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HEWS OFJHE WORLD
Important Events of the Week
in Condensed Form.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
William H. Taft of Ohio was nom
inated for president on the first ballot,
receiving 702 votes. Roosevelt re
ceived .1 votes, Foraker 16, Fairbanks
40, Cannon 6.1, La Follette 25, Hughes
63 and Knox 68. The nomination oc
curred at the end of an eight-hour ses
sion devoted to the adoption of the
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
platform anil the nominating and sec
onding speeches. Following the
speech of Congressman Burlon nam
ing Taft the convention broke into a
wild demonstration lasting twenty
five minutes.
The platform adopted by the Repub
lican national convention provides for:
Strengthening of country's monetary
system tariff revision along protec
tive lines and establishment of max
imum and minimum rates establish
ment of postal savings banks to in
crease stability of banking and cur
rency system free interchange of
products with the Philippines, with
protection for domestic industries
amendment of Sherman anti-trust law:
provision to allow railroads to form in
offensive traffic agreements federal
supervision of railroad stock and bond
issues lightening of the burdens of
those who toil rural mail, good roads
and attractive homes for the farm
ers limitation of the use of the in
junction in labor disputes square deal
for the negro conservation of natural
resources effective army and navy
continued peace with the world re
vival of the merchant marine preser
vation of people's health liberal pen
sions for the old soldiers continua
tion of all good Republican policies
that aim to build up a "greater Amer
ica."
The greatest tribute ever accorded
an American citizen in a political
gathering was given Theodore Roose
velt on the second day of the conven
tion. For forty-seven minutes the del
egates and spectators cheered the
name and achievements of the presi
dent in the face of the most positive
and authoritative assurances that he
would not accept denomination at the
hands of the convention.
The following are the Northwestern
members of the new national Repub
lican committee Iowa, Ernest E.
Hart Michigan, John W. Blodgelt
Minnesota, Frank B. Kellogg Mon
tana, Thomas C. Marshall North Da
kota, James Kennedy South Dakota,
Thomas Thorson Wisconsin, Alfred
G. Rogers.
James S. Sherman of New York,
tor many years a Republican leader in
the lower house of congress, was nom
inated for vice president by the Re
publican national convention on the
first ballot. He received 816 votes, to
75 for Guild of Massachusetts and 77
for Murphy of New Jersey.
The proposition to reduce the rep
resentation of states to a basis of Re
publican votes cast by those states
was defeated in the convention by a
vote of f06 to 471. The debate on the
matter brought before the convention
some of the best known orators in the
party.
The report of the committee on cre
dentials seating Taft delegates in all
contests was adopted by the conven
tion without debate. The committee
devoted fourteen hours to hearing the
contests.
Elmer Dover of Ohio has been re
elected secretary of the Republican
national committee.
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS
Associate Justice David J. Brewer
of the United States supreme court,
in an address at Clark college com
mencement at Worcester, Mass., de
clared that the restraining power of
the court of equity "should be en
larged and not diminished" and that
to restrict this power of the court is
a "step backwards towards barbar
ism."
Secretary Tatt had a narrow escape
from being involved in a serious
wreck on the Pennsylvania flyer,
which was carrying him East/ Prompt
action of the tower man in a signal
station near Coshocton, O., and of the
engineer of the flyer alone averted
what might have been a dreadful
wreck.
President Roosevelt and family
have arrived at Oyster Bay (or the
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Special dispatches received at St.
Petersburg from Teheran say that Per
ian patriotic societies at Teheran,
Tabriz, Kasvin and Ispahan have unit
ed in a demand for German protection
against Turkey. They ask that Ger
Matiy send officers and officials to re
organize the Persian army and gov
ernment.
Ah attempt was made in Baku, Rus
sia, to kill the chief of police, M. Ney,
by the explosion of two powerful in
fernal machines. The chief and two
policemen were wounded and a ser
geant of police was killed.
The Philippine assembly, on the eve
of adjournment, declared by a vote of
57 to 15, that independence was the
aspiration of the Filipino people and
that they were ready for immediate
independence.
