Show w 1 y ik NEWS SUI SUMMARY Fire In the oil fields fields of Santa Maria Cal cost COlt two lives and a monetary loss 1088 of The Elks Elks' reunion of 1908 held at Dallas Texas came to a close on July 17 The next reunion will be held In Los Lot Angeles The town of or Baltic Ohio contaInIng containing contain contaIn- ing people was wu practically wI wiped pM cut by a fire which raged all night starting In a flour mill President Roosevelt has refused an offer to make speeches Into the receiver receiver receiver re re- of a talking machine for the purpose of making records for public use Mrs Walter wife wire of or the Standard Oil official wJ o shot herself at her homo home In Los Angeles died without having regained conscious nose ness Mrs Irs Hannah Louisa Whitman Helde Heldo the tho last surviving sister of the poet Walt Whitman died at her homo In Burlington Vt on July 18 aged 84 years Five men were burned two perhaps per haps fatally by an overflow o of molten metal from a furnace In the tho plant of the Wisconsin Steel mills In South Chicago In compliance with orders Just received re re- coved at the I Mare Lure Island navy yard the work of overhauling the cruiser sleigh at a cost of ne nearly will begin as soon as the Pacific fleet sails In August I That Hazel Drew came to her death as a result of an accident Instead of I being a victim of at a foul and deliberate ate murder Is one ono of the theories put forth as a possible solution of the Teal Pond N. N Y Yf mystery The cost of or the Pacific coast exten slon of the Chicago Milwaukee St StPaul StPaul StPaul Paul railway which It Is expected will wm be open for traffic on July 1 I 1909 will be about more that than the company originally reckoned Twenty five hundred children makers who went on strike In New York five weeks ago against a reduction In wages have won their strike in all buta few shops and ond returned returned re re- turned to work at the former payIn pay In view of the unsettled condition at Porto Cortez Honduras and the revolutionary movement there the navy department has ordered the gunboat gunboat gunboat gun gun- boat Marietta now at Port Antonio Jamaica to proceed there without de de- delay lay Illegal transactions shady business deals and violation of or trusts were charged against the supreme lodge of the A. A O. O U. U W. W by the grand lodge o of Wisconsin jn In n a lawsuit involving half balf a million d dollars filed flied at at Des la In Commander Robert E E. Peary sailed from Sydney N N. N S. S on June 17 on the steamer Roosevelt In another attempt to reach the north pole His last remark remark remark re re- re- re mark as he went over the ships ship's side Was v that he expected to accomplish his ls purpose Robert Gardner a deputy marshal was as fatally wounded and at least a dozen miners were werd more or less seriously seriously seri seri- oust oust- shot as tho the result of or an attack on a ti train bearing strike breakers to take t the places of striking union miners miners min min- i ers at Jefferson Ala The Georgia railroad commission I Ihas I has ruled that the newspapers of the state may accept transportation In I exchange for tor advertisements This decision is of particular interest in view of the ruling of Federal Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago Comprising the greatest military pageant ever evor witnessed in Honolulu men of the e Atlantic battleship fleet paraded on the morning of June 17 arousing enthusiastic cheers from the dense crowds which lined the way along which they passed According to the Czech Czech- newspapers the Princess Amelie Louise of ot Furstenberg and Gustav Kozian an employee of an automobile automobile automo automo- bile Lile firm with whom she eloped last May were married last week In the castle chapel at Contrary to the rumors that Mrs Frank J. J Gould has been reconciled to her husband and that their differences differences dif dif- rere had been amicably settled Mrs 1 Goulds Gould's suit for divorce is on the tho tho motion c calendar lendar and n f ll bo ho brought to trial tHai within tho the next few weeks When the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo Duffalo sails on August 15 from San Francisco Fran cisco with supplies for tor tho the Atlantic battleship fleet her cargo will Include include In in- clude among other eatables pounds of at flour our pounds of potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- canned meats and vegetables William Campbell a New Now York bricklayer who ho on Juno June 3 killed his wife Carrie with a knife bread stood like liko a man unconscious of what was about him hint when hen the tho judge sentenced him to twenty years years' imprisonment Campbell CS was Intoxicated when woon the crime was committed I IJohn John W. W Tomlinson tho the Alabama member of the tho national Democratic committee announces that volunteers to assist In the campaign throughout tho tiro United States would be accepted and asks all speakers to advise him Immediately as to states states' and time desired do do- sired by the tho orators Eugene W W. Chan Chain Prohibition candidate candidate candidate can can- for tor president and Aaron S. S Watkins candidate for vice president met In Columbus 0 O. last week for consultation with the tho national l com com- It was decided to open the tho campaign at Lincoln Neb August 10 when Chafin will speak Ten mounted police made malle a raid on tho compound near Yorktown York York- town Saskatchewan to arrest twelve helve ringleaders of a band ot that Is confined on ned there thero b by the tho government The Tho band fought fiercely for three hours with with- sticks and other weapons but were hammered down I i I A J |