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They declared that the suggestions made from several western sources that they were not meeting legitimate demands for currency from the west were entirely unfounded and that they were, on the contrary, taking every practicable measure to aid the west and south. The first direct reports from the scene of the great earthquake at Karatagh, Russian Turkestan,say the victims number about 14,000; the city and many villages were destroyed. The Peoples bank of Portsmouth, Va., went into the hands of a receiver on petition of the directors, who gave out a statement that the bank has been made insolvent through defalcations of the cashier. Photographs and official data Γepresenting a summer's work of the international boundary commission in Alaska were lost when a canoe capsized in the Bradfield river. It was proposed in the Michigan state constitutional convention to insert an article making voting obligatory, with a fine and prison sentence as penalties. State Senator Haines' bank of Forest Grove, Ore., did not open its doors for business because it could not obtain its balances from the Merchants National Bank of Portland, which suspended payment. The total equalized assessment of personal property, lands, and lots in Illinois for the year 1907 aggregates $1,138,622,398, according to reports by committees of the state board of equalization. Checks and currency to the amount of $22,000, intended to pay the wages of the Carbon Coal & Coke company's miners at Cokedale, Col., were lost or stolen while in transit in a stage. Former Gov. James E. Campbell, of Ohio, said that he is a receptive candidate for United States senator to succeed Senator J. B. Foraker. At Kansas City, Mo., the grand jury returned 149 additional indictments against persons charged with violating the state law which forbids labor Supury. uo A boiler at the ginhouse on the Trulock plantation, near Pine Bluff, Ark., exploded killing the owner, J. B. Trulock, and five negroes. The confession of Steve Adams, made in the office of the warden of the Idaho state penitentiary February 27, 1906, was introduced in evidence at the trial of Adams for the murder of Fred Tyler. It told of the murder of Tyler and Boule and involved Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone. The engine and tender of a Baltimore & Ohio train to which was attached a private car bearing Vice President Fairbanks and a party returning from the funeral of Judge McComas was derailed at Weverton Junction, Md. Immediately following the closing of the Peoples bank of California, Pa., by State Examiner Bynns, Oliver P. Piper, the cashier, and William L. Lenhart, a business man who lives in Brownsville, Pa., were arrested, charged with conspiracy to defraud the bank. A report reached Durango, Col., that a battle occurred at McElmo canyon, between Ute Indians and United States troops, in which six Indians were killed. No soldiers were killed "pepunom JO A boiler in the basement of the new Eastman dormitory at East Greenwich (R. I.) academy exploded and partly wrecked the structure. Three young women students were severely but not seriously injured. In the historic hall of St. George at Windsor Castle, King Edward and Queen Alexandra gave a state banquet in honor of the emperor and empress of Germany and their suite. A state convention of Democrats at Nashville, Tenn., started a movement for the nomination of a southern man as Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1908. Ray Bricker fell 115 feet down a mine near Boone, Ia., landed on his feet and was unhurt. Asserting that the cold weather has caused untold suffering on account of the scarcity of coal, the residents of Somerset, Neb., appealed to the state railway commission for relief. Charles Howard, 60 years old, a convict in the Joliet penitentiary, made his escape while working in the stone quarry. Six persons were injured when the 18-hour train from Chicago to New York on the Pennsylvania railroad ran into a stationary freight train in the yards at Larimer, near Greensburg, Pa. All work of all kinds on the Burlington railroad was stopped for five minutes while the body of its former president, C. E. Perkins, was being lowered into the grave. The peace proposition of General Manager Orr for the settlement of the railway strike in Havana, Cuba, was rejected at a meeting of the strikers. A terrific earthquake occurred at Unalaska and McCullough peak, which was created by an earthquake nearly a year ago, and extended over 3,400 feet above the sea, has dwindled to almost nothing as a result of submarine disturbances. As the result of a quarrel over an election bet, William Hopkins and
