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merce commissioner.

The employees of the Wilkesbarre
and Wyoming Valley (Pa.) Traction
company have accepted an increase of
cents day in wages and will not
strike.
Mrs. Daniel Manning, OF ALBANY.
N. Y, has been elected president of
the Worlds Fair board of lady man
ayers. vice Mrs. James L. Blair. re-
signed.
While running at high speed, an
electric car at Cleveland. O.. was
thrown down high embankment by
the breaking of wheel and 20 per-
sons were injured
Friday, December 1s.
William j. Bryan spent a day at
Moscow. Russia, and paid a visit to
Count Tolstoi.
General Lew Wallace Is In New
York taking the X-ray treatment for a
cancerous growth on the nose.
Colonel b. Frank Eshelman, Judge
advocate general of the Pennsylvania
National Guard, died at his home at
Lancaster of a complication of dis.
eases.
Benjamin Benedict, his wife and 3.
year-old daughter were burned to
death and a l7.year-old daughter ia.
tally injured in fire which DESTROYED
their home at Ashland, Ky.
Saturday, December 10.
Colin manufacturers from all parts
OF the United States met in Chicago
to form a combine.
President Roosevelt has nominated
/. Snowden Haines to be collector OF
customs for the district of Burlington.
N. ].
In an explosion following an attempt
to open can of powder, one man was
killed and two fatally injured at Avon
more, Pa.
While temporarily insane. Mrs. An.
ma Krenen, of Leseur. Mimi, drowned
herself and two children in a cistern
at her home.
Theodore. Jr., and Kermit Roosevelt
returned to Washington from their
school at Groton, Mass, to spend the
holidays at the White House.
Monday, December Fl.
Both houses of congress have adj
journed until January 4 for the Christ
mas holidays.
Thirty families were rendered home
less at Bayonne, N. j., by a fire that
destroyed several tenement houses.
Less, $4,000.
Having secured the Republican na-
tional convention. Democrats of Chi
cago organized to secure their party's
presidential gathering.
In a shooting ARRAY at a party Mt
Marietta, Ga. Clarence CantreI and
William Ship were killed and two
others injured. There was bitter feel
Ing between the participants for some
time
Tuesday. December 22.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned until January 4.
George b. Mcclellan. mayor-elect of
New York. has sent his resignation as
a member of congress TO Speaker
Cannon.
The Christian Party will hold their
national convention to nominate can
didates for president and vice president
at st. Louis, May and 2.
Madrid dispatch says a project is
on foot for the marriage of King AL
fonso, OF Spain. TO his cousin, the Prin-
cess Maria Del Pillar, of Bavaria. She
is 1S years old.
Miss Ellne st. Clair. the school
teacher of Sullivan. Ind. who was
ducked in the ice cold water OF a pond
by her pupils, filed suit against them
for $4,000 damages.
Wednesday, December %.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
Tower Hill Qll.) bank and escaped
with $4,000 in cash,
Mrs. Mary A. Rogers was found
guilty at Bennington. VT. OF killing her
husband and sentenced to death.
Passaic, N. j.. has an outbreak OF
typhoid fever. the cause OF which can
not be traced. Eleven new cases were
reported.
The remains of "a private soldiers
who lost their lives I'm the Philippines
were buried at the National Cemetery
at Arlington, ID. G.
Miss Rose Beach, aged IL. of Harris
burg. Pa, committed suicide by drink
ing carbolic acid. She was a clerk In
manufacturing establishment. and
killed herself because her accounts
me- TO