The marriage banns of Madame
Anna Gould, formerly the Countess de
Castellane, and Prince Helie de Sagan,
a cousin of Madame Gould's first hus
band, have been posted at Paris.
Tommy Burns, the American pu
gilist, defeated Bill Squires, the Aus
tralian, in the eighth round of a hard
fought battle at Neuilly, France.
JJubonic plague conditions in Ven
ezuela are improving, according to a
report received from the American
charge at Caracas.
Fifty fishing boats have been
wrecked off the coast of Japan ami
350 of the crews have been drowr.e.l.
Five hundred thousand people at
tended a woman suffrage demonstra
tion at Hyde park, London.
THE DEATH RECORD.
J. D. C. Atkins, who was a member
of the Confederate congress and also
served several terms as a representa
tive of Tennessee in the United Slates
congress, is dead at Paris, Tenn., aged
eighty-four years. Under Grover
Cleveland's first administration he
was United States commissioner of
Indian affairs.
Representative A. A. Wiley of Ala
bama, who served in Cuba as General
Lawton's chief of staff and civil gov
ernor of the Eastern province and, a
member of the past four congresses,
is dead at Hot Springs, Va. He was
about fifty years old.
Donelson Caffery Jenkins, in the
fifties and sixties one of the best
known newspaper editors in the coun
try, being owner and chief editor of
the New Orleans Delta and later of
the Picayune, is d'ead at Sierra Madre,
Cal., aged eighty-three.
Eugene P. Murphy, who was the
representative sent to take possession
of Alaska in the name of the United
States at the time that country was
purchased from Russia, is dead at
San Francisco, aged sixty-three years.
Mrs. Mary Stuart Coffin, the only
practicing woman attorney in Detroit,
committed suicide, by taking lauda
num.
"Aunt Kitty" Heffron is dead at
Erie Prairie, Wis., aged 107 years.
CRIMINAL NEWS.
The first positive information on the
manner in which Mrs. Bella Gunness
disposed of the persons whose bodies
were found in her private cemetery,
near Laporte, Ind., was obtained when
Dr. Walter Haynes of Rush Medical
colleg, Chicago, reported informally
to Coroner Mack- that he- had found
traces of arsenic and strychnine in
the stomach of Andrew Helgelein of
Aberdeen, S. D., one of the victims.
Following a series of crimes at
tributed to so-called "Black Hand" so
cieties in the Italian quarter of New
Orleans one of the worst tragedies yet
connected with that section took place
when three Italians were shot to death.
According to the police these men
were killed as a result of an attempt
to extort money from Pietro Giacona,
a wealthy Italian wine merchant.
Mrs, Mary Farmer, charged with the
killing of Mrs. Sarah Brennan, was
found guilty at Watertown, N. Y., of
murder in the first degree. Justice
Rogers sentenced Mrs. Farmer to be
electrocuted at Auburn prison during
he week beginning Aug. 2.
D. H. Fawcett, president of the Ab
erdeen (O.) Banking company, which
failed several days ago, shot and
killed himself as officers were break
ing down the doors of his barricaded
home to arrest him on a charge of
misapplication of funds.
POLITICAL NEWS.
At the conference at Cincinnati
between Candidates Taft and Sherman
and the sub-committee from the Re
publican national committee Frank H.
Hitchcock declined to be considered
for the chairmanship on account of
his health. After full conference the
committee decided that the matter was
of such importance and required, such
consultation with various persons,
suggested as available for the place,
that an adjournment was taken until
July 1, when the committee will re
convene in Washington.
The Hull-Prouty contest in the Sev
enth Iowa district still hangs in the
balance, with the prospects that the
ultimate decision will have to be made
In the courts. As a result of the re
count by the board of county super
visors of the ballots cast in the recent
primary election the vote stands at a
lie for the two candidates.
Secretary Taft's resignation aB a
cabinet officer has been received by
President Roosevelt. It will, take ef
fect on July 1.
The Democratic state convention of
Colorado instructed its delegates to
the Denver gathering to vote for Bry
an for president.
The Iowa PopulistB in state conven
tion' endorsed the record of Governor
4. B. Cummins.
Illness of Vice Presidential Nom
inee Becomes Serious.
