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Show NEWS SUMMAJIT Samuel FrJdley, who lived near Mount Vernon, 8. D;, wnB Btruck bj lightning and killed during an electrical elec-trical storm. Twclvo deaths from drowning were reported from tho different beaches !n Now York City and vicinity ono lay last week. Ah tho result ot a passenger train nreck near Baton Uougo, Ia., ' one man was killed and fifteen Injured, tovcrnt serloiiBly. William Waldorf Astor has given $5,000 to OBslst tho British school at Athens in carrying on its excavations In Laconln, Orccce. A bill to provent the drinking of Intoxicating In-toxicating liquors on paBscngcr trains In LoulBlana has boon passed by the Loulslarjn legislature. It la reported at Tangier that Mulal llafld, tiro Insurgent brothor of Sultan Abd-cI-Azlz, has been proclaimed sultan sul-tan of Morocco at Mogodar. Tho International Sundny School convention, held nt Louisville last wook, decided" to hold their next convention con-vention in San Francisco in 1911. General Boll, chlof of staff, U. S, A., lias ordered that tho now special bullet, bul-let, being in an experimental state, shall not bo used In tho national match this year. Henry Miller, nged 104 years, grew tired of life at Harrodsburg, Ky., and committed sulcldo last week by tnk-Ing tnk-Ing Paris green. Ho wbb ono of the oldest men In Kentucky. A mnn named Moreland wai drowning In tho Yellowstone river neai Billings, Mont., being thrown from n raft by railroad rlprapplng. A companion com-panion narrowly escaped drowning. President Uoosovelt has appointed John C. O'Laughlln of Washington aa secretary to tho American commission commis-sion to the Japan exposition at Toklo lu 1912. His salary will bo $G,000 a fear. Oco. Wlllouglfby, a prominent, moi rbnnt of Prospect, Wis., who shot and killed his wlfo on Mnrch 22, throw himself on tho mercy of tho court and lias been sentenced to llfo Imprisonment. Imprison-ment. A tornado passed nbout five miles northwest of Mountnln Luke, Minn., ilomoltshlng, at least n. dozen farm houscB, killing ono child and wounding wound-ing scores of persons, Bomo of whom may dlo. Mrs. William D. Watklns nnd hoi Bovcn-ycnr-old daughter wcro drown-cd drown-cd In a cnnal near Long Beach, Cal. It 1b thought tho child fell In and tlio mother wns drowned In attempting tu rescuo her. Secretary and Mrs. William II. Taft will closo their homo In Washington within tho next two weeks nnd, accompanied ac-companied by their younger son, Charles, will go to Hot Springs, Vn., for tho suinmor. A son waa born to Queen Victoria ot Spain on Juno 2. Queen Victoria, formorly Princess Ena of Battenburg, pud King Alfonso were mnrrlcd nt Mndrld on May 31, 190C. Tholr first son Was born on May 10, 1907. Tho city of Wu Chow, China, Is In-undated In-undated by tho abnormal rlso of 70 foot in tho Fu river. Many casual-ties casual-ties nro reported and much damage has boon done nlong tho rlvor banks, which aro Uttered with rofuso. Leon do la Qrango, tho French nor-oplanlst, nor-oplanlst, last week at Milan surpassed nil provlous records by flying for six-toon six-toon minutes nnd thirty seconds. During Dur-ing that tlmo his machlno was from ten to eighteen foot nbovo tho ground. Vnsslly Itcblkoff, a ItusBlan Inventor, Invent-or, Iras arrived In America to exhibit IiIb now motor boat to tho United States government. Ho assorts that with 12-horso powor ho can maintain a Bpeed of thlrty-ono miles, nn hour. Heavy floods havo occurred throughout tho valloy of tho 'VVest rlvor nnd Its tributaries, Inundating tho largo cities of Wu Chow In thr. Kunng Tung proylnco. Tho loss of llfo nnd damago to property Is roportod to bo enormous. A sheriff's posso from Flagstaff, Arizona, last weok broko up a gang of thloves In tho North San Francisco mountains, twenty nillcB north of Flagstaff, arresting threo nlleged r.ust-lers, r.ust-lers, named Wiley, Tnylo'r and Bares, with ovor 100 head of horses In tholr posBORslon. -, Tho Itepubllcnn congressional cam-pulgn cam-pulgn book will bo'' out unusually early this year, probably six weoks soonor than It was Issued four years, ago, Tho proofs aro practically corrected cor-rected up to date on atich matter as tan bo handled beforo tho Democratic :onvontlon meotB. Judgo Philips, In common pleas court of Cloveland. O., last weok, granted a mandatory order compelling compell-ing tho Municipal Traction company to glvo good servlco and tho samo ruto of fnro to tho town of East Cleveland, Cleve-land, u suburb, as la. enjoyed by tho city of Clovolnnd. John Mitchell, formor, pcesldept pt the United Mine Workers of Amorlcn, last wook gave out a letter declining to hecomo a candidate for political ofllco and Indicating that ho wl)l bo-como bo-como Instend tho head of' tho trade agreement department of tho National Na-tional Civic federation. Tho registered mall pouch which contained SG0.000 In. money and $100,. 000 worth of, diamonds nnd Jowolry Btolon from n mall 'bar' at tho Kansas City depot on tiro night of Juno 0, has beon found by a switching crow In tho ynrd of tho Hock Island railroad In Kansas City, Knnf t An unsuccessful nttompt wns made to hold up nn express car carrying $48,000 in monoy nnd $1,000 worth ol Jowolry, near Lynch station, 111, The train dlsp'atchpr saw tho would-jio robbora creeping along In tho grass near tho station and signalled tho motorman to put on full speed. |
