Show NEWS secretary of war taft and party sailed for panama on the naval trans lort prairie on may 1 ex president cleveland who Is at lakewood N J Is reported to be improving daily former senator camden of mary land is dead at the age of sa atter an illness of several months the republicans of maryland have m tavor of secretary batts candidacy for the presidency fire at bartous N M which tor a time threatened to destroy the en tire town did damage to the amount or two men were drowned while at tempting to run tiie rapids in the pis 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 ai prop nation bill and sent it to conference the explosion of a boiler tube on the british battleship britannia dur ing a full speed trial injured ave dpn tour of whom may not the report from tangier that the bandit had been asnass bated proves to be untrue he was am bushed by the elemes tribesmen but escaped three men suspected of being the stephen minn bank dynamiters have been arrested at emerson manitoba and taken across to st vincent minn and placed in jail one hundred and forty eight big lo 10 are being hurried to the harriman lines as fast as the brooks locomotive works of dunkirk N Y can turn them out A serious conflict occurred sunday at loja capital of the province of loja in the southwest of ecuador between solders and police several were wounded on each side all southerners residing in new york will be invited soon to attend a meeting the avowed object ot which will be to place a southerner upon the democratic national hicl et although probably more actively en in business than any other woman in the country mrs hetty green has never used a telephone she says she has an attendant trans mil messages tor her the president s suggestion looking to legislation authorizing the govern ment to make a charge tor the use of the water of streams for power pur poses was turned down by the senate committee on commerce miss minnie cox a prominent so biety girl of martin s ferry 0 died last week from a spider bite she re three days previous the girl s body became terribly swollen and she died in horrible agony rev dr morgan dix rector of trin ity protestant parish since 1862 and one of new york city s most aromi nent clergymen is dead at the age of 81 death was due to heart fall ur and followed a brief illness the monthly statement of the pub lie 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 compared with march 30 1908 of 15 W A general strike of motormen and conductors employed by the municipal traction company ane new holding company which took over all of the cleveland 0 street railway lines un der the recent peace agreement ap pears to be imminent sophie 8 years of age was run over and killed at new hav en conn by an automobile owned by huntington smith a yale student whose home is in st louis the car was occupied by smith two other yale students and a chauffeur william R wheeler of california has notified the president of his ac cep tance of the assistant secretary hip of the department of commerce and labor in succession to lawrence 0 murray recently appointed comp roller of the currency the town of in the brov ince 0 P I 1 with a tion of 3 has been practically de stroked by alre four hundred houses were burned and hundreds of people are homeless the famous shrine was saved the fire was caused by lightning four armed men held up the guards who were conveying 18 welch to dary W va to pay off employed emp loyes of the united states coal coke company there Is no clue to the robbers but a sheriff s boase is scouring the country in atre hope of capturing them dr W W goelet graduate of columbia college and traveler who was married to a young society wo man of oakland four months ago is in the berkeley cal city prison charged with the burglary of e res and apartment houses in oak land and berkeley secretary straus of the department of commerce and labor has been reap pointed for another term of six years as one of ane american members of the permanent court of arbitration at the hague secretary straus was appointed after the death of the late president harrlson the chairman of the ways and means committee of the 1 ise of rep has introduced a resola tion that the committee t during the recess of congress and gather tuch on as it sees fit to vard the preparation of a bill tor the re elsion of the tariff miss rhoda augusta thompson the last real daughter of the american revolution diet at her home at wood bury conn following a paralytic stroke her father was a drummer boy in the revolutionary army miss thompson was born at woodstock N Y in june 1821 the find ng of another body sun day in the ruins of the chicago re company s plant at chicago which was krecl ed by an explosion and alra on friday night brought the list of known dead up to echt the body was identified as that of wll lam lenze a watchman |