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Okla., securing all the money and valuable papers in the vault. Dr. Julian F. Thomas, of New York, the Pommern, won the James purchased balloon which the German Gordon Bennett race at St. Louis. Palma in a at President statement the advanHavana called attention to a American rule and took for control of stand tage of permanent Cuba by the United States. men chloroformed Yegg the & station Valley agent of the Fort Wayne road at Upper Sandusky, O., and got away with $100 and 500 raMroad tickets. The president announced the following appointments for the new of Oklahoma: Western district H. Cotteral, judge; bry, and John -John state attorney, Abernathy, John Emmarshal. Eastern district-Ralph E. Campbell, judge; William Gregg, attorney, and Grive A. Porter, marshal. the Silas H. Reid was named judge of district court of Alaska. Vanderbilt has offered the Men's Newport Alfred G. Young Christian be erected association a new building to as a memorial to his father, the late of Cornelius Vanderbilt, at a cost $100,000. The losses by fire in the United States and Canada during the month Jourof October, as compiled by the nal of Commerce, aggregate $13,350,250. Henry E. Warner, of Boston, was ap. pointed receiver of the Arnold Print of works of North Adams, Mass., one the largest textile concerns in the country, by the United States circuit court at Boston. A fire in the Sioux City (Ia.) Journal building caused a loss estimated at between $55,000 and $70,000, with $53, 000 insurance. The editorial rooms and business office were saved. F. J. Tygard, president of the Bates it National bank of Butler, Mo., when failed September 20, 1906, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary federal by Judge McPherson in the court at Kansas City. Albert Nerzlinger, on trial in St. Louis for blinding Mrs. Lena Wunsch by throwing sulphuric acid in her face, was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary, the maximum sentence. An estate of approximately $4,000,000 was disposed of in the will of the late J. S. Polk, capitalist and steel railway promoter of Des Moines, Ia. The large property was equally divid- chiled among the widow and four dren. The threatened general railway strike in Great Britain was averted by an agreement between the railways and the union. The Royal society of Great Britain awarded the Copley medal to Prof. Albert A. Michelson, of the University of Chicago, for optical investigation, W. and the Davy medal to Prof. E. Morley, of West Hartford, Conn. Guy Condit, cashier of the First Na- attional bank of Kingfisher, Okla., tempted to kill himself by slashing his throat. He will recover. Anxiety over financial matters preyed upon his mind. Three arrests have been made at Madrid in the case in which it is charged $53,000 was obtained from the of Bank of Spain through the forging a check. Two of the men are officials of the bank. Attorney General Davidson of Texbehalf of the state of Texas against the filed as on suit alleged Standard subsid- Oil iary concerns of the for company in Texas for penalties forfeitures of charter. The New York banks began preparations to ship all available currency to the northwest to aid the movement of crops. Secretary Cortelyou directed funds that $3,000,000 of government be deposited in St. Paul and Minneapolis banks. The buoyancy of the stock market the ultimate decision of large bankers to reflected New York support Company the two of institutions-the Trust America and the Lincoln Trust com- to pany-which have been subjected United the most severe runs. The States Steel corporation secured a Coal controlling interest in the Tennessee be& Iron company and this, it was the lieved, would aid in relieving banks money stringency. Three small bankers in Kansas closed, and Denver decided to issue scrip. Gen. Horace Porter and Joseph H. Choate, two of the American ambassadors to the recent peace conference Both at The Hague, returned home. entireexpressed themselves as being the conly satisfied with the results of ference. The grand 'jury at Waverly, the Ia., which indicted 14 members of County Medical association, alleging violation of the anti-trust law, report-