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Show Colonel E. J. Watson. South Carolina's Caro-lina's commissioner of agriculture, says: "While we regard Mr. Rockefeller's Rocke-feller's princely gift for the eradica, Uon of the hookworm at Its true value, we say one million dollars foi the battle against the disease of pellagra pel-lagra would be far more valuable." President Roosevelt, in his speech at Birmingham, Ala., urged for support sup-port in carrying out the Roosevelt policies to oring auout better condi tions of honesty and integrity In business busi-ness and public affairs, without regard re-gard to party lines. Mrs. Johanna Engleman, the first woman juror in California, will not be permitted to serve on a jury, Judge Eledso of San Bernardino ruling that neither the California statutes or the common law provided for woman jurors. jur-ors. Pat Hatton, city marshal of Corral, Iowa, was shot and killed by one of two robbers he had arrested. Hatton neglected to search the men and was shot in the back. Fright from "riding the goat" at an initiation of the Compact Masons, a negro Masonic lodge of Kansas City, Mo., cause- the death of Alchis Hun-i.y, Hun-i.y, a negro. Hunly was seized with hemorrhage folowing the initiation. John Stewart Kennedy, the aged millionaire who died in New York City from whooping cough, made bequests be-quests of more than $25,000,000 to religious, charitable and educational educa-tional institutions in his will. WASHINGTON. The state department has refused to be drawn into the Cook-Peary controversy,' contro-versy,' declining a request that it cable American Minister Egan at Copenhagen Copenha-gen permission to examine the records rec-ords of Dr. Frederick A. Cook when they are submitted to that institution. Wild and unfounded rumors of the assassination of ex-President Roosevelt Roose-velt were circulated on Friday. According Ac-cording to latest dispatches, the ex-president ex-president is in good health and enjoying enjoy-ing his fru nting trip. A postal deficiency of $17,479,770, an increase of $569,491 over last year, was announced in the annual report of Merrit O. Chance, auditor of the postoffice department. Secretary Knox has invited Japan to enter into a compact making practically prac-tically compulsory peaceful settlement settle-ment of all difficulties with the United Unit-ed States. Charles R. Jones, chairman of the national committee of the Prohibition Prohibi-tion party, sees encouragement for prohibition in the election returns, despite the defeat of reform forces in many cities. Commander Robert E. Peary has been voted a gold medal by the National Na-tional Geographic society for having reached the North pole. The supreme court of 'Columbia has been sustained by the district court of appeals in the case of Gompers, Morrison Mor-rison and Mitchell, convicted of contempt con-tempt of court in the Buck stove and rm, lr.r,An.c mill NEWS HF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FOI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Histor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. James Campbell has confessed to the Spokane chief of police that he struck J. C. Shaw at a cigar store and kil'ed him. Shaw was quarreling with another man when Campbell Interfered In-terfered and struck Shaw, knocking him down. He then left the store and did not know he had severely injured the man until he read of his death next morning. Walter Stiles, for fifteen years a rancher of Orofino, Idaho, who has made numerous prospecting trips to Alaska, has made aflidavit in support of Dr. Cook's claim that he ascended Mount McKinley. On October 30 the last rail connecting connect-ing the two stretches of track of the Western Pacific company in Nevada was laid at a point about fifty miles north of Reno and about 160 miles west of Winnemucca. This completes the Western Pacific road clear across the state of Nevada. Because Tom King, living near Stanford, Mont., kicked James -J. Gass' dog when he discovered the dog had stolen some of his meat, he was beaten to death by Gass. King was 73 years of age and had been in Montana since 1873. Captain cautz of the American schooner Taurus, arriving at Port Townsend, Wash., reported that on Octobed 21 his ship breasted a windstorm wind-storm of such great velocity that sea gulls were killed by the thousands. He estimated the velocity of the wind at 150 miles an hour. . Peter Miller, physician, lecturer on economics and holder of degrees from European colleges, who is on trial it Seattle for burglary, tells a horrible story -of beatings administered to him oy the police in order to extort a confession of a crime, of which he declares he is innocent. Bert Hazelwood, a well-dressed and apparently well educated man, suddenly sud-denly became insane and created a riot among the passengers on a train near Reno, Nevada, who endeavored to keep out of the maniac's path. He finally was subdued, after he had jumped through a window. DOMESTIC. After buying mourning for her elder Alter Duymg mourning tor ner elder daughter, Mrs. Mary Cels killed another an-other daughter, Erma, one year old, and then committed suicide by asphyxiation asphyx-iation at