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Show 1 Flashes Erom the Wire NORFOLK, Va., July 1. A receiver bus been appointed for the Norfolk & Southern raliroad, on petition of the Trust Company of America. Joined by the railroad. HONOLULU, July 1. In order to test the right of Dr. L. E. Oofer. who Is In charge of tho I'nltcd Stati, marine hospital hos-pital service at Honolulu, lo act as president presi-dent of the territorial board of health. It is probable that a suit will be brought. CHATHAM, 'Mass., July 1. Rear Admiral Ad-miral Charles H. Rockwell died here today to-day of apoplexy, at the age of CS years. Rear Admiral Rockwell served In the navy forty years, retiring on his own application ap-plication In 1902. His last command wa3 tho cruiser Chicago. SAIGON. Cochin v iina. July 1. Two hundred soldiers belonging to the French Colonial Infantry wore seized with a sudden sud-den nausea In their barracks here today.. This unexpected Illness cannot be accounted ac-counted for and It Is bclloved tho men aro victims of an attempt at wholesale poisoning. . SAN FRANCISCO. July 1. The armored arm-ored cruisers Tennessee, Washington and California, of tho second division of the Pacific fleet, nnd the torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers Perry. Preblo and Farragut sailed today for southern California ports on a lest cruise. The destroyers wore not taken In tow by the cruisers. MISSOULA. Mont., July 1. The Lumber Lum-ber Workers' union of western Montana has refused to accept the wnge scale In effect up to May 7. 1907, and the men have gone on a strike. Tho mills of the Anaconda Mining company at. Hamilton closed down last night. A number of other plants have also suspended. The old scale provided for about $10 less a month. About -100 men aro affected. |