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DOMESTIC.
Over half the members of the States
boro, Ca, guards, one of the two COM
panies that were guards over the pris-
oners who were lynched there, have
asked for their discharges. Several
criticize Capt. Hitch, their commander.
The G. "A. r. convention In Boston
heard read q letter from President
Roosevelt, who expressed veneration
for the veterans Of the civil war and drew
lessen of inspiration from their deeds.
Commander in Chief Black made the
annual address.
An automobile containing three men
and a woman plunged into the Chicago
river through the open draw at Rush
street, all of the victims of the accident
being rescued.
Four people were killed and q in
jured in collision between a Great
Western passenger train and three
street cars at Austin. a suburb of Chi
cago. Three trainmen and three street
railway employees were, arrested.
Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, wife of Chief JUS
tice Fuller, of the United States supreme
court, died suddenly of heart disease at
her summer home in Sorrento, Me.
The population of Michigan, as shown
by the state census, taken in June, is g.
530,016, an increase of 109, 034, or ~ per
cent, since 1900. There are 589746 fam
lilies in the state, with an average mem
bership of 4.29 persons.
Gen. Wilmon w. Blackmar, of Massa-
chusetts, was elected commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
by reclamation at the closing session of
the national encampment in Boston, and
Denver, COL, was selected as the place
for the encampment of 1905
Earthquakes have caused serious dam
ages to several villages in the island of
Samon5 Tin the Greek archipelago As
miles west of Smyrna). Some Of the in
habitants were killed. ~
Valentine Hengel, a mail carrier, died
at Winona, Mimi, after an illness of one
week as result of having tooth pulled,
causing blood poisoning.
Worlds fair officials say they have
discovered loophole in the appropria-
ton act and may open the exposition on
| Sunday.e IL =. a,
| Jacob Hnssman, an aeronaut, was
drowned in Lake Alice, near Fergus
Falls, MINI. He had made balloon as
cension and on coming down in para
chute fell into the middle of the lake. He
became entanged in the weeds and
was drowned.
Antonio Mannino, the kidnapped
Brooklyn boy, was found near his home,
after having been accompanied part Of
the way by the man who had held him
prisoner.
A fierce riot for food, the strikers bat
Ting for meat, took place at the Chicago
stock yards. Fifty shots were fired,
rifles being used, and the mob of 1000
was dispersed.
Alfred A. Knapp, by his own confess
sion the slayer of five women, was cleo
trocuted in the penitentiary at Columbus,
O., for the murder of his wife, Hannah
Goddard Knapp. Knapp was AZ years
old and had spent % years of his life in
various prisons, most of his offenses be-
| ing against women and children.
A tornado of small proportions, but
of exreme fury, swept down upon the
residence portion Of North st. Louis,
Mo-, resulting in the death of two per-
sons, injury to probably so and damage
to property estimated at 100000. A
woman was killed and 10 persons in
ured at Venice, Ill.
A cloudburst at Globe, Ariz., has re-
| suited in several deaths and the destruc-
ton of much property.
May wheat has just broken all records
for the last six years in Chicago, when
1t touched $1.135s.
There is CONSERVATION over the death
of fish in the lakes around Albert, Mimi,
and no one can explain the cause. They
seem to suffocate, although there is a
good stage Of water. Tons of fish are
dead along the shores.
William Montgomery, vice president
and general manager of the Georgia
Cotton Mill company, shot and killed
himself at his Office in Atlanta, Ga. No
cause for the act has been given.
Michael Callahan and John Markham,
Of Van Horne, were killed by train at
a grade crossing near Blairstown, Ia.
! Fires are raging in the great forests
Of Washington and British Columbia,
doing incalculable damage.
Fish Rock Camp, owned by Isaac
Seligman, Of New York, located on up
per Saranac lake, and said to have been
the most beautiful and expensiveIc camp
in the Adirondacks, has been destoryed
by fire Of unknown origin. The loss is
estimated at SIS 900. Y
John Parker, prominent farmer liv-
ing near Grinnell, Ia, was shot and
killed Friday BY George Mitchell. a
renter. Mitchell shot Parker with q
shotgun, following an alteration in
which Mitchell was badly beaten up.
M. G. Bennett, Of Des Moines. Ia,