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the Florida coast against Honduras, MICA
ragua and other Central American coup
tries.
Eight deaths OF lockjaw have occurred
In ST. Louis, Mo-, Rs the result Of wounds
received on Independence Day. This is
teen; August Burton, aged seventeen;
Adolph Hunt, aged thirty-nlne; Henrietta
Weidemann, aged tyenty-seven; Robert s.
Tourville. aged fifteen: Charles A. Ander,,
son, aged nineteen; Henry Wi:te, aged
thirteen; Ollie Dohn, aged sixteen.
Fire destroyed the Grace Hotel. four.
story brick structure In Milwaukee, Wis.
About twenty-five flremen were injured, OF
whom Ave were fatally hurt. The recuui-
ary loss is small. Among the injured are
Chief James Foley, Captain P. j. Linehan.
Captain John Wolf, Assistant and Chiei
Clancy.
Ralph schelly, eight years old, died in
bis home, at Montpelier, Ind, as the re-
suit OF vicious attackIon him by four oil
his playmates. Two Of them held Ralph
Schelly while the others kicked him and
pounded him on the neck, head and back
with stones. Lockjaw followed, then
death.
A. Van Booming, State Grand Master OF
the Knights and Ladies OF Honor, aged
forty y-six years, committed suicide by throw
ing himself from the steamer Bald Eagle,
three miles above the Copper Greek dam,
near Peoria, III. Domestic trouble Is sup
posed to have caused the act.
Alvah W. Ketcham, who left the position
OF private secretary to Philip D. Armour to
embark on his own account In business,
I,,Hr Gpr In a
ngo charged with being prlncipa' In a
800 900 diamond swlndle. Hls lawyer says
the case has shattered his reason.
Two sailors, who went to the rescue OF a
sinking fishing sloop In the harbor OF
Rockland, Me-. found the dead body OF
man aboard. Letters In his clothes re-
vealed that his name was G. A. Harvey, OF
North Bucksport. pocketbook, contain
ing twenty-five cents, was found In Har-
vey's pocket.
After a separation OF sixty-slx years,
Nathan Branch, q negro and the Oldest man
In Evanston, ILL.,. met his brother, Lee, OF
Macon, On. The last sight they had OF each
other was in an auctloneer's room in Ches.
terfleld County, Va, when they were Of
fered for snle. They recently learned OF
each others location by accident.
Manager Griscom, OF the American Line
In New York CitY, discussed the probable
future OF the steamship Paris. Hs said
that that matter would have to be doter.
mined by board OF survey, and would de.
pend on whether the ship was. In marine
insurance terms, a constructive total loss
or total loss.
A boat capsized mt Luhec, Me-, during a
yacht race, and Hollis G. Nickerson and
Eben G. Small we're drowned.
Train robbers stopped passenger train
OF tho Colorado and Southe n Railway
near Folsom, N. NJ, and broke the sides oil
the express car with dynamite. Officers oi
the Wells-Fargo Express Company say that
nothing was secured by the robbers, who
escaped on horses which were tethered
near bY.
Harry E. Park, Of Sinking Valley, Penn,
scorched thirty miles on bis new bicycle
lew days ago. He stopped at farm
house and drani q large quantity OF Ice
water. He fell dead rs he was about to
mount his wheel. The boys father had
presented him with new wheel the day
before.
A pistol duel In which both principals
were killed occurred at Crawford, Miss
The dead men are Shields Irwin and F. A.
Tarleton. Tarleton's house was entered
on December "a last, and he accused Irwin
of being the thief. A: the trial the jury
returned verdict OF not guilty. At the
first meeting between Irwin aud Tarleton
since the trial the shooting took place.
Mrs. Chauncey Talbot, twenty-eteht
years old, the vile OF well-known bust
ness man OF Putnam, Conn.,. drowned her
self and her two-year-oid boy In the
Quinebauc River. Two mouths ago an In
fant child died, and since then the young
h.. I, 0riaua5 Oraaf1v