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charge of 10000 soldiers from the
French army up to April l of this
year.
After being held up since January
on objection of Senator Hitchcock,
the nomination of Thomas s. Allen as
United States attorney for Nebraska
has been confirmed by the senate.
Judge and Mrs. H. A. Miller OF Leb-
anon, ILL.,, celebrated their fiftieth
wedding anniversary.
With practically only one county miss
ing, the totals tabulated in the recent
Texas primary showed an increased
lead in favor Of the submission of
prohibition amendment. The figures
were: For, 1906; against, 154,720.
Charles 8. Hamlin Of Massachusetts,
governor of the federal reserve bank,
was nominated for another term by
President Wilson.
Great Britain is not firing Of the
war; on the contrary, the country has
never been more hopeful and united"
said Lord Derby, undersecretary for
war, in an interview.
A meteor, the unburied part Of
which is as large as a five-room house,
fell on farm 20 miles west of Hot
Springs, Ark.
The Standard Oil Co. of louisiana
has announced 9 1-cent reduction In
the price Of gasoline at all Arkansas
stations.
President Wilson has issued an ex-
ecutive order giving free rent, fuel
and electric current to federal en-
ployes in the Panama canal zone.
William Smith was shot and In
stantly killed on the porch of his
home at Blue Grove, Tex. Alfred
Smith, 20 years old. his son, is under
arrest.
A strike of Memphis street railway
employees is settled. An agreement
was signed providing for recognition
OF the Garments union.
Rain has fallen at Atlanta, Ca,
every day for 20 days. breaking wealth
er bureau records.
Although more than 53,s52.OOO pas.
sengers were carried on lines Of the
Pennsylvania railroad during the last
two and one-half years. a statement
says no one was killed.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Co. has
posted price of SLAB for midconti-
nent crude, which is cut of 10 cents,
English is to be the only language
taught in the primary grades of the
parochial schools Of the Catholic arch
diocese of Chicago.
Mrs. Robert Moore, who admitted
that she killed her husband with an
ak May Fl, is free following her &C
Quittal of murder charge. She
crushed her husbands skull In cabin
at Bannack, Mont.
Wandering along the street in her
sleep, Miss Carrie Goodman, S5 years
old, was struck by a freight train on
the Nickle Plate road and killed. She
was teacher in the public schools al
Cleveland, o.
s. II. B. Mueller of Quincy met
death by drowning at Hannibal, Mo.
Sir William Ramsay. So, eminent as
chemist, is dead at his residence
Beechocroft, Hazlemere, Buck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lahm were in
stantly killed by switch engine near
Evergreen Park, ILL.,. in view of sew
eral hundred fellow picnickers.
A high official at the vatican states
that the holy see is absolutely impair
tial in its attitude in the present war
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Eng
lish suffragist leader, who since Jan
Is has been touring this country II
the interest of destitute Servians. has
left in the steamship Saxonia for Liy
erpool.
Negotiations have been completed
between the United States and Den
mark for the purchase Of the Danish
West Indies. The United States, it il
said. will pay s25,OO0,0O0 for the is
lands.
William SulEer, former governor 0
New York, has announced that he hat
agreed to accept the presidential nom
nation of the new American party
which holds its first national conven
ton in Minneapolis next Tuesday.
Tonnage OF oesan-going merchan
vessels ueing built OF ordered in III
United States July was 100000. o
one-fourth greater than that Of vessel
under construction in German yard.