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Rumor has it that the king of Siam
has been assassinated.
A cyclone destroyed AZ houses at
Pompri. province of Kursk, killing %
people.
Senior sagasta, in an interview,
announces that be is about to retire
from public life.
Rohl, of Munich, Bavaria, beat the
worlds six-hour bicycle record at Fried
rau Sunday, He averaged 3S miles an
hour.
Commodore Joseph Montgomery. the
Confederate naval officer who nearly
captured Grant during the Civil war,
died at Chicago Sunday.
DR.. William M. Bradshear, president
Of the Iowa State college at Ames, and
former president of the National Edu-
cational association, died Tuesday Of
nervous prostration.
The circuit court of Cuyahoga county
has dissolved an injunction against the
Cleveland city council, which prevent.
ed that body from transacting business
because Of alleged illegality and the in
auguration of Scent street car fare.
Former President Steyn, of the Or
ange Free State, is reported to be in
very bad health. He has gone to The
Hague to meet President Kruger.
An explanatory note issued by the
Russian minister OF finance states that
Russia will regard as a violation of
treaty the proposed American counter
vailing sugar duties.
At Helena, Mont, lone highway
man held up Samuel Trevis and James
Randall, and after he had robbed them,
compelled Trevis to stop street car. tie
a handkerchief over his face and go
through the car.
Whitelaw Reid, special ambassador
to great Britain, has returned
The Shenandoah collieries may start
up under the protection OF troops
A Chicago woman has been arrested
for starving nine infants to death.
Striking anthracite coal miners say
incompetent men are being sent into
the mines.
The Santa Fe railroad has issued a
circular granting an increase of wages
to the carmen.
There is good reason to believe that
the United States will secure coaling
station on the west coast of Africa.
Press censorship in Russia has been
vigilant and exacting since the assass.
ination of the minister of the interor
In collision between a passenger
train and street car at Terre Haute,
Ind, three persons were fatally, six
seriously and two slightly injured.
There lis strong talk in Jamaica of
annexation TO the United States.
Robbers at Astoria bound and gagged
a man on fishing scow and secured
s4O0.
The vatican proposes gradual with
drawal of the friars from the Philip
pines.
A Salt Lake mining man shot and
fatally wounded two persons and then
killed himself.
The Seattle steamer Jessie Benning
has been sold to the Colombian govern
ment for sos, 900.
Troops will remain in Shenandoah,
Pa, where the recent riots occurred,
until the strike is ended.
A secret organization in Tayabas pro-
vince, Philippine islands, has been up
rooted by the constabulary.
The cruiser Brooklyn, which con-
veyed the remains of the late Lord
Pauncefote to England, has returned.
An explosion in colliery in New
South Wales resulted in the death of at
least 100 persons.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
company has secured an additional 80
acres of land for use in the st. Louis
fair.
A tidal wave in Costa Rica, following
severe earthquakes, frightened hun
dreds of residents and caused consider.
able damage.