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E. D. Knotts, Publisher
WAHFETON, Richland CO., N. I
NEWS OF ^SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN 8HORE8
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington.
A new bank, to be known as the
Bank of Washington, with a capital of
$1,000,000, is to be organized in Wash
ington, D. C., shortly.
Frederick McMasters, American con
sul at Zanzibar, has resigned. He as
signs as his reason the impossibility
of conducting the consulate on the
$2,500 salary.
President Roosevelt has received a
letter from the Sultan of Morocco ex
pressing gratitude for the appointment
of Samuel R. Gummers as American
minister to Morocco.
People Talked About.
Brig. Gen. G. A. Bell, U. S. A., re
tired, died in Washington. He gradu
ated from West Point in 1853.
Georgia, daughter of the American
minister to Panama, Mr. Squiers, was
married to Harold Cutler Whitman.
Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation
Army, will start on a tour of the
world about the middle of February.
Gen. Marcus T. Miller, U. S. A., re
tired, died at Fort Barrancas, Fla., of
heart disease, aged seventy-one years.
Charlemagne Laurler, M. P., half
brother of Sir Wilfred Laurier, pre
mier of Canada, died at St Lin, Que
bec.
Rev Joshua Allen Lippincott, widely
known in the East and Middle West,
both as a divine and an educator, died
at Los Angeles.
Gen. Hiram Scofeld of Washington
Iowa, died at the residence of his
daughter in Seattle. He was seventy
seven years old.
Emperor William has bestowed on
Prof. Hugo Muensterberg, professor
of physiology at Harvard, the crown
order of the second class.
William E. Qulnby, who has been
editor of the Detroit Free Press since
1861, has sold his interest and severed
bis connection with the paper.
Sir William Pearce Howland, for
merly postmaster gereral and finance
minister of Canada, and later lieuten
ant governor of Ontario, died in Toron
to, aged ninety-six.
John W. Golf, who has made an en
viable recoid on the bench as New
York's recorder, resigned to take the
place on the supreme bench to which
he was elected last November.
Mrs. Caroline Parker, negress, aged
116, dropped dead in Chicago at the
home of her girlhood friend, Mrs.
Nancy Lewis, aged 95. Both women
were once slaves in South Carolina.
Casualty.
Theodore Roehmler of Cedar Falls
was instantly killed in Des Moines by
a traction car.
Richard Hill, a young painter, accl
dentally shot and killed his half-sister,
Dolly Smith at their home in Ham
mond, Ind.
Twin boys, aged three years, anc
their one-year-old sister were burned
to death at Redding, Cal., when their
home was destroyed by fire.
Five unidentified tramps were killed
in a freight train wreck at Plorlston
station, Cal. A broken truck on one
of the box cars caused the wreck.
While playing with a toy, the five
year-old daughter of Dr. M. F. McCabe
of Ironwood, Mich., swallowed a por
tion of the object and choked to deaths
Two men were killed and two oth
era were fatally injured by the burst
ing of a steam pipe at the Pressed
Steel Car company's plant in Pitts
burg.
An express train collided with &
freight train at Ottersberg station,
.Germany. Five trainmen were killed
and four dangerously and six slightly
injured.
Eight people were seriously injured
and twenty-four others badly hurt in a
wreck near Richmond, Ky. Among iho
injured was a baby whose hand was
burned completely off.
Seeing his elder brother place a
loaded pistol in a dresser drawer, Carl
Mattus, a four-year-old boy of Sioux
City, Iowa, removed the weapon and,
pointing it toward his own head,
pulled the trigger. The ball passed
entirely through his head, killing him
instantly.,
Crimea and Criminals.
After a quarrel with her husband,
Mrs. G. I. Green of Logan, Utah, took
strychnine and died soon afterward.
The apartments of Dr. G. D. Bryant
of Butte, Mont., were entered by a
youth named Walthal and money and
diamonds to the value of $1,500 carried
away. Walthal confessed after being
1n confinement several hours.
It was announced at the district at
torney's office in New .York that the
trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder
of Stanford White will take place in
the criminal branch of the supreme
court before Justice Greenbaum. The
trial is scheduled to take place on Jan.
21.
Frederick S. Camp, one of the most
prominent mill men in Eastern Con
necticut and agent of the Ponemali
mills, the largest cotton mills in the
country, took his life by shooting at
Norwich, Cpnn. He had been 111 for
about six months with Brlght's disease
and bad been despondent.
Seven Austrians were arrested at
Billings, Mont., on a charge of steal
ing two handcars.
