Putnam patriot., 1912-05-31
General


 The fund for the safe and sane" Fourth of July celebration in New York amounts to s5,6S5.
 An organization of women has be- gun an active campaign in New York City against the spread of Mormonism. saying agents were proselyung up- state and even in Harlem.
 Arthur Shellhorn. II years old, of Missoula. Mont, committed suicide be- cause he did not wish to be a witness against his father who is accused of burglary.
 The Rev. Dr ] NJ Buckley, known in the Methodist-Episcopal Church as the bishop maker" who has for the last 32 years been editor of the Chris. tian Advocate" of New York, has withdrawn from active service.
 Forty thousand persons attended the field mass in the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the dead of the Army. the Navy and the Marine Corps.
 Word has been received at Seattle HUH NRAAhNA1NAf fAtsNeAtts 1l liit Sdlt return of Miss Dora Keen of Philadel phia, and her party from successful ascent of Mount Blackburn.
 The collier Lebanon sailed from Philadelphia with rifle and revolver cartridges and other supplies for the United States naval forces gathering in Cuba; the collier Cyclops sailed from Newport
 James J. Jeffries' saloon in Los An geles was destroyed by fire.
 A yen-months-oid baby died il New York from lock jaw caused bl vaccination.
 The Portuguese Chamber Of Depu ties voted to abolish the legation t' the Vatican.
 The Federal troops won a decisive victory over the Mexican revolution ists in the two days battle about Rel lano.
 Emperor William stood sponsor a the launching of the greatest steam ship yet built, the Imperator of thu Hamburg American Line. c. LeRoy Grinnell, an organist O Newport, R. l., has begun suit fol $500 against Mrs French Vanderbilt for breach of contract. While milking a COW in a barn neal Blairstown, N. J.. Miss c. M. Curlis b4 years old, was killed by lightning The same bolt struck her brother ant paralyzed him.
 The Eutaw House, one of the oldes and largest hotels in Baltimore, wal damaged by a fire. All the records O the Democratic State Committee wer' destroyed
 Dr. William K Dabney is detained at Marietta, o. spending an inquir! into his sanity. H Is said to have been out of his mind for weeks. Tws of his patients have died. Richard Geib, son of Stamford (Conn.) woman who inherited S2,000, 900, went suddenly mad in New York rooming house and shot stran ger, James Boylan, to death.
 Mrs. Mary Hickman was dragged from her home in Ocean City, Md, b. a dozen neighbors. who. after kickini and beating her, threw her in a vat O tar The town lights went out during the assault.
 The House of Representative pass ed the Panama Canal bill, making th' canal free to United States coastwis' ships and forbidding railroads to owf or control any competing steamship lines
 A dispatch from New Orleans stated that several hundred thousand dollars more would be required to care fol the tens of thousands made homeless by the Mississippi River foods tho refugee camps were reported to be 1T a good sanitary condition.
 The New York Worlds correspond ent was informed on high authorit, that President Taft, while despairint of his own reelection, is determined to beat Col. Roosevelt for the nomina ton in order to save the country from the. Colonels ambition. As q result of the bricklayers o Butte, Montana, refusing to work witl hod-carriers who receive moro thar five dollars a day, hod-carriers vii now receive five dollars when work ing with bricklayers. Those working with plasterers will receive S6.50.