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Show have the oldest pt:'.s.:i in Chi cago, is (!"ad of pneumonia at the , home of her tiranddaiighier. Mrs. j Hattie Hudson. Mrs. Lung, according ; to her relatives, was born in March, IT'J'i, in Baltimore. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe celebrated her ninety-first birthday in Boston on j May 27. "My health is perfect," j she Paid In a birthday interview. "I j feel full of youth." j The latest addition to the equip-j equip-j ment of the big Brooklyn high schools I in a piece of gymnasium apparatus designed to teach girls to get oil and off street cars properly. History of Past Week TKc News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. One of the most severe electric rain storms In years visited Anaconda, Mont., on May 27, the principal lightning light-ning disturbance occuring at the Pres-eotr Pres-eotr school. About 2 o'clock a boit of lightning struck the school, which contained about 150 young pupils, and a panic ensued. No one was injured, however. Jefferson W. Scriber, charged with forgery and misappropriation of funds of the defunct Farmers & Traders' National bank of NaGrange, Ore., was found guilty by a jury in the United States district court. John Datig and Harry Wheatly were killed and Charles Babbitt fatally hurt j at Washington, Pa., when an auto in j which they were trying to break a lo-I lo-I cal record struck the abutment of a bridge. At Sulphur, Oklahoma, J. S. Milton shot and killed Mrs. Annie East, with whom he was supposed to be in love, and then shot himself. He died almost instantly. Tossed from a capsized rowboat into in-to the waters of Brighton Beach lake, at Salida, Cal., Miss Eileen Mooney of San Francisco, was drowned, and her two companions, Miss Nellie O'Connell and Miss Isabelle Lutzen, were saved from the same fate oniy through the heroic efforts of two spectators. spec-tators. WASHINGTON. President Taft on Friday sent to Chairman Tawney of the house committee com-mittee on appropriation a letter expressing ex-pressing deep resentment at the criticism criti-cism passed by Democrats in the house debate on Thursday on the traveling expenses of the president. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman has been taken to a sanitarium at Atlanta Atlan-ta Ga., for treatment for rheumatism. The old fight over the canteen question ques-tion was reopened in the house last week by an amendment offered by Mr. Keiliher of Massachusetts to the sundry sun-dry civil bill to allow canteens at all H. M. Mayer, a well dressed young man who came to Seattle recently lrom Denver, was arrested Sunday on a charge of burglary and is said by the police to have confessed that he robbed two local department stores by which he had been employed for a few days as a salesman. Charles F. McKenney, pioneer mining min-ing man, died at his home in Denver, Den-ver, Thursday morning, of nervous prostration and general breakdown. Warden Tynan of the state penitentiary peniten-tiary at Canon City, Colo., announced Thursday that the man responsible for the attempted jail delivery a month ago, in which two convicts had been killed and three others wounded, wound-ed, has been captured at Harvey, 111. His name is Paul Morton. DOMESTIC. A tornado which struck Pierce City, Mo., destroyed ten buildings, but no one was killed, as the residents saw the tornado coming and ran to the cellars. Jesse Overstreet, former congressman congress-man and author of the gold standard law, died at Indianapolis, May 27. Thirty-five people were rescued from the upper floors of a building In Kansas City, when a gas explosion started a spectacular fire that soon envolped the place. Governor Hughes has called an extra ex-tra session of the New York legislature legisla-ture for July 20. His action resulted from the defeat of his direct primaries primar-ies measure in the closing hours of the present session. Clad only in a night robe, Mrs. William Wil-liam Stroker, 43 years old, committed suicide in Chicago by throwing herself her-self in front of a train. She had apparently ap-parently arisen from bed and hurried to the railroad tracks. The schooner Dora Bluhm, seven days from Coos bay for San Pedro, went ashore on Santa Barbara island Wednesday night and was totally wrecked. The crew was saved. The Rev. Alexander Fraser Munro, known in this country and England as "the preaching printer," whose work In the interest of workingmen, temperance and Sabbath observance was praised by Queen Victoria, is dead at his home in Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Barr, both old soldiers' homes within five miles of cities where liquor is sold, The house rejected the amendmnt by a vote of 17 to 51. Ex-President Roosevelt has written a letter from London to a prominent Republican "insurgent" member of the house of representatives, requesting the latter to meet him in a conference as soon after the ex-president's arrival in New York on June 18 as possible. The average salary of a minister of the