Show NEWS SUMMARY secretary 0 of f war taft and party sailed balled tor for pa panama n ania on the naval transport prairie on may alay 1 ex president cleveland who Is ill at lakewood N J la Is reported to be improving dally daily former senator camden of alary maryland Is dead at the age of 80 after an illness of several months 71 the republicans of maryland have declared in favor of secretary tafts candidacy for tho presidency fire at bartous War tous N at which for a time threatened to destroy the entire town did damage to the amount ot of two men were drowned while attempting to run ne tie rapids in the pis cati quis river near mile junction me in a canoe by a vote of to 42 the house refused to accept the senate amend ments to the naval appropriation bill and sent it to conference the explosion of a boiler tube tuba on the british battleship britannia during a full speed trial injured five men four of whom may not reco recover vei the report from tangier that the bandit Ral sull had been assassinated proves to be untrue ile he was ambushed by the elemes knies tribesmen but escaped three men suspected of being the stephen Step herr minn bank dynamiters dyna miters have been arrested at emerson E merson manitoba and taken across to st vincent minn and placed in jail one hundred and forty eight big locomotives co are being hurried to the harriman harraman Harrl man lines as fast as aa the brooks locomotive works of dunkirk N Y j 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 each cacti side all southerners residing in new york will be invited soon to attend a meeting the avowed object ot of which will be to place a southerner upon the democratic national ticket although probably more actively engaged in business than any other woman in the country mrs hetty green has never used a telephone she says she ahe has an attendant trans mit messages for her the presidents suggestion Bug looking to legislation authorizing the government to make a charge for the use or of the water of streams for power purposes was turned down by the senate committee on commerce miss minnie cox a prominent society girl of martins ferry 0 died last week from a spider sp lder bite she received three days previous the girls body became terribly swollen and she died in horrible agony rev dr morgan dix rector ity protestant parish since and one of new york cites most prominent clergymen Is dead at the age of 81 death was due to heart failure arp and followed a brief illness the monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business april 30 1908 the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to which Is an increase as r compared with march 30 1908 of 44 A general strike of motormen and conductors employed by the municipal traction company the now new holding company which took over all of the cleveland 0 street railway lines under the recent peace agreement appears to be imminent sophie 8 years of age was run over and killed at new haven conn by an automobile owned by huntington smith a yale student whose home Is in st louls louis the car was occupied by smith two other yale students and a chauffeur william R wheeler of california lia lias has s rin notified titled the president of his ble acceptance cep tance of the assistant of the department of commerce and labor in succession to lawrence 0 murray recently appointed comptroller of the currency the town of antipolo Antl polo in tire the province 0 of P I 1 with a population of has been practically destroyed by fire four hundred houses were burned and hundreds of people ore are homeless the famous shrine was saved the fire was caused by lightning four armed men held up tip the guards who were conveying from welch to dary W va to pay off employees emp loyes loes of the united states coal colic coke company there is no clue to W the robbers but a sheriffs pon posse se is 13 scouring the country in the hope of capturing them dr W W goelet graduate ot of columbia college and traveler who was married to a young society wo man of oakland four months ago Is in ibe he berkeley cal city prison charged with the burglary of eight residences and apartment li houses auses in oakland and berkeley secretary straus of the department of commerce and labor has been reap pointed for another term of six years as one of the american members of I 1 the permanent court of arbitration at the hague secretary straus was appointed after the death of the late lata president harrlson harrison |