices received from the New York authorities that the man was wanted in connection with the case. Sam Schepps is the in- dividual now in custody. He will be held pending the arrival of off cers from New York, and the issu- ance of extradition papers.
 NEW YORK, Aug 12 - Local pa pers today publish an account of bank robbery in lower New York, which resulted in a loss to the in- stitution of $72,O00 in currency The theft was committed a month ago, but the matter was kept a secret by the police in the hope that the men who committed the deed might be discovered. All of the facts in connection with the case are not yet Known, even the name of the bank being withheld from publication.
 All that is known of the case is that the robbers tunneled their way through the floor of the basement beneath the bank building, and then cut hole through the 15-inch steel floor of the vault. The money talk en was in bills of large denomina- tion.
 Close to the compartment which contained the stolen currency, there was sum of money aggregating s3000.000, most of which was in bonds and currency It is thought the robbers overlooked this in their haste to get away with the $72.O0O,