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Show NEWS SUMMAHY ! One hundred and thlrty-ono deaths from bubonic plaguo occurred In Amoy during tho fdrtnlght ending Juno 14. The United States Norwegian Lutheran Luth-eran church has decided to establish a pension fund of at least 1100,000 ror its pastors and professors. Mrs. W. 1L Buttcrbaugh of El Paso, Toxas, who, on January 1, 1008, gave birth to triplets, on Juno 18 becamo tho mother of twins, a boy and a girl. A tornado west of Monetto, Mo., killed Atwh-ow A. McCormlck, a farmer, far-mer, and Injured soven children. Tho McCormlck farm house was demolished. demol-ished. Specifications wero Issued lnat week to prospectivo bidders for the two .10,000-ton battleships Arkansas and Wyoming, authorized by the last congress., What Is said to be tho largest consignment con-signment of alligators over shipped over a railroad, left New Orleans Juno 15 for Los Angeles. Thcro was a full carload of tho reptiles, A commltteo has been formed to collect funds for rnlslng the submarlno boat Kambala, which was sunk In collision col-lision with tho battleship Itostlalav. and In which the bodies of tho crow are still Imprisoned. Joseph B. Itamerla. formerly of Chicago, Chi-cago, and n lender of tho Black Hand in western Canada, tfho was found guilty recently of Black Hand practices, prac-tices, was sentenced at Fertile, B, C, last week, to fourteen years In pr son, Harper E. Bennett, a l.os Angeles real estate man, charged with poisoning pois-oning his wife. Eugenia T. Bennett, administering strychnine In order that he might marry an Alleged "alllnlty," has been held for trial artor preliminary prelimi-nary examination. Mrs. Joseph Davis was Instantly killed at Santa Ana, Cat., by an angry cow. The animal had n young cair, and when Mrs. Davis attempted to feed tho calf tho cow, rushed at her and thrust both horns Into hor body nbovo the heart. Governor Hndloy of Missouri has vetoed the btll providing for an expenditure ex-penditure or $20,000 for a Missouri exhibit at tho Seattlo fair. Tho governor gov-ernor said the statu needed tlils monoy worso for educating Its .children .chil-dren and for tho poor. Later reports on tho mutiny or the Phillpplno constabulary at thu post of Davao, Phillpplno Islands, which occurred oc-curred Juno C, show that ono sergeant ser-geant and twenty-two privates of tho constabulary mutinied, but sixteen or tho privates remaining loyal. Sovereign camp, Woodmen of tho World, has appropriated $30,000 for tho extension of the uniformed rank of the ordor, The country was divided di-vided Into ten districts, the uniformed rank of which shall hold oither annual or biennial district encampments. Tho side of tho Holland American lino steamer Noordani, with. G&O passengers on board, was raked by tho bowsprit or a 'schooner uoiloved to be tho William J. Bryan, In a tog oft Nantucket, Juno 15. Tho Noordam escaped with the loss ot a llfo boat, , What Is .bellovedv to havo been an attempt to assassinato Mayor William B. Nlvcn and burn his rcsldenco in Bellofontaln. O., was mado early June lo,- when u bottlo filled with kerosene, kero-sene, which had been set aflamo, was thrown through a window or his house. William Lorimer or Illinois took tho oath ot oinco and becamo a Unit ed States senator on Juno 18. Although Al-though elected sovoral weeks ago, lie retained his seat in tho houso or representatives rep-resentatives until satisfied that ho could rendor bettor service in tho sennto. Tho United States gunboat Vlcks-burg, Vlcks-burg, which has been out or commission commis-sion for about two years, has left San Francisco on a voyage around tho Horn, having been ordered to scrvico on tho Atlantic. She will mnko fifteen fif-teen stops before reaching hor destination. desti-nation. Moro than 10,000 skilled workmen, .members of tho Amalgamated Association Asso-ciation of Iron, Stool & Tin Workers, employed by 0)0 Amorlcan Stsol and Tin Plato company, wll quit work Juno 30, at which tlmo tho "open shop" order of the company b&comos effective Tho clan fights In the Houwah district, dis-trict, north of Amoy, continue. A number of Moollm villagers recently captured a Junk with a crew ot CMin-boh CMin-boh villagers on board and killed nine or them. Tho remainder oscapod ov'orboard. Two of tho Moollm men wore klllod. The government is elaborating a plan for rebuilding the villages In tho soutli or Franco destroyed by tho earthquake or last week. It will contribute con-tribute part of tho oxponso outright and arrange loans on easy terms for tho balance. President Falllorcs has contributed $1,000. Tho lrtstorlo sloop QJoa, In whloh Captain Itaold Amuntlson succeeetully navigated the nortuwo&t passage ror tho first tlmo, and, as yot, tho only tlnio in maritime anuals, lias been prosontod to tho city of Sun Francisco Fran-cisco nnd was formally turned ovor to tlio city last weelc D, W. Woods, Fred Torgenson( James Cordon and Jack Shelton woro arraigned at Omaha Juno 17, ror tho Union Pnclflo train robbory at Iano Cut-oft, May 22. AH pleaded not guilty nnd asked for separato trials. In do-fault do-fault of $25,000 ball each tho prisoners wero returned to Jail, Black Hand outrages and tholi elimination by moans or moro rigid Immigration law3, which will bar out niombors of tho soaioty, is ono ot the mattors boforo tho thlrtloth blpn-nlal blpn-nlal convoutlon ot Uio national coun-ell coun-ell Junior jOrdor or Amorlcan Me-' cnunlcs, Inl session nt Detroit. |