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Show NEW , ' TIMMAJRY Tho warm weather on Sunday droyo thousands to tho beaches at Now York City for relief, nnd as a result eight drownings wero reported. Tho powers interested havo agreed to send a warship to Tnnglcr to safeguard safe-guard tho lives and property of foreigners. for-eigners. Tho world's sheep-shearing record is 2,394 animals In nlno hours. This was dono nt Hawks Day station, in Australia. Flvo unidentified Itnllans, railroad laborers at Lehigh, Pa., on tho Pocono mountains, wero killed by a prematura prema-tura blast Tho publle schools of Cleveland may bo equipped with bookholdors which enable tho Bcholars to Bit erect whllo studying. Tho total valuo of tho crops nnd llvo stock In Kansas this year Is figured fig-ured out by tho board of agriculture to be $4G3,G48,G0G. The national congress of San Domingo Do-mingo hns proclalmtd Gonoral Ramon Caccrcs re-elected president of tho republic re-public for ix term of six years. Governor Glenn, on Juno 19, amid Imposing ceremonies, signed tho proclamation proc-lamation making prohibition effective in North Carolina, January 1, 1909. A French engineer named Pon-teaux Pon-teaux announces tho Invention of an electric gun which, without powder or other exploslvo, Is capablo ot firing 1.200 shots a minute. Dr. Thomas W. Small, surgeon of tho American lino steamer St. Louis, committed sulcldo in his cabin on tho steamer at Now York by shooting. No cause for tho net is known. A man and n woman havo been condemned to death at Warsaw on tho chnrgo of being implicated In a sccont attempt to kill General Skal-Ion, Skal-Ion, govornor gonoral of Warsaw. Santa Fo locomotive shops ot tho entire system wero last wcok ordered closed until Juno 29. This will affoct over 1,000 men In Topcka, Kansas. Scarcity ot work Is given as tho cause. It Is reported that In a fight botwecn Yaqul Indians and Moxlcan troops, at a water holo between Quaymoa ana Hormoslllo, sovornl Moxlcnn soldiers wore killed. Tho troops nro still pursuing pur-suing the Yaquls. All publications having anrachlsttc tendencies will hereafter find lt practically prac-tically Impossible to mako uso of tho United States malls for their distribution distribu-tion as tho result of orders issued by tho postmaster general. Daniel Jones, Frank Spikes and Haywood Lee, whtto, all of Raleigh, S. C, wore killed at tho Raleigh phosphate phos-phate works by tho escape ot sulphuric acid gas. Thrco others wero almost overcome but recovered. The Lomolno diamond case came to a sonsatlonal ondlng with an unexpected unex-pected climax in Paris lost week. Le-molno Le-molno has tied, and his famous formula for-mula tor the manufacture ot diamonds dia-monds is a fantastic farco. Fifty Ashing boats havo been wreck-od wreck-od off tho coast of Kngoshlma, nnd 350 of tholr crews Jjave been drowned. Tho govornor ot tho provlnco has requested re-quested nsslstanco from tho government govern-ment navy yard at Saseho. Tho census bureau has Issued a preliminary pre-liminary roport showing that tho total cut of lumber in tho United States during tho calendar year 1907 was 47,25G,1G4,000 foot, board moasuro, tho number of lumber mills being 28,-850. 28,-850. Tho Vlgorlt powder plant at Pinole, a fow miles north of BorUoloy, Cal., caught flro, causing tho nltro-glycorlno mixing houso to blow up. As thoro was plenty of tlmo for tho employees to escape, none of them was injured or killed. Six llremon woro Injured and property prop-erty loss estimated nt about $50,000 was ciuisod In a flro which partially destroyed n four-story brick building in Chicago, ocuplod by tho Commercial Commer-cial Cablnot company and tho American Amer-ican Industrial company. William Hamilton Young, manager of tho Washington ofllco of tho Western West-ern Union Telograph company nnd fa mlllarly known to nowspapor men throughout the country as Col. Ham Young, died on Juno 19. Ho was ono ot tho oldest tolcgraphora of tho country. coun-try. Tho Westlnghouse electric interests In Gormany havo formed n combination combina-tion with tho Dergraann Electric compnny of Ilorlln, whereby tho Dorg-mnnns Dorg-mnnns will Install tho WcBtlnghouso electric traction systems in that country. Detachments of tho Russian forco that recently invaded Persian territory terri-tory in punishment for the dopreda-tlons dopreda-tlons of Persian brigands aro withdrawing. with-drawing. With tho payment by Persia Per-sia of tho indemnity exacted the difficulty dif-ficulty with Teheran is considered at nn end. B. T. Uethel, tho British subject who was found guilty before a British court at Seoul of spreading sedition through tho medium ot a nowapapcr published In tho Korean vornacular, and of which ho Is proprietor, has been sentenced to thrco weeks' Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. The steamship linos which carry freight from Now York to tho West Indies und Panama havo boon hard hit by tho slump in freight traffic. Representatives Repre-sentatives of theso linos say that thoy are now carrying about two-thirds as much freight us thoy did at this season sea-son last year. Additional arrests of alleged Moxlcan Moxl-can revolutionists wore made last week at Nuovecascs Grandes, Mexico. Thirty are now In, Jail. Among the prisoners 1b Santa Ana Perez, leader of tho TomoBachlc revolution of 1893, when tho Mexico custom houBO of Pc-tomaa Pc-tomaa was raided. ' |