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gerry by a New York jury.
Reports show the per capita deposit
in Missouri banks Is st36.
John Mitchell is reelected president
Of the United Mine Workers.
The funeral OF Mrs. w. Pope Yea
mon took place in Columbia Sunday
An inventory Of the personal estats
Of Jonathan Rice Of st. Louis showed
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1t is reported that John w. Gates
viii abandon Chicago and reside IN
New York.
An effort is being made TO secure
the release of John M. Glover from
custody in Colorado.
Sanitary District No. 1 Of Illinois
has issued 10000 bonds to constructs
necessary improvements.
Albert Smith was rescued from an
ice foe in the Missouri River by work
men on the Wabash bridge.
A call was issued from the Demo
cratic State Central Committee "a
meet in st. Louis on February s.
The suicide Of Whitaker Wright,
according to testimony brought out at
the inquest, had been carefully planned.
The Colorado military authorities
have declined to surrender John N.
Glover on a capias issued by the Dis
.rict Court.
A Dominican gunboat has gone with
the supposed intention of stopping q
German steamer bound for a port con
trolled by rebels.
John Rich, who pleaded guilty TO
robbery at st. Louis. declined to put
the State to the expense Of providing
a lawyer for him.
About $500 ancient manuscripts and
thousands Of volumes of codices were
destroyed in the recent FIRE in the
Turin University library.
Unpopular copper coins in Morocco
provoke a riot in which the Christian
cemetery is desecrated and many Jews
are robbed and mistreated.
President Harper Of Chicago UNI
versity asserts that the institution is
its UNCONVENTIONAL character.
Paul W. Deichman, a St Louis drug
gist, killed one burglar and routed
another in pistol battle, after he had
been awakened by his pet dog.
Thibetans are gathering their forces
and 1t is expected they win attack the
expedition led by Colonel Younghus-
band, who refuses to retire In spite
of threats.
An Omaha woman is sentenced TO
take a bath every day for twenty
days, and is sent to Jail in order that
the mandate Of the court be properly
carried out.
The British Ambassador at st. Pc
tersburg says that the Russian reply
to Japan is satisfactory" from which
it is inferred that Russia may have
made concessions.
A Russian scientist believes that
radium will ultimately solve the prob
lem of determination of sex and that
it will render war impossible by max
ing powder useless.
The installation Of a system Of tun.
.nels in Chicago, by which freight can
be delivered from cars in the base
ments of business houses, may elimt-
nate street teaming.
Fire in the Cosmopolitan building,
Chicago sky-scraper, results in the
probably fatal burning Of two persons.
and causes a panic among the oecu-
pants Of the structure.
President Harper Of Chicago UniVer-
sity, in describing the ideal college
professor, asserts that he should be
married, and If he has three or four
children all the better.
The New York Stock Exchange Off
Gals assert that the American Steel
Foundrles Company officials used de-
ceit in obtaining admission OF the
stocks to the exchanges list.
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago Is set
free by Judge Tuthill, before whom
he applies for a writ of habeas corpus
as a result of the Coroner's verdict
holding him to the Grand Jury.
Kaffrs have Joined forces with the
Hereros and are strongly besieging the
German garrison at Okahandia. Ger
man Southwest Africa. Several men
have been killed in the lighting.
Former Mayor Ames Of Minneapolis
is released by a decision OF the Min.
nesota Supreme Court, which holds
that the evidence against him is not
quite in line with the Indictment.
The secretary Of the Chicago FEEDER
alton of Labor is cited for eontempt
because he refused to produce the fed
eration's books and records when or
dered to do so by the Grand Jury.
Chicago women almost fought id an
effort to gain admittance 70 the hear
ing Of the Tilsbury case. The disorder
bordered on the riotOus. II was ex-
pected that the case would be spicy,