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WENT TO KNL. AND WAS KILLED.
Desperado, Seeking Revenge, Inadvert-
emily Rang . Bell and Gave Warning.

Desperndo, Seeking Revenge, Inadvert-
emily Rang . Bell and Gave Warning.
Alexander Pierson, q colored desperate,
was shot to death at Irish Valley, Penn,
by George Brewer and John Geimhy.
Brewer and Geimby were in an outhouse
on Brewers farm when the tlnkle of o bell
In the stable caught their ear. The bell
connected with the kitchen by a cord, md
Pierson had accidentally run against the
cord, sounding his own death knell, as 1t
proved. 1t was his intention to kill Brewer
and his wife.
For years Pierson had terrorized various
portions Of the State. Last year he stopped
at Irish Valley and entered Mr.. Brewers
house and stole $50. Mr.. Brewer n some
friends pursued and caught him and he was
convicted and sentenced to nine months
Imprisonment. He then declared that he
would be revenged upon Brewer. On being
released after serving his sentence he
started for Irish Valley, to carry out his
threat.
As related, Brewer and Geimby heard the
bell. They rushed in the kitchen Ii con-
fronted Pierson. The desperate made
ready for battle and ducked as q shot
whizzed passed his head. The farm hands
hurried from all sides. Plerson ran back
a few steps and sprang through u closed
window. As he landed on the ground out
side q bullet broke one of his legs. An in
slant later another went through his head.
Pierson dragged himself forward, cursing
his foes and shouted deflantly as the guns
cracked away. He died at Brewers feet.
The coroner's verdict was justiiable homi-
eide.
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There were 1874, 470 bushels OF grain ex-
ported from Baltimore, Nd, in May.
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Newsy ~Gleaninss.
Prussia has n marine school.
AInylnn hasn s~cnrcitv of corn

Prussia has n marine school.
Mexico has scarcity of corn.
California has a new law protecting song
birds.
The Texas wheat crop is in superb con-
dition.
Some queer disease is killing sycamores
in Oregon.
The wheat crop of France will be &C, O0O,-
900 bushels less than last year.
Attendance at the Nashville (Tenn.) Ex-
position during May exceeded 200, 900.
The Council Of Philadelphia has appro-
priated the sum Of S5675 Tor fireworks on
the Fourth OF July.
There are 7497 less saloons in New York
State than there wcro when the Raines law
went into operation.
Governor Stephens, OF Missouri, himself
counted cash in the State Treasury recently
and found 81 SAC, 66S,49 on hand.
Africa's peanut area is increasing.
By the bursting OF two dams on the st.
Crolx River, Nova Scotia, 5000, 900 feet of
timber was swept into the Bay OF Fundy.
NJ. Gerault Richard, u Socialist, was
elected by force from the French Chamber
OF Deputies, end a great uproar resulted.
Wolves having broken loose and slaugh-
tered hundreds of calves and sheep In KAN
sas lately, the cattlemen of the western
part of the State are Offering big bounties
for their scalps.
As soon as the present special session Of
Congress ends the Library OF Congress will
be closed and will remain 80 until tho
books and other treasures of the vast col
lection nave been removed to the new and
magnificent building.
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REPUBLICANS WIN IN CHICAGO.
Only Half h Regular Vote Polied ut the
judicial Election.

The judicial election in Chicago, ILL.,. was
carried by the Republicans, who elected all
OF their candidates by pluralities of about
IL, 900 In the city and 1000 in the county out
side OF the city.
Although the ticket was called Republi-
can, 1t Included tho fourteen Judges now
on the bench Of the Circuit Court, eight Re
publicans aud six Democrats. In addition
to the Judges of the Circuit Court, one
Judge OF the Superior Court and one JUS
tice OF the Supreme bench were voted for,
but Magruder for tho latter position, and
Brentano for the former, were Endorsed by
both Republicans and Democrats.
The Silver party had five candidates in
the field for the Circuit bench, but its can
didates secured only about one-flfth US
many votes rs the Republicans. Scarcely
half the regular vote was polled. The
amended Torrens Land Title law was over.
whelmingly adopted.
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Bishop Merrill is the lawyer and parlia-
mentarian of the Episcopaey. His book on
ecclesiastical law is the code In the Metho-
dist church. 1t was his work in the church
literary world that brought to him the title
of Master Of Arts from the Indiana Asbury
University.
His ordination in the Episcopacy dates
from 1872, and during the years since then
he has visited most of the foreign missions.
His dress is of the old school-the high hat,
straight up and down, INT the coat of con-
ventional ministerial black. His speetaeles
are cut into two parts, and he looks some
times through tho uppe md sometimes
through the lower. His summer work takes
him from N end of the country to the
other.
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ChiseiIed Off a Rivals Nose.

