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Show V NEWS SUMMARY v It is estimated that by autumn Japan will have at least a million men In the field. A train on the Yazoo & Mississippi , Valley railroad was ditched near Miss., passengers being Injured. Serious disturbances of character, in which the garrison joined, is reported to have occurred at Chetyebinsk. The home of George T. Mault, at Clarksburg, W. Va., was destroyed by Har-die- sixty-seve- n anti-Semit- fire, and four of his children were burned to death. One person Is dead, one fatally Injured and five seriously injured as the result of a fire in a boarding bouse in Grand Rapids, Mich. The tug Columbia struck. a snag and sank in twelve feet of water In the Whatcom Creek, Wash., waterway. The crew got safely ashore. Cal., Adolph Weber, the Auburn, young man convicted of murdering his father, mother and brother, has been sentenced to be hanged on Friday. June 30. The peasant at Orgeiff, near Odessa, Russia, recently seized the land of some of the big estates and proceeded to divide it. Troops have been dispatched to the scene. Policeman Commissary Otechevsky of Odessa was wounded in the chest by a bullet fired from a revolver. His assassin, who was arrested, refused to disclose his identity. Two miners, Ellas II. Atkinson and John Eskdahl, were killed and several seriously Injured by strikers in a riot which occurred at the IIull RuiC mine at Hibblng, Minn. As the result of an assault by an unknown negro on Mrs. John Griffiths, a white woman, great excitement prevails at Coffeyvllle, Kans. Fears of a race war are entertained. John F Wallace, chief engineer of the Isthmian canal, says there are now practically 5,000 men engaged under bis direction on the engineering and construction work of the canal, The correspondent at Tangier of tbd bally Telegraph reports that the Sultan of Morocco has definitely rejected the French reforms, declaring that they must be referred to the signatories. of the Madrid convention. As a result of a family quarrel at Geneseo, N. Y., Antonio Sparachio, an Italian, shot and killed his mother-in-law- , Grass! Doni, fatally wounded his stepdaughter, Mary Rossi slightly his wife and killed himself. . wounded Dlancbe Mitchell was found guilty at Logansport, Ind., of the murder of Ella Swisher and sentenced to life imprisonment. Miss Mitchell shot Miss Swisher at a road house because Miss Swisher kissed Miss Mitchell's BRIEF INFORMATION J. H. Camehl, a contractor, aged 71, fell from a ladder to a cement sidewalk fifteen feet below, at Seattle, and was killed. E. E. Philips, a locomotive engineer waa killed at Fort Stevens, Mont, his engine jumping the track and fab ling on him, his head and one arm b lng cut off. of conducting a gambling game in Spokane, was sentenced to one year In tke star I penitentiary last week. An appeal has been taken to the supreme couvt Del Stlmpson. convicted In 1898 Earthquakes were felt in Austria on 209 days. Vegetable Life Does not exist in the sea below a depth of 1,500 feet. The Sea Freezes at 29 deg. Fahx.; fresh water lakes at 32 deg, Fahr. The Hottest And coldest months for the .ocean are August and February. Moscow Is situated almost in the geometrical center of European Russia. British South Africa Has a population of 1,133,756 white people, and 3,308,355 colored. Of the area of Japan is mouatwinous, and less than 16 per cent. Is under cultivation. The Caspian Sea 380,000 square miles, Is the largest lake in the world; Lough Neagh Is 153 square miles. Mount Everest In the Himalayas 29,002 feet Is the highest mountain In the world; Ben Nevis Is 4,406 feet. The Forests of Roumania Cover about of the total area of the country, reaching a total of over 7,000,000 acres. The Average Depth Of the sea Is about 12,000 feet; the average height of the land above Is about 1,500 feet. Queensland Possesses the most interesting flora, rnd the most numerous and valuable wild fruits in the world. Russia In Europe alone has an area of 2, 000,000 square miles; the area of Siberia Is 5,000,000 square miles. Title Norwegian Lake Sometimes freeze with such rapidity that it 'is possible to cross them on ice formed in a single night. Butterflies Are so numerous In Uganda that they may be seen covering the ground in dense white or yellow clumps. The Area s Of the groups of islands of which Japan is composed is about greater than that of Great Britain. The Congo Flows with considerable rapidity in its upper reaches. A speed of 350 feet per minute has been reglsterd. The Deepest Sounding Yet made in the oceans is the Aid rich Deep, to the East of New Zealand. Here the sea Is 30,930 feet deep. the slates Japan . attorney-general- The unidentified body of a young man was found floating in the bay sixteen miles north of Seattle, near Richmond Beach. Train men on the Great Northern pulled the body on the beach and