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the Japanese government.
The duke of Connaught, who re-
turned to England last spring with
the duchess for the benefit of the lat
ter's health, sailed from London for
Canada to assume his duties as gov
ernor-general.
Twenty-eight persons were killed
ana one frightfully injured when the
Zeppelin dirigible Lr2 blew up 5000
feet above the Johannisthal aviation
field, near Berlin
Legislation prohibiting intercounty
liquor shipments In Tennessee and
prohibiting interstate shipments in
quantities over gallon for personal
use became effective with the sign
ing of two bills by Gov. Hooper.
Representative Sherwood Of Ohio
demanded in the house that the
United States join with other powers
In establishing protectorate over
Mexico for the restoration of peace
William G. Ellis, wealthy Cincin-
natl merchant, confessed at the coro-
ner's inquest at Chicago that he shot
and killed his wife, Eleanor Ellis, in
the Hotel Sherman and then slashed
her throat.
A sensation was caused throughout
the German empire when it became
known that Crown Prince Frederick
Wilhelm has taken a strong stand
against his new brother-in-law, Prince
Ernest of Cumberland, in the matter
of renouncing the Hanoverian sue
cession.
Recent wholesale smuggling Of
English merchandise, particularly
women's dress goods, into the United
States, led to the seizure Of the
schooner Woodward Abrahams,
which the revenue cutter Seneca
towed into Philadelphia.
William Keith was told by his wife
that Walter Paul, Chicago grocery
clerk, had attacked her. Keith lay in
wait for Paul and shot and killed
him. Keith then telephoned to the
police and was arrested.
Henry Spencer, in jail at Wheaton,
Ill, who Confessed" to wholesale
murders, turned movie" actor and
with film machine pointed at him
retold his crime story to Sheriff
Kuhn with appropriate gestures.
Rescuers In the Universal colliery,
near Cardiff, Wales, who reported
getting in touch with 20 men impris-
oned, but still alive, in the workings
OF the wrecked mine, were unable to
confirm their story. Officials gave
UP hope for those still entombed, 800
being the latest estimate.
The house locksmith shed light on
congressional forgetfulness when he
reported that each year he makes a
barrel Of duplicate desk keys to sup
ply members who have mislaid theirs.
The diplomatic representatives OF
Great Britain, France, Spain, Cuba,
Guatemala and Norway in Mexico, at
conference, decided to recommend
that their representative govern
ments send warships to Mexico for
the purpose of affording legation
guards should conditions so require
Ralph Muir, a Joplin (Mo) million
aire property owner, is defendant in
a $4,000 breach of promise suit filed
in that city. Blanche Clarke, 25 years
DID, very pretty woman and pro-
prietress of the Roosevelt hotel,
which is owned by Muir, is the plain
tiff.
Revolutionists at SANTANA, Domini-
arms and that ends the latest upris-
ing. Peace has been restored largely
through the efforts Of American Min
lister Sullivan.
President Wilson commuted the
sentence Of Richard C. Neal, holder
of the kings medal and other insig-
MIA of bravery in the Transvaal war,
who has been serving life sentence
for assisting in robbing postoffice
and railroad station at Darlington,
w. Va, Dec. 20, 1907.
Former Senator Henry G. Davis,
who ran for vice-president when Al
ton B. Parker headed the Democratic
ticket, is reported to be seriously i'll
at his home at Elkins, w. Va. He is
nearly 80 years old.
A wooden box, four feet long by
two feet wide, containing the crum-i
pied body of nude man, was found
floating down the Ohio river at One
onta, Ky. That the man had met
death before his body was crammed
into the box was evident, as his skull
was crushed in and his throat
slashed.
President Wilson's indisposition,
described as slight attack of indi-
gestion, is giving him more discom-
fort and his associates more concern
than has been admitted officially.
j. Herbert Sawyer, inventor OF a
spindle which played an important
part in the development of the cot
ton manufacturing industry in this
country, died at his home in Boston,
Mass. He was rs years old and
wealthy.