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mittee, demanded of the house a con tinuation of the money trust investi gation. Eighty girls deliberately were burned to death when villagers in the Piriatin sugar beet district set fire to the building where the girls were asleep, according to a special dispatch from Kiel. Russia. Harvard's oldest graduate, Rev. J I. T. Coolidge, who was 95. died in the midst of commencement festivities at Cambridge, Mass., after two weeks' illness of pneumonia. He was graduated from Harvard in 1838. The biggest gathering of women vote seekers will be seen in Washing ton July 30, when the affirmative report of the senate committee on women's suffrage will come up in the up per branch of congress for action. Chicago workmen numbering 27,700 were locked out on incompleted build ings in Chicago in the boycott against the Building Trades council instituted by the Building Construction Employ. ers' association. At Montreal. Canada, four firemen are dead and three others are in the hospital seriously injured as the result of a disastrous fire there. S. G. Hull. a farmer of Dover Cen ter, O., was killed and his wife was wounded at their home when a box of fifty rifle cartridges placed on the kitchen stove exploded. Outclassing Yale in the varsity eight-oared four-mile race. Harvard won the annual event by more than a dozen lengths. The official time was: Harvard, 21:42: Yale. 22:20. Nine members of a United States surveying party were drowned in the Mississippi river near New Madrid, Mo., when a squall overtook them and capsized their boat. Five other members of the party were rescued from death. Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, the Episcopal missionary who set out from Fairbanks, Alaska, several months ago to climb Mount McKinley, I reached the summit of the highest o peak of the great mountain June 7. S I In a presentment handed down by f the West Chester county (N. Y.) grand o jury a recommendation is made that Sing Sing prison at Ossining be aban6 doned and a new state institution be I built. a W A general strike of miners in the S New River coal field, district No 29, 0 United Mine Workers of America, will be called next week, according to 6 an announcement of Thomas Hagp gerty, member of the international miners' board. 1 d One hundred bodies were taken 11 from the ruins of the houses demolA ished in the earthquake at Tirnovo It I is known that many more bodies are J in the ruins, but the exact number of N those who perished cannot yet be learned. " N The board of trustees of Vanderbilt university of Tennessee unreservedly a accepted the recent gift of Andrew W Carnegie of $1,000,000 to the medical department. in c Maximum rate laws of four states, V Missouri, West Virginia, Oregon and M Arkansas were sustained by the su tl preme court in a series of unanimous decisions, read by Justice Hughes V Except as to a few railroads with small mileage in Missouri alone, the the court declared the laws are not con a fiscatory. The court did not decide th in the Kentucky rate case. or in Secretary of Agriculture Houston le suspended Victor Olmsted, statistician or of the department, pending an inves pr tigation of his office. "A matter of office discipline," was the explanation given at the department. G The People's Bank and Trust comPi pany of Muskogee, Ok., capitalized at TI $25,000, a strictly negro institution. te has been closed and is in the hands of ch a state bank examiner. It has been doing business six years. The expulsion of Jews from the tio government of Kherson, which was Se suspended during the winter, but only ou after vigorous protests had been made on in the duma. was begun again. The tu government had agreed to stop the expulsion of Jews until June 17. Capt. John Andrew Doggett of Port. gu land, Me., and five members of the we crew of the Gloucester fishing schoon
