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was smuggled by her, or for her, to
plead guilty to every indictment that
has been found against her.
The new Protestant cathedral in Ber-
lin was dedicated with ceremonies both
religious and military. The kaiser
and q brilliant entourage participated
Ia the ceremonies.
Thomas Thompson and his son-in-
law, James Riley, are dead at Tulip,
Mo-, as the sequel to d quarrel over q
calf. Riley was fatally stabbed by
Thompson and, in turn, shot and killed
his father-in-law.
Rich placer discoveries are reported
from Clearwater Creek. on the Sikine,
in British Columbia. and are expected
to result in q rush to the new dig
gings.
James r. Lingafelter, former secre-
tary of the Homestead Building &
Savings association of Newark, o.,
was found guilty Of forgery by jury
In the common pleas court at Mount
Vernon, o.
The betrothal is officially announced,
with the sanction of King Edward, Of
Princess Victoria Of Connaught I'd
Prince Oscar. eldest son of the crown
prince Of Sweden and Norway.
The leaden coffin Nnearthed from the
old Protestant cemetery lii Paris
proved to contain the remains Of an
Englishman buried III 1890, and not
those of Paul Jones. The search il
being continued.
| Fire. at the Illinois Central terminal
in New Orleans destroyed a large
amount of property at Stuyvesant
docks, Including two large elevators
containing over a million bushels OF
grain, hundreds 81 cars and vast
amount of freight. The loss may
reach $5,OOO,OO
The prince and princess OF Wales are
to make a visit to India in November,
remaining until March, making tour
of the principal cities and native
states.
West Virginia has adopted state
flag. The design is a sprig of noun
tain laurel upon an immaculate white
field with a pale blue border.
M. Petruska, the Servian premier
who some time ago was sentenced to
die by Bulgarian revolutionists, has
been assasinated.
By an explosion in Shaft No. of
the United States Coal & Coke Co. at
Wilcoe, Va. over a score of Italian
and Hungarian miners lost their lives.
A panic was created by a fire which
broke out in the Catholic church in
Norfolk, Neb, while 800 worshippers
were present, mostly women and chill
dren. A number Of the latter were
injured and several women tainted,
The financial loss was not great.
Miss Carrie Payton Wheeler, daugh-
ter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, has peen
appointed sponsor for the south, by
Commander-in-Ch Chief Stephen B. Lee, at
the coming reunion of the United Com
federate Veterans in Louisville, KY,
in June.
A denial comes from Toxic of the
report that Japan had ordered four bat
tleships built in England. Japan In
tends, in the future. unless urgent cir
cumstances should dictate otherwise,
to construct all her own warships.
Because girl refused to dance with
an unbidden guest at wedding ceIe-
| bration among the coke workers near
Greensburg, Pa, the angry man gath
cred party Of his friends and started
riot. in which two men were killed
and six others stabbed or shot, one Of
whom will die. TWenty-seven arrests
were made.
President Roosevelt has been asked
to appoint as second lieutenants in the
army five West Point cadets who were
dismissed for unbecoming conduct,
May 21, 1901, on the eve Of their grad=
uation.
Mrs. Mccormick. wife of the Ameri-
can ambassador to Russia, has re-
turned to St. Petersburg from her visit
to the United States.
At an auction sale in London an
Elizabethan ever Of rock crystal,
mounted on silver. belonging to the
marquis of Anglesea, was sold for s2O,-
900.
By the breaking of heavy ice gorge
| in the Ohio river at Maysville, KY, the
steamer Big Kanawha was torn from
her moorings, carried down stream and
sunk. Her crew escaped.
r. Grove Walter, former assistant
states attorney Of Chicago, who dis
appeared mysteriously from Los
Angeles, CAL, recently, has been 10.
Gated at San Diego.
Representative Baker created SEN
sation in the Indiana house of repre-
sentatives when he produced letter
which he said had been sent him by
the Cigarette trust with a $1O0 bill in
closed, as bid for his vote against
the anti-cigarette bill. The bill was
promptly passed.
The George Washington university,
formerly the Columbia university, in
| Washington, was formally dedicated
under its new name on Washington s
birthday.
William MCGEE. said to be the last
white survivor of the Custer massacre,
who stabbed Frank Mitchell fatally in
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convicted of manslaughter in the first
degree.
Bubonic plague is reported to have
made its appearance at Pisagua, 44
miles north Of IQuique, Chill.
United States Minister Dawson at
San Domingo City has notified the
state department Of an attempt to as
sassinate President Morales. Five Of
his assaiIants were captured.
The United States grand jury at
| Montgomery, Ala, has returned 26 in
dictments for peonage and conspiracy.
Both whites and blacks are involved.
The jury at Butler, Mo-, after de-
liberating one hour and forty minutes,
returned a verdict Of not guilty in the
case Of Former Councilman Charles
Kratz, Of ST. Louis, charged with bri-
berry Ia connection with the Suburban
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