Grieving over the death of his wife,
John T. McClellan committed sulcido
on her grave in Greenwood cemetery,
in Brooklyn.
Lee Holder, the eighteen-year-old
son of Rev. J. R. Holder of Union City,
Tenn., who was found murdered,, h»s
been arrested, charged with the crime.
Samuel D. Cox, editor of the Mlaa
tare (Neb.) Sentinel, was Bhot and in
stantly killed by E. S. Kennison, a ho
tel man. The shooting followed a
quarrel.
Mrs. Henry Anderson was shot and
killed as she lay in bed at Cambridge.
A negro arrested at Galva, 111., fifteen
miles from Cambridge, is being held as
the murderer.
Thomas Fanning, aged eighty yea°'t-\
a wealthy property owner who livcJ
alone, was murdered at his home in
Kansas City. The head had been
hacked with a hatchet.
Bert Holman, the thirteen-year-old
adopted son of Mrs. Sarah Ayers, con
fessed that he had shot and killed Ms
mother, whose dead body was found
on her farm near St Helen, Or.
Choked to death by her own hand,
the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Richter was
found in New York. She left a note
in which she said: "I am very lonelv.
The New Year contains no prospects:
for me."
From Other 8hores.
A revolutionary outbreak occurrel
in Honduras but it was crushed by the
government.
The strike of the port stevedores
at Rio Janeiro has been adjusted and
the shipments of coffee are now regu
lar.
Countess Clancarty, who was at one
time known on the stage as Belle Bil
ton, died at her residence in County
Galway, Ireland.
Salles, France, has a district coun
cillor who elected himself. In the
commune of Salles there is only one
man eligible to vote, and he voted for
himself.
Efforts made by reform societies in
England to get a law abolishing the
barmaid have disclosed that 27,000
girls are employed in barrooms in the
United Kingdom.
A huge embezzlement has been dis
covered at the Military club in Madrid,
funds aggregating $56,000 being miss
ing. The treasurer of the club disap
peared nearly a month ago.
Among the last bills passed by the
Panama legislature was one permittlug
President Amador to leave the terri
tory of the republic. This will enable
him to return President Roosevelt's
visit.
The famous Lyceum theater in Lon
don, in which Sir Henry Irving reach
ed the zenith of his career, has been
sold by auction for $597,500 to an un
known bidder. The property is said
to be worth $1,000,000.
The pope received in audience the
Earl of Aberdeen, lord lieutenant ot
Ireland. In the course of their conver
sation the pope said: "There, are no
better Catholics than the Irfch Catho
lics, in Ireland or abroad."
Treasure valued at $7,000 and a
number of faded documents which/may
be of historic value, were found when
the obelisk marking the spot where
the French troops entered the city of
Madrid in 1808 was removed.
The diet was opened at Tokio by the
emperor. In the Ipeech from the
throne his majesty dwelt upon the in
creasingly cordial relations between
Japanese and the powers and the great
development in national defense.
There was a demonstration in one
of the principal cafes ot Madrid dur
ing the New Year's festivities. This
cafe is frequented largely by officers
of the army, and last night a group of
officers insisted that the orchestra
play the "Marseillaise," shouting,
meanwhile, "Long live the republic!"
That Japanese miners are not ill
treated in the coal mines at Monclova
and Las Esperanzas, in Mexico, is the
report made by Chonosull Lada, sec
retary of the Japanese legation, who
has returned from a careful investiga
tion of the conditions in the northe
part of the republic.
General.
Former United States Senator Don
elson Cattery died in New York.
Thomas M. Bowen, formerly United
States senator from Colorado, is dead
at Pueblo, Colo., aged 71.
Ben Selig, acting for Joe Gans, has
signed articles calling for a finish
fight between Gans and Jimmy Britt.
One hundred and twenty-nine years
is said to have been the age of "Aunt"
Dorcus Harris, a negro woman who
died at Mineral Wells, Tex.
A special election is to be held at
Missoula, Mont., on Feb. 11, at which
the voters will decide whether the city
shall acquire its water plant.
With a single blow of his fist Chas.
Smith killed D. F. Dwyer. Mrs. Smith
told her husband that Myers bad at
tempted to flirt with her on the street
in East St Lotiis, and this caused the
attack. Myers' neck was broken by
the blow.
An oil gusher flowing 1,920-barrels a
day, exceeding anything on record in
Indian Territory oil fields, was brought
in near Sapula, I. T.
