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Washington, June 26.—The navy
department decides to locate a tor
pedo station at Bremerton.
Kansas City, June 26.—The tem
perature throughout Missouri and
Kansas is from 100 to 112 in the
shade, and there is much suffering
from the intense heat.
Los Angeles, June 26.—In a col
lision on the interurban railway
twenty people were seriously injured.
Washington, June 26.—Governor
♦ Clark asks federal aid to prevent
smallpox at Dawson from spreading
and a quarantine is ordered at Skag
way and Eagle.
New York, june 26.—After Be
ing in jail seventeen days the two
girls who shot millionaire Stokes
have been released on bail.
Seattle, June 26.—Plans have been
completed for a drydock and shipshed
at Prince Rupert to cost $2,000,000.
Berlin, June 26.—Mormonism is
declared an illicit religion and the
police will banish the missionaries.
Washington, June 26.—Japan pre
vents an agreement being reached
at the seal conference.
Washington, June 26.—Senator
Nelson says Congress will not ad
journ in time for the special com
mittee to visit Alaska this summer,
ecretary of Interior Fisher will make
the trip north if the adjournment
takes place by August 15.
Frankfort, Kv., June 26.—Senator
Pavnter has withdrawn from the
fight for re-election, leaving the field
to Congressman James.
Washington. June 26.—Secretary
Fisher decides that ex-President
Roosevelt’s order creating the Olym
pic National monument will prohibit
mineral operations there, but Con
gressman Humphrey will appeal from
this decision to President Taft.
Columbus, June 26.—A Jefferson
outing will be held here on August
14, at which speaker Champ Clark.
Governor Harmon, Governor Wilson
and William J. Bryan will be the
speakers.
Washington, June 26.—The Senate
has confirmed the following nomina
tions made by President Taft of new
officials in connection with the Alas
ka salmon fisheries: Hart Fasnet,
of California, assistant agent; Harry
Christopher, Wisconsin, warden;
Claude Roach, Michigan, Lee Rive,
Washington, and G. Hann, Kansas,
assistant wardens.
Los Angeles, June 26.—A commit
tee of the American Academy of
medicine declares that suicides are
private affairs and that newspapers
should not print them sensationally.
St. Petersburg, June 26.—The czar
vows that he will purge the empire
of paganism.
Tampa, June 26.—Chief Engineer
Bixbv, who made a complete exami
nation of the wrecked Maine, says
it is impossible to tell the cause of
its destruction.
Port Arthur, Texas, June 27.—
Through an oil explosion ten thous
and barrels caught fire. Two men
were killed and the damage amount
ed to $300,000.
New York, June 27.—The Woman
Voter, organ of the woman suffrage
party, features an interview with ex
President Theodore Roosevelt, in
which he says: “My family says j
that I am the only suffrabette in it.!
I consider myself a very courageous
man, because of my sentiments in
favor of woman suffrage. My wife
is only tepid on the cubject and my
sisters are pronounced anti-suffra
gists.’’
Seattle, June 27.—The steamer
Alameda sailed from here Saturday
night with the following passengers
for Cordova: Mrs. James Flynn,
Mrs. F. L. Stetson, Mrs. Tyler, Miss
Donald, Ed Kohl and tvife, John
Ridgeway, B. Anderson, E. Terch. C.
Durlin, Alfred Tucker and C. M.
Eland.
Washington, June 27.—John D.
Spreckles, President of the Western
Sugar Refining company and the
Spreckles Sugar company, testified
before the House Committee that the
removal of the tariff will ruin the
beet sugar industry.
Chicago, June 27.—Considerable
interest centers in the trial of Ar
thur See, founder of the absolute
life, for crimes committed with girls
aad wives who believed him a perfect
speciman of man.
Washington, June 27.—Senator
Root’s amendment to the Canadian
reciprocity bill was overwhelmingly
defeated. Senator Lafollette de
clares that the newspapers of the
country have joined the packers, rail
roads and millers in urging the pas
sage of the reciprocity measure.
