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"ggjikawUlgSW F OUTSIDE NEWS FROM Moline. III. B. B. Kenehan, be- lieved to be from Denver, Col., pas senger on steamer " Helen 'Blair, thought to have suicided by jump ing overboard. . Mason City, la. Ceo. W. Park hurst, wealthy farmer, instantly kill ed when auto went over embank ment. Minneapolis, Minn. Search being made for bodies of Morris Noleen and Miss Ethel Buck, believed to have been drowned. Wausau, Wis. Reported Wm. Schad, 64, and grandchild, 4, instant ly killed during cyclone. Singapore. Violent series of earth tremors in Southern SUmarta caused great damage. Scores o fliveslost Washington. Sen". John Sharp Williams, Mississippi, assailed "pluto cratic press" which has been indulg ing, he said, in calamity howling. Joliet. Mrs. Carrie Grossman, wife of John Grossman, filed suit for $10,000 damages against Wm. Hutch inson, wealthy, alleging alienation of her husband's affections by untrue stories. Washington. 2 deaths and over 50 prostrations during last 3 days of heat wave here. New York. Tenement fire caused $1,000 damage. No lives lost Dashington. Sec'y of Navy Dan iels says Pacific fleet is to be greatly enlarged. Springfield, III. One prostration. Temperature 103. Kendallville, Ind. Three men who blew postoffice safe at Avilla and es caped "with $359 captured. Denver. Edw. P. Costigan, Pro gressive candidate for governor of Colorado charged that coal operators offered hoim bribe of $60,000 If he would support certain man for U. S. Senate. Washington. Jury found Oliver'P. Newman, District of Columbia com missioner, ineligible to hold office. Residence disqualification. WIRE AND CABLE Muncie, Ind. Rev. Murray Har ness of Harrison St Christian church, Kokomo, and Mrs. Esther Smith, member of congregation, arrested in rooming hduBe. London. -"Women dete'ctlves em ployed in House of Commons to deal with suffragist intruders. ' Milwaukee. John Ulrich, school principal and opponent of vaccina tion, stricken with smallpox. New York. Filomlno Aurellio dropped dead at 300th turn of rope in jumping contest New York. Clad in White silk tights, Henrietta Hend, acrobat, chas ed thief 3 blocks. Caught him. Indianapolis. Chas. Hallerberg sued United Cigar Store for $5,000. Alleges when he sank teeth in plug of old reliable brand he struck piece of iron. Lost 6 teeth. KICK ON ACTION OF SOME OF THE RAILROADS, C. B. Beaumont, secretary of the Brotherhood of Railway Freight Han dlers, sent the following teelgram to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; Con gressman .Buchanan and James O'Connell, labor member of the In dustrial relations committee regard ing the discrimination against union freight workers: "The SL'Louis Terminal "Railroad, the Baltimdre & Ohio and "the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul recently have discharged a large number of freight handlers on account of being members'df our organization, and we request the assistance of the Amer ican Federation of Labor and the In dustrial relations commission to ac quaint the Congress of these United States with tne attitude of the rail roads in depriving their employes in the freight department of the right to join a labor union, thereby taking away the right to exercise the func tions of free American citizenship. fefealtfgBlV ffMaa MjiWfcig8SatgWg 't 2i-mjaL-mM