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The text of the Manchurlau treaty
between Japan and Russia signed
July 4, has been made public, It is
in effect an appendix to the treaty
signed In 1907 and' Washington dis
patches say -that it means peace in
tho far east.
Fire at Cambellton, N. B., de
stroyed property valued at $2,500,
000 dollars and left 5,000 people
homeless.
A London cablegram, to the Chi
cago Record-Herald says: "The
house of commons by a vote of 299
to 190 passed the second reading of
the women's suffrage bill, for which
David James Shackleton, labor mem
ber from the Clitheroe division of
Lancashire, is the sponsor. The bill
provides for the granting of the par
liamentary franchise to women who
aTe possessed of the property quali
fication and who already exercise the
franchise in municipal elections. The
unexpectedly large majority of 109
gives an important impetus to wom
en's suffrage, but many obstacles
must yet be overcome before the
principle is legalized by the neces-r
sary majority of 145. The house
subsequently referred the bill to a"
committee of the whole, which means
that the bill will be shelved until
next year."
county citizens against' Sheriff Linke.
Attorney General penman will take
personal charge of' the investigation
bfefore a special, grand jury, into the
hanging of the young Kentucky detective.''
The West Virginia supreme court
refused to gr.ant an appeal from the
decision of Circuit Judge Burdett
dissolving the .injunction previously
awarded tho Chespeake & Ohio,
and prohibiting the state officers
from enforcing the two-cent fare law.
Under the decision, of Judge Bur
dett the railroad must refund excess
fares over the two cent rate and
comply with the two cent law.
An Augusta, Ga., dispatch says:
"By a vote of 23 to 18 the income
tax amendment was ratified in the
upper branch, of the Georgia general
assembly. In the. lower house the
income tax resolution was made spe
cial and continuing order until dis
posed of.
Glenn Curtiss broke the record for
a fifty-mile flight in an aeroplane at
Atlantic City by covering the dis
tance in one hour, fourteen minutes
and fifty-nine seconds.
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An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch dated
July 14, says: "After debating the
question lor nearly a week, the low
er nouse or tne general assemoiy to
day adopted the income tax resolu
tion by a vote of 125 to 45. Four
teen members present did not vote.
A similar resolution was adopted yes
terday by the senate. The measure
now goes to the governor for ap
proval or veto."
' John. B. Bernp, ,p, director of the
Trust Company of, America and for
merly president of th.e Colonial Trust
conipany, of . New .iT'ork, died, aged
57"years.
-The funeral of rtthelate Congress
man Walter P. Brownlow took-.'-place
at Johnsqn City, Tenn. r '
Johann Gottfried Galle, a Ger
man astronomer, who was the first
observer of the planet Neptune, died
at Potsdam.
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A Rock Island, 111., dispatch car
ried by the Associated Press says:
"Indictments against thirteen per
sons were returned today by a- Rock
Island county jury which, since May
3, had been investigating alleged fra
ternal insurance frauds. All those
indicted were officers of the Ameri
can Homo Circle or of the Fraternal
Tribunes, or were concerned in the
merger of the two societies in 1908.
This merger is said to have been
followed by the disappearance of the
Tribunes' reserve fund of $57,000
and the alleged mismanagement of
the society affairs to such an extent
that it was ultimately wrecked.
Those indicted are: Dr. Al Kraug,
C. F. Hatfield and Max J. Franckel
of Chicago: H. A. Weld and Rohort
Rexdale, of Rock Island; Thomas W.
wnson, of Washington, D. C;
Michael R. Garber, C. H. Walters
ana ueorge w. Kenney, of Spring
field; S. S. Mcllvaine, Miss Margaret
Mcllvaine, and Otho L. Caldwell, of
Auburn, 111., and K. M. Witham, of
Aldo, 111. Craig, Hatfield, Rexdale,
Weld, Whitham and S. S. Mcllvaine
were indicted for alleged embezzle
ment and conspiracy and larceny of
the records of the Tribunes, and
Franckel, Margaret Mcllvaine and
Caldwell for alleged perjury."
A Newark, Ohio, dispatch to the
Louisville Courier-Journal says:
"Governor Harmon suspended Mayor
Atherton, of Newark, O., and before
ma aucctisaor, j. in. Arkeie, nad been
in office an hour two arrests were
made by the new chief of police.
They were negroes who took part
in the rioting before and during the
lynching of Carl Ethorton. ChaTges
were also preferred by Licking
It is estimated that the forest
fires in northern Wisconsin have
caused a loss of more than three
million dollars.
The body of a music hall sing r
known as Belie Elmore, .was found
buried in the clay in the cellar of
the Woman's Home in North London,
England. Her husband, Dr. Hawley
H. Crippen, is missing and the po
lice of all countries are looking for
him. The woman was a Brooklyn
girl.
Governor Shafroth has called a
special session of the Colorado legis
lature to consider the initiative and
referendum, guarantee of bank de
posits, direct primaries, the creation
of a state railroad commission, and
other reforms.
The democratic state convention
for Vermont met at St. Albans, and
nominated the following ticket: Gov
ernor W. D. Watson, St. Albans;
lieutenant governor, Rev. John B.
Reodon, Springfield; secretary of
state, C. L. McMahon-Stowe; state
treasurer, John W. Thurston, Island
Point; auditor of accounts, F. F.
Piatt; attorney general, H. C. Curt
leff, Montpelier. The platform con
demns the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill.
Colonel Silas, E. Comfort, vice
president of the Pennsylvania Mili
tary College, committed suicide at
Chester, Pa. He was driven to his
death by criticism of his work as city
engineer at Chester.
The democratic gtate convention
for Wisconsin met at Milwaukee and
nominated Adolph J. Schmitz as the
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