NOW IN CLEVELAND HOSPITAL
Physicians 8ay Their Patient Is Suf
fering From Gall Stones and an Op
eration May Be Necessary to Re
move the Obstructions.
Cleveland, June 24.—The illness of
Congressman James S. Sherman, Re
publican nominee for vice president,
who has been ill here at the residence
of ex-Governor Myron T. HerrJflfr since
Sunday, assumed a serious phase when
the patient suffered a severe chill.
Mr. Sherman's illness, which at first
was diagnosed as a bilious attack,
now turns out to have been caused by
gall stones. Upon the advice of doc
tors who were called to attend the
patient he was removed to Lakeside
hospital. An operation may later be
performed, but this step has not yet
been fully decided upon. It was stated
that Mr. Sherman suffered no ill ef
fects as a result of his journey from
Mr. Herrick's residence to the hos
pital, which was made in ah invalid
carriage.
Mr. Herrick communicated with
Mrs. Sherman over the long distance
telephone. She was greatly agitated
upon hearing the condition of her hus
band and declared, her intention of
coming at once to Cleveland. An ef
fort to persuade her not to come at
the present time failed and she and
her son, Richard U. Sherman, an in
structor in Hamilton college at Clin
ton, N. Y., started for this city.
Similar Attack Two Years Ago.
Congressman Sherman suffered a
similar attack in New York city two
years ago while serving as chairman
of the Republican congressional cam
paign committee. He was then seri
ously ill, but no operation was per
formed.
At Lakeside hospital it is said Mr.
Sherman is resting quite comfortably.
During the early hours of the morning
the temperature of the patient rose to
102. Subsequently, however, his phy
sicians announced that it. had again
become normal. Congressman Sher
man came here from Cincinnati last
Sunday and at once went to the home
of Mr. Herrick. There he was forced
to his bed.
The illness caused by gall stones is
enerally more painful than danger
ous. The stones form in the gall blad
der and if not dissolved by medica
tion increase in size until they are
too large to pass through the gall duct.
Then it is often necessary to perform
an operation and frequently the gall
bladder is removed entirely. The op
eration itself is not necessarily dan
gerous. There is a large percentage
of recovery,* thousrh according to phy
sicians there is always danger of com
plications.
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SHERMAN QUITE SICK NATIVES IN REBELLION
/IAN DIES.
Chairman New Sir dammittee Has
Power to Vacancy.
Chicago, Ji.-.Tie —When apprised
of the illr.o
or
Roy: tentative James
S. Sherman, the Republican vice presi
dential nominee, Harry S. New, chair
man of the r.atirnal committee, ex
pressed Krci'.t regret.
While the friends of Mr. Sherman
are taking a hopeful view of his case
the question naturally arises regard
ing the course of procedure in case of
his demise. Mr. New was clearly of
opinion that in such event the national
committee would have full power to
name a vice presidential candidate.
They are, he said, vested with similar
power with regard to the presidential
candidate, but said that where there
was sufficient time before election to.
do so- the committee would reassemble
the convention and have a nomination
made in the regular way. While there
Is no precedent to guide the national
committee in filling a vacancy there
leems to be no doubt that the commit
tee has authority to name a candidate
for vice president in the event of the
death of Mr. Sherman. This iB the
9pinion of a number of the members
of the national Republican committee,
It being stated that the representa
tive of the state on the national com
mittee stands in the place of the state
delegation to the national convention
and therefore has authority to act for
the delegation in the event of a va
cancy on the national ticket.
While every one hopes that there
will be no occasion to select another
candidate for vice president by 1Jie
Republicans there is no doubt that the
national committee has authority to
fill a vacancy in an emergency. ,w .„
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WIFE HURRIES TO BEDSIDE
Reports at Sherman's Home Town
... Very Disquieting.
Utica, N. Y., June 24.—Word was
tent to the family Of James S. Sher
man in this city that the vice presi
dential candidate had been compelled
to go to a hospital in Cleveland, O.,
and that Dr. Finney of Baltimore, who
attended Mr. Sherman during, an at*
tack of the same trouble in Washing
ton last year, had been summoned.
Mrs. Sherman and one of her sone
have gone to Cleveland.
