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ed the opening OF their annual con-
yention In st. Louis.
Discovering ties piled on the track
near Canton, Mo-, a peddler named
Retickler gave the alarm just In time
20 save the Twin City express from
St. Paul
Ernest Payne and Miss Mabel Bon
aker OF Niagara Falls, N. Y, were
drowned in the Niagara river by the
'overturning OF their boat Payne's.
body was recovered.
Celebration OF the three hundredth
anniversary OF the landing OF De
Monts in Nova Scotia June 81, 1904,
where he founded the first British col
ony in British North America, was
begun Tuesday at Annapolis. Nova
Scotia.
Nebraska PoTulists in convention at
Fremont elected forty-eight delegates
10 represent the State at the national
convention at Springfield, III.
The Portland mine in the Cripple
Creek district, which was closed by
the military for employing union
men, was reopeped with small force
OF nonunion miners. whose applica-
tons for work we're passed upon by
the military commands.
Larry Dunn, a bartender employed
by A. c. Flack, Corliss, Wis, entered
the basement and struck a match.
whereupon an explosion shook the
building, blew out a plate glass front
and threw him against the door.
Annie Movatski, aged 19, and Fritz
Wolf, aged As, were burned TO death
and six other persons were injured in
fire at Cleveland.
Zach Mulhall, the Indian Territory
cattle baron, who shot three men IN
an alteration at the worlds fair Sat
Irday night, was released on bail at
st. Louis. His victims are recovering.
Cardinal Gibbons, in statement is
sued AT Baltimore, denied alleged in
terviews ascribed TO him regarding
the letter of the pope on the subject
of church music.
The Court of Appeals at Frankfort,
Ky, overruled the petition for re-
hearing in the case of James b. How
ard, sentenced 10 imprisonment for the
murder OF William Goebel.
Four of nine occupants were drown
ed by the upsetting OF boat in Teal
Lake, near Ishpeming. Mich. The
dead are Florence Crane, Gordon Pi-
per. Roy Mitchell and Mrs. Orr.
The annual convention OF the
Knights OF St John, Roman Catholic
organization, opened at Peoria, Ill,
with more than 500 delegates from all
parts of the United States and Canada
present.
Judge Cleveland at New Haven,
Conn, directed w. ]. Bryan and the
attorneys in the Bennett will case TO
frame a satisfactory order under
which SIS 900 held in New York can
be turned over to the widow.
President Lewis OF the University
OF Wyoming is dying at Greeley. Wyo.
President Charles II. Meyer OF the
Western Federation OF Miners arrived
at Cripple Creek. Colo, Sunday, under
arrest on the charge OF being impli-
Gated in the indicator mine explo-
sion last November.
marked Improvement was report
ed Sunday in the condition OF ex-Gov.
Nash at Columbus, o. His heart ac-
ton was much stronger, and he was
permitted to sit up and read the pa
pers.
George Powell. Yale junior, has
eloped with Edith Cunning. the 15-
year-old daughter OF w. G.. Cunning
proprietor OF the Hotel Winthrop at
New Haven. Powell was paying his
way through college by waiting on
the table at the hotel.
The planning mill of the Rat Portage
Ont, Lumber Company and thirteen
dwellings were destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
Mrs. James Barney, wife OF a
worlds fair musician, shot and killed
herself at st. Louis while suffering
from melancholia. The two were mar
ried in Chicago a few months ago.
Fifty thousand Iowans Friday par
ticlpated in the Iowa day celebration
at the St Louis worlds fair. the
principal feature OF the program be
ing parade OF 1900 OF the states ma
tional guardsmen.
Notice was served on the Colorado
state officers that the owners OF the
Portland mine at Cripple Creek will
on June ~ apply to Judge Thayer In
st. Louis for an injunction to re
strain the state military from interfer
ing with the operation OF the mine
which was closed because II employed
union labor. Papers in 100000
damage suit against the state by the
Portland owners also we're served.
The international Brotherhood ol
Bookbinders at 81. Paul voted TO dc
away with the practice OF one union
appealing TO another in case OF strike:
or trouble without first appealing e
the international officers.
In runaway accident in an auto
robile In Roanoke. Va, Frank Lam
bert was probably fatally injured. and
Mrs James s. Nichols and John Craw
ford are dangerously hurt. The ma
chine struck rough place In the road
while travelling at high rate OF speed