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| Liverpool Golf Club won for the
fourth time the British amateur cham
| pionship.
BY running to warn switchman a
small boy OF St Louis ayerted a
wreck between a San Francisco pas
senger train and two moving box
| cars.
San Francisco's city engineer de-
clares that the city must provide
street car lines to the exposition
grounds, as the street railway COM
! panies absolutely refuse TO build any
more lines under the conditions the
city charter imposes.
! A San Francisco woman arrested
| for extortion has demanded a jury
trial and asked further that all the
jurors be women.
The Southern Pacific Is unnerg-
ing its electric lines all through Cali
fornia from the Southern Pacific.
The new company controlling the
huge electric system will be one of
the largest of its kind in the country.
California inheritance taxes for the
fiscal year just closed amount to ST.
5s2.713, the largest amount ever col
lected.
Harry Atwood. the aviator, ran
! short OF gasoline while flying over
Lake Erie, and dropped to the water,
being rescued ten miles from shore
by tug.
Auto thieves near San Francisco
have been stealing machines from
private garages, running them out of
private yards by hand and then start
ing them.
There is to be quite a shake-up
among the national bank examiners.
and many of the experts are to be
shifted about.
A car strike in Milan, Italy, with
numerous riots, has brought all bust
ness to a standstill.
Extreme heat, continuing for sew
eral days in the middle west. and
breaking all records, may be respon.
sihle for short grain crops. There
Is desperate need OF rain.
Fifty-six electric automobiles were
consumed In fire which DESTROYED a
garage at Chicago recently.
During the year ending with jan
uary 42,250,OO0 pounds oil, butter were
exported from New Zealand.
Sarah M. Hurlburt celebrated her
Tooth birthday at Oswego, N. Y. She
goes to church every Sunday and does
her own homework
Boy Scouts acted as special guards
to thousands of girls who held their
May dance in Central Park, New York,
May 10.
Worcester, Mass. merchants turned
off the lights on their signs in protest
to the authorities for better lighting
service.
India announced that no more
opium will be sent from that country
TO China this year, and the opium
traffic win probably never be renew
ed.
Robert Brinkley, ten years old, aft
er running ten miles, tagged train
and prevented it from running through
a burned bridge near Weston, w. Va.
The red flag of the socialist organi-
cation may fly in East Liverpool or
any other town in Ohio, according to
the opinion of Attorney-general Ho-
gan.
Penny postal cards will be green
hereafter, as is the practice in many
foreign countries. Postmaster-general
Burleson signed an order for the
change.
Jibes from acquaintance over his
defeat for the office of school commits
sioner drove Frank Kosmowski of Buff
falo, N. Y, to suicide. He received
only four votes.
The public school children of Wis.
consin are being taught the horrors
of war in order to instil new patriot
ism in those who are to take part in
the memorial exercises.
Four hundred Vermont veterans OF
the civil war have signed their inten-
ton of taking part in the celebration
next month of the fiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg.