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liabilities.
ACCORDING to the report of Patent
Commissioner Seymour, 81, ,498 patents
were issued during the year, and Is, 1917
expired.
JOHN VERMILLIoN and William Jack
son were killed and number of 9TH
ers seriously injured by the bursting
of a sawmill boiler at Frankfort, Ind.
CAPT. II. o. KING, a mechanical en-
gineer of Memphis, was killed by Alex
Carr, an employe to whom he was in
debted.
NOTWITHSTANDING industrial dis
turbances and the continuance of
drought in certain sections, trade con-
tinues to show steady improvement,
according to Bradstreet's.
Two MEN were killed and eleven in.
jured by an explosion of gas in the
Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa.
AN explosion of gas in a mine at
Franklin, WASH, imprisoned sixty-two
men, thirty-seven of whom were taken
out dead.
RILEY WALKER and Richard Jordan,
two negroes convicted of murder, were
taken from Q train at Mitchell's Sta
tion,. Ala, and lynched.
The exchanges At the leading clear
ing bouses in the United States during
the week ended on the oath aggregated
$S1S, 49b;6 ;631, against $790,6S3, ,1s5 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was 1915.
ANDERSON BOYD (colored) was com.
mitted to Jail at Knoxville, Tenn, on
the charge of numbering Ed Uhl in
Marion county. O.. ten years ago.
CARL LOWER, an ex-employe, fatally
wounded Alois Mehetretter, a tailor,
at Buffalo.
The president has signed the general
deficiency appropriation bill, the last
of the appropriation bills of this ses.
sion.
PHILIP PETERS (colored). was hanged
at Helena, Ark, for killing his wife.
AT Ashland, Wis, an entire block OF
business buildings was destroyed by
fire.
LIGHTNING struck an emigrant's
wagon near Columbus, Tex, killing
husband and wife, but leaving their
babe unhurt.
DAVID FERRAN, aged 20, deaf mute
living at Curtisville, Ind. was run
over by a switch engine and his body
ground to fragments.
A CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL
freight train was held up at Deerfeld
ILL.,, by two men, who killed detect.
i've who was on the train and robbed
the conductor.
Mrs. l.. b. CHRIST, together with her
two children, was burned to death as
result of gasoline explosion at For.
est City, Mo.
A New YORK syndicate has furnished
the whisky trust s5,ooo,0o to take its
spirits out of bond, the Illinois trust
and savings bank of Chicago to act as
trustee.
HUGH LYON, who killed a peddler on
Sanary island, was hanged at New
Westminster, B. C.
GEORGE l.. McCAHAN, of Baltimore,
was elected grand high chief of the
Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Ma
sons at the convention in Topeka.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the national league for the week
ended or the 25th were: Boston, 900;
Baltimore, .640; New York, .6s5: Phil.
adelphia. .571; Cleveland. $40; Brook.
lyn, 1925; Pittsburgh, 500; Chicago,
.456; Cincinnati, .4S6; st. Louis, .4O4;
Washington. $3.50; Louisville. .311.
G. e. WILLIAMS won the bicycle road
race from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, trav.
F., ersing the 234 miles in 20 hours and 81
minutes.
The town of Guerneville, Cal, was
destroyed by fire.
H. F. GR1swoLD and William Lake,
who held up St.. Paul train at Deer
field, ILL.,, and killed Special Officer
Owens, were captured after running
! fight in which they shot an officer and
both were wounded.
LIGHTNING from an almost cloudless
sky killed William Carr. aged 20, who
was bathing at Atlantic City. N. J..
TWENTY persons were badly injured
by the falling OF a bridge in Fairmount
park at Kansas City.
q The steamer New York made the
passage from Southampton to New
York in six days eight hours and thirty.
eight minutes, breaking all previous
| records,
AT Washington park. Chicago, Di
rectly paced a mile In 2:1OH. lowering
the worlds record for two-year-olds q
quarter of second.
ADAM A. PARRorT, his wife and two
of their three children were drowned
while attempting to ford the Scioto
river in a wagon near Portsmouth, o.
AN incendiary fire in the yards OF
the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber company
in Chicago destroyed $4,000 worth
of property, including twenty.seven
horses.
BEN KERsHAw and his brother John
and Robert Thomas were drowned at
Waltham. Mass, by the overturning
of their canoe.
ABE BUzzARD, the notorious Penn.
sylvania outlaw, was sentenced to
eleven years imprisonment for bur-
glary.
THOMAS w. HEATHcoTE, chairman of
the Pullman strikers committee, de-
clared the strike at an end.
M1srAKINa a party Of young men for
burglars, Stephen Albright, of Allen.
town. Pa, fired at them. woupd;pu