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Charleston railroad at Stock, Pa.
The annual report OF Rear Admiral
Cowles, chief of the bureau of equip
ment, called attention to the impor-
lance Of wireless telegraphy In time
of war and Of the work already done
and being done in the direction Of In
stalling wireless apparatus through
out the service.
A witness In the Shea case at Chi
cago told how horses were tortured
with acid and men were slugged In
the teamsters' strike of 1906.
The flood at Clifton, Ariz., receded
after much of the town had been de-
stroyed. The number Of dead Is not
known.
T. s. Outram, section director Of the
United States weather bureau in Min
neapolis, and one OF the best known
weather men In the United States, is
dead.
East-bound passenger train No. 4
(the Atlantic express on the Union
Pacific railroad) was derailed near
Church Buttes, Wyo., 140 miles east
Of Ogden, and seven persons were in
jured.
A freight house of the Chicago &
Burlington road at Chicago was
burned, the loss being 100000.
Fire in the business district of Mon
treal caused loss OF $4,000. Zero
weather handicapped the work OF the
firemen.
Lewis Emery, Jr., the unsuccessful
Democratic Lincoln candidate for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, spent $25,561.4S
in his campaign.
Government departments and COM
mercial bodies of Hawaii have organ
lied to secure pan-Pacifc congress.
The British house of lords has dis
agreed on the education bill and the
government may withdraw the meas
ure.
The town hall in Yokohama, Japan,
memorial of Gen. Grants visit to
that city, was destroyed by fire.
The volcano Kilauea, In Hawaii. is
again active.
Chief Justice Andrew P. Wiswell. of
the Maine supreme court, died sud.
denly in Boston hotel of heart dis.
ease.
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a
well-known paleontologist of New
York city, was elected secretary OF
the Smithsonian Institution, to sue.
coed the late Prof. Samuel T. Lang
ley.
A wealthy German woman has
promised to provide an annuity for
Wilhelm Voight, of Koepenick fame,
when he has completed his prison
term.
Judge B. F. Weber, former Judge
Of the district court Of Brown and ad-
jacent counties, Minnesota, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself He
was "A years of age, and had been in
ill-health for some time.
Rev. J. G.. Rawlins and ALI Moore,
negro. were hanged at Valdosta,
Ca, for the murder of Willie and
Carrie Carter In July, 1905.
King Alfonso has approved Of q
new ministry under the premiership
Of Marquis de Armijo, in which Gen.
Weyler resumes his old post of minis
ter of war.
Henry White, American ambassador
to Rome, will be transferred from that
post to Paris, where he will succeed
Robert s. Mccormick as ambassador.
Mr.. White VIII be succeeded at Rome
by Lloyd T. Griscom, now American
ambassador to Brazil.
The town of Clifton, Ariz., was part
breaking of big dam, and many per-
sons were drowned.
Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholas died at
Banogher, Ireland, aged 80 years. He
was the husband of Charlotte Bronte,
the famous English novelist.
Fire at Conneaut Lake, Pa, de-
stroyed three of the largest summer
hotels and several frame buildings, and
for time threatened the entire viii
lage.
Garland Moore, aged FL, mail car
rier. shot and fatally wounded Miss
Clara West, aged q, at Bos Dare,
Mo-, because she rejected his suit.
The jury in the trial of Chester E.
Gillette for the murder of his sweet
heart. Grace Brown, at Big Moose lake,
N. Y, on July II last, returned a ver-
dict Of guilty in the first degree.
Four children, two boys and two
girls, ranging in age fDm two months
to five years, were burned to death at
their home near Westfield, N. ].
Messages were exchanged by the
government wireless station at Point
Iona with the government station at
Puget sound, 1900 miles away.
The Chagres river reached the high
est point ever known and work on the
canal was stopped by the inundation.
Donate Milanetti; of Midland, O.,
fired two shots into his wife's breast
killing her instantly, and then shot
himself twice.
Three hundred Japanese have en-
tered the United States through Mex
leo since November 1.
Arthur Fl. Buck was arrested by
the police Of Butte, Mont. who say he
got away with several thousand dol.
lars worth Of cash and jewelry. the
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