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Five dollars per pound for cherries
was paid in New York for the first
consignment this year from California.
Because he weighed but II pounds,
Joseph Bernstein. aged :. will be de-
ported to Prussia as cripple though
strong physically and mentally.
A government official who Is in
position TO know. says that one drug.
gist in Van Buren, county sells TWEEN
ty-tive barrels OF whisky every year.
Removing 5000 bodies from three
cemeteries is an undertaking Of the
New York aquedhct commissioners to
prevent the pollution of the city's
water shed abGye the Croton reservoir
Sid Baker brother-in-law of Jas.
Howard. recently convicted OF the
murder of William Goebel. was shot
10 death in Il duel on the highway
In Clay county, Ky. with VIM Me
Collum.
President Roosevelt spent a most
restfu Sunday in one of the most
beautiful spots in California, ut the
Hotel del Monte. two miles from the
nearest city. and unhampered by curl.
Gus crowds.
strikers a Jackson, Tenn. wrecked
two Mobile x Ohio trains and have
completely tied up traffic. Will Var
boro was shot dead on the tender Of
an engine after making trip as a
brakeman.
Charles Jacobs. a New York shoe
salesman WAS chloroformed in his bed
at The Hotel Francis Ponce. Z. H..
and was robbed OF 81 900. clothes and
jewelry The sum of $500 i'm checks
was subsequently found in the street
Two ferocous bulldogs whom Mrs
Thos Il. Leonard attempted to separ-
ate as they fought on her front porch
at Syracuse turned on the woman
threw her down and terribly lacera ted
her face and body Her clothing was
torn to shreds.
Miss lOndorf Cudahy, niece of John
Cudahy. the Chicago packer. fought n
burglar 10 a finish Hearing him ill.
ing the door hinges she got n heavy
cane and went for him. She beat him
over the head until the stick broke.
and the burglar fed
Tom Morris. one of the two men
lynched az Nicksburg. Miss. for the
murder OF a planter is not dead after
all. When he was pushed from the
bridge the rope seems TO have broken.
and Morris 10 nave fallen into shallow
watcf from which he emerged after
the lynchers had gone.
Hitcning a COW To an electric light
pole with Il chain tether came near
ending tie career Of Jas Stein M
4 - 4 IN
seven feet and so charged by the elec.
tricity that men who ran TO his assist
ance could not handle Nim. The COW
and dog were badly shocked. too
Three men. armed wiah revolyers.
heid up the saloon OF Wnlh i'm Manion
at Chicago. while half a dot Zen patrons
were drinking at the barn. They Sc
cured $500 ia negotiable lchecks
watch and chain aud 500 nom the
Hidden behind the bar was
a cigar box containing 81 0Oe which
the thieves overlooked
Deadly cerebro spinal meningitis.
known as spotted fever. /"
one OF tie hardest contagious diseases
TO combat, has broken out In the ranks
OF 200 men aboard the receiving
ships Minneapolis and Puritan M
League Island navy yard Already IL
has killed three young recruits. while
FIVE more victims, are towering be
tween life and death
Ex-president Grover Cleveland 4 Al
Middle Bass island for weeks hsh.
inc With him are Rear Admiral Lam.
bcrton. Judge Judson Harmon OF en-.
cinnati, John L Lloyd and Jethro q
of Tuxedo. aud c c. Dwight
Of Chicago