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Bankers and merchants in session of Sloux City, Ia., adopted a system agreed at checks which it was The should grain be accepted as currency. Portland, Merchants National bank of the California bank of Oakland, Ore.; the Farmers and Merchants RavensCal.; bank of Sapulpa, I. T., and the Chicago wood Exchange bank in a Motor suburb suspended. The Royal and the Car company of Cleveland, O., house of wholesale grocery hands of Gary Selma, Ala., went into the receivers. leading New York banks were meet exerting The themselves actively to corredemands of their country currency. the spondents and depositors for suggestions They declared that the sources from several western legitimate made they were not meeting west demands that for currency from the that entirely unfounded and taking were were, on the contrary, aid the every they practicable measure to west and south. first direct reports from Kara- the The of the great earthquake at the vicscene Russian Turkestan, say the city tagh, number about 14,000; and tims many villages were destroyed. The Peoples bank of Portsmouth, receiver went into the hands of a gave Va., petition of the directors, bank who has on statement that the defalcaout been a made insolvent through tions of the cashier. Photographs and official data the repa summer's work of in- in resenting ternational boundary commission capAlaska were lost when a canoe sized in the Bradfield river. was proposed in the Michigan to inIt constitutional convention obligastate an article making voting sentence sert tory, with a fine and prison as penalties. Senator Haines' bank of doors ForState Grove, Ore., did not open its obest business because it could not for its balances from the Merchants susNational tain Bank of Portland, which pended payment. total equalized assessment of in The property, lands, and lots personal Illinois for the year 1907 aggregates by $1,138,622,398, according to reports of committees of the state board equalization. Checks and currency to the amount $22,000, intended to pay the wages of of the Carbon Coal & Coke company's lost miners at Cokedale, Col., were stage. or stolen while in transit in a Former Gov. James E. Campbell, of said that he is a receptive can- to didate Ohio, for United States senator succeed Senator J. B. Foraker. Kansas City, Mo., the grand jury returned At 149 additional indictments violatagainst persons charged with labor ing the state law which forbids Sunday. on boiler at the ginhouse on the Trulock .A plantation, near Pine Bluff, J. B. Ark., exploded killing the owner, Trulock, and five negroes. The confession of Steve Adams, of in the office of the warden made the Idaho state penitentiary February 1906, was introduced in evidence murder 27, the trial of Adams for the murder It told of and Boule and of at of Fred Tyler Tyler. Pettibone. the involved Moyer, Haywood and The engine and tender of a Balti- at& Ohio train to which was Vice more tached a private car bearing President Fairbanks and a party returning from the funeral of Judge McComas was derailed at Weverton Junction, Md. Immediately following the closing Pa., bank of Examiner Bynns, L. P. of by the State Peoples California, Oliver Piper, the cashier, and William Lenhart, a business man who lives in Brownsville, Pa., were arrested, charged with conspiracy to defraud the bank. A report reached Durango, Col., that occurred at McElmo canyon, a Ute Indians and between battle Indians United States troops, in which six killed were killed. No soldiers were or wounded. in the basement of the new dormitory at East wich I.) academy Eastman A boiler (R. exploded Green- Three and partly wrecked the structure. young women students were severely but not seriously injured. hall of St. at King Windsor In the historic Castle, Edward George 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 of the scarcity of coal, the residents Somerset, Neb., appealed to the state railway commission for relief. Charles Howard, 60 years old, a convict in the Jollet penitentiary, made his escape while working in the stone quarry. Six nersons were injured when
