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NEWS OF A WEEK TOLD IN BRIEF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS GATHERED FROM ALL POINTS OF THE GLOBE. GIVEN IN ITEMIZED FORM Notable Happenings Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man-Summary of the Latest Home and For eign Notes. Financial conditions in New York and the east generally nearly normal again. The need of currency to move the cotton crop developed in the south and a committee from New Orleans conferred with Secretary Cortelyou. The California Safe Deposit & Trust company's bank in San Francisco closed but was believed to be solvent. Bankers in the state of Washington the ignored the holiday proclaimed by governor. Indications that the available sup- inply of cash would be materially within a short time, both by of gold and the of note circulation, creased the imports bank increase and and grain that movement of cotton would be every with the result crops the way possible facilitated in were of the increasing our credits abroad. salient features of the financial situation. City Councilman G. C. Linde, of St. Louis, was indicted for malfeas ance in office and confessed, implicating other members of the city's legislative bodies. Capt. Granville Fortescue, U. S. A., retired, accepted from Gov. Magoon of Cuba a commission that carries with it the duties of special instructor to the Cuban forces. Crocker, cashier of bank, of National Frank Savings Chariton, the notifying First Ia., committed suicide after the bank examiner that the bank was overloaned. The yacht Kingdon, with about 60 members of the Holy Ghost and Us colony at Shiloh, Me., on board and a crew of 20, sailed for the Holy Land. Notices posted about the Calumet & Hecla works at Houghton, Mich., announced a reduction of wages on December 1 of 12 1/2 per cent., approximately equal to the increase granted early in the year. Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian who disappeared after being indicted for mistreating girls, was believed by some of his friends to have been kidnaped or murdered by a gang of blackmailers. Dr. Richard Mohr, general director of the Hahnemann hospital in Philadelphia and professor of materia medica and therapeutics, dropped dead on the street. E. G. McNair, convicted of wife at Tex., himself murder suicide by Beaumont, hanging committed to the bars of his cell in the county jail at Houston. As a result of the application of the law by which reincorporate nessee Pendleton can cities without of Ten- the saloon, over 100 saloons closed their doors in Knoxville. court of the use of setts The declared supreme voting Massachu- machines unconstitutional. a office of United in Etta the L. McLean, States stenographer District ar Attorney Sims at Chicago, was rested on a charge of stealing papers and records in the John R. Walsh case. The business part of Rockton. Ill., was destroyed by fire with a loss ex ceeding $50,000. Tobacco company purfor $1,500,000 the chased The Imperial entire American 1907 pledged to the of Equity in Hopkins and Society tobacco Union, Webster, crop Henderson, Critten den counties in Kentucky Texas Bank of San company The West Antonio closed & Trust its doors under a temporary suspension of business. Royal Fowler, of Dayton, who killed his sweetheart, Mary Hagerty, more than a year ago, was electrocuted in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. Fire on State street, Chicago, did $500,000 damage to the N. B. Holden Shoe company In a battle between United States troops and Indians in southern Utah three persons were killed and another wounded, all believed to have been Indians Miss Josephine Hill, 30 years old, a teacher in the House of Mercy, a charitable institution conducted by the Sisters of St. Mary of the Protestant Episcopal church in New York, committed suicide by shooting A committee was organized in Madison, Wis., to promote the candidacy of Senator Robert M. La Follette for the Republican nomination for president. John Barrett, news editor of the San Francisco Examiner, died of apoplexy on the street. w City Marshal George Adams, of Bent Iil. shot and killed John Malone, marshal and b former ton, city Malone well known had as aggan fighter, after the marshal's g se the was a threatened Raymond in $3,000 Hitchcock, life. York actor, held bail in New on U charge of attacking young girls.
