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found him guilty of collecting fraudu-
lent coroner's fees from the state.
"Gessler Rosseau," who was arrest
ed in Philadelphia with an unloaded
internal machine in his possession,
has admitted to the police that he is
the man who attempted to destroy
the statue of Frederick the Great in
Washington,
AT Harmarville, Pa, on the West
Pennsylvania railroad four houses
were burned and three men killed.
At Laporte, Ind, fire destroyed the
Laporte sailing plant of the H. ].
Heinz Pickle Co., of Pittsburg, caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
William T. Mason, a prominent
lawyer, and his family, consisting of
wife and two children, with ser
want, lost their lives in a fire which
partially destroyed the brown stone
dwelling occupied by them in New
York
A dispatch from Vancouver B. c.,
announces the loss of the fishing
steamer Columbia, off the coast of
British Columbia. All hands, about
so men, were saved.
Robert Swain Clifford, the landscape
painter, is dead at his home in New
York. Mr.. Clifford was born on Nau-
shon Island, Mass, in 1910.
Gen. Reuben Williams, editor of the
Northern Indianan and Daily Times,
of Warsaw, is dead at his home in
Warsaw, Ind
A complete denial of the charges
made by witnesses before the inter
state commerce commission investi-
CATION of the business methods of the
Armour refrigerator car lines has
been made by a representative of Ar
mour & Co.
Thirty-five companies of firemen
for four hours fought fire in the beef
storage department of the Schwarz-
child & Sulsberger Co. at the stock
yards in Chicago and when the fire
was finally put out not over $4,000
damage had been done.
At Lynn, Mass, during a fire which
destroyed the building Of the Second
Baptist society, the steel ceiling of
the vestry fell, seriously injuring five
firemen.
One hundred and eighty-two in
formations were made by County
Detective R. G. Robinson against
gamblers, unlicensed liquor dealers
and keepers of unlawful houses IN
Allegheny City, Pa.
Postmaster General Wynne, in a
statement to congress relative to the
dismissal of Postmen James G. Kel-
lar, Frank Cunningham, Warren Tum-
Der and H. w. Aldrich, tells of how
chiefs of letter carriers dabbled in
politics.
Locked in a prison van eight in
mates of the house of correction in
Philadelphia were dragged over a 20
foot embaniment and Matthew Ack-
erman was killed and John Sharley
was probably fatally injured.
Brig. Gen. Carter reports fighting
in Samar, in which one man was
killed and several wounded.
The senate investigating commit
tee of Missouri says it is not ready
to report on federal patronage and it's
influence in the senatorial contest,
and it asks for more time to inves-
| tigate.
l.. l.. West, an express messenger,
was killed and 13 persons were in
jured in a wreck of a northbound
Santa Fe passenger train near Derby,
Kan.
James M. Watson, the clerk in the
auditors Office of the district govern
ment in Washington who was accused
of embezzling $4,000 Of funds en-
trusted to him by Auditor Petty and
recently convicted on two indictments
involving $12.S26, has been sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment.
Three miners are dead and 20
others are entombed in a 600-foot
shaft of the Decatur Coal Co., at
Decatur, ILL.,, cut off from rescue by
dense smoke produced by a fire that
| started In mule stable.
The sixteenth annual national con-
vention of the United Mine Workers
of America is in session in Indian
apolis.
China's attention has again been in
directly invited by the American
government to the necessity for a
| faithful maintenance Of her neutral
ity, not only in her personal interest,
but in the interest of the worlds
peace.
| WniiS attempting W dllS5I IlODcIL
and James McBryde in Tuskegee,
Ala, Sheriff Connor was probably
fatally stabbed, Robert and James
McBryde were shot to death, Deputy
Sheriff George Lamar was severely
stabbed and City Marshal Taylor was
cut about the arms.
Thomas H. Carter, republican, has
been elected United States senator
from Montana for the term beginning
on March 4, to succeed Paris Gibson,
democrat.
Unofficial returns from the vote
cast by the members of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in
dicate that there will be no strike.
Delegates representing a large part
of the disaffected miners decided at
meeting in Essen, Germany, on a
tgeneral strike, regardless of the par
tial concessions offered by the mine