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Washington.

Charles Al. Darling has retired from
the Office Of assistant secretary of the
navy, which post he has held since
Dec. 16, 1901. He was succeeded by
i Truman H. Newberrry of Detroit,
Mich.
i Announcing the results of recent in
! vestigatiois of the future of the cot
/ ton protecting kelep of Guatemala, a
report now being issued from the de-
1 partment of agriculture declares kelcp
4 to be wonderfully adapted to the de-
struction of the cotton boil weevil'
and portrays it's possibilities in check
ing pest ravages.
Secretary Taft has transmitted to
the treasury department his estimates
of the appropriations required for the
year 1907. These estimates aggregate
$104, 1888 ,26775, being $9.717,922.52 less
than the total appropriations made by
congress for the use Of the war de-
| partment for the current fiscal year
ending June so. 1906.
! In his testimony before the joint
printing committee Foreman Brewer
| of the senate folding room said there
are 375,G00 un-called-for publications
stored in his department. AMI
Smith, who has been in the senate doc
ument room for thirty years, said that
the supply for documents there has
quadrupled during his incumbency,
but there are not too many to meet
he demand
The president has appointed Charles
A. Stallings of Boston as public print
err Mr. Stallings is manager of the
printers board Of trade of New York
ca The appointment of Mr.. Stall
lings was not forecast by any discus
sion of his candidacy for the place.
The large printing firms of New York
and Boston Endorsed him as practi-
cal printer and executive. He was
also strongly Endorsed by Senator
Crane.
Casualty.
Fire in the plant Of the Michigan
Malleable Iron company in Delray,
Mich, caused $4,000 damage.
Ainsworth, Iowa, has been fire.
swept. All the business district was
destroyed. The loss is $4,000.
Jacob Bosdeck, a pioneer farmer,
was killed at Iowa City, Iowa, by a
fall of twenty feet from haymow.
His neck was broken.
A South Shore train ran down and
instantly killed an unknown man walk
ing OH the track east of Marquette,
Mich. The victim is believed to be
Finnish woodchopper.
Leslie Wise, aged fourteen years,
died at Milwaukee of injuries received
in a boys game of football. He fell
in such a manner that a weed was
thrust up his nostril into the brain.
"A runaway switch engine crashed
into the rear of westfound passenger
train on the Colorado ,& Southern rail
road in the yards ut Golden, Colo, in
|juring seven persons.
Three shotfrers were killed in an ex-
plosion that occurred in the mines Of
the Central Coal and Coke company at
Hartford, Ark. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by gas.
| Six persons were killed in head
on collision between two freight trains
on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad at Casey, Iowa. Both trains
were badly wrecked and engines piled
up into a confused mass.
Three persons were seriously in
ured, one of whom subsequently died,
and a dozen others had narrow es-
cape from the flames in a fire that de-
stroyed the priests house at Nazarine
orphanage at Raleigh, N. c..
Walter Scott, the Death Valley min
er who was thrown from an automo-
bile at Los Angeles while running fifty
miles an hour and was severely hurt,
will recover, according to the state.
ment of physicians who examined his
injuries.
Passengers on the Louisville South
3ern train No. 8 had marrow escape
when the train was hurled from a
bridge seven miles from Lexington,
KY, into a creek forty feet below
Twelve persons were injured, but none
was killed. The tender, mail and bag
gage cars and smoker were splintered
and thrown into the creek, and the
bridge, which was $50 feet long, entire
lyF destroyed. . Ia
Nv. f. Granger, one Of the members
of q company playing melodrama at
Toledo, Ohio, was shot in the eye dur
ing the progress Of a play. The action
of the drama includes the rescue of a
girl from q cage OF lions. Last night
one Of the lions showed anger and a
revolver carried by the rescuer was
accidentally discharged. Granger may
lose his sight.
Foreign.
"A dispatch from Corunna, Spain,
says that the Spanish armored cruiser
Cisneros foundered OF Villanoya after
striking rock. All on board the yes
sci were saved.
The Cuban government has accept
ed the Invitation OF Emperor Nicholas,
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