Richmond, Va. June 27.—Grou
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ville Johns this morning killed a
boarder for attacking disobedient
children and then turned the gun on
himself and ended his dw'n life.
San Francisco, June 27.—The In
ternational Sunday School Associa
tion decides to hold its next conven
tion in Chicago in 1914.
Minneapolis, June 27.—The heavy
rains of today relieved the threaten
ed crop failure in North and South
Dakota.
Seattle, June 27.—Ex Chief of Po
lice Wappenstein’s second trial on the
charge of graft in the city affairs is
now on and the jury drawn at noon.
The first trial resulted in a disagree
ment, the jury standing 7 to 5 for
acquittal.
Washington, June 27—SenatorLa
follette announces that he will make
a fight for free lumber in the reci
procity pact.
New York, June 27.—The freight
er Lowther Castle is tied up at her
pier in New York with a cargo of
20,000,000 fire crackers that she
took aboard at Hong Kong early in
March. Two or three million crack
ers were left at Boston for the noise
makers on the Fourth of July. The
rest are intended for the celebra
tion in this city.
Washington, June 27.—Suits have
been filed against the publisher's
magazine trust.
Amsterdam, June 27.—Eight ship
ping lines are tied up through a
strike.
Mexico City, June 27.—Delabarra
says that no favoritism will be shown
in the presidential election.
Rockland, June 27.—In the trial
trip of the battleship Utah, she
makes twenty-one and a half knots
an hour.
Kiel, June 27.—J. Pierpont Mor
gangan presents the Emperor with a
letter written by Martin Luther to
Emperor Charles V.
New York June 27.—Her hull
covered with barnacles and sadly in
need of paint, the old Spanish cruiser
Reina Mercedes, one of the spoils of
the war with Spain, is in the dry
dock at the Brooklyn navy yard.
She was one of the largest ships
of the Spanish navy. After being
raised and repaired she was convert
ed into a station ship without ma
chinery and with her decks housed
over, and sent to Newport, R. I.,
as a training ship. She will keep
about 100 men busy for a week and
will then be sent back to her post.
Portland, June 27—The warehouse
of the Union Oil company was burn
ed yesterday and while in the dis
charge of their duties Chief Camp
bell was killed and several firemen
injured.
Zion City, Hi., June 27.—Voliva,
with officers and members of the
Christian church, have been indicted
for frauds in connection with the
city election.
Seattle, June 29.—An order of the
war department requires that after
July 1, all messages over the gov
ernment lines, either cable or wire
less, in and out of Alaska, must be
prepaid, but an effort is being made
to have the order rescinded.
Chicago, June 29.—In an address
before the Catholic Educational Con
gress Archbishop Messmer declares
that socialism is heresy.
Boston, June 29.—A bill was in
troduced in the legislature provid
ing that no half fare ticket was en
titled to a seat on a train.
New York, June 29.—The Erie
Railroad declines to employ anyone
over 35 years of age.
Washington, June 29.—Fish Com
missioner Bowers denounces Prof.
Elliott’s charge that government
agents permit the killing of year
ling seals at the Pribiloff islands.
Fairbanks, June 29.—Peter Cook,
a miner employed on an association
claim on Flat creek, in the Iditarod,
was instantly killed by a big boulder
sliding from the top of a cut.
Wilkes, Barre, June 29.—James
Conroy met with a peculiar accident
today in a nearby coal mine. He was
working fifteen hundred feet under
ground and was fatally struck by
lightning, following an intake air
current.
New York, June 29.—A fire on
board the battleship Ohio imperils
the powder magazine.
Los Angeles, June 29.—Before the
Medical Association Dr. Reed declar
es that the thyroid gland activity
regulates sterility.
Washington, June 29.—Congress
man Humphrey introduces a new
bill to encourage American Merchant
marine,
Manila, June 29.—Four Americans
were murdered by Moros on the is
land of Mindano.
Glendale, Oregon. June 29.—Mis
taking a northbound for a south
bound train, with $400,000 in gold
dust aboard, bandits rifle the mail
car and get the registered mail.
