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the entire mileage of the Old World.
Miss LOLA BARNETT and Mr.. Kenne.
cutt, both popular young people and
engaged to be married. fell through the
ice while skating near Nebraska City,
Neb., and were drowned.
AT the national assembly in Cham.
paign, ILL.,, of the Farmers Mutual
Benefit association resolutions were
adopted favoring the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver, a graduated in
come tax and the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
AT the close of their annual meeting
in st. Louis the Knights of Labor
adopted resolutions favoring the re-
striction of immigration to those with
funds sufficient for q years support;
restricting the ballot to those who can
read and write; and that money should
be issued by the national government
only.
ON a kite-shaped track at Stock
ton. Cal, Stamboul trotted a mile in
2:07L. This beats the worlds trotting
record for stations.
The annual report of the pension bu-
reau says there are s65,0s7 names of
pensioners on the rolls, an increase of
179, 92s over the preceding fiscal year.
SYLVESTER CRlrcHLow. on trial at
Pittsburgh for murder in the Home
stead riot, was found not guilty.
The Dubuque Qa.) lumber mills
have closed for the season. The cut of
lumber, sc, ZOO, 900 feet, is the largest on
record in that city.
A LUMBER camp near Marshfield,
Wis.,, was destroyed by fire, and two
men were cremated and three others
terribly burned.
FLAMES in the large furniture fac
tory and salesroom of Otis Corbett in
New York caused loss of $500, 900.
Miss LIBBY MILLER, of Eikhart, Ind,
and guest, Miss Josie Franklin, of
Middletown, were struck by an engine
at crossing near Elkhart and killed.
MRS. MINERVA WRIGHT and John
Hutchison while driving at Richmond,
Ind, were struck by an electric car
and fatally injured.
FULLERss livery stable at st. Joseph,
Mo-, was burned, and twenty horses,
one trotter valued at SIS, 900, perished
in the flames.
The historical Unitarian church at
Plymouth, Mass, was destroyed by
fire. In the belfry was bell cast by
Paul Revere in 1901
ONO odd fellows have decided to
build an orphans home to cost about
SIS, 1000.
ROBERT GERAD1NG, an amateur bicy-
clist of Denver, Col, broke the worlds
track and road record for miles by
45 as seconds His time was 1907.
FLAMES among tobacco factories and
other buildings in Lynchburg, Va.
caused a loss of $15O.OO0.
The Hotel Zinzendorf, at Winslow,
N. c., recently built by the West End
Land Company at a. cost of $140, 900, was
destroyed by fire.
THREE men and a boy were drowned
at Lewiston, WASH, by the upsetting
of boat.
JoNAsEN's jewelry store at Omaha
was robbed of diamonds and watches
valued at $4,000.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
81, los. 600, ,O4s, against 81, ,39S, 79s, 44s the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week Of
1891 was 9.1.
The works of the Michigan Forge &
Iron Company at Detroit were burned,
the loss being 100000.
In the United States during the
seven days ended on the 25th the busi-
ness failures numbered 203, against
210 the preceding week and 295 for
the corresponding time last year.
JAMES Fox, aged 10, and John and
Kennedy Cotton, l! and 9 respectively,
were drowned while skating on the
Fox river at Green Bay, Wis.
CASHIER B. j. MARTIN. of the Web.
ster bank at Eupora, Miss. went into
the vaults and helped hiraself to money
and securities ranging from $15,0G0 to
$50, 900 and skipped.
A PANTHER male its appearance at
Hopkins trading post in the Cherokee
outlet and killed an Indian Chill i,
the presence of its mother
| MAY SANS, a chambermaid, shot and
instantly killed Capt. Ransom Sampson
at the Planters hotel in Cairo, ILL.,,
then fatally shot Sampson's bride, to
whom he had been married but week,
and then shot herself fatally. jealousy
was the cause.
MISS AGNES BEERS poisoned her
brother-in-law. Joseph Haunder, at
St. Henry, Minn., and then took her
own life in the same manner No
cause known.
In fire in house at st. Johns,
Mich. Hugh Boyd and Mrs. Annie
Thompson, his housekeeper, were
fatally burned. Mr.. Boyd was the
oldest sir knight in the country.
AN explosion Of gas caused by leak
in the pipe in the rooms of the White
Dental Manufacturing Company at
Philadelphia injured nine, persons and
wrecked the establishment.
The thermometer registered 20 de-
grees below zero in portions of Mime.
sofa and South Dakota.
IT was feared that forty-eight miners
had perished from hunger and cold in
the mountains east of Snohomish,
Wash. -
In speaking of the southern nosts ri