Show NEWS SUMMARY secretary ot of war tatt taft and party sailed for panama on the naval trans port prairie on may 1 ex president cleveland who Is III at lakewood N J Is reported to be improving daily former senator camden ot of mary land Is dead at the age of 80 after an illness of several months the republicans ot 07 maryland have declared in favor of secretary tafts candidacy for the presidency pire fire at bartous Is M which for a time threatened to destroy the en tire town did damage to the amount of 75 two men were drowned while at tempting to run tiie LIS rapids in the pis catl 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 it to conference the explosion of a boiler tube on the british battles battleship hll britannia dur ing a full speed trial injured five men four of whom may not recover the report from tangier that the bandit had been assassinated 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 locomotives co are being hurried to the harriman Harrl man 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 soldiers and police several were wounded on each side southerners residing in new york will be invited soon to attend a meeting the avowed object of which will be to place a southerner upon the democratic national ticket although probably pro babIr 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 mit messages for her the presidents suggestion looking to legislation authorizing the govern ment to make a charge tor for the use of the water of streams tor for power pur poses was turned down by the senate committee on commerce miss minnie cox a prominent so clety girl of martins ferry 0 died last week from a spider bite she ie IS calved three days previous the girl s body became 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 bent clergymen Is dead at the age of 81 death was due to heart tall fall ur ura and followed a brief illanes ill nes the monthly statement of the pub lie ilo 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 1 A general strike of motormen and conductors employed by the municipal traction company the 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 Sude 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 ship of the department of commerce and labor in succession to lawrence 0 murray recently appointed comp of the curren currency cT the town of antipolo Antl polo in the brov ince 0 04 P I 1 with a 1 tion of 3 has been practically de strayed by fire four hundred houses were burned and hundreds of people ere are homeless the famous shrine was saved the fire was caused by lightning four armed men held up the guards who were conveying 18 from welch to dary W va to pay off employed emp loyes of the united states coal col cole e company there Is no clue to t the robbers but a sheriff s posse 1 fa I 3 scouring the country in the hope of 0 capturing them dr W W goelet graduate ol 01 columbia college aad ard traveler travel who py was married to a oung young soe society t woi wo man of oakland couf four month it jago go is in the berkeley cal city anson n charged with the burglary of res and apartment houses in oak land and berkeley secretary straus of the department of commerce and laboi has been reap pointed for another term of six six years as one of the american members 0 of the permanent court count of arbitration at the hague secretary straus was appointed after the death of the late president harrison the chairman of the ways and means committee of the house of rep has introduced a resola tion that the committee sit during the recess of congress and gather such information as it t sees fit toward the preparation of a bill tor the re vision of the tariff miss rhoda augusta thompson the last real daughter of the american revolution died 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 |