Samuel Mellon, the successful aspirant
for the hand of a Plymouth PENN young
woman, has been horribly disflgured by his
rivals. Joseph Riscock, John Frosus INT
Anthony Sedok had also been suitors of The
nights ago, and was accepted. His rivals
were furious and threatened his life. AS
Mellon was returning with the young wo-
man from the home Of q friend he was &C.
costed by his rivals, who, without a word,
threw him down and hacked off his nose
with a sharp chisel. In his struggles his
face was horribly laeerated.
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WORLDS o D TOWN..
Pullman, ILL.,, Win a Medal at the
Prague Exposition.

Eulithhus 1ih.b Nihs u heuhh NJ tho
Prague Exposition.
George NJ. Pullman has received from
Archduke Rainier two magnificent medals
and a richly wrought diploma as testi-
monials of honor and merit In founding and
building the most perfect town in the
world.
This distinction for the suburb came as n
result of an exhibit in the international
hygienic and pharmaceutical exposition in
Prague. Bohemia.
The archduke was the protector of the
exposition. Pullman won against the set
Elements created by Krupp, the gunman,
and Stumm. the great maker of steel, and
Baron Won Ringhofer.
The verdict of the jury was unanimous,
finding that Pullman was without a peer in
the matter of comfortable homes for work
ingmen, streets, sewers, water system,
shops, public halls, churches, grounds and
the rules and regulations governing them.
The verdict included the Pullman sleeping
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Tho greatest fire that has ever visited
Alexandria, w., broke out in Bryan's fer
tilizing mill, on the river front, and ragged
with great fury for about eight hours,
causing q total damage of from S450, 900 to
$500, 900, partly insured. The entire block
bounded by the STRAND, Duke, Union and
Prince streets was almost wiped out, only
one warehouse with its contents being
saved. A fierce wind was blowing, and for
a time the whole town was threatened.
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'cANovAs
Christina Decides to Retain Him
"a Snain,s Preminr-

Queen Christina Decides to Retain Him
as Spain's Premier.
The Queen Regent OF Spain has con-
nrmed Senior Canovas, the Premier, in his
ministerial powers and the Cabinet will re-
main in office, with personnel and policy
unchanged.
All the leading members of the Senate
and of the Chamber of Deputies who were
consulted by Her Majesty. as well as three
m%arshals. advised the recall of Captain
General Weyler from Cuba.
But 1t Is understood that the Government
does not contemplate n yimmedIate change
In ..the supreme command in Cuba. The
surprise aud displeasure OF the various
sections of the opposition are not easy to
describe.
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Adispatch from ~Barbourviile, KY, says
that the Rev. Berry Lawson, a Methodist
minister, was shot and instantly killed by
his ffteen-year-old son, Isham. The father
whipped the boy on Sunday for some
eight offence and he left home. The
punishment ranked In the little fellows
heart, and he returned home this morning.
and finding his father in a cornfield, slipped
up behind him and blew his head from his
shoulders with a shotgun. The youthful
parricide escaped.
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FIVE KILLED IN A COLLISION.


Five men were instantly killed and foul
others badly injured in a collision on the
Omaha Railroad near Hudson Junction
Wis. The trains were running at high
speed and came together on a sharp curve
h dead are: e. s. Harm, Joseph Leight,
heiser, Thomas Reilly and Milton Swain, al
laborers, OF Eau Claire, Wis, and Herman
Reby, fireman. The injured are: - Bro.
gan, engineer, head bruised and face In.
jured; James 0wne, conductor, and A..
Seittleman, fatally, and Frank Thayer, G.
Altoona. Wis.,, fireman, fatally injured.
h way freight, west bound, ) took the
left hand track against orders. At a rate
OF eighteen miles on q down grade it came
upon the work train backing east at thirty.
five miles an hour. Both engines were
wreekad
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HEALER CHLATTERDBAD
Starved Himself in the Mountains Near
Casa Grande, Mexico.
HIS SKELETON DISCOVERED.

