The Chitina leader., 1913-06-24
Late Telegraph News

1 CHARLESTON, June 19-1he miners have officially announced that ,000 men in the New River district 1 will go on strike next week.
 SEATTLE, June 19-President Wilson, who is unable to accompany thc Chamber of CoId'aerce on its excursion through Alaska, has ap- lpointed Seth Mann, os San Francis co, as his personal representative for the trip.
 LONDON, June19-The Suffra- gettes have burned the parish and church at Rowley Regis. WEST POINT, June 19-Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Muller today reviewed the West Point ca dets.
 WASHINGTON June 19-Presi- dent Wilson, during an hours call at the capitol today conferred with twenty Senators with regard to ap- pointments.
 ST. PETERSBURG, June 1s- Eighty girls were burned to death in the beet sugar district.
 LLOYDS, June 1a---In a maga- zine article Henry George predicts that the votes of the women house. holders, and with wives as electors the suffragettes would recover their senses. He denounces the present methods of organized lunacy.
 WASHINGTON, June 19-Chief Justice White has granted Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Norris on, the convicted labors, an appeal to the Supreme Court.
 WASHINGTON, June 19-Secre- tary Bryan has appealed to the Am bassador of Germany to have that country represented at the San Fran cisco exposition.
 WASHINGTON, June 19-The Senate today confirmed Fred M Brown, of Valdez, as judge of the Third division of Alaska. NEW WESTMINSTER, June 19- John A. Lee, who served three terms as mayor of this city, dropped dead of heart disease while out riding in his automobile.
 BUDAPEST June 20-President Catt has been reelected by accla- nation.
 NEW LONDON, June 2O-This af- ternoon the Harvard crew won a four-oared race from a Yale crew by four lengths.
 PHILADELPHIA, June 19--.rhe University of Pennsylvania has con- ferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Colonel Goethals.
 ANNAPOLIS, June 20-Ensign William D. Billingsley, of the navy. in making a hydroplane flight across Chesapeake bay, fell sixteen hundred feet to his death Lieut.. J. H. Towers, who accompanied Billingsley on the trip, remained with the machine, which was rescued from the bay, Towers being dangerously injured
 TALLAHASSEE, June 20-It is estimated that one hundred people perished in the tornado and tidal wave which swept the Florida Keys yesterday.
 PHGNIX. ARIZ., June 2O-Five murderers, who were sentenced to be hanged today, were reprieved by Governor Hunt until December, 1914 in order that the bill to abolish cap- itai punishment can be voted on in November.
 TACOMA, June 20-Following an unsuccessful attempt to throw Mrs. George Allen, with whom he was in- fatuated, from the Eleventh street bridge, Edward w. Mygott, aged 23 years, of Portland, jumped into the water and committed suicide by drowning.
 WASHINGTON, June 20-Attor- ney General McReynolds has noti- fled every federal district attorney that the Webb law, forbidding inter- state liquor shipments is not a crim- inal statute and violations cannot be prosecuted in the federal courts.
 MADRID. June 20-There is con- siderable rejoicing among the roy alty on account of the Queen giving birth to a son.
 WASHINGTON, June 20-The Jap anese commercial envoys following a call upon President Wilson, after having had luncheon with Secretary of State Bryan, laid before the offic- ials of the Chambers of Commerce of | the United States a plan to enlist the commercial bodies in America in an effort to bring about a settlement of the California alien trouble. ASCOT, ENG, June 20-A male