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Show BRIEFLY fOlD I CHICAGO. Aug. I. -Chicago's parks and private groves a.re being so ravaged i hy the tussock moth that City Forostor Krost has appoalud to tho council for 10,000 with which lo nghl the peat. CHICAGO, Aug. I Although the examination ex-amination of 200 veniremen lor a Jury In the socond trial of Lee O'Nell Browne, minority leader of the Illinois legislature charging him with purchasing votes for William Lorlmer for United States senator, sena-tor, was only begun today, another venire of 10(1 men was ordered drawn. CARSON CITY. Nev.. Aug. -I. Tho state supremo court today remanded to tho district court the divorce case of Mrs. Smith Hollls McKlm. Mrs. McKIm applied for the dlvorco and her husband questioned the legality of her residence In the state. Tho supremo court decided that, this question must be placed open lo moro evidence. WASHINGTON, Aug. -J. Immigration from and emigration to Canada Is the subject of a statement Issued today by tho Immigration buroau. During the twelvo months ending March .11. there wore 7t.9l2 arrivals of aliens and citizens from Canada for permanent residence In tho United States, against ill, 517 during tho previous twelve months. DES MOINES. Ia., Aug. 4. Another death from Infantile paralysis and another an-other new case were reported loday from Mason City, which has over sixty cases. Thus far Dr. Wade Frost of Washington and the Iowa board of health have failed to locate the cause. A death was reported report-ed In Chickasaw county today, with now cases at other points In Iowa. PROVINCETOWN. Mass., Aug. 4. At tho dedication tomorrow of tho granite shaft that has been erected on Town hill, In memory of tho compact which the Pilgrim Fathers signed In tho cabin of the Mayflower, President Taft will assist as-sist In completing an historic work which Prosldont Roosevelt helped to begin. UTICA. N. Y Aug. I. Congressman William B. McKlnloy of Illinois, chairman of the congressional campaign committee, was In the city a short tlmo loday In consultation with Vice President Sherman. Sher-man. It was stated that Mr. Sherman had consented to take the; eitump for tho committee from August 25 to September 2'J. It Is understood that tho vJcc president presi-dent will spend somo lime in Nevada. WASHINGTON. Aug. -L Andrew Carnegie Car-negie was voted a gold medal by tho Pan-American congress, now in session at I.tiicnoH Ayres, according to a dispatch rocelvod today by John Ilarrell, director of the International Bureau of American Republics. The medal was awarded because be-cause of Mr. Carnegie's prominence as a "benefactor of humanity," and it will bo the Joint gift of all tho republics of the western hemisphere. DENVER. Aug. 4. Tho Times says lhat friends hero of former Forester Clifford Pinchot today came out with strong denunciation of tho delegation named by Governor John F. Shafroth to I represent Colorado at the National Conservation Con-servation congress to bo held at St. Paul, September 5. According to tho Times, some of these friends of Pinchot went so far as to charge tho governor with lending' lend-ing' aid to an allognd plot to discredit Pinchot by packing tho congress In the Interest of Secretary of tho Interior Balllnger, |