The news received here is very dis
quieting and it is said that Mr. Sher
man is in a serious condition. Exten
sive arrangements had been made to*
give him a great reception on hla re
turn here.
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Population of Dutch Colony in
Sumatra on Warpath.
MANY EUROPEANS IN DANGER
Thirty Settlements, Spread Over a
Wide Area and Defended by Only
Two Thousand Soldiers, Threatened
With Attack by the Rebels.
The Hague, June 24.—A rebellion
has brokon out at Padang, on the west
coast of Sumatra, which has reached
alarming proportions. According' to
telegrams from Batavia, Java, almost
the whole native population is report
ed to have risen under the leadership
of fanatical priests. Thirty European
settlements, which are spread over a
wide area, are threatened, and there
•re only 2,400 Dutch soldiers available
to defend them. Three battles have
been fought, resulting in considerable
losses on both sides.
Preparations are being made to em
bark all the Dutch women and chi.
dren from the west coast of Sumatra
for places of safety.
The dissatisfaction arose over the
tax regulations.
SITUATION MOST CRITICAL
Serious Revolt Occurs in Portuguese
Guinea.
Lisbon, June 24.—News has been
received here of a serious condition of
affairs in Portuguese Guinea. The
natives everywhere are reported to be
in revolt. Even on the island of Ti
mord several interior posts have been
driven in, settlements have been de
stroyed and Europeans have been
killed or carrjed off into captivity.
The Portuguese troops have taken
refuge at Bisseau, where they are sur
rounded. A French warship has ar
rived for the protection of French sub
jects.
The newspapers here attribute the
revolt to the cruelties practiced .by
the troops while collecting the "hut"
tax. It is their custom frequently to
levy heavy sums and if payment is
refused to flog the natives, burn the
villages and sometirrjes capture the
wives and children of rich chiefs and
hold them for ransom. A chief of the
Coulage tribe started the revolt by
seizing a sergeant and seven Portu
guese troopers, decapitating them and
displaying their heads on poles.
Anxiety is felt for the Europeans
captured, as the natives are cannibals.
After a recent engagement the troops
observed the natives devouring one
of their own dead.
FINAL RESTRAINING ORDER
New Haven Road Must Dispose ef
Electric Line Holdings.
Boston, June 24.—A final decree re
straining and enjoining the New York,
New Haven, and Hartford Railroad
company, its officers, directors, agents
and employes from holding any stock
in the various trolley companies
named in the information recently
Bled against the New Haven company
by Attorney General Dana Malone
was handed down by Judge Rugg in
the supreme court. The decree gives
the company until July 1, 1909, to dis
pose of its holdings in these com
panies. Before announcing the decree
the court denied the motion of the
New Haven company for leave to
show that it had parted with all its
trolley holdings except in the Worces
ter and Webster and Webster and
Dudley Street Railway companies.
Two Bodies Found in Ruins.
Bottineau, N. D., June 24.—After
robbing the postoffice safe three yegg
men set fire to the store of F. W.
Seidel at Somber, located in the north
eastern part of this county, and Mr.
3eidel's body and that of another per
son, supposed to be the body of his
niece, who was stopping with him,
were found in the ruins after the fire
had been extinguished. The robbers
are believed to have murdered Mr.
Seidel while he slept and then looted
the safe and in order to cover the
crime set fire to the frame building.
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Big Democratic Vote in Iowa.
Des Moines, June 24.—The Demo
crats of Iowa cast almost 50,000 votes
In their recent primary. It had been
expected that the party vote would be
light, as there were no Democratic
contests eithet on state or county
tickets. The official canvass now be
ing concluded shows Claude R. Por
ter, the only Democratic candidate for
United States senator, received 47,877.
votes in ninety-six counties and that
Fred White, the only Democratic can
didate for governor, received 49,078
votes in ninety-seven counties.
Guilty of Receiving Rebates.
Toledo, O., June 24.—The Toledo
fee and Coal company pleaded guilty
in the United States court on three
:ounts to receiving rebates from the
Ann Arbor Railroad company. The
sourt assessed a fine of $1,250 on each
count. The other counts were diB
missed*^
'Spanish Queen Again a Mother.