The New York Central ft Hudsoa
River Railroad company has pur
chased the Chicago, Kalamazoo ft Sag
inaw railroad.
Mill bands and lumberjacks employ
ed by companies operating in Western
Montana have asked for a general in
crease of 10 per cent in their wages.
At a convention held at Missoula a
committee was appointed to draft a
new scale.
OPERATOR'S BULL
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ANOTHER.
SEVERAL ARE INCINERATED
WRECKAGE TjftCES FIRE AND
FIVE PASSENGER CARS ARE
CON8UMED.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 4. Two white
men, a negro train porter and thirty
Mexican laborers lost their lives, an-.1
fifty-five persons were Injured when
two passenger trains on tbe Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific railroad collided
head-on four miles west ot Volland.
Kan., yesterday morning.
The trains were Nos. 29 and 30. run
ning between Chicago and El Paso
They met on a sharp curve. Fire from
the lamps in the cars and from the lo
comotives was communicated to. the
splintered wreckage, consuming five
cars of Train No. 29, west-bound, and
burning several of the passengers. All
but three of those who perished art
thought to have been Mexican labor
ers.
The officials of the company blame
John Lynes. the nineteen-year-old te!o
graph operator at Volland, who failed
to stop Train No. 29, after receiving
orders to bold it until No. 30 had nacis
ed. Lynes was arrested.
Five minutes before the trains
crashed the operators for hundreds of
miles along the line knew that tbe col
lision was certain, as Lynes had wired
that he had let No. 29 pass. But there
was no earthly means to prevent tlie
disaster.
PURE FOOD LAW 18 DODGED.
Labels Are Being Printed .on Canned
Goods in Microscopic Type,
New York, Jan. 6.—That tbe new
pure food law is proving a big joke is
the growing conviction of New York.
There is a general impression that the
law, which went into effect on the
first day of 1907, prohibits tbe selling
of anything but pure food. It does
nothing of the kind.
The law provides that whatever is
sold as food or drink must be labeled
as just what it is, but the law fails tc
dictate what size of type shall be
used in labels. It is also defective in
sections relating to short-weight eans
and jars and short-measure bottles.
In consequence, cans and jars and
bottles are ot the same old size, and
the parts of labels in which the var!
ous ingredients are described are
printed In type barely distinguishable
to the naked eye.
BOUGHT LIFE OF PREMIER.
Man Arrested in 8t Petersburg Sus
pected of Planning Murder.
St. Petersburg, Jan. "6. At the
requiem" service held here in honor of
the memory of Maj. Gen. von der Latt
nitz, the prefect of the St Petersburg
police, who was assassinated Thurs
day, tbe police arrested a man dis
guised as an officer of the army, who
was trying to gain admittance to the
church.
1
The police are of the opinion that he
intended to kill Premier Stolypin, who
was among the many prominent per
sons present.
8TANDARD'8 DEMURRER FAIL8.
Judge Landis of Chicago Rules on Ef
fect Of New Legislation.
Chicago, Jan. 5.—Judge Landis, in
the United StateB district court, yes
terday overruled the demurrer of tbe
Standard Oil company to eight indict
ments pending against that company
for alleged violations ot tbe. EJkins
law, but sustained the demurrer as to
two other indictments because of tech
nical defectH.
The ruling is a victory tot tbe gov
ernment. in the preliminary stage of
the prosecution of the corporation for
receiving concessions equivalent to
rebates in the remission of storage
and freight charges.
UNIONS BOYCOTT JAPANESE.
San Francisco Carpenters Make War
on Orientals.
San Francisco, Jan. 6. Te blocal
carpenters' union declared a .boycott
against the Japanese yesterday. Any
member of the union who employes
Japanese labor, patronizes Jftpanese
merchants or purchases goods from
employers of Japanese is to be fined
$10.
8tockman's Body Found.
Sioux City, Iowa, Jan. 6.—The body
of William Farris of Dell Rapids, S.
D., was found in the Floyd river near
the stockyards.. The police incline to
the belief that be tell off the bridge.
May Die of Fall.
Marshfield, Wis., Jan. €.—Mrs. John
Rausch, an old resident of this city,
slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk,
breaking her leg and sustaining inju
ries from which, owing to her advanc
ed age, she may not recover.
Tenants Have Narrow Escape.
Menominee, Mich., Jan. 6.—Nearly
'wo score of people had a narrow es
cape in a tire which destroyed a twiv
«tory tenement building last night
Some thrtllnlg rescues were made by
the firemen. Loss, $3,000.