Found by American Prospectors in a Gorge
Through Which the Puetas verlns
River ~Runs-Efects Showed That 1t
Was All That Remains of the so-CaiIed
Divine Healer-Seen Last by Cowboys.
Ell PAso, TEXAS. (s~peclal).-A week g
two American prospectors found in the
loot hills of the Sierre Madre on the Puetas
Verdas River, thirty-flve miles southwest
Of Casa Grande, in the State OF chihuahua,
Mexico, all that remains of Francis
Sehlatter, the Divine Healer,'' who, a
year ago, was the subject of much wonder
ment throughout the Western States, par
ticularly In the Southwest. The pros
pectors' attention was attracted to his
camp by espying a saddle astride q
limb in q dead tree high up In a gorge
through which the river runs. Schlatter's
skeleton was found lying stretched
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Labor World.

The machinists have $50 unions.
Chicago has 100, 900 unemployed.
Gold miners In Alaska get s15 q day.
Georgia has 100000 cotton spindles.
Minnesota's 1900 BARRIERS are to be L.
censed.
oolored miners of Detroit, Mieh.. have
formed a union.
Wheeling wv. va.) unions will observe
August 2s as Labor Day.
All Minneapolis municipal stone cutting
must be done by unionists.
At the Tennessee State mines 100 coke
ovens have been erected and senyiets will
DO employed.
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Minnesota has 10, 600 lakes.
Boston is the biggest snufr taker In the
United States.
Georgia's Governor has over eighty-one
Colonies on his staff.
watermelons were shipped from Oxford,
Fla, during the last week in May.
ClyIe Ketchum, not twenty-one. has been
elected Justice OF the Peace at Dowagiee,
Mich.
Hundreds of sheep are said to have been
poisoned In Montana through eating tine
plant commonly known as the larkspur.
The Thorn brothers, OF Sundance, Wyom-
ing, killed seventy-nine wolves and coyotes
In one week. The hides made q wagon
load.
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MINER AND SUPERINTENDENT KILLED
Two Deaths Follow a Labor Riot in ILL.,

Two Deaths Follow a Labor Riot in IIli-
nOis.
A serious labor riot occurred at Minonk,
Ill. The coal miners there nave been onsai
strike since May 1. Last week a few men
were working against the wishes of the
majority. While Superintendent A. Nor
gan and one of the bosses, Joseph Erbel
land, were escorting one of the men to
work, o crowd of miners interfered. A
fight ensued and Morgan and Erbeland
began to shoot, killing instantly a young
married miner, John Weloski. and wound
ing another. This so enraged the miners
that they attacked Morgan and 'Erbeland
with clubs and stones and beat them bad
ly. Morgan died later.
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The MARKETS.

Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce
Quoted in New York.
"a MILK AND CREAM.
The average price paid for the surplus on
the platforms has been s1.05 q can of 40
quarts. Receipts of milk and cream at the
different railroad distributing points in and
near the city for the week have been "a
follows:
Average daily receipts Of the week,
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TWENTY KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION



The Carolina calico printing factory at
Puebla, Mexico, was destroyed by q boiler
explosion. Twenty men arc known to be
dead; many Others arc injured, and much
property was destroyed.
The factory, the property of the Noriega
Brothers, the ~well-known Spanish mer.
chants of Mexico City, was In the heart of
the city. The loss on buildings, machinery
and stock will amoun to $50, 600. Mum.
beers of soldiers are now engaged in clear.
ing away the debris and also In keeping
back the ever-increasing crowd.
Fragments Of human bodies, mixed up
with pieces OF machinery and building ma.
terial, strew the ground upon every side.
Persons were killed in adjoining houses
and the fronts Of neighboring dwellings
were blown out. The scene of the accident
presents q scene of Undesirable destruc.
ton and confusion.
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Marched to Death Singing.

At Morristown, N. J., David Wilson, ths
colored nan who murdered his wife a year
ago, was hanged in the jail yard. He
walked to the gsllows, apparently without
fear, between the pastor of the A. NJ. L.
Zion Church, who baptized him a day or
two before, and the President of the Y. NJ.
q. A. They were singing "I'm Going Home
to DIE Nc More"
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William N. Boggs, paying teller of the
First National Bank of Dover, Del, is al
legged to be a defaulter in the sum of $685.
900. The populations are said to have ex-
tended over a period of ten years, and have
been covered up by false entries that es-
capped the eyes OF the Bank Examiner. Mr..
Boggs had been employed in the bank for
over fifteen years, and has always been re-
garded as perfectly honest and upright in
all his dealings.
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Big cIoudhurst IN Francs.

