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Show FtasheaTFrom the Wire SEATTLE, July 3. Tho gunboat York-town, York-town, tho "mother ship" of tho torpedo boat destroyer fleot, arrived from Snn Francisco today. Tho dCHtroyers will remain re-main on Puuot Sound all summer. NORWICH. Conn., July 3. President Taft will be the guest of this city on Monday, the occasion being- the celebration celebra-tion of the 250th annivc-rsay of the while settlement of Norwich. GENEVA, Julv 3. Tho four hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, who was horn July 10, 1509. will be observed ob-served with elaborate exercises. Addresses Ad-dresses will be made by the representatives representa-tives of many countries. TUCSON. Ariz., July 3. W. B. Keeling:, Keel-ing:, director of tho Magnetic Observatory beinf; built here, fell down a 100-foot well this afternoon and sustained serious Injuries. In-juries. He came hero from Baldwin, Kan. WASHINGTON. July 3. Six members of the famous Lee family of China, arrested ar-rested in raids on thrco Chinese establishments, establish-ments, were arraigned today and held in 5500 bail each. They arc charged with sending lottery tickets through the malls, WASHINGTON, July 3.. Robert M. Hindell will he appointed in a few days as appointment clerk of the bureau of the census, ono of the most Important positions posi-tions of the kind in tho government service. serv-ice. SEATTLE.' July 3 "Strawberry day" at the Alnska-Yukon-Paclflc exposition, and the promise of free strawberries and cream drew an enormous crowd to the fair today. At noon 50,000 people had passed tho gates. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. July 3, I-Iurlcd from a big automobile against a trco tonight, Benjamin Wood of New York, a deputy sheriff; and millionaire real estate dealer, suffered a fractured skull and Is not expected to live. JACKSON. Tonn., July 3 The cases or the eight nlghtrlders, six of whom were under the death sentence, charged with tho murder of Captain Quentln Rankin, nt Walnut Log, on Roelfoot Lake. Octp-ber Octp-ber 20th last, wero reversed by tho supreme su-preme court today and wero remanded : for new trials. 1 1 |