Show SUMMARY senator gore of oklahoma has in traduced a bill providing for the elec tion of united states senators by pop ular vote the are to have their rep in washington within a month just as tl e porto means are represented by delegate larrinaga tle tl e bani of mendenhall at men dehall miss has been placed in the hands of a receiver it is a small state bank with a capital block ot 18 and deposits of 10 leer poll one of the editors of the scimitar ex consul gen eral at calcutta and grand nephew of president polk died suddenly at memphis tenn last week by an almost unanimous vote the republican committee of new york county refused to adopt a resolution endorsing governor hughes tor the republican presidential nomination at a meeting of the nut and bolt manufactures of the united states held in pittsburg last week it was de aided to ie affirm the prices which haie ruled for 1907 for the next year thinking it unloaded john meyer a farmer boy living near holy cross iowa pointed a shotgun at his sixteen year old sister ind pulled the trigger head was blown from her ders senator scott has introduced a joint resolution providing for the appoint ment ot a committee of three sena tors and three representatives to in the recent explosions in coal mines A allson a prominent merchant shot and killed bud doughty Dou gity a wealthy planter in the former s store at shaw s miss it is claimed that doughty was using improper language before women joseph H choate in an address at the annual meeting of the state char aties aid association in new york city advocated adherence to the old mosaic law that one tenth of all property be given to charity judge ball has adjourned the an nual meeting of the illinois central railroad company to some day in feb auary next the day to be determined later by the attorneys representing mr harriman and mr fish edward clifford aged 25 waa hanged at peoria 01 friday for murdering his father november 25 1906 clifford wall ed to the scaffold with a firm step and repeated 1 a prayer led by father samon professor ichkoff An who holds the chair of literature in tie university of st petersburg has been sentenced to confinement in a fortress for beigh teen months for being a member ot the peasant league of the annual report of commissioner capers of the internal revenue bureau shows that tor the fiscal year ended june 20 1907 the receipts of this bu reau were 85 an excess of 20 over alu preceding year eminent men a new york and other cities have begun a movement for the rel ase of nicholas kov id catherine Bre the russian revolutionists now imons boned at st petersburg for political reasons horribly mutilated and her body riddled with biot mrs mary nelson a most respected woman was found dead in happy woods roads near hammond la suspicion has fallen upon a negro with whom mrs nelson had a quarrel it has been announced authority aut horita that governor dawson will within the next few days call an ex tra session of the west virginia leg Isla tur to convene january 28 for the consideration of more stringent mining laws the wife of henry clay ward a well known millionaire of pontiac mich and son of the late david ward has petitioned the court to declare her husband insane mr ward is well known in california where he has spent considerable time mrs nellie G cochran who was faund with a bullet wound in her head at the home of her sister in chicago died at the hospital it is believed by the police that she was murdered by M L dillon a salesman whose dead body t as found in the woman s room indictments charging J dalzell brown general manager of the ansol vent california sate deposit and trust company and walter J bart nett a director in the institution with two counts of embezzlement were returned by the grand jury last week the woman who on december 4 made an unsuccessful attempt to kill lieutenant governor general of moscow by means of a bomb was executed at moscow on the on the che said to the executioners we will soon stop your hangings advices from samoa say tl at the volcano in the island savall in german somoa Is working with greater activity than has done since the arst outbreak and the eruptions are submarine and terrestrial lava la flowing into the sea at the rate ol 01 tons a minute A passenger train on the soo line st paul was derailed at ken minn 0 L anderson bag bageman was killed and about awen ty passengers were mole or alss cut or braised the derailment occurred on a thirty toot embankment because of a sagging track the dead body of august a title investigator was found in the bath room of his residence in st louis had stabbed himself over the heart cut an artery in one wrist and swallowed poison ably prussic acid he had been subject to fits of melancholy iron shield the sioux chief died on the reservation twenty miles south norton minn december 20 he 73 ears of age iron shield was nd of the whites during the war and was one ol 01 st trusted scouts of general in that campaign |