notified the coroner in Seattle. There were no papers in the pockets to identify the dead man. At Laramie, Wyo., last week a little girl by the name of O'Connor was struck by an engine and thrown into the air, lighting on the track, when she was struck again before the engine stopped, llad the engine moved another foot she would have been crushed. As It was she escaped with a well-dresse- n q Greek band on April $ ami burned, say that over loo llulgarlans were killed, instead of thirty, as stated In earlier despatches. The Greeks afterward executed thirty prisoners on the spot. A dispatch from Kenalobla, Miss., saya the Spencer brothers and William Still, charged with being members of tho ntoli that shot and killed Sheriff Foag, are barricaded in a canebruko twenty miles front the town and have sent word that they will not be taken alive. Governor General Northeott of the commonwealth of Australia will. It Is understood. Invite Secretary of War Taft and party to visit Australia during the party's forthcoming visit to The commonwealth the Philippines, of Australia will defray the entire expense. Dr. Wiley H. Forsythe, tormerly of Versailles, Ky.. who is In Korea as a medical missionary, was recently attacked by a band of Korean rebels, and horribly wounded. The" doctor's skull was fractured, one of his ears severed and he received other dangerous wounds. At Indian Dlgglns, Cal., Austin 74 years,. to save ths Starkey, aged lives of his two grandchildren and himself, shot and killed with a Winchester rifle his son. Joseph Starkey, aged 35 years. The younger Starkey was drunk and attacked his family with an ax. Short Items of Interest Gathered from All Over the World were Introduced as eviThe dence In a Wyoming court for the first time In Cheyenne last week, whep Mrs. Abbie Moore submitted to an examination of a limb which was fractured six months ago. Willie Armlngton, aged 13, shot and killed his stepfather, William Sltz, at his ranch east of Malta, Mont. The boy was taken In charge by a deputy sheriff, who will not let him talk, and the cause of the shooting is unknown. As Emil Carlson, a leaser on the Big Seven mine at Nlehart, Mont, was chewing together a dynamite cap and fuse, the cap exploded, tearing bis Jaw off and Inflicting terrible iniurles to his throat and tongue. It is not thought he can live. The Oregon state building, the first of the state buildings at the Lewis and Clark fair to be completed, has been finished. Running Oregon a close second Is the California state building, which will be completed during the present week. Fire destroyed the Palace hotel at Havre, Mont., entailing a loss of about SI0.000. Just about a year ago Havre was visited by a disastrous fire and since then there have been two bad conflagrations, leading some people to think firebugs are at work. Governor Brooks of Wyoming has appointed Joseph A. Van Orsdell to fill the unexpired terra of Jesse Knight as justice cf the Wyoming supreme court. Van Orsdell is chairman of the RepubllVn state committee and waa sweetheart. latter reports from Mandl, India, few bruises. state that at least 400 persons were While driving with his family, Lee killed In the city by the earthquake. It. Cook, a stoc kman living near Glas The palace, temples and residences gow, Mont., became violently Insane. were leveled. Estimates of the num- In a frenzy he lashed his team and tn ber of pople killed at Saltanpur vary the which followed wai runaway from 2t'0 to 700. thrown to the ground, sustaining inThe R. R. Grover company and Its juries from which he died later. Ills agents were declared to be blameless wife and sister, who were In the carfor the explosion which destroyed Its riage with him, were Injured. shoe factory at Itrockton, Mass., on Mike Rossn, an Italian laborer on hl March 20, and caused the death of to Rome, cut his throat in the way persons, by the finding of smoking car of a Great Northern train Judge Frederick M. Illxby. State Senator R. L. Hlpp, an attor- near Cutbank. Mont., jumped out of A few ney, was shot and Instantly killed and the window and disappeared. town with hours he Into later walked Deputy Sheriff J. H. Dunlap was probthe a and blood from gash W. flowing ably fatally wounded by John Williams, twenty miles east of Cull- fainted. When searched. 