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Tho Missouri supreme court Issued
an order prohibiting 182 fire Insur
ance companies from canceling their
contracts In that state.
Announcement was made In To-pokn-,
Kan., and Los Angeles, Cal.,
that policewomen would be added to
tho force.
Chinese residents of Chicago met
In a mission and offered prayers for
tho now republic.
Dr. Charles A. Briggs, lecturer and
writer on theology, was stricken with
a disease of the heart and is in a
critical condition In Union Theologi
cal seminary, in New York.
European powers, tho settlement of
tho Albanian trouble now depends
upon whether Essad Pasha and
DJavid Pasha will obey tho orders
sent by the sublime porte to with
draw their armies to tho Turkish em
pire. It is believed that as Monte
negro has abandoned Scutari, Essad
Pasha will recognize tho futility of
his aspirations to the kingship of
Albania, in the fact of tho threatened
Austro-Itallan expedition to expel
him. One of the ambassadors at the
close of the ambassadorial con
ference at London said: "The situa
tion is saved and tho crisis is past.
The reported Austro-Italian action in
Albania has no point now."
George Teasdalo, who is said to
, have blown the first incandoscant
-light bulb, died in Kansas City, Kan.,
aged seventy-two years.
Moses Ilallott, for many years
United States district judge at Den
ver, is dead.
, Mr. Androw S. Draper, state com
missioner of education of New York,
died at Albany, aged sixty-four.
A New York dispatch says: It
was announced at the apartments of
Dr. Friedrlch Franz Friedmanu that
ho had signed a contract for the dis
position of his tuberculosis vaccine
by a company through institutes, to
bo established in every state. The
contract, it is said, provides for the
free treatment of the poor in all
localities.
William LaFollette, only brother
of Senator La Follotte, died at Madi
son, Wis.
A Junea, Alaska, dispatch savs:
Governor Waltor E. Clark vetoed the
anti-alien fishing bill aimed at
Japanese flshormon, just before tho
Alaska legislature adjourned sine
die. The bill passed tho house un
animously, but whon tho governor's
message was received there was no
attempt to pass it over his veto.
A Sioux City press cablegram says:
Tho Austrian minister at Cottinjo
visited King Nicholas and demanded
tho immediate and unconditional
oyacuatlon of Scutari. Tho king re
plied that he would never surrender
the town. Tho Austrian government
is now engaged in drafting a mani
festo to the powers, explaining its
policy and alms with regard to Bal
kan affairs. Telegrams passed
throughout the day between tho ad
ministrations at Vionna and Rome,
as under the existing treaty neither
Austria nor Italy may undertake any
measures regarding Albania without
an agreement beforehand.
The American poaco congress held
at St. Louis, was well attended.
The Florida legislature defeated
,tho woman suffrago amendment.
Eloctions for a president will be
.held by tho Huerta government in
October.
Major It. W. Mc Claughrey for 14
years warden of tho federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan., has" resigned.
Ho is seventy-four years of ago.
Popo Pius has entirely recovered
.from his recent illness.
A cablegram carried by the As-
Bciated pr0BS says: KinS Nicholas
or Montenegro, having placed tho fu
ture of Scutari in the hands of the
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Washington News
A senate committee vote4 to re
port favorably on the nomination of
Charles P. Neill as commissioner of
labor statistics.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, tho new
British ambassador, arrived in Washington.
The supreme court of tho United
States held that reorganized corpora
tions are responsible for the debts
of tho original company in the case
against the Northern Pacific Rail
road company.
Representative Kelly of Pennsyl
vania, has introduced in the house, a
progressive old age pension bill to
provide $1 to $4 a week for all those
more than G5 years, whose incomes
are less than $10 a week. His plan
would pension those with incomes of
less than $6 a week at $4 a week,
incomes of from $6 to $7, at $3,
between $7 and $8, $2 a week, and
from $8 to $9, $1 a week.
Representative Sisson of Missis
sippi, in a speech delivered in the
house, defended California's right to
pass an alien land bill and said he
was for it even if it meant war.
The lower house of the' Pennsyl
vania legislature adopted a resolu
tion to submit the initiative and
referendum constitutional amend
ment to a vote of the people.
wfwSPatrh t0 the Philadelphia
North American says: Letters from
iLSiank pJi:esidents and cashiers
throughout the country protesting
fn faSt.Jf8hod m?ney and Proclaim
ing It tho counterfeiters' delieht"
were offered for printing as a public
document by Senator Martine. Objec-
thonprinSngSen:-t0r Sm0t P
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yer of Birmingham, Ala., was nomi
nated today by President Wilson to
be chief justice of the United States
court of claims, to succeed the late
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bell, who is a native of WashinK?on
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