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Show 1 Condensed Telegrams WASHINGTON. July 6. Rear Admiral John A. Rodgers, commandant of the Bremerton navy yard at Puget Sound. Wash , retired today at the statutory age limit of 0i', and will go to Alaska, to take up the hunt for his son. who was lost In tho wilderness there a year ago. Captain Vlncendon L. Collman. who has been, captain of the Rremerton yard, has been appointed commandant. NEW YORK. July 2i .Tames Ross Currnn. vice president and one of the founders of the Carnegie Trust company of this city, died at his homo hero today at the age of 59 years. NEW YORK, July 26. A wireless message mes-sage received here today conveys tho Information that the sloamer Momus of the "Southern Pacific line, which caught fire off theFlorlda coast last Friday and temporarily transferred her pas.son.gers to her sister ship, the Comus, northbound, resumed her voyage at noon on the 2ith for Now Orleans, after the fire had been extinguished. All the passengers were well. DENVER, Colo., July 2C The forest fires In the Routt forest reserve arc reported re-ported under control tonight. The damage dam-age of the Routt reserve fire Is estimated at ?500.000. TOKIO. July 2C Earth shocks occurred oc-curred on Julv 21 around Mount Uzu, In the prefecture" of Hokkadalo. They were un.usually prolonged, resulting in fissures and a landslide. Tho village Inhabitants wero terrorized, but there were no fatalities. fatali-ties. The damage was insignificant. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Julv 2C George M. Llntz. former chief of police, died late todav from a bullet wound Inflicted by a burglar who entered tho Elks' home early Monday morning. DENVER. July 2G. GJfford PInchot ar-rlvpd ar-rlvpd in Denver from California today. "These Insurgents are running on a platform plat-form which seeks 10 take control of California Cali-fornia out of the hands of the Southern Pacific Railway companv." Mr. PInchot said this afternoon. "My Impressions from the meutlngs I spoke to, also from the people I talked with there. Is that the Insurgents will win." NEW YORK. July 2C. All records for service practice with three-inch guns wore broken today at Sandy Hook by the gunners of tho 135th company, const nrtillerv corps, rommnnded by Captain Carroll" Power, stationed at Fort Totten. This company held the record for last year'5 practice and bettered It today, malting eleven hits In 11 seconds, attaining attain-ing a figure of merit of 150. This was nearly twice that of last year. |