Chicago. Mrs. Cels had been ill for more than a year. Five persons, all railroad employees, were killed, and a score of passengers passen-gers injured, none, it is believed seriously, ser-iously, in an accident on the elevated structuere in Jersey City. After entering the cafe of the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York City, and shouting that the men drinking were going "straight to hell," Mrs. Carrie Nation, Kansas saloon-smasher, was landed In jail. John W. Beam, a negro attorney, has been sentenced to life imprisonment imprison-ment in the Ohio penitentiary for the murder at Lima, O., of Mrs. Maudk Dilts, white, a client. Beam was con-'lnted con-'lnted of murder in the first degree, but the jury recommended mercy. A masher who persisted in forcing his attentions upon Mrs. A. M. Mc-Bride Mc-Bride on a train near Thomasville, Ga., was held by the conductor while Mrs. McBride slapped his face, the passengers applauding the act. Under tne new system adopted by the citizens of Boston at the recent election, tne mayor will be nominated nominat-ed by petition of 5,000 voters and elected for a term of four years with a chance, should he prove unworthy, un-worthy, of being recalled at the end of two years. A premature explosion of dynamite dyna-mite in the Electric Zinc and Land company mine at Webo City, Mo., killed Floyd i.ewton and Claude Har rison and injured five. J. W. Wat-kins, Wat-kins, one of the injured, likely will die. Robert Burns' "poems chiefly ir the Scottish dialect," a rare octave printed by John Wilson at Kilmarnock Kilmar-nock in 1786, was purchased at the auction sale of the private library of the late James Brown, a publisher of Boston, by George Clark of Kilmarnock, Kilmar-nock, Scotland. The price was $1,025. Dr. George A. Fritch, who was recently re-cently held on the charge of manslaughter man-slaughter In connection with the death of Maybello Millman of Ann Arbor, stood mute when arraigned in the recorder's court at Detroit. A plea of not guilty was entered for him. When Nicholas Silver, a carpenter of San Francisco, went to his home for luncheon the meal was not ready. He reproved his wife for her tardiness and started for a restaurant. As soon as he had left the house a pistol shot was heard and. hastening back he found Mrs. Silver dead. Notwithstanding recent business depression, more money was raised during the iast year by the Women': Foreign Missionary society of tht Methodist Episcopal church than dur ing any other time In the history of the organization. take an appeal to the supreme court of the United States. Smallpox cases numbering 24,650 in the United States during the fiscal year ending July 1, last, were reported by the public health service at Wasn-ington. Wasn-ington. This is a decrease of 7.600 from the preceding year. FOREIGN. A man believed to have been an American, dramatically committed suicide su-icide in a Paris cafe. He had asked the orchestra to play the waltz, "When Love Dies." and as the last strains died away he placed a pistol to his head and shot himself. Orville and Wilbur Wright, the aviators, avi-ators, have been presented with the cross of the Legion of Honor by the republic of France, through its consul-general consul-general at New York, M. Etienne Lanel. Because Bishop Nikadore of Nish, Servia, had a dream in which he saw a revolution in Belgrade, the deposition deposi-tion of King Peter and the crowning of Crown Prince George, and then talked too much about his dream, he is racing trial for high treason. The Japanese Korean residency has been withdrawn from Chientao in fulfillment ful-fillment of the agreement reached between be-tween Japan and China on September 4, which recognized Chientao as Chi-nese Chi-nese territory from which the Japanese Japan-ese military forces then held there for the protection of Japanese and Korean Ko-rean interests should be withdrawn. Inchan Angan, the Korean who assassinated as-sassinated Prince Ito of Japan, and his alleged accomplices, has been removed re-moved to Seoul, Korea, for trial. Following Fol-lowing their arrest by the Russian police po-lice the prison-s were turned over to the Japanese authorities at Harbin. It is officially reported that there were fifty-two deaths irom Cholera and seventy-eight deaths from bubonic bubon-ic plague in Amony. China, during the fortnight ending Saturday. Prince Regent Leopold of Bavaria on Monday celebrated his eighty-eighth eighty-eighth birthday and U.e seventieth anniversary of his appointiment as Lieutenant of Artillery. A Lisbon dispatch announces that King Manuel has recovered from his recent illness and will leave for England Eng-land on November 7. Oscar Straus. American embassado: to Turkey, is appealing for funds to aid sufferers from the massacres of last April, declaring that in Silicia there are 60.000 wom?n and children whose husbands and fathers were massacred that are in need of shelter shel-ter and the necessaries of liie. A proposition to Impose $1 as the maximum export duty on each bag o' sugar produced in Cuba constitutes the principal provision of a bill which occupied the attention of the first sess.on of the house of represents I tives on Wednesday. |
