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$4,000 worth of jewels and heirlooms
from Pratt institute in Brooklyn.
Richard McCurdy's salary as presi-
dent of the Mutual Life Insurance co.
has been cut from $4,000 to $4,000.
To save the buffalo. fast becoming
extinct, prominent naturalists in New
York have organized the American Bis
on society.
DIR. A. ID. Melvin, OF Illinois, has
been appointed chief of the bureau OF
animal industry at Washington TO sue
coed DR.. Salmon, resigned.
Gov. w. l.. Douglas of Massachusetts
will be a Democratic candidate for
congress, unless the tariff on hides is
removed at this winters session.
The police of Grand Rapids are now
working on the theory that Josie Dom
was murdered by jealous negro who
waylaid the wrong party in the dark
Finding a burglar in her apartments,
Miss Maud Reese, employed by the
Union Traction Co., of Chicago, was
shot and killed by the man, who es-
capped.
A lunatic has just received $9.34S
back pension, the largest claim Com
missioner Warner has ever settled.
The old soldier contracted insanity n
the army.
King Carlos Of Portugal is having d
hoo" of time in Paris. State din
ners, gala performances at the opera
military review, a hunt and cham
payne suppers galore
Tuttleheim Bros. & Faggin Co.,
hf lnA n1, la lie
coded higher pay and piecework to
the 500 men and 500 girls employed
and their strike is off.
President Roosevelt is great, but
costly. For his Inauguration S145, 491
was spent, more than was ever before
spent. 1t took 1890 to decorate the
pension building for the inaugural ball
Compelling the cashier and a man
and woman patron of the bank to
stand faces TO the wall with hands up,
two robbers got away Tuesday with
$4,000 from the South Denver bank, in
Denver, Col.
Dave Sims, the negro who shot and
killed r. F. (Deacon) Jones at his
home one mile from Baugh station,
near Coahoma, Miss, Sunday night,
was lynched by an armed mob at the
scene Of his crime.
President Roosevelt telegraphed to
King Haakon VII, the new king of
Norway, as follows: 81 felicitate your
majesty on being chosen by the Nor
Wegian people 10 succeed TO the throne
or Haakon and Olaf, of Harold and
Sigurd."
Spectators at the burning of Don
+. Mclntyre's big farm barn at Cad
lilac, insist that they saw the body
OF a man in the barn just before 1t
crashed into ruins. Ii is suspected,
therefore, that the fire was started
accidentally by some hobo who had
sought refuge there.
Charles Buyea, aged GO. a wealthy
farmer, was bitten in the hand by a
| dog at the home of James Nelson in
Rush township, near Owosso Later
the dog sickened and was shot, anu
now Buyea fears the animal had n.y.
drophobia, and he will go to Ann Ar
Dor for Pasteur treatment.
Whether ii was the ruling passion or
a mere coincidence must forever be a
matter of conjecture. At the omen.
! ing of the Louisville, Ky, free library
/
/ preached the counter TO get the first
book. 81 want something on chicken
culture" he said
Patrick Raymond, aged IS. was ar
rested Wednesday in Lincoln. Neb..
while lighting cigarette which he had
just rolled for his own use in the
presence of city detective. He was
fined $50 and costs. This is the light.
est penalty prescribed by the law for
manufacturing cigarettes.
j. Wilbur Chapman who has been
conducting a great revival in Mime
! apolis, distributed cards. bearing
Scripture verses and hymns in the
Hennepin county jail The upright.
eous prisoners converted Them into
decks of cards and played poker with
tac;h, using scraps OF paper for chips.
Nine. Christopher Hauge, wife of the
newly appointed minister from Nor
way, astonished Washington society
when she appeared among the fashion
able throng at the Simms- Hitchcock
wedding CARRIED in her riding habit.
Rarely have SO many gorgeous cos
tunes been seen at any social function
in Washington.
The grievance committee in the A.
f. Of l.. convention in Pittsburg re-
ported protesting against the practice
of labor councils getting out sou.
venir book" program for Labor day
events. Graft" was the forceful term
employed in condemnation Delegates
from the smaller towns argued in fay
or of the books.
e. ii. Wright. general freight and
| passenger agent and auditor OF the
Copper Range railroad, has resigned
and is succeeded by F. r. Bolles. of
Milwaukee, division freight and pas.
senger agent of the Chicago, Milwau.
kee & st. Paul road, as general freight
and passenger agent, and by Wallace
Tedford as auditor.
successful experiment was made
in Philadelphia Thursday with an cleo
trio car designed as substitute for a
locomotive to be used in prospecting
new roads and spur lines. The cleo.
trio car is equipped with an S0-horse
power gasoline engine TO generate
electricity which Is fed into storage
| battery from which IN Is drawn IN IN.