A cloudburst in the hill country of the
Province of Isere, in Southeastern France
caused the overflow of the River Norge,
and the destruction of a number OF paper
mills and silk factories. as well as houses,
along the banks. AT the town OF voiron
and Moirans the river rose suddenly twenty
feet. One person was drowned and the loss
to property is estimated at g. 600, 900.
Four thousand factory operatives are
thrown out OF employment.
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PROGRAMME OF THE PRESIDENT.
--
He Proposes to Urge the Passage of I
Currency CommIssinn RiI

He to Urge the Passage of n
Currency Commission Bill.
1t is stated on the very highest authority
that the President intends to ask Congress
to pass a bill authorizing the appointment
of a Currency Commission before the ad-
journment Of the special session.
Within twenty-four hours after the Senate
has passed the Tariff bill MIR. Mckinley will
send In a special message urging the Com.
mission bill. He will ask for a non-par-
tisan commission OF from eleven to fifteen
member to make a study of the financial
system and report what changes should be
made to place the currency upon an abso,
the business world.
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One more victim was added to the fatali-
ties at Urbana, Ohio, preceding the lynch
ing OF Mitchell when Wesley Bowen died.
Bowen was shot In the hip, having two
wounds. The physicians had some hopes
Of his recovery, but his strength gave way,
and his decline was rapid. Bowen lived at
Cable, q small town on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, northeast Of Urbana, and he was
one of the many country people who formed
a large part of the crowd that surrounded
the jail and court house.
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The Yaqui Indians, of Mexico, have been
organized into a State militia, and Juan
Maldonado, Chief of the tribe, has been ap-
pointed military commander OF the force at
a salary Of $50 n month. As the Yaquis
know the mountainous districts OF the State
thoroughly 1t is believed they will be OF
great aid to Federal troops in suppressing
lawlessness,
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Worlds Creates. Mule Market.

Kansas City, No., whence thousands of
mules are annually shipped to various
points, is becoming the greatest mule mar
ket in the world.
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The President made the following NOM
nations: Ellis H.. Roberts, to be United
States Treasurer; Conrad N. Jordan, to be
Assistant Treasurer Of the United States at
New York; Lawrence Townsend, of Penn
~sylvania, to be Minister to Portugal.
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Professor Avian G.. CLARK, the famous
telescope lens manufacturer, died at his
home at Cambridge, Mass, as tho result of
q stroke of apoplexy, His latest finished
work, the mammoth lenses for the Yerkes
telescope, was shipped to Chicago u short
time ago. Mr.. CLARK was born in Fail River
on InlY 10. 1892.
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Robert Kydd, Foreman at j. s. BusAeld's
machine shop, Haverhiil, Mass, was shot
lead by E. Calvin, ~bookkeeper at the es-
Enlistment. Calvin was arrested. To the
officers he admitted that he shot Kydd and
that the shooting resulted from a long
~tanding feud.
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rhree rIremen Klned in San Francisco.

Three Firemen Killed in San Francisco.
gse occurred in the Standard Biscuit
CON ,ny's works, San Francisco, Cal,
q lich resulted in the death Of three fire.
yen. The fire started at noon and a high
lind caused the flames to spread rapidly.
khn Moholy, Of the chemical engine, was
Tught by falling brick aud called for help.
Nssk Kelleyjsh6 danes Mailman rushed
FL ~nfhen h whole wall fell upon
I rbe Russfnlng them almost beyond reeog-
sauk loss on the building was $50
psno" zen 9stock $4,000.
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MURDER TO WIN A WOMAN.
This Method Used to Get a Husband Out
of the Way.

DR.. James ]. Fitzpatrick, a prominent
physician of Burke County, Georgia, was
placed in jail at waynesboro charged with
the murder Of Joseph sprinta, confidential
clerk to Davis 4 Marks, of Midwife, Ga.
Sprintz was found on May G at his home
In Midwife with his head crushed. His
diamond stud, watch and scarfpin were
missing,
DR.. Fitzpatrick, his neighbor, advanced
the theory that robbery was the motive.
He said Mr.. Sprintz had in the bedclothina
$1,000, which he was holding for the doctor
himself. This was gone.
Mrs. Sprintz was In Macon, Ga, at the
time of the murder. 1t is said that she and
Dr.. Fitzpatrick were in love with eacb
other.
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The Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs,
the Duke OF Tetuan, read at the last Cabi-
net council in Madrid a despatch from
Washington which announced that Presi-
dent Mckinley had given assurances Of
sympathy with Spain.
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"No rransvaal for England"