gospel was but $663 in all denominations de-nominations represented in a special report on the census of religious bodies for 1906, which is now in press preparatory to submission to Census Director Durand and secretary of the department of commerce and labor. "Before the interstate commerce commission can become effective it will be necessary to equip it much more thoroughly," said Senator La vFollette' in the senate on 'Wednesday. A house bill granting tracts of land to a number of mountain towns in Colorado for park purposes has passed the senate. FOREIGN. The Nicaragan government forces, , under cover of the fire of the gunboat San Jacinto, on Friday routed the insurgents in-surgents and captured Bluefields bluff. This lose to the Estrada forces probably prob-ably ends the revolution. Prof. Robert Koch, the famous bacteriologist, discoverer of the bacili bacteriologist, discoverer of the bacili Baden Baden, May 27, from a disease iged 65 years, were instantly killed it Reovenna, O., when the automobile in which they were returning from lecorating their daughter's grave was struck by an express train. - , Baseball was responsible for two ieaths in Celevland, O. Frank Kostoh-:yz, Kostoh-:yz, 15 years old was struck on. the :emple by a pitched ball and instantly instant-ly killed. Walter J. Garsoh, 34 years sld, was the second victim. While running run-ning bases in a game in a vacant lot, he burst a .'blood vessel and died in i few miifites.' i n- The first violence since 1,500 zinc miners struck at Webb City, Mo., occurred oc-curred Saturday when E. E. Ecton, a shoveler, was attacked by thirty strikers as he left the ground at the Providence mine and was severely beaten. Jeff Mason, a negro, who had mur-lered mur-lered Deputy Sheriff Scott Taylor, tvas taken from the arresting officer at Action, Alabama, by a mob and hanged. According to the coroner's announcement, an-nouncement, a cat and a fly were responsible re-sponsible for the death of Edward H. Pratt, a manufacturer of Jersey City. While petting a kitten a week ago he ivas scratched on the hand and a few-hours few-hours later crushed a fly in that hand. Septic poisoning which even imputation of the hand could not check, caused death. After a fast of twelve days, during which he .lost twenty-two pounds, James W. Rea. a politician known all over the state of California, reports himself entirely cured of rheumatism. Mr. Rea says he has also lost all desire de-sire for tobacco. James A. Patten got a severe bump Dn the Chicago board of trade on Thursday, it being estimated that he lost between $6-10,000 and a million and a half dollars on wheat on that day. Theodore H. Waterman, the Albany miller, is said to be responsible responsi-ble for the movement which put a :rimp in Patten's aspirations. Eighteen members of the crew of 'he steamer Frank Goodyear lost their ves when that vessel was sunk in (.ake Huron on Monday, after being rammed amidships by the steamer James B. Wood. ot tne neart. The appointment of Lieutenant General Gen-eral Viscount Terauehi to succed Viscount Vis-count Sone as resident general in Korea, and that of Isaburo Yamagata as deputy resident general in Korea has been gazetted. Viscount Sone has been made a privy councilman. Walls of masonry ten feet in thickness thick-ness and containing iron grated windows, win-dows, believed to have been at one time some feet above the surface, have been uncovered 15 feet below the street level by workmen excavating for the foundation of a hotel in the business portion of Mexico City. Official dispatches received in Washington from both Lima, Peru, and QuiLo, Ecuador, indicate that warlike war-like preparations between Peru and Ecuador are being rapidly pushed forward for-ward and that a conflict seems inevitable. inevit-able. The Queen of Holland has presented to the public gardens of Paris 20,000 magnificent tulips, of all sizes, kinds and colors. They have been planted at Bagatelle, which is famous for its tulips, of which there are 100,000 in the grounds. Speaking at Bloemfontein recently, General Hertzog confidently asserted that the dual language medium in the schools would shortly be extended throughout South Africa. King Georgs, it is understood, has ordered an investigation over the enormous enor-mous bills for the funeral of King Edward. The funeral with iis attendant attend-ant expenses cost $1,500,000, which expenses will be defrayed from the public purse. King George was stunned stun-ned when he learned of the large outlay. out-lay. ' Twenty-two persons, all members of the crew, were drowned on Tuesday when the steamer Skerrycore was sunk in the English channel, as the result of a collision with the German bark J. C. Vinnen. There were nu passengers on either vessel. A Nicaraguan government force from the gunboat Venus on Wednesday Wednes-day boarded and searched' the American Ameri-can schooner Esiuerzo, flying the stars and stripes. The action was in defiance of a ruling from Washington that the Venus had forfeited Iy.t r.h: of search. |