Putnam patriot., 1913-08-15
Latest Nws Condensed.

was not employed by the N. A. M.
 Elias Toy, a conductor of Philadei- phia, who had charge Of one train on the Pennsylvania Railroad for fifty
 By the death of Senator Johnston, of Alabama. the Democratic majority for the Tariff bill was reduced to one.
 James A. Emery and James E. Ewell corroborated Colonel Mulhalls testimony before the lobby commit tee
 Mrs Peter St Louis, of Cameron. Wis, was operated on for appendicitis and in the appendix was found brass pin.
 Mrs. Layton, of Binghamton, N. r., died from burns received in the disas- trous fire in that city She is the 32d victim.
 Two Italian policemen arrived in New York to escort Porter Charlton to Como for trial for the murder of his wife.
 Jewels valued at s5.000 were stolen from the summer home of Mrs. Will lam F. Smith of Brooklyn, al Haines Falls, N Y.
 , The Federation of Women's Clubs. of Chicago, voted that smoking on the rear platforms of street cars was not objectionable.
 Knights Templar from all over the United States convened for the 32d triennial conclave of the Grand En- campment at Denver.
 President Wilson has named James ] Walsh, a printer, for the office Of collector of internal revenue in the district of Connecticut
 Many firemen were overcome in fire which damaged the Union Petro lenm Company's plant at Philadelphia to the extent Of s500.000.
 The Bureau Of Chemistry at Wash ington reports that laundered bills are as good as newly printed one. Commercials will not wash"
 Tho summer home of Mrs. M. H. Forrest Of Philadelphia at Kennebunk- ,port. Me, was footed by thieves who stole iewelry valued at $9,000.
 The bunny hug" tango" grape vine" and other dances are outdone by the new one originated at Onset Mass. called the pussy sneak"
 Reports from every corn raising county in Nebraska indicate the state will produce probably not more than thirty.five per cent. of a normal crop
 George and John Lebrati bought a twenty acre tract in the heart of the millionaire colony at Greenwich, Conn, as site for an amusement park.
 ft lv. c,fzar oavo ont hrtaf buf sweeping denial of the charges against him on the eve of the Frawley com mittee's report to the New York Legis- iature,
 Michael J Garvin, as appraiser for New York, has reported the estate of isador Straus to be worth S4 ,565, 106 and that of Mrs. Straus, who sank with him on the Titanic sS25,57S.
 Two laborers were arrested at Bridgeport. Conn. charged with kill ing Charles Lucas, construction camp cook. It was said the men dis liked Lucas cooking.
 The preliminary statistics showed production of 5ll.000. 900 bushels of winter wheat, This is the greatest harvest of winter wheat ever gathered in the United States. exceeding the record crop of l9o2.
 The Rev George Chalmers Rich mond of Philadelphia declared in a sermon that Bishop William David Walker of Western New York and Bishop John Scarborough of New ter sey ought to be asked to resign
 w J Post Of Near Hartman, N. Y, unearthed the tusk of a mastodon measuring five feet and four inches in length and fifteen inches in cIrcumfer euce while digging in a swamp
 H. Wilson Nhalsn. a member of the Monroe County N Y, Board of Supervisors. committed suicide be- cause he was criticised for not work ing harder to obtain an improved roadway in his county
 That intervention in Mexico fin any form would be fraught with serious consequences to American interests was the opinion expressed by Fran cisco Leon Da La Barra. who arrived at New York on his way to France, where he Is to represent the Huerta government.
 would not evaeuate Adrianople.
 Jules von Payer left Havre, France, on an expedition to Franz Josef Land.
 The Rev. Samuel Mills for 20 years a missionary in Santo Domingo, is dead at Santiago, aged 60 years.
 Colonel F. $. Cody. who was killed at Aldershot, Aug. !, in an aeroplane accident. was buried in that city with full military honors.
 The Japanese court at Seonl, Korea, setting at naught the plea of the 'un- written laW made by an American named Mason, manager of the Un-sah Mines, accused of killing a Chinese who assaulted Mason's twelyeyear-old daughter, sentenced him to penal ser vitude for eighteen months.
 The towns of Caraveli and Qui cacha, Peru, were destroyed by an earthquake. Many thousands are homeless.
 Madame Alice Crepsy, charged with killing Abbe Chassaing. was acquitted by jury at Agen, France.
 Dr Sun YatSen. former provisional president of the Chinese Republic, arrived at Tokio from Shanghai
 An advertisement has been placed in the newspapers of Germany calling for 5000 artificial legs for the Balkan government
 Thousands of lives are believed to have been lost. when the embark. ments of the Damado River near Burd- wan. in India. collapsed. flooding the country for many miles Many viii