LOON INTO BLOCK SMI
0
INTERSTATE COMMISSION ft
GINS AN IMPORTANT INVKS
TIGATION.
Washington, .D. C., Jan. 6. Whal
promises to be a mopt rigid lnvestiga
tlon of the recer* wrecks on the Bal
timore ft Ohio railroad at Terra Cotta
D. C., in which more than two scoit
of passengers lost their lives, and o»
the Southern railway at Lawyer's, Va,
on Thanksgiving day, when President
Samuel Spencer and seven othen
were killed, was begun yesterday b}
the interstate commerce commission
It is the purpose of the commission
determine -whether the responsibilttj
tor thasa two wrecks Bhould be placed
an the workings of the block syBtem
or on'the. carelessness of the railroad
employes stationed at the block sis
nal stations.
Take Up Terra Cotta Wreck.
The Terra Cotta wreck waa flrsi
taken up yesterday. Chief Dispatcher
T. F. Dent ot the Baltimore ft Ohio
railroad testified that the whereabouts
of trains are often unknown to him foi
five or ten minutes because of the fail
ure or inability of operators at the
block stations to communicate with
him when a train passes their sta
Hons. Engineer Hildebrand of tbe
"dead" equipment train, which crash*
ed Into the Frederick (Md.) local at
Terra Cotta. was the most important
witness of the day. He testified that
the "doubl6 green" light was display
ed at Silver Spiings on the night ol
the accident, which Indicated that
there was a work train in the block.
Saw No "Danger Light."
If there was any "danger light" at
Tacoma station, the witness declared,
he did not see it He testified that be.
tween Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock
and Sunday evening at 6:30, when th*
wreck occurred, a period of forty-eight
hours, he had had only eight hnura'
sleep.
It was only after repeated -question*
by Commissioner Clements and Attor
ney Walters, for the commission, that
Hildebrand admitted be had been sus
pended as an engineer for an nfrao
tion of tbe rules of the company.
PANIC ON BURNING VE88EL.
Captain Drove 8hip Ashore in Blind
ing Snow Storm.
Christiania, Jan. 6.—News was re
ceived here yesterday of a disaster
which overtook the mail steamer Llnd
holmen, which plies between this port
and Bergen, off Farsand, Thursday.
The steamer was discovered to be
on fire. A strong gale was blowing at
the time and the flames soon spread
to the saloons and cabins. Thirty pas
sengers, most of them seasick, hurried
from their quarters to get on deck.
Four of them were suffocated in their
efforts to get out Others jumped over*
board and one was drowned. Another
passenger went mad. One lifeboat
was burned and another was crushed
against the side ot the ship. Finally,
while the remainder of the passen
gers, half dressed and panic-stricken,
were huddled on the forecastle In a
blinding snow storm, the rest of the
ship being in flames, tbe captain
drove the vessel ashore, and managed
to save tbe remaining passengers and
tbe crew. There was much hardship,
however, before all the ship's compa
ny was landed safely.
The dangerous nature of the coast
made the operation of beaching tbe
Lindholmcn most risky.
CARNEGIE GIVE8 PEACE PALACE.
Donates $750,000 for Construction of
Building in *Washington.
Washington, Jan. 6. Andrew Car
negie has given $750,000 to the Bureau
of American Republics, to be used for
the construction of a building in this
city for the use of all the republics of
the Western hemisphere. This is Mr.
Carnegie's New Year's gift, and It will
be use to build a temple which will
be dedicated to promoting peace and
commerce between the United States
and the South and Central American
republics. The funds will be supplied
as they are needed.
This gift is the outcome ot a lettei
Secretary Root, chairman of the gov
erning board of the Bureau of Ameri
can Republics, wrote to Mr. Carne
gie, suggesting that he supply funds
for the construction of a building.
This letter called attention to the im
portance of the bureau in the relations
between this country and those south
of us.
KAI8ER WILL BEAT 'EM ALL.
Plans.to Build Biggest and Fastest
Cruiser In the World.
Berlin, Jan. 6.—The kaiser has d»
cided to eclipse the world with a giant
cruiser which has been projected for
1907. One of the first acts ot the gov
ernment after the elections will be to
ask tbe reichstag to sanction the great
Increase in the proposed tonnage ot
the cruiser, giving it a displacement
of 20,000 tons. The vessel will be
equipped with turbine engines, design
ed to give it greater speed than that
of any other cruiser yet designed.
Forge Money Orders.
