Show = NEWS SUMMARY Secretary of War Taft and part stilled for Panama on the naval transport trans-port Prairie on May 1 President Cleveland who is III at Lakewood N J Is reported to bo Improving dally Former Senator Camden of Mary land ts dead at the age of 80 otter an Illness of several months The Republicans ot Maryland havo declared In favor ot Secretary Tails candidacy for the presidency Firo at Wartous N M which for a time threatened to destroy tho entire en-tire town did damage to tho amount ot J7EOOO Two men wero drowned whllo attempting at-tempting to run Uio rapids In the Pis I cattqula river near Milo Junction IMo I-Mo In a canoe By a rote of 187 to 42 the house refused to accept the senate amendments amend-ments to the naval appropriation bill and sent It to conferonce Tho explosion of a boiler tube on the British battleship Britannia dur ing a full speed trial Injured five men four of whom may not recover Tho report from Tangier that the bandit Ilalsull had been assassinated proves to bo untrue Ho was ambushed am-bushed by the Elkmcs tribesmen but escaped Three men suspected of being tho Stephen Minn bank dynamiters havo been arrested at Emerson Manitoba and taken across to St Vincent Minn and placed In jail One hundred and fortyeight big locomotives lo-comotives are being hurried to the Harriman lines as fast as tho Brooks locomotive Works of Dunkirk N Y can turn them out A serious conflict occurred Sunday at Loja capital of the province of Loja In the southwest of Ecuador between soldiers and police Several were wounded on tach side All southerners residing In New York will be Invited soon to attend a meeting tho avowed object of which will bo to place a southerner upon the Dpmocratlc national ticket Although probably more engaged en-gaged In business than any other woman l In tho country Mrs Hetty Green has never used a telephone She says she has an attendant transmit trans-mit messages for her The presidents suggestion looking to legislation authorizing the government govern-ment to make a charge for the use of tho water of streams for power purposes pur-poses was turned down by the senate committee on commerce Miss Minnie Cox a prominent society so-ciety girl of Martins Ferry O died last week from a eider bite aha received re-ceived three days previous The girls body became terribly swollen and she died In horrible agony Rev Dr Morgan Dlx rector of Trinity Trin-ity Protestant parish since 1862 and ono of New York Citys most prominent promi-nent clergymen Is dead at the age of 81 Death was duo to heart failure fail-ure and followed a brief Illness The monthly statement of the public pub-lic debt shows that at the close of business April 30 1908 the debt less cash In tho treasury amounted to 925107230 which Is an increase as compared with March 30 1908 of 15 446899 A general strike of motormen and conductors employed by the Municipal Traction company the new holding company which took over all of the Cleveland 0 street railway lines under un-der the recent peace agreement appears ap-pears to be imminent Sophie Suderman 8 years of age was run over and killed at Now Haven Hav-en Conn by an automobile owned by Huntington Smith a Yale student Whose home Is in St Louis The car was occupied by Smith two other Yale students and a chauffeur William R Wheeler of California has notified the president of his acceptance ac-ceptance of the assistant secretary ship of tho department of commerce and laoor in succession to Lawrence O Murray recently appointed comptroller comp-troller of tho currency The town of Anttpolo In tho provo nce of Morong P I with a popula destroyed tlon of 3500 has been practically houses stroyed by fire Four hundred burned and hundreds of people wore homeless Tho famous shrine was ore saved The flro was caused by lightning Four armed men held up tho guards who were conveying 1S000 from Welch to Dary W Va to pay off Coal employ of tho United States There Is no clue to Coko company Is sheriffs posse tho robbers but a scouring tho country In tire hope ot capturing thorn 01 c Goolct graduate Dr W W Columbia college and traveler who society wo was married to a young months ago Is I man of Oakland four in the Berkeley Cal city prison with tho burglary of eight residences charged rtment houses In Oak Idences and apartment land and Berkeley Secretary Straus of tho department of commerce and labor has been reappointed for another term of six years pointed American members or the one of as of arbitration nt court the permanent Straus was anointed Tho Hague after Secretary tho death of the late President Harrison and tho ways an Tho chairman of committee of the house of rep means introduced a resolu resontatlves has committee It during tlon that the Jurln congress and gather of the recess It sees W towartl information as tojar ouch bill foi the revision the preparation of a vision of the tariff Thompson the Miss Rhoda Augusta of tho America Daughter last real at her homo at Woo died It voluUon following a paralytic Conn bury father was n drummor stroke lIer army lIlies boy In tIm revolutionary born at Woodstocl Thompson was N YI In 1 Juc > 181 > I |