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rested as ringleadets.
South western Indiana coal miners
have voted unanimpusly to lay down
their tools until the big strike is settled.
Arkansas fruit growers are negotiat-
ing at Denver for carload Of red ants
TO kill off worms that are running their
orchards.
President and Mrs. Mckinley, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Alger and party visited
John Browns grave, near Platts-
burg, N. Y.
1t is reported that large band OF
Armenian agitators from Persia in
vaded Turkey and killed 200 Of the
Migriki tribe, Including women and
children.
Capt. Bradley's towboat Fritz blew
up while landing tow of logs mt
Cairo, Ill. Ten men are missing and
are supposed to have drowned, while
four were badly scalded.
Upon the success or failure of the
the inception of a movement by the
anthracite miners in Pennsylvania for
higher wages and better conditions.
During the recent rioting at Calcutta
the British artillery fired point blank
at mob of 5000 mill hands who were
marching to join the rioters, with the
result that 500 of the natives were
killed.
"Divlne Healer Schlatter took out
license at Canton, o., TO marry Mrs. q.
w. Ferris, widow of the inventor of
the Ferris wheel, The lady says she
never promised to marry him and calls
him a freak.
Villains who evidently had designs
on the Ii. & O. pay car spiked heavy
timber to the tracks near Muirkirk,
Md, but an excursion train running
at low speed ran into it and not much
damage resulted.
Philip Hines died at Delaware, o..
aged l07 years. He went to war when
II years old, and got discharge re-
Gently, as he was on a furlough when
peace was declared. lie was the last
veteran discharged. His wife is o.
years old.
While playing with a large hound on
the farm of John d. Kaiser, near
Adrian, the 7-year-old daughter of
Chas. Berandt was terribly injured by
the beast jumping at her face, tearing
the flesh almost complet ely off below
the eyes. The injury may prove fatal.
Nikola Tesla, the sensationally adj
vertised electrician who poses as a
rival of Edison says he has succeeded in
making it possible to send electrical
currents to any point without wires
any p int means that the earth can be
circled with the mysterious current
and that space means nothing.
About 125 men and women of the
Minnesota Editorial association struck
the Wolverine state at Ludington,
after a journey across Lake Michigan
from Milwaukee, on a weeks outing.
A special +. & T. NJ. train carried the
party to Detroit where four days were
spent in sightseeing and side excur-
sions
Over 800 striking miners from Ohio
invaded the Boggs Run field near
Wheeling, w Va, with view of in
ducing the miners at work in that sec
ton to join the strike. They an
nouuccd that they would stay until
those mines closed and met with good
success the first day-over 100 miners
not going to work.
Latest advices from Alaska say that
the snow has already commenced to
fall and there is every prospect of an
early winter. This being the case
there is very little chance of one-half
of the would-be prospectors now at
Dyea crossing the Chilkoot pass before
spring, to say nothing of the thousands
now on the way to Dyea and Juneau.
Emperor William and Empress Au-
gusta Victoria were received and en-
tertained in most affectionate and
elaborate manner by Car Nicholas on
their visit to ST. Petersburg. At a
state banquet both emperors pledged
to support each other against anyone
who may attempt to disturb or break
the peace" existing in and between the
two empires.
Ex- Vice President Cameron Miller,
of .the United Mine Workers, has en-
tered suit at Pittsburg for IS, dam
ages against Il. Il. DeArmit. of the New
York e Cleveland Gas Coal Co., for
malicious prosecution. DeArmit had
him arrested on charges of riot and un-
lawful assemblage. These charges
were not substantiated and the case
was dismissed.
To carry forward its work, the sound
money executive committee appointed
at Indianapolis last January met in
Chicago to endeavor to proceed with
the task of creating a national currency
commission to whom will be intrusted
the responsibility of undertaking to
devise some satisfactory and accept
able plan for revising, refo ming and
regulating the currency system.
The Turkish government officials are
now manifesting desire to expedite
the settlement of the peace negotia-
tons, owing to the straitened state of
the cxchequer, rendering it impossible
under the present circumstances to
contract a new loan; because of the
unhealthy condition of the troops in