Moorhead, "Minn., Jan. 4. Railroad
detectives and tbe police authorities
are endeavoring to round up a trio ot
crookB who have victimized saloon
keepers and merchants of Moorhead
by means of forged Great Northern
express money orders.
Woman Commits Suicide.
Leon, Iowa, Jan. 4.—Mrs. Mary Bel
lamy committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid. She was poor and
alone in the world and became deranf
ed by brooding over her troubles.
CRANK EXPLODES
BOMBJN BANK
CASH ICR IS INSTANTLY KILLED
AND CRANK IS BLOWN TO
ATOM8.
WAS REFUSED LOAN Of $5,WO
BEAUTIFUL INTERIOR IN RUINS
AND 8EVERAL PERSONS
INJURED.
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Philadelphia, Jan. 8. Two men
dead, a score of others injured, two ol
whom may die, and the beautiful in
terior of a bank building laid In ruins
is the result of a bomb dropped In
the Fourth Street National bank here
Saturday by a man who demanded
loan of $5,000 for whioh he could show
no collateral.
The identity of the perpetrator ot
the outrage Is wrapped in mystery,
for he was blown to pieces by his own
engine of death.
Supposed te Be lowan.
Nothing is left to tell who he waa
but a bunch ot keys found in a frag
ment of clothing belonging to the
bomb thrower.
A plate on the ring holding the keys
bore the name of "R. Steele, Garner,
Iowa." and the police are looking up
the man.
The other man killed by the explo
sion was W. Z. McLear, the cashier
of tbe bank, who had been talking to
the stranger and who had refused his
request
Like 8age Outrage.
The similarity of the bomb throw
ing Saturday and that ot the would-be
assassin of Russell Sage fifteen years
ago is remarkable. There was the un
opposed entrance of the visitor, tbe
demand for a loan, the veiled threat
of tnjury, and tbe Interposition ot a
human shield, which In Sage's case
was .Walter Laidlow, and in the
Fourth street bank poor Crump, the
negro porter, whose eyes were blown
.from their sockets.
The neighborhood skirting the
financial district was thrown into a
panic by the explosion, which not only
shattered windows on the opposite
side of the street, but seemed to rock
the foundation of the building in
which the bank has its offices on the
main floor.
May Be Conspiracy.
The principal efforts of the police
were directed toward discovering
whether it was tbe work ot a gang of
conspirators—a theory which 1M gain
ing wide credence and which the
chief of detectives is bending every
energy to discover.
Notwithstanding this theory, the
common sense views Beem to be that
the bomb was thrown by a crank be
lieved to be Rolla Steele, formerly of
Garner, Iowa.
BORN DURING STORM AT SEA.
Liner Etruria Encounters a 8evere
Gale.
New York, Jan. 8.—One other crew
was killed and all were severely in
jured when the Cunard liner Etruria
was fighting her way through a se
vere storm on Friday night.
When the storm was at its height a
girl was born in the steerage. The
mother is Mrs. Jacob Goldstein, and
after a collection amounting to $50
had been taken np among the cabin
passengers the baby was christened
Rachel Etruria Goldstein.
RAI8ULI'8 STRONGHOLD FALL8.
Destroyed by 8ultan's Troops, but
Bandit and His Followers Escape.
Tangier, Jan. 8. Zinat, Ralsull's
stronghold, was virtually destroyed
by fire and fell into tbe hands ot the
sultan yesterday after a short and al
most bloodless fight.
Raisull and his 700 followers suc
ceeded in eluding capture and reach
ing the mountains despite the elabo
rate plans of War Minister Gabbas to
prevent their escape.
WHALE MEAT FOR FOOD.
Jape Will Eat What Haa Been Used
for Fertiliser.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 8.—Representa
tives of the Joya Shokal, a Japanese
company of Nagasaki, have arrived
here to contract for a supply of 600
tons monthly of whale meat, which, it
Is said, will be used tor food purposes.
Heretofore the flesh has been con
verted Into fertilizer.
Humane Riot Rifle.
Madrid, Jan. 8.—It has been decided
by the government to provide the
civil guards with a humane riot rifle
for use in quelling disorder. The
weapon will kill only at short range,
and is expected to lessen the chances
ot injury to other than rioters.
China Pays Up.
Washington, Jan. 8. Consul Gen
eral Lay at Canton has advised the
department ot state that the Chinese
government has paid the Indemnity
claimed by this government for the
American missionaries and the de
struction of the mission hospital at
lienchow Oct. 28, 1905. The amount
is
$25,000.
Shah Is Better.
