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Three persons we're killed in rail-
road wreck near Seymour. Ind
News OF an engagement near Min
chwang is expected at any time
Mrs. George J. Gould Of New York
is recovering from an operation Tor
appendicitis
The British steamer Fawan waB
seized at Yin-Kow and two Japanese
servants arrested.
Testimony in Holton will case
in ST. Louis brought out fact that Mrs.
Holton had married again.
An explosion in squib factory near
Scranton, Pa, results in the death OF
six persons and serious injury to Eve
others.
British residents at Yin-Kow specu-
late as to what the Japanese will do
after they have defeated the Russian
army"
Richard McCulloch, son Of Captain
Robert McCulloch. succeeds his father
as general manager of the Chicago
City Railway.
The banks Of the Grand reservoir
of Ohio, it is thought, will not break
unless there should be another great
fall Of rain,
1t is said that President Jesse Of
Missouri State University is thinking
of accepting the presidency of Illinois
State University.
A strike is threatened ON the Pana-
ma Railroad. President Amados re-
turns from his country home to at
tempt a settlement.
The Russians at Port Arthur are
preparing to give the Japs a warm
reception should they make another
attempt to block the harbor.
The bill for the complete suppress
sion Of teaching by religious orders in
France is passed by the Chamber Of
Deputies after a long and bitter fight.
The Union Trust Company of Boston
closes its doors, as the result of heavy
Withdrawals of deposits and difficulty
encountered in turning securities into
cash.
o. A. Mitscher, Indian agent at the
Usage Indian Agency, Oklahoma, has
been suspended, pending an investiga-
ton of alleged irregularities at the
agency.
Ten indictments we're found by the
Grand Jury at Minneapolis against
city officers and citizens in connec-
ton with the Misrepresentation of pub
lie funds.
The Federal Trust Company OF
Cleveland, o., makes an assignment, as
the result of an alleged shortage in
the accounts of one of it's officials, who
is missing.
Captain Robert McCulloch, general
manager of the st. Louis Transit Com
pany, arrived from Chicago last week
and at once assumed the duties of his
new position.
Train robbers in California kill the
express messenger without provocay
ton, then wreck the safe so complete
ly that practically all their intended
booty is destroyed.
The coming session of the General
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will be called upon to settle
many questions of vital Importance
to the denomination.
A favorable report was made on the
bill granting statehood to OklahomS
and the Indian Territory. under the
name of Arizona, by the House Com.
mittee on Territories.
The Japanese have taken Seng-
Cheng, forty miles south of Win, with.
out a struggle, and all opposition to
their advance toward the Yalu river
seems to have ceased.
Judge Irving w. Baxter of Omaha is
appointed United States District At
torney of Nebraska, to succeed w. s.
Summers. who was discharged for prO+
scouting Senator Dietrich.
Miss Lucia Burgess, in attempting to
escape from her room at Stephens
College, Columbia, Mo-, where she had
been locked by girl students as an
April FOOLS joke. fell and broke her
arm.
Senator Hitchcock decides to open
bids for Indian supplies in st. Louis
on shoes, hardware and medical sup
plies. This will be equal TO one-fOurth
of the Indian contracts let at Chicago
last year.
The Botlxin murder trial at San Fran
cisco is resumed in spite of charges
Of an attempt to tamper with the jury.
the defendant insisting that she be-
lieves the present jury will render a
just verdict.
A Berlin Government organ denies
the report that Emperor williams
condition is alarming because Of q
recurrence Of his throat trouble. On
the contrary. the paper says he was
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