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the Northern Pacific docks at Duluth
ended.
President Taft formally accepted
the resignation Of Federal Judge Cor
nelius Hanford Of Seattle. who re-
signed while being investigated.
Right Rev. p. A. Ludden. Catholic
bishop Of Syracuse. N. r.. is dead.
Negro contesting delegates were
not allowed to sit in the progressive
national convention.
Congress IL to grant President Taft
absolute control in government OF the
Panama canal.
John w. Russell announced that
Harry X. Thaw is suffering from pto-
maine poisoning.
The treasury deficit for the first
month of the new fiscal year is less
than q million dollars.
House Chairman Adamson, in a tart
letter to Secretary Stimson. denies
danger Of q water power trust.
The American Federation Of Labor
has issued a call to all stell work
ers. urging that they u~nionize.
The United States senate served
notice on all nations of it's intention
to uphold the Monroe doctrine.
The feeling at Washington Is that
everything has been done in Mexico
that can be short Of Intervention.
A formal writ transferring the Kan
a election cases to the supreme
court was issued at Washington.
Marines from Panama have been or
dered to Nicaragua to supplement the
force of ~bluejackets now in Managua.
guarding Americans and their proper.
ty.
Twenty socialists, including nine
young women, Jailed In Pittsburg for
street speaking without a police per.
NIT, kept the other prisoners awake
all night with cell oratory.
Mrs. Daisie Opie Grace, acquitted
OF the charge Of having attempted to
murder her husband to obtain $3.50
life insurance, is on her way to
Philadelphia to make her future
home.
Following out plans for a country
wide campaign against the bubonic
plague, Sergeant-G General Blue assign
ed i've additional experts to various
ports where the disease has been in.
dicated.
DR.. George Ernest Morrison has
been appointed political adviser Of the
president OF the Chinese republic for
i've years. DR.. Morrison is the CORE
spondent in Peking of the London
Times.
Sierra Juarez Indians in the state
of Oaxaca, have renewed their revolt
against the government. 1t is report.
ed that a large body Of the warriors
il marching on Ixtian, forty miles
from the state capital.
Roosevelt supporters held a state
convention at Jackson. Miss, elected
delegates to the national progressive
convention in Chicago and adopted a
platform, n plank Of which ex.
cludes the negro from politics.
Near Watertown. N. Y, Mrs. Cor
don Priest, 80, wife of = farmer. was
found murdered with a Ratchet Her
head and neck were gashed, and a
sleeping baby. lying beside the body
unhurt. was spattered with blood.
Nine boy scouts were drowned by
the capsixing of q cutter OF Shippy
Island. A large party Of boy scouts
was proceeding at the time to their
summer camp on the island. Several
other holiday fatalities were reported.
A. d. Wolf Of Chicago. son Of a mil
~lionaire shoe manufacturer, has sued
for reinstatement in the Illinois Ath'
letic club. Wolf alleges that he was
expelled on account of his remarks
about club officers. His attorneys
said he was thrown out because he IL
q Jew.
President Taft did not meet the
live issues in his speech accepting
the republican nomination, said Colo
mel Roosevelt. The president con
fined himself largely to u%tterances
upon general questions, Colonel
Roosevelt contended.
Charles Hilles. republican national
chairman, has challenged Governo,
Wilson to state his position OF the
leading political issues. Hilles de-
clared that the fight was between the
republican and democratic principles
and not between Taft and Wilson.
The Italian cabinet and senate help
Z prolonged secret joint meeting and
voted for the dissolution Of the cham.
her OF deputies on the ground that
the present extraordinary session OF
the chamber. being q continuation OF
the previous session and having com
pleted It's term. now lapses.
Representative Levy OF New York,
democrat. introduced q bill in the
house authorizing the secretary Of the
treasury to . at his discretion the
money in the treasury in the general
fund. to reduce the tariff on articles
Of general consumption and 60 reduce
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