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and Texas mines at Excello.
The Pennsylvania democratic con.
yention ignored every national and
state issue except Quayism and will
make the fight on that alone.
DR.. b. II. Kettrel Of Winona. Miss,
died at Fourth lake. near Syracuse,
N. Y. He had charge of the hospital
during the Santiago campaign.
The German steamer Alene ran
down and sank the pilot boat James
Gordon Bennett near Scotland light.
ship. Three pilots and the cook of
the Bennentt were drowned.
A Northern Pacific telegrapher has
invented a system by which telegraph
and telephone messages may be sent
simultaneously over the same wire.
The Great Southern Hotel and
Theater building at Columbus, o.,
was sold at Sheriff's sale for $3.50 900
t. Messrs. Ralph and Fred Lazarus.
Mrs. John A. Corwin. wife Of the pO-
litical editor Of the Chicago Tribune,
died at Tomahawk lake, Wisconsin
where she was spending the summer,
Wireless telegraph messages sent
from Nantucket were exchanged with
the steamer Lucania when she had 200
miles to go before reaching New York.
The German Lutheran Synod at
Mantato, Mimi. elected Carl Gau3-
vitz of st. Paul president and the Rev.
J. Naumann. Gibbon, Mimi, secretary.
The government has taken posses.
sion OF the property at Charleston,
$. c., upon which the new naval sta
ton at that place is to be constructed.
Several men in Chicago are under
going experiments to test Dr. Koch's
theory regarding the communicabillty
OF tuberculosis from cattle to human
beings.
II is said that when Gen. William
j. Palmer retired from the directorate
of the Denver and Rio Grande Western
railroad he gave $1,000,O00 in stock to
employees.
Judge Harmon Yerkes and Andrew
j. Palm were nominated by the Penn
sylvanla democrats, respectively for
supreme court justice and state
treasurer.
Henry II. Hinkley of Dubois, ILL.,, has
been awarded the free scholarship to
tho agricultural department OF the
Illinois state university from Washing.
ton county.
No physician or nurse attended Mrs.
Mabel Haines, accused of the murder
of her step-daughter, when baby was
born to her in her prison cell at Mount
Holly, N j.
At EastOn Penn. Joseph Gumelak,
e Hungarian, while trying to escape
from constable in Phillipsburg,
plunged into the Delaware river and
was drowned.
Edwin Manning, the wealthiest man
In the state of Iowa. died at his home
in Keosouqua, Iowa, at the advanced
age of sc years. His estate Is valued
at 100000
The attorney general has decided
that the government can collect from
the bond of postal clerk or carrier
for money which he steals from Il
registered letter.
Representative Vincent Boreing of
Kentucky was saved from an embar.
RAISING position by the marriage of a
widow postmaster and n rival candI-
date for her office.
Pension report shows a startling IN
crease in expenditures and claimants.
The pensioners now number 997,735,
and new applications promise to In
crease this materially.
DR. Edward w. Claypolo of Pasad2-
ma died at Long Beach, Cal. DR.. Clay
pole was n we'll known gcologlst and
formerly n member of the faculty Of
BuChtel college. Akron, o.
Judge II. f. Simrall, ex,chief justice
of the Mississippi supreme court, and
prominent in state affairs during re-
construction days, died at his home
near Vcksburg. He was "a years of
age,
John Winters, charged with having
robbed the vault Of the Sclby company
of bullion exceeding $2S0,O00 in value
pleaded guilty at his preliminary eX.
animation at Crockett Cal
Edgar A. Allen, now superintendent
of the Quapaw Indian school, in Indian
territory, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Carlisle in
dustrial school, at Carlisle, Pa,
Many Chicago ice dealers were
arrested for selling impure ice as a
result Of the investigation of the pure
food commission Directors and
stockholders are to be prosecuted.
At the meeting of the National Civic
Improvement League, Charles Zcublin
of tho University OF Chicago was elect
cd president. Mrs Condo Hamlin of
st, Paul was elected yiCepresident.
Mrs, James Callahan of Des Moines,
la, wife of the we'll known capitalist
and philanthropist, died as the result
of runaway accident, in which she
and her husband were severely in
jurcd.
Louis Schneider, just dead, was one
of the best known entomogists and
hatanists in Philadelphia He was
born February 16, 1896 in Germany.
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