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rector 81 St. Johns Episcopal church,
Decatur, ILL.,, blew his brains out at his
home. He recently resigned his
charge beoause ef i'll health and Is be-
lieved to have been mentally affected.
Maiden Pell Anderson who has been
an extensive operator in real estate
In New York city, has fled a petition
in bankruptcy in tho United States dis
trict court. The liabilities are given at
$1,s35,21s; assets, 500.
An %aeronaut named Hallbrook, from
St. Louis, was instantly killed at HI.
Vernon, Ill. He made q balloon ascen-
sion and the parachute failed to work.
He fell 100 feet and was dashed TO
death.
Emil and Edgar Lindberg, 10 and IA
years old, were drowned at Rock Island,
Ill, Friday afternoon. Tho lads were on
. raft which capsized in q ravine which
had been filled BY the recent rains.
President Roosevelt delivered an aa-
dress to . great crowd in the Inde-
day celebration At Pitesburg,
annoaaoiHg . policy OF strict enforce
ment Of law governing industrial COM
bines and warmly praising work Of the
army in Cuba and the Philippines.
Fifteen person were killed and 20
Injured near Gleversvills, N. r, BY a
collision between two trolley cars. The
metorman lost control On Q steep hill
and the rear car ran away.
The percentages Of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended July 8 were: Pittsburg,
1853; Brooklyn, .S67; Boston, $50; Chi
cago, s.4; Philadelphia, .440; St. Louis,
.43S; Cincinnati. 400; New York, .423.
Three young boys were drowned at
Detroit, Mich, by the capsizing Of a
sailboat. q
The percentages Of the baseball
clubs ia the American league for the
week ended July s were: Chicago,
.eeY; Boston, .5s6; St. Leuis, .se5;
Philadelphia, .517; Washington, 400;
Detroit, .459; Baltimore, .451; Cleve-
land, AIS.
Robert Wilson, of Detroit, and
Ward Kiser, Of South Bend, Ind,
were drowned at Benton Harbor,
Mich.
Thirteen persons were killed and
many hurt in q wreck due to a run
away car on a mountain side near
Gloversville, N. Y.
Rudolph Steffeck and his wife and
sister were drowned near St. Joseph,
Mich, while bathing.
The third month of the great In
thracite coal strike began with no
change in the situation.
A snowfall ranging from an inch to
three inches is reported from various
points in Colorado.
The president has issued q civil
service order prohibiting outside in
luence to gain promotions.
Five men lost their HIVES in Chicago
as q result of the excessive heat.
Fire at Clinton, N. c., destroyed AZ
stores and residences.
Heavy rains, amounting in many
places to cloudbursts, caused damage
to tho extent of hundreds of thou.
sands of dollars in western New
York.
Pigeons flew from Holly Springs
Miss, to Mishawaka, Ind, a distance
of 500 miles, in II hours, breaking all
records.
Many college students have been
given summer work by the United
States government as foresters.
In a drunken frenzy Theodore Del.
feuer shot and killed his wife and IL
months-old baby apd wounded Lizzie
Stramm, his stepdaughter, in Chicago
Several persons are believed to have
been drowned al Pewaukee, Wis, by
a storm which overlook small boats;
trees and houses were blown down.
Charles j. Mccormick aud. his wife
died in their bathtub in Grand Forks
N. D., as a result Of taking poison.
The wife Of Capt. Tiemann N. Horn
his daughter Frances, aged seven, ani
Miss Alice Mcmahon, of Nyack, N. Y.
were drowned in Sandy Hook bay, of
New York.
Fire at the stock yards in Chicago
wiped out Swift & Co.'s wholesale
meat market and general offices, en-
failing a loss of 100000.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Dudley H. Chase, for 18 years Judge
of the Twenty-ninth judicial circuit
of Indiana, died suddenly at Logans.
port, aged IS years.
The Minnesota republicans in con
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