Madrid, June 24.—A son has been
born to Queen Victoria of Spain.
Queen Victoria, formerly Princess Kna
3f Battenberg, and King Alfonso, Were
married at Madrid on May 31, lt)06.
IHelr first son wu born on Mw 10,
1907.
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MISS JEAN REID MARRIED
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
Attend Ceremony.
London, June 24.—With King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra smiling
approval from their private gallery
lean Reid, daughter of Whitelaw Reld,
toe American ambassador to England,
f?as married in the chapel royal of St.
James palace to the Hon. John Hubert
VVard, brother' of the Earl of Dudley
und equerry in waiting to the king.
The ancient chapel, one of the few
remains of the old palace of the Tu
tors, in which Queen Vi a and sev
eral of lier daughters \^j married,
MISS JEAN REID.
was prettily decorated with flowers
for this, the most fashionable of re
cent weddings in London.
A great crowd assembled in St.
James square to watch the arrival of
the bFidal party and the king and the
queen and other members of the royal
family who, by. their attendance at the
chapel and the subsequent reception
at Dorchester House, the city resi
dence of Ambassador Reid, paid a
compliment to the American ambassa
dor and his daughter peldom accord
ed even to members of the English
nobility.
In addition to the political and so
cial leaders of England and the young
er friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ward there
were present at the reception the dip
lomatic representatives of all foreign
countries and their staffs and large
numbers of the Americans resident in
England.
JAC0BS0N IN THE LEAD.
Result of Primaries in Minnesota Gov
ernorship Contest:
St. Paul, June 24.—Returns from
caucuses in thirty counties of the
state indicate that Jacobson has 251
votes for the gubernatorial nomina
tion, while Joel P. Heatwole is run
ning second with 77 and Attorney Gen
eral El T. Young third with 60.
Hennepin is claimed by two favorite
sons, M. W. Savage and S. P. Snider,
each of whom has hopes of coming off
victor in the county convention Thurs
day. The primaries there resulted in
a real contest and the other candi
dates kept their hands off.
It now promises to be the field
against Jacobson when state conven
tion time rolls around and it is al
ready being figured out how effective
a combination can be made against
the leader.
DELEGATES UNINSTRUCTED
Georgia Democrats in Convention at
Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., June 24.—At the Dem
ocratic state convention an effort was
made through a resolution to endorse
Thomas E. Watson for vice president
on the Democratic ticket. The reso
lution was voted down. The conven
tion adjourned after electing delegates
to the national convention and adopt
ing a platform declaring for the con
tinuance of the enforcement of prohi
bition and strict railroad regulation in
Georgia. The entire ticket as nom
inated at the primary was endorsed
and becomes the party ticket at the
election in November. This ticket is
headed by Joseph M. Brown for gov
ernor.
The entire delegation goes to Den
ver uninstriicted.
iMCut of $750,000 in Salaries.
New York, June 24.—Salaries and
Incidental expenses of officials of the
American Smelting and Refining com
pany have been reduced $750,000, ac
cording to Daniel Guggenheim, chair
man and president of the company.
"Before I left for Europe," said Mr.
Guggenheim on his return from a four
months' trip abroad, "I set the ball
rolling by reducing my own salary.
My brothers, who devote their entire
time to the affairs of the company,
also reduced their salaries voluntar
ily.'
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Baton Rouge, La., June 24.—After a
campaign lasting several months, the
close of which was marked by a bitter
fight, the so-called Locke anti-racing
bill was passed by the Louisiana state
Senate. The bill passed the house sev
eral weeks ago and now only requires
the signature of the governor to be-,
come a law. There appears no doubt
that Governor Sanders will sign the
bill immediately.
^Racing Killed in Louisiana.
Fails in Study Ends Her Life.
Rockford, 111., June 24.—Jessie F.
Baldauff, aged eighteen, a pupil: at the
Frances Shimer academy, Mount Car
ijoll, killed herself with a shotgun at
her parents' home near Pearl City.
She was despondent because In one
study she failed to obtaiiva passing
mark..
