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Owen Wister, the novelist, is in a
hospital in Philadelphia in serious
condition after an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
Joseph Schulien, aged 70, wealthy
pioneer citizen, died at Sioux City,
Iowa. of Bright's disease. For many
years he was a leading merchant.
John Kendrick Bangs and Miss Mary
Blakney Gray were married in All An
gels church in New York. Miss Daisy
King was the maid OF honor, and John
kendrick Bangs, Jr., acted sbest man
for his father.
John R. Daily, an old-time newspaper
man, we'll known in Chicago and other
cities, died at Elkhart, Ind. During
the Civil war he was night editor OF
the Chicago Tribune and was later
connected with the Chicago Journal.
He leaves large estate.
Casualties.
The Lyceum theater at Syracuse, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire. M. S. Rob-
inson, manager of the theater, is miss
ing.
The Pennsylvania railroad union
station at Harrisburg, Pa was dam
aged by fire to the extent of $4,000 to
100000.
Three lives were lost and property
valued at 100000 was destroyed in
fire at the John Stanley soap works in
New York
Caught between two street cars 60
ing in opposite directions. ]. H. Good
Of Little Rock was killed at ST. Louis
and F. j. King was fatally injured.
Gov. Brady of Alaska had a narrow
escape at ST. Louis from serious in
jury after being knocked down by d
bycicle ridden by boy in front of
street car.
Nick Stenakos, Greek candy max
er, was fatally burned and Peter
Stemock and Joseph Landrus serious
ly injured in fire in tenement house
at Cleveland
Walter Bradshaw of Hot Springs,
Ark, was instantly killed and Joseph
Murphy of Milwaukee, Wis, fatally in
jured by falling from a swinging scat
fold while working on a steel railroad
trestle near Paoli. Ind.
A scaffoid on the International Aid
building at Lawrence, Kan, broke and
precipitated dozen workmen to the
ground. John Steiner was instantly
killed and Lou Mclaughlin and G. E.
Clawson were badly injured.
Sins and Sinners.
Levi Woods, a farmer, was killed at
Ottumwa, Iowa, by John Harris, col
ored. They had quarreled over a
horse trade. Harris is in jail
George Wilson, 35, Of Valley juno
ton, Iowa, took strychnine and then
turned on the gas in his room at the
Boyd hotel at Lincoln, Neb. He will
die.
Collector of Customs Robb at Asto-
ria, Ore, has imposed fine of $4,000
upon the French bark Marechal de
Noaililes for failure to bring duplicate
consular bills of health.
Police Judge Conlan of San Fran
cisco held Mrs. Cordelia Botkin with
out bail to answer to the superior
court for the murder Of Mrs. Joshua
D. Deane by means of poisoned candy.
7 Mrs. Henrietta Dewitt was arrested
at Sidney, N. Y, charged with murder
in the first degree in causing the death
of her seventeen-year-old daughter,
Florence Macintosh, by poisoning her
with arsenic.
Esther Ready is dead, James Dunn,
haps fatally wounded, and David A.
Osborn, ex-sheriff of Benton county, is
dangerously wounded as the result of
a pistol duel at Corvallis, Ore
Samuel Wilson, a clerk in what Rev.
Wilbur E. Krafts calls his interna-
tional reform bureau" claims that an
attempt has been made to hang him
within sight Of the capitol at Washing
ton. The police are skeptical.
Gov. Yates of Illinois issued proc.
lamation offering a reward of 5000 for
the arrest and surrender to Chief Of
Police O'Neill Of Chicago, Of William
Donepuck, wanted in that city on the
charge of numbering Walter G. Seibert
April 8.
General.
Married teachers have won their
fight for the right to teach in the New
York city schools.
Executive officers of the Western
roads have adjusted the entire SEIZED
ule Of grain rates. Incidentally, in
trying to settle the graf nrate war, an