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Show NEWS SUM MA JIT It Is reported that tho nrmorcd crul-fer crul-fer Ainallln, being built by tho Orland dockyard nt leghorn, Is Intended for tho Jnpaucso government. Governor Fort has determined to lnko u hand In tho Investigation of tho mysterious shooting of Charles U. Ilobcrts, Jr., nt Atlantic City, N. J. It Is reported from Johnstown, Pa., that tho Harrlman Interests havo closed a contract with tho Cambria company for COO steel gondola cars. William J. liryan will wrlto ench week until election a letter to bo sent to ovcry prlclnct Dcmocrntlo club I in tho country, giving ndvlco and suggestion sug-gestion ns to tho lino of campaign. A dotnehment of 105 United States marines, the last of tho contingent j bent to the Isthmus of Panama to preserve order In tho recent elections, j ie turned from tho Isthmus laBt week. ' Dr. Frederick T. Kustln, ono of tho most famous Burgeons In tho west, wns shot nnd killed as ho was on tho point of entering his homo In Omaha. Thero Is not a slnglo cluo to tho mur-1 deror. j John C. Czolgos., a brtjthcr of Pros-1 Idcnt McKlnley's assassin, has been sentenced to tho work houso In Sharon, Shar-on, Pa. Tho police claim that ho Is Insane, nnd his enso will bo investigated. investi-gated. Lilly Whcatly was shot nnd killed by Mrs. Walter Allen, wlfo of tho proprietor pro-prietor of tho St. Charles hotel In Wichita Falls, Texas. Miss Wlieatly was In a enrriago with Mr. Allen when tho shooting occurred. As a result of tho lnrgcst accumulation accumu-lation of Idlo funds In Ph-llndclphla banks slnco 1901, tho rato for demand loans wns marked down by leading I'nanclal Institutions of the city last week from .T to :i per cent. Knglneer J. F. Miller nnd Flremnn Dunning worn killed and Ilrnkcmnn Ashley was seriously Injured by the explosion of n freight euglno on tho Santa Fo road at Kadrovy, Colo. The tin go men lived In liaton, N. M. That what appears to bo apathy ntnong tho voters of tiro country Is merely contentment with tho p:scnt administration of affairs by tho Republican Re-publican party Is tho contention of formor Senator John M. Thurston 'of Nebraska. Ciov. A. II. Cummins, In his message to tho special session of tho legislature legisla-ture convened at Des Moines, Iowa, nrcod tho Importnnco of amending tiro primary law so as to permit Republicans Republi-cans to make a nomination for senator sena-tor this fall. Four heirs of tho Into Hugh Mc-Curdy Mc-Curdy of Cornniia, Mich., who loft his $110,000 cstnto to tho Masonic Orphans' Or-phans' homo nt Grand Ilnplds, Mich., filed nntlco of a suit to break tho will. Mr. McCurdy, loft his widow only nn annuity of $800 a year. Eight claims, nggrcgathg 110,311, ngalnst tho bnukrupt cstnto of Harry K. Thaw, wero filed with Itoferee In Hankruptcy William II. Walr lato Friday, Sept. A. Tho largest was that of .Toslnh Copley Thaw, a broth-cr, which was for J8.010. Govornor Hnnly of Indiana, hns Is-cued Is-cued n call for an extra session of tho legislature, to meet September 18. Tho county local option law and n plan to glvo tho governor oxtra power to deal with night-riders In Boutlrorn Indiana will bo consldorcd. Succumbing to tiro deadly fumes of burning pitch nnd oakum doop down In tiro forepenk of tho llrltlflh bark Puritan, nfl sho lay at nnchor In President Hoads, four seamen wero suffocated and a fifth was partly overcome over-come before ho was rescued by mates. After being nut soven hours, tho Snn Francisco Jury which tried Jnmes Trendwell for projury In connection with tho examination by tho grand jury Into tho nffalrs of tho suspended California Safe Deposit and TniHt company returned n verdict of acquittal. acquit-tal. Trafllc caBt of Winnipeg on tho Canadian Ca-nadian Pncllle Is completely cut off, owing to tho burning of n long bridge on the Schrlotzor section, east of Fort William, by a brush flro. All trains nro going around via tiro Soo Lino, through St. Paul, for tho noxt fow days. , Baron Ourn. Jnpancso minister of commerce. In a statement mado pub-'.lc pub-'.lc from Toklo, Bald that tho postponement post-ponement of tho International oxpos-fcltlun. oxpos-fcltlun. scheduled to open In Toklo in 1912, Is unavoidable because tho matter has assumed such largo proportions. pro-portions. No nrrests In tho Itoborts shooting caso aro likely for at least two or thrco days, according to a statement riven out by tho chief of pollco of Atlantic City. N. J. Itoborts hns repeated re-peated his belief that tho shooting was not tiro result of an nttompted 1-411 itp. Dock Watson, of Hlllsboro, Toxas, shot a young man named Carl Horn, pnd MIbs Kthol Rdsal, operator for tho Southwestern Tlcphouo com-pnny, com-pnny, and then turned his pistol on hlmsolf. Doth men died nlmost Instantly. In-stantly. Miss Rdsnl Is bollovcd to bo fatally wounded. Tho Automobile Club of Amorlcn has mado Its announcement ngalnst speeding, ncordlng to a resolution pnssod by tho board of govornors, In tho form of special notlco to Its mom-! mom-! Iiors, calling attention to tho great number of serious and fatal accldontp thnt havo recently occurred. Suit to recover lauds grantod tho Orogon & Callfornln Itallroad company, com-pany, now controlled by tho Southern South-ern Pacific company, and valued val-ued at over $40,000,000, wns begun nt Portland by special assistant to tho attorney general, on behalf of tho Lnlted States government. |