2.000 was man. Ala. Hlpp and Dunlap had gone found upon him. He will recover. to oust Williams from a tract of land. The dead body of George Payne, a After bidding good bye to her hus- Cherokee Indian, was found on the band over the telephone and leaving railroad track near Deer Idge, Mont., the receiver down so that he might by section men. Tho cause of death bear the fatal shots, Mrs. Charles J. Is unknown. Payne was one of the Haberstlan. wife of a Wheeling. W, leading members of his tribe and Va. saloonist sent three bullets Into well known character In the north her breast inflicting fatal Injuries. west, having participated tn nearly reports from Zagorlkcbam, mining rush In the west since near Klissura, which was attacked by every 1S52. fifty-seve- When the Dervishes Charge In the presenre of her swerhenrt. Maude T. Rock of Tacoma attempted suicide while standing on a public street. She drank nearly a teaspoon-fu- l of carbolic arid from a bottle which she had rHrrled In her hand, and then waving the bottle containing the acid In the man's, face, fell swooning Into his arms. She will recover. Mrs. Palma de Pasquale, an Italian woman 67 years of age, committed aut dele near Northport, Wash., by eat ing poisoned wheat, used In killing squirrels. Trouble between the father son. which resulted In and 24 year-olthe father sending the son from home, worked upon the woman's mind to such an extent as to dethrone her reason. While moving a house at Anaconda, Mont., Cyrus Barker, a pioneer of was crushed to death by his traction engine. He had stopped the engine and was near the wheels, when It suddenly started, rolling over him and killing him almost Instantly. At the first convention of the Wyo mlng Wool Growers' association, held In Cheyenne last week, the following officers were elected: Dr. J. M. Wil son of Douglas, president; William ; George Daley, Rawlins, 8, Walker, Cheyenne, secret Ana-eond- t ary-treas- - urcr. St. Petersburg Occupies six large and many small Islands at the mouth of the Neva. Scotland Is connected with Iceland by a submerged bank at a depth of 500 fathoms. The Largest Island In the world Is New Guinea, 306,000 sqpare miles; Great Britain is square miles. 83,-82- 6 Three-fourth- e one-sixt- two-third- Is fifty times smaller than Russia In superficial area, and her total population Is about that of the Russian empire. Lake Biwa Is the only large sheet of fresh water In Japan worthy of mention. It is 36 miles long, 12 miles wide, and its greatest depth about 300 feeL Loch Tay Is one of the deepest lakes in the British Isles. A maximum sounding of 503 feet has been made In this lake, whilst the mean depth is 199 feet. New Zealands Scenery Is so beautiful and so varied that It has been termed a combination of Switzerland, Southern France, Norway, the Tyrol and North Italy. Recent Travelers in Tibet Have noticed that while the effects of rarefied air are severely felt at altitudes of between 14.000 and 16,000 feet, on going yet higher all disagreeable sensations pass off. Snow, Even In the tropics, never melts, but remains continuously all the year round above a height of 16,000 feet; in colder climes the snow line Is much lower than this. Though Icebergs Sometimes rise to a height of 200 feet above the sea level; eight-ninth- s of their total height Is below the water During the Challenger Arctic expedition an iceberg three miles in length was seen. Fake steel-boun- lead-spoutin- four-fronte- Shrines in Moroci A traveler says that Christians In look with suspicion on the shrines of Mohammedan saints in that country. He tells the following story: "Once upon a time a boy was traveling through the country and, as night came on, he found himself near a whitewashed tomb. Knocking at the door of the shrine, be asked for a meal and a bed. When the next day dawned he was about to continue his journey, but the keeper of the shrine besought him to remain. In order to help him keep the shrine and collect the offerings of the faithful. The youth said that he must first consult his parents and, the elder man hade him take his ass and seek advice of his parents and return. The boy took the ass and rode away, but he had not accomplished half the journey before the ass fell sick and died. Then the boy knew not what to do ror where to turn. But when he had considered the circumstances of his case a brilliant Idea flashed Into his mind. Morocco Having dug a pit and cast he piled great stonei them with lime, and t white flag above, saying to tS passed by, "This is the tomb 0(5 Then worshipen from every side, alms were pom and offerings showered upon his keeper of the former shrine lo customers and came to visit tb saint. He, when the crowd had r approached the young shrinekw; ask thee by Allah, said the old who is this saint of thine and manner of thing is buried here? I will not deceive thee, k; tell thee the truth, returned tier My saint who is buried herein other than thy beast, even the a of thine own ass. And now.pra; is thy saint, and who in truth lib In the shrine thou keepest? 