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from the plant of the Illinois Pure
Aluminium company, where he was
employed as a storekeeper.
Dawson e. Burch of Chicago killed
his bride of four months and himself
because of jealousy.
Martin Clehossy was killed and his
son wounded near South Cotton, n. Y,
by hunter who mistook them for
deer
Alfred Flowers. high school stu
dent, was killed in a football game at
Cincinnati.
William c. Rockefeller, assistant
treasurer of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, testified in the govern
ment's suit for the dissolution of the
oil combine, that the Standard was
heavy lender of its surplus funds in
Wall street, for which 1t obtained the
prevailing rates of interest. Mr. Rock
efeller made this declaration when
asked to account for the loans of $780,
000, 900 made by the Standard Oil
company of New York. in 1906, 10
Interests other than the Standard"
Aeronauts ]. c. Mccoy and Capt.
Charles De F. Chandler, who assembled
from st. Louis for test fight, won
the Lahm cup by travelling about BOO
miles to West Virginia.
Acting under instructions from
Judge Cochran, the jury at Decatur,
H., returned a verdict acquitting Fred
erick Magill and his wife, Faye Ora
ham Magill. of the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Pet Magill, the first wife OF
Magill.
Lewis NJ. Wilson, a student at the
Eureka College Theological Seminary
at Eureka, H., shot and seriously
wounded John Walsh, a classmate.
Edwin r. Wright was reelected
president of the Illinois Federation of
Labor. and James F. Morris, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Gov. Hughes, addressing the Repub-
lican club of New York city, declared
that he was not seeking the presiden-
tial nomination. directly or indirectly.
Negroes in New Orleans started a
riot in which they killed a policeman,
barricaded themselves in a house and
wounded several other officers before
they were captured.
SFThe direct New York-Havana cable
of the Commercial Cable company was
completed. the final splice having
been made at sea, 100 miles from
Coney island.
The Canadian Pacific liners Tartar
and Charmer collided off the mouth
of the Fraser river and both were bad
ly damaged.
F.. r. Brundick, former cashier of
the Peoples bank at Huntingburg,
Ind, attempted to commit suicide
after he was arrested on charges of
perjury and for receiving deposits
after the bank was in an embarrassed
condition.
Delegates Frederick w. Priesmeyer
and Ferdinand Warder, of st. Louis,
were arrested on the floor OF the
house of delegates on indictments for
| bribery, returned at a special session
of the grand jury after the passage by
the delegates of a bill granting per
mission to build a garage on DelmaT
| boulevard.
Princess de Bearn, formerly Miss
Beatrice Winans, of Baltimore, Md.
died in st. Petersburg.
John Antrobus, an artist, who was
widely known throughout this coun
try and the father of Miss Suzanne An
trobus, the novelist, died in Detroit
Mich.
The peace conference at The Hague
closed in a blaze of oratory.
George Kincaid, head of the public
works department in Yukon Territory
who was arrested at Dawson on
charge Of stealing $4,000 from reg
istered mail sack, committed suicide
by taking poison.
President Roosevelt succeeded il
shooting a large black bear.
The police of Manila were warned
that an attempt would be made t
throw a bomb at Secretary Taft.
A Chicago jury returned verdict o
life Imprisonment for Michael Maher
accused of attacking an 11-year-ol'
girl.
w. w. Westcott, one of the mos
successful gamblers in America an,
brother of Mrs. Katherine Tingley
head of the Theosophist organization
is dead at his home in New York.
Gov Gen. Grey of Canada ar
nounced that some members of tn
royal family would visit the dominio
in connection with the centenary Q
the landing of Champlain.
AS results of the collapse of the al
tempted corner in United Copper 4
New York. the firm of Otto Heinz
& Co. was suspended in the stock e1
change; F. Augustus Heinze, tn
Butte copper magnate, resigned tn
presidency of the Mercantile Nationa
bank of New York; the Amalgamate
Copper company cut its quarterly div
dend from two per cent. to one pc
cent; the directors of the Boston
| Montana Copper company declared
quarterly dividend of six dollars 1
place of former dividend of $12; tn
failure of Haller-Soehle & Co., prom
nent bankers of Hamburg, German,