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EVERYWHERE'S NEWS IN TABLOID FORM , Lorient, France. Three workmen .Jailed, seven fatally injured when compressed air chest exploded. Lincoln, III. Robbers escaped with 'loot valued at $700 from Layman & Richey book store. tf St. Louis, Mo. Twelve men indict ed charged with conspiring to sell lots in New York huckleberry swamp un- der representation that they were in a suburb of N. Y. City. Cleared about i$40,000. Clinton, la. John Clancy, motor man, fatally injured, three other street car men badly hurt, dozen pas- 'sengers injured in street car collision. Brussels. Mile. Du Monceau de .Bergendael reported to have bought .for $700,000 famous stolen pearl necklace. Said to have agreed to pay c$50?000 for two missing pearls. Philadelphia. John Wilson, 16, ne gro, recovering from operation in which heart was stitched together. Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Rebecca Gay, 55, most prominent Christian Science healer in Southern Califor nia, found dead in her office. Believ ed murdered. New York. Mrs. Frank B. Wiborg, wife of Cincinnati capitalist, indicted on charge of smuggling. New York. Body of well-dressed man, 45, found in clump of bushes on Riverside Drive. Check for $500, signed by C. H. Goodrich, torn in half lying beside him. Boston. Gov. Eugene" N. Foss charges in letter than New Haven Railroad spent $337,000 during last 'session of legislature and entered it on books as "other expenses." Benton, III. John Hurzan, Polish "miner wanted in connection with .murder of .two American musicians 'week ago, thought to be dying of wound received when he refused to surrender to posse. San Francisco. Loretta Martin, 22, who claims to have been beaten into submission by white slavers and "forced to enter a Barbary coast dance hall, went to Central police station to ask protection. Was sent to Deten tion Hospital, charged with insanity. Jersey City. Bishop Thomas Bow man, 96, who warned Pres. Lincoln of impending personal danger shortly before he was assassinated, is se riously ill. New York. Two students of city college, masquerading as King and Jester, tried to rope a policeman. Landed inyjail. New York. Seeking refuge from black handers, well-dressed man went to police station. Locked up for carrying concealed weapon. Paris. Scientific Review says 10 per cent water drinkers have appen dicitis. Only one out of 200 wine drinkers afflicted. London. 12,000 cremations have taken place in England since process was legalized in 1885. Hammond, Ind. Mrs. Charles Simms alleges husband nipped his cigaret stubs in her face as evening's diversion. Wants a divorce. Paris. Quadratstein, jeweler in $675,000 pearl necklace case, con vinced by shower of bananas and vegetables that all roads do not lead to vaudeville stage in France. Newport, R. I. Alice Thaw, form er Countess of Yarmouth,' who ar rived in N. Y. from Europe, will go to Concord to see her brother, Harry K. Thaw. Hamburg, Germany. Lt Schulz, army aviator, killed by 150-foot fall at Johannisthal. Lincoln, Neb. Festus J. Wade, pres. Mercantile Trust Co., St. Louis, says currendy bill pending before Congress is best bill ever framed in history of U. S. for country and in terior banker and customers. Milwaukee. August Meyer, 17, sentenced to state industrial school for boys, escaped frpm Milwaukee Detention Home. LaCrosse, Wis. Harry. Burrows and his best man, Walter Douglas, IMMfliMMM MimiliHil