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Show 1 NEWS SUMMAJRY The minora In tho Pittsburg, Knns., conl nolda arc striking because of check-off disputes. I A project Is on foot to grant the Finns seats In the Russian dunin and the council of empires. Attorneys for Banker Charles W. Morso have succeeded In having his ball reduced from ?1G,000 to $5,000. A Blight earthquake shock was felt at San Uarnardlno, Cal., on July 1, about the same time tho shocks wero j-. felt in Messina. &Ls Edward Cooley was killed near Elizabeth, N. J.( when a tiro on his automobile burst and the machlno . crashed Into a telegraph polo. Two negroes wore killed and flvt) others wero wounded In a fight sorting sort-ing over a crap game at a ntono quarry near Ripley, Oklahoma. A mutiny in tho prison at Villna, Uussa, led to a pitched battle In tho court yard. Four wardens nnd seven convicts wore killed and six wounded. Because tho spectators applauded a winnor of a prizefight at Vera Cruz, Mexico, tho loser of tho light emptied his revolver Into tho crowd. Four per- Isons were wounded. Major General Franklin .1. Bell, chief of stuff of tho army, has left Washington for Seattle, after which ho will visit Alaska fpr tho purposo of inspecting tho military posts. Oific!nl orders have been issued at Winnipeg, Man., prohibiting any United Unit-ed States circus from parading on the streets of Winnipeg unless it Hies tho British instead of an Amer'can Hag. It is announced that the Interna, tional Harvester company of Chicago has contracted for 250,000 bales ot sisal hemp, to be delivered by Yuen- I tan planters in monthly Installments till May 81, 1910. Tho thirteenth vain attempt of the m.iliani suffragottuj to outa.n accu3i to Premier Asqult.i resulted in oxcit. Ing scenes In Parliament square, Ion. don, Juno 29, and tho arrest of mora than luu women. , Dr. Hnldane Clcminson of Chicago has been .mllcteu ioi t.ne murdoi his wife. When Dr. Clcminson was arrested, following his wlfo's death, ho told tho police she had been chloroformed chloro-formed by burglars. Pr nco Von nuelow has authorized the announcement that he intends tc reti'.re from tho chancellorship ot the German empire as soon as tho ponding, pond-ing, nnnnco reform measure 1b tllj posed of In one way or another Inspector McCalTeryj chief ot tho New York detective bureau, an-nouncos an-nouncos that there is no doubt that Leon Ling, tho Chinaman who murdered mur-dered Elslo Sigel, w'.ll bo captutvd In time, providing tho murderer is still alive. All present legnl barrlors to the i- long contemplated municipal water ' supply schomo for San Francisco wore removed Inst wook by a decision of Superior Judge bowell, and tho Hetchy-Ketchy project will now go through. Because ho Interfered In behalf ot some overworked and disabled mules, George F. Guernsey, liumano oiactr. was shot and killed near Memphis, Tenn. Charles W. Slier, foreman ol a construction camp, was arrested, charged with tho murder. James Treadwoll, a former dirccto: of tho California Safo Dopdslt and Trust company, of San Francisco, under un-der indictment charging embozzle. ment of bank stock valued at ?G5,000, lias been freed, tho charge being dismissed dis-missed on motion of ttie state. . Gen. J. Franklin Boll, chior ol staff, in a speocli before the army service schools at Fort Leavenworth at tho graduation exorcises held on Juno liu, declared ho saw Indications of wnr and Insisted that the day of International peace was far off. Two companies of white soldiers will occupy Fort Brown, Texas, formerly for-merly hold by tho negro soldiers who ' wero dismissed from tho service by President Roosovelt. This is tho first 1 movo on tho part of tho government i, to fill the places of the discharged sol- J dicrs. ' Kentucky now has bit twenty-four 1 counties In all parts of which liquor , can bo sold. At midnight, July 30, i'fJ Ashland, in lloyd county, bocamo dry, fl nnd twenty-six saloons closed their , ' doors for. throe years. This is tho most prominent town in eastern Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Tho verdict of tho coroner's Jury in tho Woodill murder case was that "Ijimo Bob" Eastman "killed Edith May Thompson Woodill or was accessory acces-sory to tho murder," four of tho members mem-bers refusing to sign tho verdict until un-til the words "or accessory" was added. f In hor anxloty t kiss her husband i farewell at tho n.arlerlo station, ( Pittsburg, Mrs. Man Antonio of Cal ifornia neglected to tako tho car window win-dow Into nccount and thrust hor head through tho glass. Sho was sovoroly , gashed on tho neck and is not oxpect-I oxpect-I Vi ed to survive Tho municipality of Odessa, now in I tho hands of tho reactionists, nas f brought suit against tho municipal of ficers of 1905, charging them with mlsuso of tho city funds. It is claimed a largo sum was spent for military movements against tft antl-Jewish antl-Jewish outbreaks. 5 |