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several persons and unroofed number
of buildings.
A big rise in the Mississippi ia caus-
ing great damage to farm land about
La Crosse, Wis.
Six persons on runaway Chicago
t olley car were injured by its collision
with freight ira n.
A defaulting cashier has necessi-
tated the closing Of the Southpo t,
Conn.,, national bank.
The reservoir at Hatch, Idaho has
gone out. No lives were lost, but
crops will be seriously damaged.
The American saddlery and harness
company, With capital Of $40 900,
has been Incorporated in New Jersey.
A Chicago bootblack received only
$40 for resto'In lost $4,000 bill to
its owner, whose Joy caused him to
faint.
The monito. Arkansas which was
grounded in the Mis- issippi, is again
afost. as the result OF an unexpected
freshet.
The Chippewa and Ottawa Indians
have decided to press claim of 1850
600 against the United States for vaca-
tion OF territory in 1895.
DESCENDANTS OF Washington's French
brethren in arms and other prominent
Frenchmen propose presenting to the
United States reproduction of the
or ginal bust of Washington by Pier g
Jean David.
President Gompers is in favor Of
union Of employers.
Another union has Joined the ranks
Of the striking Denver laborers.
Russia Is deeply hurt at the criti-
cisms OF the American press regarding
Manchuria.
B. F. Jones, of Philadelphia, steel
magnate and prominent in national
politics, is dead.
The Russian ambassador at Washing
ton says Jews are responsible for mas
sacre at Kishnief.
Sybil Sander son, we'll known act
ress, died in Paris.
Denver unions have postponed call
ing general strike.
Turkey has adopted rigorous measures
to stop advance OF Armenians.
Twenty.one persons at Maricn, Ipd.,
were injured by the overturning Of
street car.
Ex- United States Senator Vest has
decided to make his permanent home
in st. Louis.
The American stogie tobacco com.
pany has increased its capital stock
from IS, 900, 900 to s11 1915, 900.
Canton, Ohio, will install a tablet of
bronze and oxydized copper in the
courthouse corridor where the body OF
President Mckinley lay in state.
All the private papers of ex-Prssident
Harrison, including some unfinished
manuscripts, have been turned over to
the Hen. j. L. Griffiths, who is to
write his life.
Horace Bushnell Patton, professor
of geology and mineralogy, has been
appointed to succeed President Palmer,
of the Colorado school OF mines, who
retires June 80.
+. E. Sewers, an American cotton
gro wing exporter, who has arrived in
London, after making trip on the
river Gambia, says cotton growing 10
the Gambia colony has grand future.
New York builders have organized to
resist the demands of unions.
A race war is on in Mississippi. The
whites are killing all negroes they find.
Bulgaria has again appealed to the
powers in regard to the Macedonian
troubles.
1t is claimed a plot was hatched to
kill the president during his stay in
Oakland.
1t is probable that every branch of
organized labor in Denver will be
called out.
Two people perished. many we're in
jured and ore man lie missing as the re-
suit of a Chicago apartment house fire,
Property loss, 80, 900.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his disspprovsl of the big trees in the
Yosemite valley being covered with
visitors cards and they have all been
removed.
Four mskei men held up saloon at
Helper, Utah, and secured 81, 900.
The large zine plant at Parke City.
Utah, has been destroyed by fire; loss,
1885, 900.
The services of the women immigra-
tion inspectors at New York have been
discontinued.
The United States has realized sI9,-
l75 from the 5Sl diamonds seized from
Louis Busch in 1899.
Hayti has denied the request of the
refugees at Kingston TO return home.
Most Of them are destitute.
The Philippine government has sup.
pressed two seditious plays, one in
Manila and one at Batansas.
George W. Grubhs, of MSrtinsville,
has been eleCtei commander of the In
diana department Of the G. A. r.