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brought under control and the great trees were saved. The special grand jury at Springfield, III., returned 117 indictments in connection with the race riots, and made a final report in which it commended certain officials and severely condemned some of the police for their cowardice. Late returns from the Michigan primaries put Gov. Fred Warner in the lead for renomination. Orville Wright made a fairly successful test of his aeroplane built for the army at Fort Myer. Near Ithaca, N. Y., two Cornell students made a good flight of several miles in an aeroplane of their own construction. Spanish war veterans voted to hold next encampment at Tacoma, Wash. The territorial supreme court at Manila decided that the sultan of Dunaharra must hang for the part he took as a leader of the raid on Parang, island of Mindanao, in January, 1906, wherein J. W. McDonald of that place was killed by the raiders. Judge Vandeventer in the United States circuit court at St. Paul enjoined the Arkansas railway commission from enforcing the two-cent-fare law. Chief of Detectives Gill of East St. Louis and Patrolman Ransome Paine were shot while trying to trap burglars in the home of Philip Wolff, treasurer of St. Clair county. The condition of the natives of the Aleutian Indian village in Akutan harbor, Bering sea is most deplorable, according to the report of Dr. Robert Olsen, assistant surgeon on the revenue cutter McCulloch. The First National bank of Niles, O., failed and a receiver was ap pointed. The United Spanish war veterans drew the color line by declaring the Charles M. Thomas camp of Washington "unattached." William H. Taft and Senator Foraker met in Toledo and entire harmony between them was assured, the senator promising to take the stump for the Republican ticket. Charles O. Jones, a noted aeronaut, fell 500 feet with his blazing dirigible balloon at the Central Maine fair at Waterville, and was killed. The accident was witnessed by 25,000 persons. The parade of the Grand Army of the Republic at the encampment in Toledo was reviewed by Mr. Taft, Senator Foraker and others. About 12,000 veterans were in line. James S. Stackpole, a member of the firm of Stackpole Brothers, publishers of the Lewistown (Pa.) Gazette, while mentally unbalanced committed suicide near Mifflintown by shooting. Fifteen thousand Americans and Australians took part in a grand review and parade at Flemington, a suburb of Melbourne. The Victorian journalists gave a reception in honor of Rear Admiral Sperry. It was his birthday and the city of Melbourne commemorated the occasion by presenting him with a silver bowl bearing a suitable inscription. A Paris newspaper prints an interview with Sidi el Mokhri, Moroccan minister of foreign affairs, in which he declares that Abd-el-Aziz has deflnitely resolved to give up the struggle. Unknown persons dynamited the bank of the Illinois and Michigan canal at Channahon, 12 miles southwest of Joliet, and the entire district was flooded. Foreclosure proceedings against the Pittsburg-Wabash Terminal Railway company were begun in Pittsburg by the Mercantile Trust company of New York. Wisconsin primaries resulted in the nomination for United States senator of Isaac Stephenson, Republican, and Neal Brown, Democrat; for governor, James O. Davidson, Republican, and J. A. Aylward, Democrat. Republicans carried the Vermont election by a plurality of about 28,000, a decrease of eight per cent. from the vote of 1904. The Democratic vote also showed a decrease. The crew on board the racing balloon Ville de Dieppe tried to descend at Niagara Falls. The rip cord failed to work properly, resulting in a poor landing. The three men in the basket got a bad shaking up and narrowly escaped death in the whirlpool rapids. Secretary George McLaughlin of the state commission of prisons in a report on a recent inspection protested strongly against the keeping of Harry K. Thaw in the Dutchess county jail at Poughkeepsie. Judge A. H. Huston declared unconstitutional the Oklahoma school law providing separate school boards and separate schools for negroes in the new state. Fire in Atlanta, Ga., destroyed the plants of the Atlanta Trunk factory and the Empire Printing & Box company. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Standing at the stern of a motor boat which he had stolen and with bullets whizzing over his head, Edward Burnett, a full-blooded Pottawattomie Indian, led two detectives an exciting chase through the down- town
