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Show Short Mews Stones Former Vice-President Charles Fairbanks Fair-banks and Mrs. Fairbanks sailed for New York from London yesterday on the uteanior Maurotanla. Robbcys dynamited tho nafe of tho Stato Bank of Virginia In Virginia City, Nev., yesterday, mid escaped with $71100 I aftor exchanging hot3 with a number of citizens. It Is believed tho robbers camq from Kansas. An Austrian schoolboy named Camilla Sockl, IS years of age, shot himself dead In a box during tho performance of an opera at the Vienna opera Iioubo because ho had failed In Greek and Latin in a ; roccnt examination. Incensed at tho sheriff's refusal to grant the strikers at tho Bethlehem stool ' works permission to hold a women and ' children's parade yesterday, a number of men alleged to be strikers endeavored 1 to Intimidate men at one of tho gates. . The state police restored order. The supromc court of Kansas yesterday yester-day decided that a saloon keeper In Kansas cannot recover more than nominal nomi-nal damages in the event that he is mobbed and his proporty Is destroyed. The caao was appealed from Harper county by George D. Stevens. A mutton bone carelessly thrown out of a railway dining car near Vienna Injured In-jured a little girl named Bohm so badly that she died. Tho parents have been awarded $lt500 damages against the railway rail-way company, and tho attendant who threw tho bono has been sent to prison. Becauso millionaires retire from active business and come to tho national capital to live, or rather die, and nro enahled to escape various form3 of taxation In tho District of Columbia. Represontatlvo Miller (Republican) of Minnesota yesterday yester-day Introduced a bill providing for an Inheritance tax in the district. Official announcement that tho 1910 Gliddcn automobile tour will start from Cincinnati about tho middle of June was contained in a letter received yesterday from S. M. Butler, chairman of tho contest con-test committee of tho American Aulomo-bilo Aulomo-bilo association, by A. B. Heyl, secretary secre-tary of tho Ohio Automobile association. Martin Gauthior, until three years ago confidential clerk to M. Duos, tho em-, bezzllng llquldatory of church projportles, was arrested yesterday at Nevers. The house which Gauthior had occupied In Parlo had been soarched and twenty sets of Important papers which were said to reveal Duez' modus operandi seized. Sympathetic strikes are unlawful, according ac-cording to a decision handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals yesterday in Chicago. In which It sustained sus-tained a recent Judgment of Judgo Dayton Day-ton of West Virginia. The case was that of the I-Iltchman Coal and Coke company vs. the United Mlno Workers of America. 9 Des Moines police Friday night captured cap-tured twenty-two of twcnty-llvc girls who escaped in the evening from the Iowa Girls' Industrial school at Mltchel-vllle. Mltchel-vllle. Tho girls were dressed In tho school uniform and were easily found. Many of them say they walked from Mitchclvlllc to Des Moines, a distance of sixteen miles. A dispatch received In New York yes-torday yes-torday gives authoritative denial to tho report sent out from Pittsburg that a long distance telephono wire had been leased connecting the house of Charles P. Taft at Cincinnati and tho White House at Washington. The report proves to have no foundation whatever. According to advices that reached San Bernardino. Cal yesterday, tho lure of camp Alunlte, a new scene of gold strike near Las Vegas, Nev., is rapidly depopulating depop-ulating Barstow. The strike is regarded as valuable, the ore being black sulphite, sul-phite, similar to that found In tho richest rich-est mines around Tonopah. Tho ground is said to have been staked for miles. Even sort of conveyance is being pressed Into service by the people of Barstow to take them to the new field. Paris is to hear Gipsy Smith, the famous fa-mous English evangelist, who Is well known In America. Fie will open an evangelistic, mission in the Hallo Gavpan today and will speak daily until next Sunday, Mr. Smith comes under the auspices of the National Free Church council of London, who decided upon this series of meetings for the purpose of increasing spirituality within tho English-speaking churches of Paris. News that Nez Perce county, Idaho, voted dry In Its election a few days ago was received with much elation at tho bureau of Indian affairs in Washington. Washing-ton. It was said the balance of power In the contest rested with the Indiana on Nez Perco reservation, and that they had cast their votes against tho selling of whisky in the county. It has been necessary for tho bureau to keep a watch on the reservation to seo that liquor was not sold to the red men, and the fact that the county Is now "dry" it was stated would relievo the situation. |
