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stroyed boarding house at 1611 Mis-
souri, avenue, St. Louis.
Mary Mcdonald, negress, who
claimed to be 1876 years of age, is
, dead at the Home for Aged and Infirm
Colored Persons in Philadelphia.
The home of Philip Johnson, col
ored. at Fairmont, w. Va, was con-
sumed by fire and his son Hugh, aged
IL, and his nephew, Harry Davenport,
were burned to death.
Residents of Lincoln, Neb., felt an
earthquake shock that was severe
enough in several instances to shake
globes from chandeliers. No damage
Is reported to buildings.
Five men were instantly killed, four
others fatally hurt and seven serious
ly injured by the explosion of ton
OF dynamite at the quarries of the
Dolese Shepard Co., at Gary, Ill.
Two railroad men were killed and
| three Injured in collision of freight
trains on the Burlington road near
| Woods Station, 80 miles from St.
Louis.
Reports of how the dead are mutt
lated to terrify the living in Russia
| were brought to New York recently by
Russian refugees, 700 of whom arrived
on the steamer Pennsylvania.
The large dry kiln of the William
Ritter Lumber Co. at Panther, w. Va,
containing 100000 feet of dressed
lumber, was destroyed by fire with a
loss of 100000
Charles Cristadoro, capitalist, for
estry expert and magazine writer, shot
and probably fatally wounded himscH
in his Office at st. Paul, MINI. 1t is
not yet determined whether the shoot
ing was accidental.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, one of
the most noted convicts in the coun-
try, died in the MiddleseX county Jail
in East Cambridge, Mass. She was
6S years old and had been in solitary
confinement more than IS years.
At GenZano, town of 5000 inhabi-
tants in Italy, the earth suddenly
opened Thursday, engulfing ten
houses. Many persons were buried in
the ruins. Fourteen dead bodies have
been recovered.
By the explosion of kerosene lamp
in boarding house at Nahticoke, Pa,
Margaret Voldalyka, aged Is years,
dents of the house were so badly
burned that they will die.
John Mckay, a lumber inspector,
died from bullet wound in the temple
inflicted with suicidal intent after an
unsuccessful attempt to shoot and
kill his divorced wife at the latter's
home in Flint, Mich.
In collision between freight trains
near Chester, Pa, on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad Henry A. milford, of
Baltimore, conductor, was killed. The
wreckage caught fire and both trains
were partly destroyed.
A dispatch from Toxic to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph says that on
January an explosion set fire to a
mine at Akita, on the main island of
Japan, and that 101 persons were
burned to death.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
in Kansas City recently. No damage
was done. The movement, which ap-
peared to be from north to south,
lasted about 23 seconds, shook chan
deliers and ratified dishes.
Trade between the United States
and Germany, whose commercial re-
lations are now the subject of nego-
tiations between the two governments,
aggregated in the fiscal year 1905,
over $500, 0,000,0 900.
Elliott Danforth, state treasurer of
New York from 1889 to 1898, former
chairman of the democratic state
committee and democratic nominee
for lieutenant governor in 1898. died
at his home in New York City. He
was Sc years of age.
AS the result of head-on collision
at Cory, Pa, between fast passenger
train No. A. of the Philadelphia &
Erie railroad. and freight engine
moving light, three trainmen were
killed and 20 passengers were more
or less seriously injured.
Unless there is currency reform, a
panic beside which former panics will
seem Insignificant, was predicted by
Jacob H. Schiff, head of the banking
firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., in speech
before the New York Chamber of
Commerce.
Fire in the retail quarter of Kan
sas City caused loss of $350,000, de-
stroying the three-story building of
the Columbus Buggy Co., adjoining
the building occupied by the Kimball
Piano Co., and damaged the Commerce
building.
John w. Neff, former county audi
tor, and Poland ]. Conover, the con-
tractor who removed the bodies from
the North Street cemetery to the
Lakeside cemetery to make room for
the armory,' were indicted at Buffalo,
N. Y, by the grand jury. Nefr was
arrested.
The taking of testimony in two suits
brought by the state of Missouri to
oust the Standard Oil Company, of
Indiana, the Waters-Pierce Oil Co.
and the Republic Oil Co. from Mis-
souri, and to prevent the carrying out
Of an alleged pooling agreement
among the companies mentioned, was
begun in New York recently before
Frederick w. Sanborn, special COM
| missioner aDnOintod by Gov Folk