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Show NEWS SUMMARY The Italian car in the New York-to-Seattle race abandoned the race at Cheyenne. Five men were killed in a freight wreck near Kamloops, B. C, when a wheel broke and the train was ditched. Rev. J. J. Porter, one of the most widely known Baptist ministers in the United States, is dead at Winchester, Ky., at the age of 5S. William Jennings Bryan, in an interview inter-view in Denver last week, declared that he was not a candidate for the Nebraska senatoi-ship. Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, aged 112. died at Smith ton, Mo., June 22. She was a native of Kentucky, but had lived in Missouri thirty years. The house has authorized an emergency emer-gency appropriation qf $10,000,000 for defraying the expenses of taking the thirteenth decennial census. Queen Victoria of Spain gave birth to a daughter on June 22. The fact that their third child is a girl is very pleasing to the king and queen. Judge Will.son, in common pleas court at Philadelphia has declared unconstitutional the 2-cent fare lav. passed by the legislature in 1907. Miss Margaret Shepenson, of San Francisco, stewardess of the Pacific Mail Steamship company's liner China, committed suicide in mid-ocean June 23. Two baby antelopes, sent by express from Colonel Roosevelt to his daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, were received in New York last week in good condition. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and James A. Moffett have been elected vice-presidents vice-presidents of the Standard Oil company, com-pany, to succeed W. H. Tilford and H. H. Rogers. A theater panic resulting in the death of Isabel Rom'ero and the injury' in-jury' of many persons followed a joker's jok-er's cry of "Fire" in the Apollo theater the-ater in the City of Mexico. Joseph Seaton, 70 years of age, an old government scout, in an attempt to walk across the burning desert of Nevada, in a trans-continental walk, was overcome by the heat at Oreana and died. John R. Considine, formerly proprietor pro-prietor of the Hotel Metropole, and widely known among sporting and theatrical men, died of pleusal pneumonia pneu-monia in his hoe in New York City, June 20. Walking from Boston to San Francisco Fran-cisco on a wager, Melvin M. Lien, a mute, a tutor in the Perkins Institute for the blind, was Wiled near Syracuse, Syra-cuse, N. Y., by being run down by a passenger train. The training squadron of Admiral Ijichi. composed of the cruisers Aso and Soya, arrived at Honolulu June 24. Hundreds of Japanese assembled at the water front and gave the vessels an enthusiastic reception. Albert Siegele, of Buffalo, N. Y., one of the pioneer brewers of America Amer-ica and the first man to manufacture lager beer in this country, died at the home of his daughter in Sacramento, Cal., June 21, at the age of 91. A street car got beyond control on a steep hill in Los Angeles and cashed three blocks through a crowded crowd-ed section, colliding with another oar, smashing both badly and injuring a dozen passengers, none seriously. In turning a spadefull of earth at Bournedale, half was across Cape Cod, on June 22, August Belmont, of New York, declared that a formal beginning begin-ning had been made in the construction construc-tion of the long looked for Cape Cod canal. The city of Halifax. N. S. was established estab-lished one hundred years ago on June 22, by Lord Halifax, and named in his honor. The anniversary this year was observed as a public holiday, with historical his-torical exercises, public concerts and a variety of athletic sports. Mark Woodruff has been arrested at Plattsville Colo., on a charge of embezzlement, em-bezzlement, it being charged that while state register of lands of Colorado Colo-rado he embezzled funds from the sale of school lands to the amount of about $15,000. Woodruy declares be can clear up the matter. After being beaten and robbed. Carl Schurz was thrown from the North Clark street viaduct, in Chicago, to the tracks o!f the Northwestern railroad. rail-road. He fell across the tracks, and Would have been run over by a switch engine had the engineer not seen him and stopped his engine. The trial of Joseph Bertucci. In Chicago, on a charge of murder, was suddenly stopped when an Italian entered en-tered the court room and waved a handkerchief at the chief witness for the prosecution, who refused to testify further, declaring he would be killed if he gave further testimony. Although the Wright brothers have been granted an extension of thirty days In which to complete their official offi-cial trials for the government, they are losing no time in completing their flying machine. President Taft and most of the members of congress are expected to witness the trials. An attempt to wreck a Milwaukee passenger train Just north of Red-field, Red-field, N. D., was frustrated by a passing pass-ing farmer, who found a section of the track had been blown out. He flagged the passenger train and prevented pre-vented an accident. The motive is supposed to have been robbery. While mowing his barley field near Lempoc, Cal.. N. D. McCabe drove his machine over Frank Choa. a child. 2 years old, cutting off the right arm at the shoulder and the right leg at the knee. The baby had wandered away from his home and had lain down in the field to take a nap. |