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Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered From all Parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Miscellaneous. France and Holland are discussing a proposition to co-operate in the present difficulty with Venezuela. Fred Proctor, a life convict in the Kansas penitentiary from Oklahoma, dressed in a suit of clothes belonging to Frank Haskell, son of the warden, succeeded in making his escape the other day. The returning athletes from the London Olympian games were given a warm welcome in New York. One of the greatest parades ever seen in that city was a feature. Each athlete was presented with a gold medal. Henry Weber, a farm hand. has been arrested at Lakin, Kan., charged with attempting to wreck a train on the Santa Fe. The Kansas Red Cross society has issued an appeal to the people of the state for money contributions for the relief of the flood sufferers in South Carolina and Georgia. All but two of the bodies of the 19 persons drowned in the flood at Folsom, N. M., have been recovered. The property loss is estimated at $1,000,000. But four of the 20 odd store buildings in the town are left. Dispatches from Teheran state that all the Persian provinces are in a state of anarchy and that the country is on the eve of a civic war. George G. Perry, United States marshal of Alaska, has been summarily removed for disobedience of orders. Robbers dynamited the vault of the Bank of Easton, Mo., the other night, but succeeded in getting only $150 of the postoffice funds for their trouble. The president has denied a published statement that he was to attend the trans-Mississippi congress at San Francisco on October 6. Bank Commissioner Royce of Kansas has reinstated the Central National bank of Kansas City, Mo., as a reserve institution for Kansas banks. The crop report just issued by Secretary Coburn of the Kansas state board of agriculture places the wheat yield for 1908 at 73,500,000 bushels, just 500,000 more than that of 1907. The corn crop he estimates will be about the same as last year. Several buildings in Augusta, Ga., have collapsed since the flood there, owing to undermining of the foundations. The British steamer Duncairn was recently lost off the coast of Japan during a typhoon with all but two of the 53 members of the crew. A shooting affray in which one man was almost instantly killed took place in the midst of a carnival crowd at Macon, Mo. The wounded man fell across a baby carriage and a girl's eyelashes were singed by the ball. The last appraised valuation of the estate left by Russell Sage, just made public, amounts to $64,155,800.91. 1 A fire in the commercial district of New Orleans burned three blocks of e business buildings, causing a loss of more than $1,000,000. h A flood in the Cimmaron river o washed away a number of houses at d Folsom, N. M. Fifteen persons were drowned. Considerable damage was also done at Raton. r Twenty-nine funerals of victims of the Haileyville, Ok., mine disaster OCcurred in one day recently. The town was draped in mourning and all business was suspended. t