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The coroner's jury which inycsti-
gated the explosion in the Naomi
mines condemned the use of electric
wires and open lights, and made 9TH
or recommendations looking to the
prevention of similar accidents.
Stuyvesant Fish, in an affidavit
fled in the Superior Court, Chicago,
declares that IL he obtains majority
OF the proxies at the Illinois Cen
trail election he will depose Il. H.
Hartman as a director.
Banks in New York have been
swindled out of considerable money
on fictitious cotton warehouse re-
ceipts purporting to be from Georgia.
Ely Weitzel, aged "a, of Norris
town, Pa, died is physician's Of
fee just after he had been given an
infection of antitoxin.
Barlow Worthy, a negro. was kill
ed by County Policemen Robinson
and Riley, in Pittsburg, Ca, while
resisting arrest.
Isaac jacobson and Abraham Le-
vine were killed near Chicago when
they stepped In front Of an express
train.
According to statement made by
the Pennsylvania Railroad, the opera
ton of the two-cent-rate law has
caused large decreases in the gross
revenue and net earnings.
Plans to make Sunday closing q
political issue in Cook County and
other Illinois Districts are being laid
by the United Societies for Local
Self-government.
In branch of the Little Osipee
River, at North Shapleigh, Me-, the
body of Mrs. Andrew Jackson Smith,
who disappeared from her home, was
found
The works Of the Waterbury
Buckle Company closed down In
memory of a woman who had been
In the company's employ 46 years.
Augustus Rose, prominent wit
ness in the Jefferson murder trial In
Burlington. N. j., was shot by an
unknown man.
Five hundreds American, Germans,
Irish, Swedes and Russians will seek
homes in the South Pacific Islands
next month.
John w. Riddle, the American am
bassador to Russia, sailed for his
post at st. Petersburg on the steamer
Amerika.
The Lebanon Valley Branch of the
Reading Railroad was completely tied
up for many hours by a freight
wreck.
Mrs. Angelina Anselene was sem
fenced to 20 years in the penitentiary
for the murder of Phillip Ferreo in
Chicago.
The funeral of Mrs. Louisa Taft,
mother of Secretary Taft, took place
from her home, in Cincinnati.
Three small children of Antonio
Montoya were burned to death in
their home, near Ignacio, Col.
Jacob Stehman was hanged in
Harrisburg for the murder of his
wife more than year ago.
Three unidentified men were found
dead in a room filled with gas In a
Chicago hotel.
The westbound transatlantic mail
carrying record was broken by the
steamship Majestic.
Henry E. Youtsey testified in the
Caleb Powers trial that Powers shot
and killed Governor Goebel. of Ken
lucky, and that Governor Taylor had
offered money and pardon to any
one who would kill Goebel.
Okl0uOHld HAS GtOCISu- LWO OCAAO-
cratic United States senators-Robert
l.. Owen, who has Indian blood in
his veins, and Thomas P. Gore,
blind man.
New York City has placed penal
ty Of $500 minute on power COM
pany In case Of a delay of over three
minutes in getting pressure on fire
plugs.
Walter J. BARNETT, director of the
suspended California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company, who was ar
rested, has been released on $4,000
bail.
Three thousand dollars in twenty
dollar gold pieces was found in tea
kettle buried on a farm in Connec-
ticut.
President David P. Walker. Vice
President S. Dalzell Brown and Vice
President w. T. Barnett, of the West
ern Pacific Railroad, have been plac-
ed under arrest in connection with
the closing of the California Safe De-
post and Trust Company.
Alfred H Smith, vice president and
general manager of the New York
Central Railroad, was placed on trial
charged with manslaughter in con-
nection with the wreck of the Brews-
ter express, in which "A lives were
lost.
Governor Hughes has removed
John F. Ahern, president of the
Borough of Manhattan, from office
on charges of neglect and miscon-
duct.
Foreign
The Bulgarian Government has
sent note to Russia denying that
residents of Sofia are participating
In the attacks made by Bulgarian
bands in Macedonia.