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bank robbery and murder at North
field in 1876, have been paroled.
"A score of Dowieites were arrested
in Evanston, ILL.,, after a riot partici-
pated in by the Zion guards.
In convention in Columbus the
Ohio democrats nominated Col. James
kilbourne, of Columbus. for governor.
The thermometer reached 102 de-
grees in Chicago on the 10th, which
exceeded all previous records of the
local weather bureau.
Seventeen persons were killed and
over 40 injured, some fatally, in a
collision between a Chicago & Alton
passenger train and a freight near
Norton, Mo.
Five persons committed suicide in
Chicago and one made an unsuccess
full attempt.
Revenue war tax collections from
June 10, 1898, to May 81, 1901, amount
ed to S31O,053,363.
The twentieth international Chris
tian Endeavor convention closed at
Cincinnati.
An accident in a plate glass factory
at Kokomo, Ind, will make ii neces-
sary to amputate the arms of five
men.
The hot wave has done great dam
age to the crops in western states.
The Kansas corn crop is virtually de-
stroyed.
The transport Mcclellan sailed from
New York for the Philippines bearing
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and sew
eral members of the house of repre-
sentatives, who will investigate con-
ditions there.
was swept away by tornado, but no
lives were lost.
The berry crop in Wisconsin is al
most a complete failure, and corn and
tobacco will be little better unless rain
comes at once.
Gen. Gomez sailed from New York
for Havana. He declared that he was
convinced that the Americans sympa-
thize with Cubans.
A freight train on the Nickel Plate
road went through bridge at Spring
field, Pa, and nine workmen were
killed and IA injured.
A farmer named McGrath living
near Broclport, n. Y. killed his wife
and then committed suicide. Five chill
dren are left orphans.
Forty mules were cremated in fire
in a stable in st. Louis.
Samuel Huise, aged "a and weighing
only AZ pounds, and Sarah stephens.
weighing SO pounds, were married at
Maryville, Mo.
The supreme lodge Knights of Pyth-
las reorganized the insurance branch
of the order in Chicago and increased
the rates of insurance 81 per cent.
Peter Smith, a wealthy farmer at
cambridge, Mich, was assassinated
by an unknown man who was hidden in
field.
A large part of the business portion
of Clear Lake, Ia, was swept away
by fire.
Chicago servant girls have formed
the Working Women's Protective as
ISOLATION.
A child was killed by an explosion
at Albany Mo-, caused by tool chest
falling upon a pet frog which had
swallowed dynamite.
Later advices show that 10 persons
lost their lives in the railway wreck
near Norton, Mo.
Drought in Kansas, Missouri. Ne
brnska, Wisconsin, Minnesot and Iowa
has damaged crops to the extent of
hundreds of millions Of dollars.
G. Stanley Hail. president Of Clark
university, declared at the teachers
convention in Detroit that higher edu. |
cation untitled women for wifehood |
and motherhood.
Death claimed two Of the three |
Stanton sisters in Chicago devoted &c |
each other and sorrow rendered the
third insane.
Fire destroyed the business portion,
Of Huntsville, III.
Alfred B. Kittredge, of Sioux Falls,
has been appointed United States sen.
ator by the governor of South Dakota
as successor to the late Senator Kyle.
A bulletin from the census office
shows that 2s,41l COS people in the
United States live III cities and towns
Of over 1000 population.