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# NEWS SUMMARY
Senator Gore of Oklahoma has introduced a bill providing for the election of United States senators by popular vote.
The Filipinos are to have their representatives in Washington within a month, just as the Porto Ricans are represented by Delegate Larrinaga.
The Bank of Mendenhall, at Mendenhall, Miss., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. It is a small state bank, with a capital stock of $18,500 and deposits of $10,000.
Van Leer Polk, one of the editors of the News-Scimitar, ex-consul general at Calcutta, and grand nephew of President Polk, died suddenly at Memphis, Tenn., last week.
By an almost unanimous vote the Republican committee of New York county refused to adopt a resolution endorsing Governor Hughes for the Republican presidential nomination.
At a meeting of the nut and bolt manufactures of the United States, held in Pittsburg last week, it was decided to reaffirm the prices which have ruled for 1907 for the next year.
Thinking it unloaded, John Meyer, a farmer boy living near Holy Cross, Iowa, pointed a shotgun at his sixteen-year-old sister and pulled the trigger. Her head was blown from her shoulders.
Senator Scott has introduced a joint resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of three senators and three representatives to investigate the recent explosions in coal mines.
A. A. Wilson, a prominent merchant, shot and killed Bud Doughty, a wealthy planter, in the former's store at Shaws, Miss. It is claimed that Doughty was using improper language before women.
Joseph H. Choate, in an address at the annual meeting of the State Charities Aid association in New York City, advocated adherence to the old Mosaic law that one-tenth of all property be given to charity.
Judge Ball has adjourned the annual meeting of the Illinois Central Railroad company to some day in February next, the day to be determined later by the attorneys representing Mr. Harriman and Mr. Fish.
Edward Clifford, aged 25, was hanged at Peoria, Ill., on Friday for murdering his father, November 25, 1906. Clifford walked to the scaffold with a firm step and repeated a prayer, led by Father Samon.
Professor Anichkoff, who holds the chair of literature in the University of St. Petersburg, has been sentenced to confinement in a fortress for eighteen months for being a member of the peasant league of Novgord.
The annual report of Commissioner Capers of the internal revenue bureau shows that for the fiscal year ended June 20, 1907, the receipts of this bureau were $269,664,022.85, an excess of $20,561,284 over the preceding year.
Eminent men in New York and other cities have begun a movement for the release of Nicholas Tschaikovsky and Catherine Breshkovsky, the Russian revolutionists now imprisoned at St. Petersburg for political reasons.
Horribly mutilated and her body riddled with shot, Mrs. Mary Nelson, a most respected woman, was found dead in Happy Woods roads, near Hammond, La. Suspicion has fallen upon a negro with whom Mrs. Nelson had a quarrel.
It has been announced authoritatively that Governor Dawson will, within the next few days, call an extra session of the West Virginia legislature to convene January 28, for the consideration of more stringent mining laws.
The wife of Henry Clay Ward, a well-known millionaire of Pontiac, Mich., and son of the late David Ward, has petitioned the court to declare her husband insane. Mr. Ward is well known in California, where he has spent considerable time.
Mrs. Nellie G. Cochran, who was found with a bullet wound in her head at the home of her sister in Chicago, died at the hospital. It is believed by the police that she was murdered by M. L. Dillon, a salesman, whose dead body was found in the woman's room.
Indictments charging J. Dalzell Brown, general manager of the insolvent California Safe Deposit and Trust company, and Walter J. Barnett, a director in the institution, with two counts of embezzlement, were returned by the grand jury last week.
The woman who, on December 4, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill Lieutenant Juerschelmann, governor general of Moscow, by means of a bomb, was executed at Moscow on the 20th. On the scaffold she said to the executioners: "We will soon stop your hangings."
Advices from Tutuila, Samoa, say that the volcano in the island Savali, in German Somoa, is working with greater activity than it has done since the first outbreak, and the eruptions are submarine and terrestrial. Lava is flowing into the sea at the rate of 7,000 tons a minute.
A passenger train on the Soo line from St. Paul was derailed at Kensington, Minn. O. L. Anderson, bag-