The Transvaal exhibition was opened at
Berlin, Germany. Among the speakers
was Professor Kirchoff, OF Hattie, who said:
Gas formerly the cry went throughout
Germany the French shall not have the
Rhine SO now the English shall not have
the T~ransvaal."
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MONKS ROASTED ALIVE BY REBELS
Crueities Alleged TO Have Eeen Practised
on the Philippine Islands.


on the Philippine ISLANDS.
Further interviews with officers OF the
steamer Hupeh, at Vancouver, British
Columbia, elicit the fact that twenty-five
Catholic monks were roasted by the rebels
In the Philippine Islands, and not by Span
ish troops, as previously reported. The In
formation was furnished by a prominent
resident Of Tlo-Ilo, In the group Of islands,
and c~orroborated by q foreign consul. In
consequence of the cruelties practised by
the Spanish troops on the rebels or those
suspected OF being in sympathy with the
rebel cause, the rebels In revenge perpe-
trated acts Of cruelty on the hapless monks
who came in their clutches. The custom
airy mode of roasting sucking pigs in the
island Is by thrusting q bamboo through
the pig and then fastening II TO an iron and
roasting it over a slow fire. This was done
to the monks, the bamboo being thrust
through them while they we're alive
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Thrown From Her wheel and rowne

At Garrison-on-tho-Hudson, N. Y, Susan
Duryea, the twelve-year-old grand-daugh-
ter Of Samuel Sloan, President of the Della
ware, Laekawanna n Western Railroad,
lost her life by an accident. She was riding
her bicycle, lost control of 1t, and was
thrown headlong into o small pond, which
only q few days before had been ~deepened.
She was drowned.
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Returns from the first Missouri Congress
slonal District Indicate Lloyd, Democrat,
elected over Clark, Republican, by a
plurality of 5000. The total vote cast was
about eighty per cent. of that cast last
November. Lloyd carried Hannibal, Clark's
home, by 241 plurality, a Democratic gain
of zoo over the November election.
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Mining men about Eiko, New, ore In a
Torment over tho robbery OF bullion worth
$40. 900 from the Dexter mine in the Tus-
ezra district. Two officials OF the mine are
suspected of the robbery.
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In consequence OF the famine, numerous
bands of brlgands have formed in India.
some Of them even use artillery. In Lahore
a jeweler was robbed Of valuables to the
amount Of $38, 600.
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Boy Kills His Two sisters.

The ffteen-year-old son OF L. Schwartz,
while attempting to unload q gun at
Greene, N. Y, discharged the weapon, kill
ing his two sisters. The bullet passed
through the neck OF one sister and struck
the other just above the heart.
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New Illinois street Railway Law.

Governor Tanner, of Illinois, has signed
the famous Allen Street Railway bill. The
bill authorizes ~hfty-year extensions OF ex-
listing street railway franchises, allows i've
cent fares to continue, permits consolida-
tion Of companies, and makes no provision
Tor compensation to munlcipalities.
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Thirty years ago the B. & o. bought steel
rails in England at a cost OF s1l2 per ton in
gold. Some Of this rail is still in use on
short branches and is in marvelously good
condition. 1t is pear-shaped and was in
tended for use with wooden splices.
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CUBAN TRAIN BLOWN UP.
Clever Persons Killed Near Havana by
the Insurgents.

The passenger train which leaves Hav-
ana for Matanzas daily at 6 a. m was blown
up with dynamite about twelve miles from
the city by a party of Cuban insurgents.
According to the official account, tho OBJ
ject was plumber, as about $4,000 was In the
express car.
Both engineers, one fireman, one con-
ductor and seven soldiers were killed, and
three passengers were severely injured,
while ~thirty-two suffered more or less seri-
Gus bruises.
insurgents opened fire on the train, serious.
ly wounding a Captain.
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: New Estimate of Population.

The Treasury Department estimates the
population of the United States at 72,547,-
900, INT the circulation OF money per
capita, based On that estimate, Is stated at
S23.Ol.
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Blue Prospects, for Corn.

Alarm is felt in Iowa regarding the COM
ing corn crop, and added to this comes the
news that all corn in the cribs, no matter
how substantially the latter have been
built, Is rotting.
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Hero,c Convic,a an parole.

There was a fire in the State P~enitentiary
at Lansing, Kan. One thousand lives wero
In danger. Fifty s'trusty' conviets were
released In order that they might help to
preserve order md life. Not one of them
attempted to violate his heroic parole.
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The armored cruiser Brooklyn sailed for
England, where she is to represent the
United States In the naval demonstration
attending the Queens Jubilee celebration.