Show NEWS SUMMARY I Fire In tho oil Holds ot Santa Maria Cal cost two lives and a monetary loss of 160000 The Elks reunion of 1908 hold at Dallas Texas camo to a close on July 17 Tho next reunion will beheld be-held In Los Angeles The town ot Baltic Ohio containing contain-ing 600 people was practically wiped cut by a fire which raged all night starting In a flour mill President Roosevelt has refused an offer to make speeches Into tho ro celvcr ot a talking machine for the purpose of making records for public use Mrs Walter TeAge wlfo of the Standard Oil official who shot herself at her homo In Los Angeles died without having regained consciousness conscious-ness I Mrs Hannah Louisa Whitman Heldo tho last surviving sister of tho poet Walt Whitman died at her homo In Burlington Vt on July 18 aged 81 years I Five men wero burned two perhaps per-haps fatally by an overflow of molten metal from n furnace In tho plant of tho Wisconsin Steel mills In South Chicago In compliance with orders Just received re-ceived at tho Mare Island navy yard tlits work of overhauling tho cruiser Raleigh at a cost of nearly 100000 will begin ns soon as tho Pacific hoot nails In August I That Hazel Drew came to her death i as a result of an accident Instead ot being a victim of a foul and deliberate deliber-ate murder Is ono of tho theories put forth ns a possible solution of the Teal Pond N Y mystery Tho cost of tho Pacific coast extension exten-sion of tho Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railway which It Is expected will bo opon for traffic on July 1 1909 will bo about 5COOOOOO moro than tho company originally reckoned Twentylive hundred childrens Jacket makers who went on strlko In Now York five weeks ago against n reduction In wages havo won their strlko In all but a few shops ond returned re-turned to work at tho former pay In view of the unsettled condition at Porto Cortez Honduras and tho revolutionary movement there tho navy department has ordered the gunboat gun-boat Marietta now at Port AntonIo Jamaica to proceed there without delay de-lay Illegal transactions shady business deals and violation of trusts woro charged against tho supreme lodge of tho A O U W by the grand lodge of Wisconsin In a lawsuit Involving half a million dollars filed at Des Moines la Commander Robert E Peary sailed from Sydney N S on Juno 17 on the steamer Roosevelt In another attempt to reach tho north pole His last remark re-mark as ho went over tho ships side vas that ho expected to accomplish his purpose Robert Gardner a deputy marshal was fatally wounded and at least a dozen miners wore more or loss seriously seri-ously shot as tho result ot nn attack on a train bearing strlko breakers to tnko tho places of striking union miners min-ers at Jefferson Ala The Georgia railroad commission has ruled that the newspapers of the stato may accept transportation In exchange for HdvortlsomentB ThIs decision Is of particular Interest Inv In-v ew of tho ruling of Federal Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago Comprising tho greatest military pageant ovor witnessed In Honolulu 3600 men of tho Atlantic battleship fleet paraded on the morning of Juno 17 arousing enthusiastic cheers from tho dense crowds which lined the way along which they passed According to tho Czceji newspapers Narodny Lysty too Princess Amelia Loulso of Furstenberg and Gustav Kozlan an employee of an automobile automo-bile firm with whom sho eloped last May wero married last week In the castle chapel at Kammorburg Contrary tQ tho rumors that Mrs Frank J Gould has been reconciled to her husband and that their differences dif-ferences had been amicably settled Mrs Goulds suit for divorce Is on tho moUon calendar and v > rII bi I brought to trial within tho next fow I weeks When tho auxiliary cruiser Buffalo I Balls on August 1G from San Fran cisco with supplies for tho Atlantic battleship fleet her cargo will Include In-clude among other eatables 000000 pounds of Hour 400000 pounds of potatoes po-tatoes canned meats and dcsslcatod vegetables William Campbell a Now York bricklayer who on Juno 3 killed hIs wlfo Carrlo with a breadknife stood Itko a man unconscious of what was about him when tho Judgo sentenced him to twenty years Imprisonment Campbell was Intoxicated when tho crime was committed John W Tomlinson the Alabama member of the national Democratic I committee announces that volunteers to assist In tho campaign throughout tiro United States would be accepted I and asks all speakers to advlso him Immediately as to states and tlmo desired de-sired by tho orators Eugene W Chain Prohibition candidate can-didate for president and Aaron S WatkIns candidate for vicepresident met in Columbys O last week for consultation with the national com mttco It was deolded to open tho campaign at Lincoln Nob August 10 when Chnfln will speak Ten mounted police made a raid on tho Doukhobor compound near Yorktown York-town Saskatchawan to arresb twelve ringleaders of a band of 100 that Is confined there by tho government The band t fought fiercely for three hours with sticks and other weapons but were hammered down |