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Show NEWS SUMMARY The miners in the Pittsburg, Kans., coal fields are striking because of check-off disputes. A project is on foot to grant the Finns seats in the Russian duma and the council of empires. Attorneys for Banker Charles W. Morse have succeeded in having' his ball reduced from $15,000 to $5,000. A slight earthquake shock was felt at San Barnardino, Cal., on July 1, about the same time the shocks were felt in Messina. Edward Cooley was killed near Elizabeth, N. i., when a tire on his automobile burst and the machine crashed into a telegraph pole. Two negroes were lulled and five others were wounded in a fight starting start-ing over a crap game at a stone quarry near Ripley, Oklahoma. A mutiny in the prison at Vlllna, Russia, led to a pitched battle in the court yard. Four wardens and seven convicts were killed and six wounded. Because the spectators applauded a winner of a prizefight at Vera Cruz, Mexico, the loser of the fight emptied his revolver into the crowd. Four persons per-sons were wounded. Major General Franklin J. Bell, chief of staff of the army, has left Washington for Seattle, after which he will visit Alaska for the purpose of inspecting the military posts. Official orders have been issued at Winnipeg, Man., prohibiting any United Unit-ed States circus from parading on the streets of Winnipeg unless it flies the British instead of an American flag. It is announced that the International Interna-tional Harvester company of Chicago has contracted for 250,000 bales of sisal hemp, to be delivered by Yucatan Yuca-tan planters in monthly installments till May 31, 1910. The thirteenth vain attempt of the militant suffragettes to obtain access to Premier Asquith resulted in exciting excit-ing scenes in Parliament square, London, Lon-don, June 29, and the arrest of more than 100 women. Dr. Haldane Cleminson of Chicago has been indicted for the murder of his wife. When Dr. Cleminson was arrested, following his wife's death, he told the police she had been chloroformed chloro-formed by burglars. Prince Von Buelow has authorized the announcement that he intends tc retire from the chancellorship of the German empire as soon as the pending pend-ing finance reform measure is disposed dis-posed of in one way or another. Inspector McCaffery, chief of- the New York detective bureau, announces an-nounces that there is no doubt that Leon Ling, the Chinaman who murdered mur-dered Elsie Sigel, wall be captured in time, providing the murderer is still alive. All present legal barriers to the long contemplated municipal water supply scheme for San Francisco were removed last week by a decision of Superior Judge Sewell, and the Hetchy-Ketchy project will now go through. Because he interfered in behalf of some overworked and disabled mules, George F. Guernsey, humane officer, was shot and killed near Memphis Tenn. Charles W. SUer, foreman of a construction camp, was arrested, charged with the murder. James Treadwell, a former director of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company, of San Francisco, un der indictment charging embezzlement embezzle-ment of bank stock valued at $65,000, has been freed, the charge being dismissed dis-missed on motion of the state. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff, in a speech before the army service schools at Fort Leavenworth at the graduation exercises held on June 30, declared he saw indications ' of war and insisted that the day of international peace was far off. Two companies of white soldiers will occupy Fort Brown, Texas, formerly for-merly held by the negro soldiers who were dismissed from' the service by President Roosevelt. This is the first move on the part of the government to fill the places of the discharged soldiers. sol-diers. ,- Kentucky now has but twenty-four counties in all parts of which liquor can be sold. At midnight, July 30, Ashland, in Boyd county, became dry, and twenty-six saloons closed their doors for three years. This is the most prominent town in eastern Kentucky. Ken-tucky. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the Woodill murder case was that "Lame Bob" Eastman "killed Edith May Thompson Woodill or was accessory acces-sory to (he murder," four of the members mem-bers refusing to sign the verdict until un-til the words "or accessory" was added. In her anxiety to kiss her husband farewell at the Charlerio station, Pittsburg, Mrs. Marie Antonio of California Cal-ifornia neglected- to take the car window win-dow into account and thrust her head through the glass. She was severely gashed on the neck and is not expected expect-ed to survive. The municipality of Odessa, now in the hands of the reactionists, has brought suit against the municipal officers of-ficers of 1905, charging them with misuse of the city funds. It is claimed a large sum was spent for military movements against the antl-Jewdsh antl-Jewdsh outbreaks. A cannon firecracker, thrown Into an automobile in which Gertrude Von Petzold, the noted woman suffragist, I was riding, in Des Moines. Iowa, I nearly resulted in her death or sen-i sen-i ous injury. The automobile was wrecked and the three occupants badly shaken up. The mayor of Chicago has been authorized to offer a reward of $3,000 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the explosion of a bomb in the down town district which caused considerable damage, presumably the result of the war against gambling. |