The Newark journal., 1903-06-05

flre Tn the building of the Hart man furniture store in St. Louis caused loss of $100.o00.
 Dispatches report a terrible earthquake April % in Asiatic Turkey. A whole town, numbering 2,000 people, was totally destroyed.
 II. D. Elker, after breaking all records in a fifteen mile bicycle race at Cambridge, Mass, was killed by being run over by au- tomobile.
 Mrs. Kate Taylor was found guilty by jury in New Tor city of murdering her husband and the Heath penalty assessed. She will be the first woman to be electro euted.
 Sixteen negroes composing two families were drownel in the Mis- sissippi river at Pecan Point, near Memphis. The victims were en- deavoring to escape from the flood In skiffs when both boats eapsized.
 Ollie Dalton, under arrest at Alexandria, Ind, has confessed to being a wholesale murderer. He is said to have been implicated in no less than thirty-fye murders in the past ten years, the. object in each case being robbery.
 The town of Gainesville, Ga, was almost completely wiped out by tornado on the 1st. 1t Is reported about 100 people were killed The greatest loss of life is reported in the destruction of the cotton mills, where about eighty are believed to be killed and q score injured.
 A specific charge of accepting commissions on supplies purchas- cd by him for the department has been filed against George W. Beay- CTS, former chief of the division of salaries and allowances. This is the latest disclosure In the postal scandal.
 The Presbyterian church of the United States, in general assembly, have adopted the revision of the confession of faith us prepared by the committee appointed by the gen. eral assembly of 1901. By the adoption. of the election overtures, important additions, ampIifcatisaaasi and amendments are made to the articles of the confession of faith. Of these one of the most vital is the erection into the church doc Urine of the belief that all who die in infancy are saved.
 All flood records since the year 1914 have been surpassed by the floods of the past week i'll the Mis- sissippi, Missouri and Arkansas valleys. The greatest loss reported is from Topeka, Kan. At that point and in suburbs of Kansas City over 200 people are known to have been drowned. To add to the horror, many fires followed tfe flood start ed by the flooding of water into buildings where lime was stored. The property loss in Topeka and other points is overshad. owed by the terrible loss of life. Just how many people perished is not known ard may never be known.
 In making its final report, the St. Louis grand jury reviews the evidence concerning legislative boodling, and among other sugges- tions strongly recommends that more stringent laws Le enacted for the punishment of lobbying at the state capital, and that the statute of limitation be extended to seven years. It recommends that fran chises secured through boodling methods be forfeited. The report says, in part ''The testimony we have heard has shown a state of affairs most amazing. We have lis tened to the confessions of state senators, and were We at liberty to make known all they have told the recital would appall and astonish the citizens of this state. The ve- nality existing among the makers of our state laws Is alarming to those who believe in free govern ment"
 It has been discovered that a Mafia society of New York city has planned the assassination of all ob- jectionable persons in manufactur- ing plants where the members are 
 A serious wind storm, which swept overClay, Franklin and Rear ney counties, Nebraska, caused the death of fifteen persons, injured. many others and wrecked over hundred houses. Most of the dam- age done was in rural districts.
 Chas. NJ. Hurd, private serv-