1 not deceive thee, but will tell the truth, replied the old man; n; Is the father of thy saint. d Kang-wh- a , Is an island off the west coast of Korea of considerable strategical Importance. It has a curious appearance, ow ing to the fact that It Is crossed from east to west by four parallel chains of mountains. A Volcanic Eruption At St. Vincent once threw a cloud of dust against the wind to St. a distance of 100 miles. The deposit fell for twelve hours over the entire Island, attaining a thickness of nearly half an inch. Its estimated weight was, therefore, nearly 2.000, 00 tons. In Central China There Is a province Yunnan the entire population of which, men, women and children are hopelessly given to the opium habit. The poppy ts cultivated In almost every available patch or arable land, and the Inhabitants are absolutely demoralized and fit for nothing by reason of their abuse of the drug. The Kea Is a greenish brown parrot of New Zealand, which is as dangerous to the sheep of that country as wolves vould be. These carnivorous birds fasten themselves on the barks of grazing sheep, tear through wool and which they deveur, leaving the unfortunate animal skin to the kidney-fat- , to perish In agony. The Natives of Kikuyu In the East African Protectorate go about well armed. They carry a stout, spear, a real buffalo-hidshield, a heavy, edged sword, a club, and several strong stlekR. Their principal "garment" Is a plentiful rent of terracotta earth, and they wear numerous articles of metal ns ornaments. Bar-badoe- s, e double-- A Misapplied Word. cry body who hus had experience iirving knows that not only Bre Hamilton's Mild Praise of Wife. Here's the way Alexander Hamilton wrote of the young woman who required, but also soon afterwards became his wife. In per knives ably more skill and practice to a letter that Mr. J. I. Morgan has a duck than any other fowl. Ad-- Just added to his autograph collecDewey wbs a guest at a dinner tion: "She Is a girl, serious had that where his host who. I ant sure, will never play the to perform. As the admiral termagant; though not a genius, sho bed the almost desperate has good sense enough to he agreeof the carver to disintegrate able, and. though not a ahe beauty, host His smiled mildly. bird he las fine Dark eyes. Is rather handened to notlee It and felt n hit some, and nas every other requisite imI, ns he was not In the best of of the good-hearte- . on-or- s ier, anyway, ou appear to lie amused at my vardness, Admiral," said he." ot at all, sir; not at all." was the r. panic-stricke- distant, within a spear'i seemed to nerve them for . f t fort. At last the survivors hatl to grips with the i, ting, 3 that stood so stubbornly, so D ably and so mercilessly upon lng plain. It was hand to hand now, ans against steel, and butt agai The revolvers spat clear lnfoY faces, the long knives ripped, upward and out again. The a slaughter-hot- , had become butcher's yard, and young Xo; ing was in the thick of it. He had emptied his revolve stood with but his naked hands the end tame. The savage in fr him and the other at his side treading the bodies of the mem,' shot down. He heat his useless on into the grinning face, and pressed a hand to his shoulder They had got him there. His was bloody; his eyes faint j, all over, and as he fell he lmei he had seen all things and pt price. Metropolitan Magazine. h sea-lev- one-thir- The Maxims spoke; the rifles blazed their message. White horsemen fell and left a patch of white upon the thirsty sand. The ranks opened out, the main army behind swung forward at each end; grew crescent-shaped- , engaging three then semicircular, sides of the British square. The battle raged In earnest as the north and south fronts came into action. Before, Death had trodden quietly, taking a man here, another there. One could count the dead at first. Now Death was a reaper whose sickle cut down sheaves. Great gaps showed In the enemys ranks; their circular fbrmation had vanished; In clumps and patches they came on, a ragged, wavering, murdern ous, stampede of human cattle. The horsemen In front had grown fewer. The rushing herds beyond were close up to the square; outnumbering It even now, falling in lanes and crossroads as Maxims took them In front, or diagonally, or sideways. Still they came on, and tbs sight of the invaders, but a few yards "I was only thinking why the duck was used as a word of and goose one of reproach. Mules Hard to Kill, correspondent who was with Ctd. tRhushand's mission to Tibet tells tie story: "Mules, apparently, do die from any cause. When the Ion first crossed the Jelapla a tile slipped In the dusk and fell the lake at the bottom of the . It was thought to be drowned. morning a convoy found It with lose Just above the Ire, the rest i body literally froien In. Pick-werbrought and the animal dug out. It l cor working as e exterior to make a lover happy. And. believe nte, I am lover In earnest, although I do not speak of the perfections of my mlstreas In the enthusiasm of chivalry." Would the lady have been pleased, ladles, If she had looked over his shoulder while he was writing It? A Difference of Opinion. "Dry sy dar'a a doctor come ter de front who give It out dnt a man orter be killed off w'en he gits ter sixty " seld Brother Williams. "Now. lomnie 