Show N NEWS E AY S S SUMMARY U M MARY the sundry civil appropriation bi bill 1 carrying a total ol 01 about was passed by the senate last week three persons were killed and ten others injured during a tornado which badly damaged the town ot of bollin ge ger L la general lorenzo torres comman der of all the troops in sonora has concluded pearce peace with the renegade yaqui indians the armored cruiser maryland was the trophy winner in the recent tar get practice at magdalena bay the illinois was the former holder of the trophy A tornado which swept through mercer and henry counties illinois last week touching several towns and did considerable damage mrs goatch an elderly woman was killed at cleveland senators morris and roddie roddle en in a fist fight on the floor of the senate at guthrie oklahoma as a result of roddie roddle calling morris a liar senator roddie roddle sustained serious bruises on the head john johnw W H gelger geiger convicted of mis use of the funds of the central na lional bank of baltimore of which he was cashier committed suicide on may 14 he was about to begin a five years prison sentence more cars are idle at the present time than tor for years the latest rb port on the number of idle cars in the country Is that of april 29 this shows an increase of 97 over that of april 15 governor alien allen gard of lanao brov ince trice P I 1 who was wa s injured by moro bollmen recently is not dead as re ported he is now said to be improve ing and it is expected that he will decover from his wounds the director and vice director of th the e prison at Astra kahn russia have been condemned to eight years in the penitentiary tor for having inflicted on certain prisoners such cruel treat ment that one ot of the men died A call has been issued by the na lional body ot of the first N national dional good roads congress to meet in chicago june 15 and in denver july G 6 the day before the opening of the lican and democratic conventions jim lynn a negro who murdered sarah james a white girl 16 years of age and fatally shot her mother mrs julia james at pueblo colo was arrested at limon junction colo while seeking friends with whom to hide the st paul railway will begin at once construction of seventy locomotives of the highest type this will result in restoring to employment in the west milwaukee shops of that company the full force of 5 men the republican state convention held at macon ga selected tour four un instructed delegates to the national convention three delegates are said to favor the nomination of tatt taft and the fourth is a supporter of governor hughes two twin children 3 years of age were burned to death in a f fire ire which destroyed their home in oakland cal mrs robert whose bus band Is a gardener carried her other children to safety but could ont res cue the twins rhe national drainage congress met in washington on may 12 interest was centered in the presence of W J bryan who was the principal speaker at the afternoon session senator francis G newlands of nevada spoke at the morning session the wives of the members of the diplomatic corps at pekin were received by the dowager empress in audience at the summer palace on may 15 it was noticed that the cm em press had aged materially since the audience of a year ago general commander of the russian punitive expedition into per sian territory has been ordered to re sume his advance into persia and to punish the bandits with fire and sword he will destroy villages but spare the women and children the right of president roosevelt summarily to dismiss a negro soldier of the fifteenth infantry for alleged in the riot at browns ville ile texas was sustained by judge hough in the united states district court new york city last week the jury in the cae of robert H hollowell of paducah ky who sued his brother john H hollo hollowell well and twenty seven other alleged night rid ers tor for 50 damages tor for driving him and his family from the state brought in a verdict awarding the plaintiff 35 an official telegram received in london by the indian office reports twenty seven deaths from cholera in the regiment of munster fusiliers which a week ago was sent into the cholera camp from major general s force now operating against the Moh mands the denver rio grande railroad acting for the western pacific has sold 15 two year 6 per cent notes with the privilege of extends extending na them for three years from 1910 proceeds of the sale of these notes will be used in completion of the construe tion of the western pacific the revolutionists in yun yuri nan brov ince china have met a setback the second column of insurgents the one that was advancing on lengh tsze a treaty port at the head of navigation on the jongkol river has been re by provincial troops following the defeat of the first column miss jean reid daughter of the american emba to great brit ain whitelaw reid and john hubert ward brother of the earl of dudley and equerry in waiting to king fd id ward will be married in the chapel royal of st james palace june 23 edward will be present I 1 |