Persian Troops Bombard Parte
ment Buildings*
Teheran, June 24.—A serfons clash
between Cossacks and members of po
litical clubs occurred here. A force of
Cossacks and soldiers surrounded the
parliament buildings 4nd the adjoin
ing mosque and asked parliament to
give up some of the persons whose
arrest the shah had ordered.- This
parliament refused to do and the mem
bers of the political clubs fired on the
Cossacks, killing several of them.
KURDS RAVAGE VILLAGES.
Situation in Sections of Persia Said
to Be Serious.
St. Petersburg, June 24.—The Novoe
Vremya publishes a dispatch from a
correspondent who has just completed
a perilous trip from Tabriz, Persia, to
Urumiah, through a country swarming
with pillaging Kurds. He declares
that Urumiah is now completely sur
rounded by Kurds, who are ravaging
the villages on all sides up to the
gates of the town. The sound of fir
ing is constantly heard.
Turkish regular troops are close be
hind the raiding Kurds. Two battal
ions of infantry, two squadrons of cav
alry and a battery of artillery have
occupied villages three miles from
Urumiah and six days ago one bat
talion of infantry and five batteries of
the Sixth division of cavalry went into
camp in the region around Sujbulant
that is in dispute between Turkey and
Persia.
It is declared at the foreign office
here that Russia has made continual
representations to the porte about the
situation at Urumiah, but without re
sult up to the present time. Russia
has not yet decided upon any more
active steps. The temporary occupa
tion of Urumiah by Kurds and Turks
is considered a possibility. The for
eign office does not believe that the
missionaries in Urumiah will be In
volved in any danger. It thinks the
other foreign residents also ^ii"sBe
safe. v,
NO POLITICS FOR HIM.
John Mitchell Not a Candidate for Any
Office. '.
Chicago, June 24.—John Mitchell,
former president of the United Mine
Workers of America, gave out a letter
declining to become a candidate for
political office and indicating that he
will become instead head of the trade
agreement department of the National
Civic Federation. The letter was ad
dressed to John C. Harding, secretary
of the political action committee of
the Chicago Federation of Labor, and
was called out by an endorsement by
that body of Mr. Mitchell's tentative
candidacy for the Democratic nomina.
tion for governor of Illinois.
"Does this apply to the vice presi
dential nomination as well as to tha
governorship of Illinois?" Mr. Mitchell
was asked.
"I cannot well decline what has not
been offered to me," he replied. "But
uiy idea in the letter was to express
a decision not to mix in politics in
any form."
NINE NEGROES LYNCHED
Wholesale Killing Follows Murder of
Two Whites.
Houston, Tex., June .24.—Nine ne
groes have met death at the hands of
a mob in the vicinity of Hemphill^
Sabine county.
Both races have secured arms' and
the tension Is such that a race clash
appears imminent. -if:1
The dead negroes ranged in age
from twenty-two to twenty-seven
years.
The lynchings followed the killing
of two white men by negroes.
Auto Train Starts for Denver.
Chicago, June 24.—Escorted at the
start by a squad of mounted police an
automobile train, containing twenty
guests of National Committeeman
Roger C. Sullivan of Illinois, wlio are
going as delegates to the Democratic
national convention, has left for Den
ver. The train consists of five tour
ing cars, including the car which re
cently conveyed the war' o3sage
from New York to Fort Leaven v/qrth,
Kan.
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SERIOUS FIGHT AT TEHERAN
Lawmakers Refuse to Surrender Cer
tain Persons Whose Arrest Is Or
dered by the Shah and Open lhreujiii
on the Imperial Soldiers.
Berlin, June 24—News has Just
been received here that the troops of
the shah of Persia have stormed and
captured the parliament buildings in
Teheran.
The city is now being bombarded
by artillery.
The square in front of the parlia
ment buildings Is said to be "heaped
with corpses.
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Photographor Is Drowned.
Hastings, Minn., June 24.—Carl Ste
berpnan of Chicago was dro vned in
the Vermillion river hare. He was a
transient artist and was about to tafce
a picture of the fallB when he fell
from a tree into the water, a distant)*
of forty-seven feet. He was twentr*
three years of ag«^ wnt
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