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NEWS OF THE WORLD SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings In Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week-National, Historical, Political and Personal Events. The Woods National bank has suspended at San Antonio, Texas. Silas Reid has been appointed judge of the district court of Alaska. Engineer Thomas Hancock and Fireman Claude R. McDonald were asphyxiated by gas from their engine in the Busk tunnel, nine miles west of Leadville, Col. The directors of the Bank of England have put up the minimum discount rate from 6 to 7 per cent. At Los Angeles, Cal., Judge Olin Wellborn, in the United States court, recently fined the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company $33,000 for rebating Amsterdam-Minister of State Jonkheer Van Panhuys, his son, mayor of De Leek, and wives, were drowned recently while out driving, their carriage falling into the canal Hoogvhork dur ing a dense fog. Four persons are said to have been burned to death and six others are missing and may have lost their lives it a fire in Chicago Saturday. A seat on the New York stock exchange was sold Monday for $60,000, the lowest price recorded since 1904. when a seat was disposed of for $57, 000. Rear Admiral Henry W. Lyon wa retired from the navy Monday on a( count of reaching the age limit. In a pistol duel at Reno, Nev., Police man Charles Brown was shot and pro ably fatally wounded by a trio of thugs. Before he was shot Brown killed one of his assailants, and Archie Burrie, an employe of the Southern Pacific, was shot in the side. Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr., have an heir. The baby is a boy. He will inherit fully $20,000,000 from his father's side of the house, and perhaps twice as much from his mother, who was Miss Virginia Fair. More than 800 men are now engaged in construction work on the Rexfor branch, between Fernie and Michel, B. C. Emperor William will see Secretary Taft at Osborne house, Isle of Wight, during the former's visit to England. At Baltimore, Md., recently Mrs. Cornelia McKelvie twisted a United States flag into a rope and with it committed suicide by hanging hersel to a door. At Muncie, Ind., the four-story building occupied by the Joseph Goddard wholesale grocery store and covering a quarter of a block, burned recently. Loss $200,000. The Roman Catholic church at Longue Point, probably the oldest church in the province of Quebec, was destroyed by fire recently. The loss was $75,000, with $16,000 insurance. Lumber is the only industry of eastern British Columbia whose condition is not satisfactory. The mines are working a greater number of men and, with the rise in the price of copper and the expected rise in the price of lead and silver, more properties are yet opening. Advices from Rome say that Pope Pius is suffering from an attack of heart trouble. A hurricane swept over Marseilles recently, causing immense damage to docks and waterfront property. A self-propelling steam passenger coach, the first to be operated in the United States, is to be put in service this week on a branch of the Rock Island railroad. The car has made a trial trip from Chicago to Joliet and return. A speed of from 40 to 50 miles an hour was maintained over a greater part of the route. Professor Joseph H. Drake of the law department of the University of Michigan startled his class recently by declaring that he would favor electing Roosevelt king of his country. The students at first took the statement as a joke, but it was reiterated. and Professor Drake asserted that it was given with all seriousness and sincerity. At a monster open air demonstration in New York General Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, who has since sailed for Europe, bade his soldiers in this country and the American people generally farewell Saturday. By the arrest of Haynes Wimberly and Otis Mayes detectives have frustrated a plan to flood El Paso, Texas, with forged clearing house certificates.
