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Show NEWS SUMMAJtY Tho warm weather on Sunday drovo thousands to tho beaches at New York City for relief, and as a result eight drownings wero reported. Tho powers Interested havo ngreed to send a warship to Tangier to safeguard safe-guard tho lives and property of foreigners. for-eigners. Tho world's shccp-shearlng record Is 2,394 nnlmals In nlno hours. This wns dono at Hawks liny station, In Australia. Five unidentified Italians, railroad laborers at I.chlgh, Pa., on tho I'ocono mountains, wero killed by a prema-turn prema-turn blast Tho public schools of Cleveland may bo equipped with bookholders which cnnblo the scholars to nit erect whllo studying. Tho total valuo of tho crops and live stock In Kansas this year Is figured fig-ured out by tho board of agriculture to bo $4C3,GIS,G0G. Tho national congress of San Domingo Do-mingo hna proclalmtd Oencrnl Ramon Caccres re-elected president of tho republic re-public for n term of six years. Coventor Glenn, on Juno 19, amid Imposing ceremonies, signed tho proclamation proc-lamation making prohibition effective In North Carolina, January 1, 1909. A French engineer named Pon-teaux Pon-teaux announces tho Invention of an electric gun which, without powder or other explosive, Is capable of firing 1.200 shots n minute. Dr. Tho'mnB W. Small, Burgeon of the American lino steamer St. Louts, committed suicide In tils cabin on tho steamor nt Now York by shootlnc-No shootlnc-No cause for tho act Is known. A man nnd a woman havo been condemned lo death at WarBaw on tho charge of being implicated In a recent nttempt to kill General Sltal-Ion, Sltal-Ion, governor general of Warsaw. Santa Fe locomotive shops of tho entire system wero last week ordered closed until June 29. This will affect over 1,000 men In Topcka, Knnsas. Scarcity of work Is given ns tho cause. It Is reported that In a fight botwecn Yaqul Indians and Mexican troops, nt a water holo between Guaymaa and Hcrmoslllo, Bcvcrnl Moxlcnn soldiers wero killed. Tho troops aro still pursuing pur-suing tho Yaquls. All publications having nnrnchlstlc tendencies will hereafter find It practically prac-tically Imposslblo to mako uso of tho United States malls for their distribution distribu-tion ns tho result of orders IsBued by tho postmaster general. Dnntel Joneu, Frank Splkos nnd Haywood Lee; white, all of Raleigh, S. C, wero killed ut tho Raleigh phos-phnto phos-phnto works by the escape- of sulphuric acid gas. Threo others wcro almost overcomo but recovered. Tho Lomolne diamond case camo to -j. mnmiifin-ii pnrtliiif vlth an unnx-pectcd unnx-pectcd climax in Paris last week. lie-molno lie-molno has fled, and his famous formula for-mula for the manufacture of diamonds dia-monds Is a fantastic farco. Fifty fishing boats have been wrecked wreck-ed oft the coast of Kagoshlma, and 350 of their crews have been drowned. Tho governor of tho provlnco haB requested re-quested aBslfltanco from tho government govern-ment nnvy yard at Sasebo. Tho census bureau has Issued a preliminary pre-liminary report showing that tho total cut of lumber In tho United suites during tho calendar year 1907 was ' 47.250,15 1,000 feet, board measure,: tho number of lumber mills being 23,-S50. 23,-S50. Tho Vlgorlt powder plant at Pinole, a few miles north of Uerkeley, Cnl., caught fire, causing tho nltro-glyccrlno mixing houso to blow up. As thorn was plenty of tlmo for tho employees to escape, none of them was Injuled or killed. Six firemen wero Injured and property prop-erty loss estimated ut nbout $50,000 wns caused in n flro which partially destroyed n four-story brick building In Chicago, ocuplcd by tho Commer cial Cabinet company and tho American Amer-ican Industrial company, Wllllnm Hamilton Young, manager of tho Washington ofllco of tho Western West-ern Union Telegraph company nnd familiarly fa-miliarly known to newspaper mcu throughout the country as Col. Ham Young, died on Juno 19, He was ono of the oldest telegraphers of tho country. coun-try. The Wcstlnghouse electric Interests In Germany havo formed n combination combina-tion with tho Ilergmunn Klectrlc company of Uerlln, whereby tho llerg-manna llerg-manna will Install the WcstlnghotiBO electric traction systems In that countrj. Detachments of tho Russian force that recently Invaded Persian territory terri-tory In punishment for tho depredations depreda-tions of Persian brlgunds aro withdrawing. with-drawing. With tho payment by Persia Per-sia of tho Indemnity exueted the difficulty dif-ficulty with Teheran Is considered at uu end. 10. T. Uethcl, tho Rrltlsh subject who wns found guilty boforo a Hrltlsli court at Seoul of Bpreadlrig sedition through tho medium of a newspaper published In tho Korean vernacular, and of which ho Is proprietor, has been sentenced to threo weeks' Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. Tho steamship lines which earn freight from Now York to tho West Indies nnd Panama havo been hard hit by tho slump In freight traffic. Ropre-Ecntatlves Ropre-Ecntatlves of these lines say that tin aro now carryliiK about two-thirds a much freight us they did at this tea-sou tea-sou last year. Additional arrests of alleged Mexican Mexi-can revolutionists wcro made' last week at Nuovecases Grandes, Mexico. Thirty aro now In Jail. Among tho prisoners Is Santa Ann Perez, leader of tho Temosachlc revolution of 1893, when the Mexico custom house of Po-loums Po-loums was raided. I I I |