Teheran, Jan. 8.—The condition ot
(he shah was sUafctly improved
yes
terday.
TO SEND NEGRO TROOPS AWAY
EVERY COLORED REGIMENT IN
THE ARMY GOING TO THE
PHILIPPINES.
Washington, Jan. 8. —Before the
end of the present year every colored
regiment in the United States army
will be serving in the Philippine isl'
ands. An order of the secretary of
war, which in view of the recent agl
tation over the dismissal of the color
ed troops of the Twenty-fifth lnfan
try is regarded as most significant, di
rects that the Twenty-fifth infantry
and the Ninth and Tenth cavalry, the
only three colored regiments now sta
tioned in-(MB country, shall proceed
to the Philippines during 1907 fot
duty there.
There are only four colored regf
ments In the army, namely, the Twen.
ty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantry
and the Ninth and Tenth cavalry. The
Twenty-fourth infantry is already in
the Philippines, and when the three
other regiments go there will be no
colored troops left in this country.
There is no question whatever but
that the sending of these regiment*
to the Phlippines resulted largely be-/,
cause of the Brownsville affair.
BOMB THROWN IN NEW YORK.
Two of Crowd of People Probably F»
tally Injured by Explosion.
New York, Jan. 8.-—A bomb of giant
powder and shot was dropped from an
elevated railway Btation into a crowd
of people at the corner of Second ave
nue and Forty-second street In the
explosion that followed three persons
were injured seriously, and of these
two probably will die.
The outrage was seemingly directed
against the proprietor of a fruit store
on the corner, and this man, Salva
dore Ciniluca, aged thirty-five years
was one of the two dangerously
Injured.*
The bomb thrower escaped In the
excitement
PUBLIC LAND FENCED.
8enator Warren of Wyoming Is Ac
cused.
Washington, Jan. 8. Secretary
Hitchcock and the special agents ol
the interior department are investi
gating the allegation that Senatot
Warren of Wyoming has fenced in
about 50,000 acres of public land near
Cheyenne.
The senator denounces the charges
as false and declares that they are
pushed solely for the purpose of per
secuting him. He^ has invited the full
est investigation.
AVERT TRADE WAR.
President. Roosevelt Will Send Spe
cial Message to Congress.
Washington, Jan. 8. President
Roosevelt will send a special message
to congress urging the prompt pas
sage of legislation authorizing the n°
jgotiation of reciprocal tariff treaties
with Germany.
Something must be done immedi
ately to bring about a settlement ot
the tariff differences between the
United States and Germany or there
will be a large falling off in American
trade.
THROWN 10S FEET LIVES.
Farmer Probably Will Succumb to
Terrible Injuries.
Knoxville, Iowa, Jan. 8.—Dee Fry, a
wealthy retired fanner, was probably
fatally Injured by being struck by a
railroad train as he was crossing the
track. He was thrown a distance ot
150 feet and when picked up his collar
bone was found to be fractured, five
ribs broken and he was otherwise in
jured.
ENGL AN D. GET8 TAHITA.
Missionaries 8ay It Has Been Ceded
by France.
Melbourne, Jan.. 8. According to
the Age, missionaries in the Pacifio
islands, declare that France has ceded
Tahita to Great Britain in considera
tion of territorial concessions in Bur
mah or Further India (Indo-China).
Premier Deakin says he JB without
information on the subject
8lx Killed by Gas.
Burlington, Vt., Jan. 8.—The entire
family of George Devino, consisting of
six persons, were killed during tbe
night by illuminating gas which en
tered the house from a break in the
street main through a sewer pipe.
Outlaws Menace Trade.
Hongkong, Jan. 8. Otulawry has
completely disorganized trade in this
district. One hundred acts of piracy
and fourteen murders are reported,
as having occurred on the West- river
within two months.
Towers 8ays Not Guilty.
Bralnerd, Minn., Jan. 8. Henry
Towers pleaded not guilty to the in
dictment of murder in the first degree
for the killing of Albert Hagadorn
The trial Is set for Wednesday o»
Thursday next
Killed by Live Wire.
Burlington, Iowa, Jan. 8.—George E
Morris, storekeeper of the substore at
the Burlington route roundhouse, wav
killed by electricity. Morris was in
the act of drawing oil from a tanir,
when his band came in contact with a
live wire. Death was almost lnstan-r
taneous.
Burns In Gasoline Explosion.
FergUB Falls, Minn., Jan. 8.—Skari
Sundberg, who resided in the vicinity
ot Hitterdale, was burned to death
in a gasoline explosion.