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The steamship Antllia, from New
York, discharged her cargo of ammu-
milton for the constitutionalists at
Tampico Mexico. Sixteen hundred
cases of ammunition and two aero
planes were Immediately dispatched
north on special train.
James Campbell Of st. Louis, chair
man of the board of directors OF the
North American company and director
in 35 other corporations. whose
wealth was estimated by confidential
business associates to have been be-
tween $4,000, 900 and $60,000,000, died
at his country home, Meads Point-on-
the-Sound, near Greenwich, Conn, at
the age of 66 years.
The house agreed to the senate
amendment to the Panama canal tolls
repeal bill which declares that the
United States does not relinquish any
right 1t may have to exempt its YES
sells from tolls. The vote was ZIG to II.
President Wilson has selected
Thomas b. Jones, Chicago lawyer,
to be governor of the federal reserve
board. E. c.. Simmons of st. Louis
already has been chosen for a place
on the board.
The new French cabinet, OF which
Senator Ribot is premier, was defeat
ed In the first division taken in the
new chamber of deputies, by vote OF
306 to 262. The premier Immediately
resigned. He had held office only one
day.
Two passengers were killed and
four injured in Santa Fe wreck at
Bagdad, CAL, when east-bound passen-
ger No. 4 went through an open switch
and collided head-on with freight
train on a siding.
1t was reported at Halifax, N. s.,
that the government steamer Mont
gomery was missing. 1t is feared all
on board have been lost.
Three thousand women cheered the
American men as "the greatest bless
ing to womankind" at the biennial con-
yention of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs at Chicago. The tri-
butte to the nations breadwinners that
aroused the applause of the delegates
was delivered by Mrs. Percy V. Pen
nybacker, president of the federation.
John Mcpherson, Christian coun-
ty, ILL.,, coal miner, known by reason
of his long locks as "the Gen. Custer
of Illinois, had his hair cut for the
first time in 80 years. His hair
reached to his shoulders.
The Iowa State Federation of Labor,
in session, at Davenport. tabled res
olution pledging support to the fight
against state and nationwide prohibi-
ton.
The religious wedding ceremony of
Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore
Roosevelt, and Miss Belle Wyatt Will
lard, was performed in the chapel of
the British embassy at Madrid, Spain.
THE civil marriage Of Miss Belle
Wyatt Willard. daughter Of the United
Sattes, ambassador to Spain, and Ker-
NIT Roosevelt, was performed in the
office of the register Of the Buena
Vista district. Judge Thomas Forms
presiding.
A sword duel between Senator Hem
~ Berenger, representing Guadeloupe,
who Is editor of the Action, Paris, and
Deputy Georges Pensot, resulted In
the deputy's being wounded in the
right wrist.
The three mediators have in their
possession new and complete plan
for the settlement of the Mexican sit
uation, which was submitted to them
BY the delegates Of the United States.
Gen. Aureliano banquet, minister
of war, formally announced that the
order for the blockading Of Tampico
has been ceuntermanded.
George Michael, an employee of the
Central Torpedo company, Tulsa, Ok,
and T. A. Mccain, a ferryman on the
verdigris river, we're blown to pieces
when wagonload Of nitroglycerin ex-
ploded just after the wagon had left
the ferry landing to the Inola oil fields.
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Miss Matte Thomas Of Baltimore
was killed and four other persons were
burned seriously when the automobile
In which they we're riding near Glen
Echo, Md, turned over.
Four state banks In Chicago, with
an aggregate Of $6,411,997 in deposits
and reported cash resources of s1,434,-
623, were taken in charge by the state
banking department. The banks were
closed and the department began q
close examination Of the affairs of the
institution.
To satisfy the sweet tooth of the
bluejackets of the Atlantic reserve
fleet, stationed at the Philadelphia
navy yard. the government has placed
an order for 80 tons OF candy and
10000 packages Of sailed peanuts.
Two and half inches of snow and
hail fell in one section of Paris.
Horses struggled through snow on a
June day in the Avenue des Champs
Eysees. The air had wintry chill.
The temperature was 40 degrees Fab
henheit.