Show NEWS SUMMARY c Samuel FrJdloy who lived neat Mount Vernon 8 D was struck by ii lightning and killed during an elec trlcal storm Twelve deaths from drowning were reported from the different beaches In New York City and vicinity ono lay last week As the result of a passenger train wreck near Baton Rouge La one man was killed and fifteen Injured several seriously William Wnldorf Astor has given 5000 to assist tho British school at Athens In carrying on Its excavations In Laconla Greece A bill to prevent the drinking of In toxlcatlng liquors on passenger trains In Louisiana has been passed by the Louisiana legislature It Is reported at Tangier that Mulal I HaM the Insurgent brother of SultanA Sultan-A el Aziz has been proclaimed sultan sul-tan of Morocco at Mogodar Tho International Sunday School convention held at Louisville last week decided to hold their next convention con-vention In San Francisco In 1911 general Bell chief of staff U S A has ordered that the new special bullet bul-let being In an experimental state shall not bo used In tho national match this year Henry Miller aged 101 years grew tired of life at Harrodsburg Ky and committed suicide last week by taking tak-Ing Paris green Ho was one of the oldest men In Kentucky A man named Morcland wa drowning In the Yellowstone river neal Billings Mont being thrown from o raft by railroad rlprapplng A companion com-panion narrowly escaped drowning President Roosevelt has appointed John C OLaughlln of Washington as secretary to tho American commission commis-sion to the Japan exposition at Toklo In 1912 His salary will be 5000 a year yearGeo Geo Willoughby a prominent merchant mer-chant of Prospect WIs who shot and killed his wife on March 22 threw himself on the mercy of the court and has been sentenced to life imprisonment imprison-ment A tornado passed about five miles northwest of Mountain Lake Minn tmollshlng at least a dozen farmhouses farm-houses killing one child and woundIng wound-Ing scores of persons some of whom may die Mrs William D Watkins and her sevenyearold daughter were drowned drown-ed in a canal near Long Beach Cal It Is thought tho child fell in and the mother was drowned In attempting tu rescue her Secretary and Mrs William H Taft will close their home In Washington within the next two weeks and accompanied ac-companied by their younger son Charles will go to Hot Springs Va for the summer A son was born to Queen Victoria ol Spain on June 2 Queen Victoria formerly Princess Ena of Battenbunr and King Alfonso were married at Madrid on May 31 1906 Their first son was born on May 10 1907 Tho city of Wu Chow China Is inundated In-undated by the abnormal rise of 70 feet In tho Fu river Many casualties casual-ties are reported and much damage has been done along the river banks which are littered with refuse Leon do la Grange the French aer oplanlst last week at Milan surpassed all previous records by flying for sixteen I six-teen minutes and thirty seconds During Dur-ing that time his machine was from ten to eighteen feet above the ground Vasslly Reblkoff a Russian Inventor Invent-or has arrived In America to exhibit his new motor boat to tho United States government He asserts that with 12horso power he can maintain a speed of thirtyone miles an hour Heavy floods have occurred throughout the valley of the West river and its tributaries inundating tho large cities of Wu Chow in the Kuang Tung province The loss of life and damage to property Is reported to be enormous A sheriffs posse from Flagstaff Arizona last week broke up a gang of thieves in the North San Francisco mountains twenty miles north of flagstaff arresting three alleged rustlers rust-lers named Wiley Taylor and Bates with over 100 head of horses in their possession The Republican congressional campaign cam-paign book will be out unusually early this year probably six weeks booner than it was Issued four years ago The proofs aro practically corrected cor-rected up to date on such matter as can be handled before the Democratic I convention meets I Judge Philips In common pleas curt of Cleveland 0 last week granted a mandatory order compellIng Ing the Municipal Traction company to give good service and the same rate of faro to the town of East Cleveland Cleve-land a suburb asks enjoyed by the city of Cleveland John Mitchell former president at the United Mine Workers of America last week gave out a letter declining to become a candidate for political olllco and Indicating that ho will become be-come Instead the head of the trade department of tho Na agreement I tlonal Civic federation I The registered mall pouch which I contained 50000 In money and 100 000 worth of diamonds and jewelry stolen from a mall car at the Kansas City depot on the night of Juno Chas C-has been found by a switching crew In tho yard of the Rock Island railroad In Kansas City Kan An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up an express car carrying worth ol 48000 in money and 1000 Jewelry near Lynch station 111 The train dispatcher saw the wouldbe robbers creeping along In the grass near tho station and signalled the motorman to put on full speed |