1 u 1 ! hsd one wife 'yVn In Alabama, two In Texas, on one tn Tennessee, en I walked all de way f'um Texas ter Georgy, on I been here ever since enjoyin' my honeymoon all hy myself; en de fust ere de year I was eighty-six- , en 1 shingled my own roof, en rnised de devil glnrully'" Atlanta Constitution. ly Articles Lost in Hot The forgetfulness of the traveling public is proverbial and the management of the new Astor hotel Is decidedly particular In seeing to it that forgotten property left In the house by guests Is returned where possible to the rightful owners, says the New York Globe. It may be only a plebeian collar button that is left behind, or perchance a scented epistle containing endearing sentiments, but it matters not. Such things are given as much attention by the management as would be In the case of, say, a valuable diamond ring. In a large hotel like the new Astor considerable property is carelessly left behind in the rooms hy guests on leaving, and the proper handling of tli stuff has necessarily got to be managed by a system. Where a guest goes off and leaves, say, a valuable piece of jewelry in his room, the chambermaid will he the first to dis cover the forgotten article therefore reports the matter I office, giving at the Bame tat number of the room In which was found. The room clerk turns to this her in the register, and oppof finds the name of the last occu;. the apartment and the owner jewelry. The forgotten article s. tagged and placed In the hotel - If the stuff is very valuab owner Is usually not long befo covering his loss and notify;: hotel, and he will either call r U quest 'his property to lie sent The sending by mall or express ever, of an article left hy a gu matter which rests with the li of the hotels management. Some hotels refuse alwolutfly turn forgotten property where;' pens to he of great value calls In person, iilentlf stuff, and then signs a receipt: is Making Arid Regions Another huge dam is to be built for Irrigation purposes, the Roosevelt dam In Salt River Valley, Arizona. It will be one of the largest in the world, will cost $1,100,000, will overflow about 350,000 acres of land and supply water power for hundreds of places throughout the territory. The practice of Irrigation is very ancient, water having been stored and distributed In this way In Egypt as early as 2000 B. C. Persia, India, Ceylon, China, as well as Peru and Mexico. also had Irrigation works ages ago. Even there In Arizona, not so far from where the big dam Is to he built, remains ot aneient Irrigation works can bn found, which suggest that that section of the desert may have been compelled hy men to "blossom as the rose" many hundreds of years ago. A large portion of the earths surface Is deficient In rainfall, having Icsb It has than twenty Inches a year. House aonl thnt live withdrawn tn the place of their self. content: like stum that dwell There are soul part' In n fellnwleea firmament. Thera are pioneer mil thnt blase thslr paths Where the highways never ran. Itut let me live by the aide of the road. And be a friend to man. Let me live been estimated that there Is water to irrigate only about of the arid region of the United or from 150,000,000 to 200. acres. Of this Irrigable ares b 000,000 acres have been reclaim Europe Irrigation prevails 'ck the south, where it was Introd the Romans. It Is most eim& and systematically practiced off Spain, and the south Nowhere is Irrigation prf!: extensively as In India. 25,000,000 acres are Irrigated. 6 Is next. The Assouan da F the Nile is considered one of engineering feats In the h human race. Irrigation In Australia, but It is spreaii-idly there, and the same M less true of South Africa. tire of irrigation has decline tlrely disappeared In nM' where It prevailed in tlqulty. Beside There are hermit house by the ldo of Whie the race of men go bv; The men who are good, and the men who are laid. An good and aa laid a I. I would tod ait n the aawt. Nor hml the eynlc'a ban. Let me live In a hose by the aid of the road. And b a filend of man, In tha road I see from my house hy tha elite of tha road. By I he aide of the highway of life, men The who pleat with tha ardor of hone, And the nr.rn who ere faint with the atrlfa Bloc , the RoS3 But I turn not away fi"in nor their tears. Both parta of an Infinite I1; But live in my houte h th 1 road, And te a friend to nmu I know there are brook gl1JfW ! owe ahead. And mountain of ln on That the road paste long afternoon And sttetchcN away Rut atilt I rejoice when tha t o. lolee, And weep with the strange th Nor live In my house hy weail",! 1 A road a man thnt dwell Let me live In my house the road. Where the rnoe of mm They are good, they mi Weak. , by I , ,i' ( .,,1, They are strong, wise, t; ,h, Then, why should I sit , seat, ban Or hurl the cynic house hr Let me live lit the rood, And bo a ft tend lo no"i (t ' |