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Show NEWS SUMM1JIY A bill providing for tho Initiative nnd roforondum wna defeated In tho Nebraska r.ennte.. ticorgp T. Oliver of Plttsbur,: has been named as tho Republican candidate candi-date for United Stntes senator to sue ceed P. C. Knox. Grieving over tho death ot his dog, Mnrtlne Aororlo, a retired chef, attempted at-tempted to commit suicide in tho. city hall at Oakland by biting himself to death. Lumbermen of Arizona, Now Mox-Ico Mox-Ico and West, Texns met nt El Paso. Texas, last week In secret session. It Is believed the schedule of prices Is to bo boosted. Ituth Bryan Lcavltt, eldest daughter daugh-ter of William J. Bryan, has been granted n dlvorco from W. H. Lcavltt. Mrs. Lcavltt was granted tho custody of tho two children. Mrs. Low Crist of Chicago shot and killed her 14-ycarold boy and thon killed herself at Itttshvillo, Ind. Tho tragedy occurrgd at tho homo of a friend sho was visiting. Tho police, of Oakland, Cal., have uncovorcd a plot which thoy claim has revealed n modern "Fagln," who has systematically trained a young boy to rob hit employer. "tans for an extension of tho rapid transit system of New York City, to coBt about $50,000,000 aro being pre pared by engineers of tho Intcrbor-ough Intcrbor-ough Rapid Trnnslt company. Thirty or more lives were lost, sixty six-ty people wore Injured and property worth ono million dollars was destroyed de-stroyed as a result of the tornado that wrecked tho town ot Brlnkley, Ark. The first death from cholera of nn American In tho Philippines for somo months was reported to tho bureau of Insular affairs last week, the victim liclng Joseph L. Lnrmour, civil engineer en-gineer of Baltimore, Md. The National Horso Show association associa-tion ot America, in session In New York City, adopted resolutions pledging pledg-ing Itself to hold a horso show In 1909. This disposes of all rumors that the horso show was to bo abandoned. aban-doned. J. J. Mack Is dead, Avery Bernstein 13 In tho hospital with a bullet ovor his heart, Policeman Bobbins Is seriously seri-ously wounded and Detective J. E. Stowo is slightly injured as the result of a shooting nlTray In Son Antonio, Texas. Tho wife ot a Havana clgarmnker, already tho mother of fourteen children, chil-dren, gave birth to quadruplets, two boys and two girls. President Gomez sent his congratulations to tho mother as a woman deserving well of tho ropubllc. Don' Luis Proto, a millionaire ranch owner, merchant and pioneer ot thc section, was shot from ambush and Instantly killed near Dovlsadoros station, sta-tion, on the Nogales-Cananea railroad, while on the way to his ranch east df Magdalena, Arizona. Tho Kansas sennto has adopted tho report of tiso railroad commltteo on ,o 2-ccnt faro bill. The recommendation recommenda-tion of tho commltteo was that tho bill bo not passed. This ends tho 2-ccnt 2-ccnt faro legislation In tho Kansas legislature at this session. Urcy Jones, on trial at Muscatine, lown, for tho murder of Mr. and Mrs. Vnnwlnkle, committed sulcldo in tho county Jail by hanging himself with his bedclothes. Jones was to have taken tho stund In his own dorenso on the day that ho suicided. John Godwin, prominent Republican Repub-lican politician of Wilmington, Dcla., convicted of offering a money bribe to a voter at tho last election, was sentenced to a flno ot $500 and two years In prison. Godwin took an appeal ap-peal and was released on $3,000 ball. After a soven-yenr hunt tho Chicago pollco declare that tho murderer ot Policeman Patrick H. Duffy has been found. Vincent Drlscoo, alias Brltton, who Is serving a sentence for robbery rob-bery In tho San Quentln penitentiary In California, is thought to bo tho man. , Tho court of appeals ha3 afllrmed tho Judgment of tho lower court In the case of Domlnador Gomez, tho Manila Ma-nila lnbor leader convicted somo tlmo ngo of having written a threatening letter during tho strike of tho launch-men, launch-men, but reduced his Imprisonment to four ' months. The Bpcctaclo of a horse riding In nn automobile was witnessed on tho streets of Oakland last weok. The liorso, which was attached to a light dollvory wagon ran away and jumped Into a passing automobllo and rodo for almos't n block before tho machine was stopped. Edward P. Moxey, special national bank examlnor, whoso work furnished the basis for tho successful prosecution prosecu-tion of Charles W. Morse, Is about to rotlro from government Borvlco, It Is announced, to take charge of tho c-counting c-counting department of tho Guggenheim Guggen-heim Interests. A list fight nt. KnoxvIllo, Tonn., between be-tween J. C. Miller, pastor of ZIon Lutheran Lu-theran church, nnd Solomon McGam-mon, McGam-mon, a member of Ills llock, resulted In tho nrrest of several members of tho congregation and tho minister. Tho encounter was tho culmination of long-standing differences. Tho roport ot tho Now York char-tor char-tor commission proposes, among other things, "that no person shall bo eligible for tho office of mayor unless ho shall havo been a rosldont ot tho city for nt least ten years precodlng his election, and that tho salary bo Increased to $25,000 it year," Halt a dozen nogrocs woro killed at Cuthbort, On., by a tornado, and a dozen business buildings woro almost al-most totally destroyed. Tho tornado also twisted off corners ot and mado fantastic mutilations of many other buildings, Several white persona wero Injured, but none seriously. |
