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News of A Week Paragraphic Photographs of the World's Doings. Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson, leader of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, the mother Boston and on cated of New charges by York, of who teaching church was excommuni- heresy in animal her in the ism," church practicing resigned "malicious membership magnetand gave UY her $5,000 a year a letter in which she exhortto remain to salary ed her in followers loyal their "beloved leader, Mary Baker Eddy." Following a threat by Governor Stubbs of Kansas to institute receiverhip proceedings against the Central March railroad, a subsidiary road of the the J. of the Paline Gould. Missouri be president improved Pacific speedily system, Missouri George unless citic company, assured the governor that the road was to be improved immediately. For the purpose of controlling absolutely in this country and Canada all means air the backed by of aviation machines financiers by Wright controlling of company, heavier hundreds than was at trust New millions August York. of Among Behmont, dollars, those Cornelius in formed the are Vanderbilt. Howard Gould and Theodore P. Shonts. Suit for an absolute divorce and the two inMary Sherman custedy stituted at of McCallum, Washington her children by Mrs. was the adopted daughter and heiress of the late John Sherman of Ohio. secretary of state, secretary of the treasury and senator. She charged her husband with infidelity. The annual report of the isthmian canal commission estimated the cost of the Panama canal at $375,201,000. The first estimate, under the act of June, 1902, provided for the expenditure of $144,233,359. A modification adopted in 1906 fixed the cost, exclusive of the purchase price, at $139,703, 200. Dr. Louise G. Rabinovitch, the young Russian woman who recently announced that she could restore to life those who had been apparently put to death by electricity, gave a remarkable demonstration before the officers of the New York Edison company, New York, by reviving an apparently dead rabbit. The new Pennsylvania railread tunnels connecting New Jersey and Long Island and extending under the island of Manhattan were formally opened. President McCrea of the Pennsylvania system and a party of friends and officials made the trip in the first car to pass through th big tubes. Mrs. William Hayes Chapman of New York, who recently inherited $10,000,000 upon her aged husband's death and who was reported to be engaged to General Count Spiridovitch of Russia, was secretly married to Philip von Volkenburgh in a country town in Connecticut. Lucius Tuttle was re-elected president of the Boston and Maine railroad by the directors at Boston. Charles S. Mellen, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; J. P. Morgan of New York and William Skinner of Holyoke, Mass., were elected directors. A general strike of 40,000 women shirt waist makers voted by the Women's Waist Makers' union began in all women wages 30 from the demand 25 shops to in an per New increase cent York. and of The fifty-two hours to be a full week's work. Because the American Trust company of Philadelphia accepted as collateral security for a loan bonds of a coal company the value of which was uncertain the bank was closed by or der of State Commissioner of Banking William H. Smith. Governor Deneen of Illinois removed Sheriff Frank E. Davis of Alexander county because Davis allowed William James, a negro murde er, and Henry Salzner, white uxoricide, to be taken from the jail at Cairo and lynched. To the surprise of the faculty and students, Professor Harry Alonzo Cushing, dean of Columbia university Law school at New York, suddenly resigned and left the city. Christie MacDenalde the comic opera a singer, began suit at Buffalo for divorce from William Winter Jefferson, son of the late Joe Jefferson, the famous comedian. The Standard Steel Car company gave the 3.000 workmen employed in its plant at Butler, Pa., a 10 per cent increase in wages. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who recently 2 obtained a divorce, sailed from New York on the Lusitania to pass the winter in Europe . $ While acting as right CRIMES halfback in a football 4 AND game at Orange. N.J.