Cambridge, June 29—Twelve hun
dred thousand gifts were received at
Harvard college during the past
year.
Pittsburg June 28.—Ollie Snedi
gar, of San Francisco, today broke
die world’s javelin record by throw
ing the spear 167 feet and 7 inches.
B. Brodd held the championship up
to this time, by a record of 163 feel
and one inch, made at New Orleans
October 15 last.
New York, June 28.—Gifford Pin
chot is elated over the action of the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office in disposing of the Cunning
ham patents and says the decision
vindicates the fight of the govern
ment, and that they should now
open the coal under a leasing sys
tem.
Philadelphia, June 28.—Physi
cians declare that fifteen hundred
units of tetanus antitoxine is a sure
preventative for lock jaw.
Los Angeles, June 28.—McMani
' gal, who has turned states evidence
on the dynamiters, urges his wife to
abandon the McNamaras and join the
prosecution in bringing the guilty
ones to justice.
Cheyenne, June 28.—Considerable
excitement prevails over the finding
of vast oil fields.
London, June 29.—The Pilgrim
Society gave a dinner last night in
honor of John Hayes Hammond, the
American Embassador to the king
coronation, and the party cheered the
announcement of an arbitration
treaty.
Butte, June 29.—Harry Terry
calmly confesses that he killed Po
lice Captain Sullivan at Spokane.
Liverpool, June 29.—Four thous
and dock hands join the strike of the
seamen.
New York, June 28.—The mana
ger of the Postals Telegraph Com
panies denies that they sold their
Southern lines to the Western Union
company.
Niagara Falls, June 28.—A most
daring feat, which was witnessed by
15,000 people was Beachev’s fly
over the falls through the mist.
Washington, June 28.—While the
entire east is suffering from the heat
a terrific hail storm visited this city
today.
Washington, June 28.—The sen
ate committee reports in favor of
the bill reappointing the house to
433 members.
Seattle, June 28.—At a mass meet
ing held last ngiht eight hundred men
and women demand the recall of
Councilmen Wardell, Blain and Kel
logg; also Mayor Dilling unless he
! discharges city jailer Corbett, against
whom charges have been preferred
for brutality towards prisoners.
New York, June 28.—Chas. Gun
ners, aged 77 years, had a miracu
lous escape from death. He fell
one hundred feet and was uninjured.
Salt Lake, June 28.—In the larger
towns of Utah yesterday’s election
was carried by the wets while in
the agricultural districts the drys
won out.
Philadelphia, June 28.—Frequent
disturbances are occurring at the
Baldwin locomotive works, where
5,000 employes are on a strike.
San Francisco, June 28.—At the
meeting of the National Educational
Association to be held in this city
next month a bitter fight will be
made to revolutionize the organiza
tion.
Washington, June 28.—Senator
Bois Penrose, chairman of the com
mittee in charge of the Canadian
reciprocity bill, fails to get the sen
ate to vote on this measure July
24.
Washington, June 28.—The arbi
tration treaty with Great Britian
has been competedl.
Poughkeepsie. June 28.—Cornell
won the intercollegiate regatta yes
terday.
New York, June 28.—A moonlight
rainbow that hung over the sea for a
quarter of an hour was seen 600 mil
es or more from the Atlantic coast
by passengers on the White Star
liner Arabic. Scores of passengers
and the crew watched the rainbow
develop and disappear. The phe
nomenon is one of the rarest of mar
ine spectacles.
Washington, June 30.—The gov
ernbent dismisses the charges against
W. Michael and Thos. Morrison, in
connection with the Day portrait
overcharge.
Los Angeles, June 30.—Dr. Abra
ham Jacobi, of New’ York, a noted
specialist 85 years of age, has been
elected president of the American
Medical Association.
Washington, June 30.—President
Taft leaves tomorrow to establish
his summer home at Beverly.
The freighter Latouche will leave
Seattle July 5 with 700,000 feet of
lumber to be used in constructing
snow sheds on the Copper River &
Northwestern Railway.
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