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ILL.,, has just finished fast of Al
days duration, during which time not
q morsel Of food passed her lips.
The Griffin bill, which provides for
q retirement system for all civil serv-
ice employees in the postal service, has
been favorably reported to the house.
James T. Pell, 81, who plotted the
Robert E. Lee to victory in her race
with the Natchez on the Mississippi
river in June, 1870, is dead at his
home in Covington, KY.
Fire swept the desert town of Nee
dies, Cal, destroying the entire bust
ness section and causing the death of
five persons who were trapped in the
two hotels.
Only 10000 Of the $4,000 national
guardsmen Of the department OF the
east, comprising 20 states east of the
Mississippi and the District of Co
lumbia, were in mobilization camps
six days after the call was issued.
Thirteen thousand tons of Chinese
copper cash, valued at $2,1SOOOO gold,
was exported from Tsingtau to Japan
during the past year.
Ralph de Palma won the annual
Des Moines Qa) automobile derby at
$50 miles; Henderson, second; Rick
enbacher, third
Henry Ford, the automobile manu-
facturer, announced that he will erect
an 100000 plant to manufacture
automobile parts in a Detroit suburb.
When word was received in st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, that the Fourth regiment
was in need of transportation facili-
ties, citizens raised funds with which
to purchase three motor delivery cars.
The municipality Of Berlin has de-
cided to organize communal feeding
of the population. The first public
kitchen will be opened on July 7.
-
The services OF members of the uni
form rank Of the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics in the
event of war with Mexico have been
rendered Secretary of War Baker.
Lyle Austin and Oliver Weakley
were killed by lightning Is miles
northwest of Murphysboro, III. Aus
Tin was blowing corn and drove under
a tree. Weakley was loading hay.
Mr.. Att, newspaper editor; Senior
Louis NJ. Rojas, director of the Bibio-
teca Nacional, and Modesto ROLAND,
engineer, have been invited to meet
William Jennings Bryan at Ell Paso in
a peace conference.
Gifts to Harvard university during
the year amounted to $1,344,2SS.
The American embassy has asked
the British government for informa-
ton regarding the arrest of three citi-
zens Of the United States in connec-
ton with the recent rebellion in Ire
land.
or the IA sons, all living, of Mrs.
Mary Wolfe of Baltimore, six are
wearing the uniforms of United States
soldiers.
Yale college will admit women to
her medical school. Heretofore the
bars of the university had been let
down to women only in the graduate
school.
Charles E. Hughes, Jr., is to be a
corporal in the New York militia, as
shown by the published list of Of
ficers. Archie Roosevelt is to be
battalion quartermaster.
Capt. William R. Hardin, who de-
trained his company tthe Twelfth) at
Nevada. Mo-. reported that of his SIS
men IL were ordained Baptist min
listers.
Six persons were killed and IL IN
jured in fire which broke out in the
Imperial hotel, Liverpool
The Graduate School In Medical
Science. recently established by the
University Of Illinois, was opened at
the University OF Illinois college of
medicine.
AL women and children. prisoners
in the city Jail and patients in the
hospital are being sent into the in
terror from Matamoras. Mexico.
State department attaches who
have reached the border on their way
out Of Mexico, estimate there stu are
approximately 1000 Americans south
of the Rio Grande.
The senates judiciary committee
voted to report the annual diplomatic
appropriation bin with q slso.0oe In
crease.