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burned, the loss being nearly $1,000
900.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned another indictment against
John r. Walsh, former bank presi-
dent, with It's counts charging misap'
I.lication Of funds.
General managers and trainmen OF
western railroads reached an agree.
ment, through the mediation OF Com
missioners Knapp and Neill, and the
threatened strike was averted.
Former Land Commissioners Binger
Hermann went on the stand and.
while he admitted destroying his
books, he maintained the act was due
to no dishonest motive.
serious clash occurred during the
strike at the local yards of the Ameri-
can Shipbuilding company during
which striking riveter. Punk" Con-
ners, was shot by one of the company
detectives.
Mrs. Francis Butler, real daugh;
ter of the American revolution. died
at birmingham, Me, at the age of 81.
Her daughter is the wife of C. f.
Thwing, president of Western Reserve
university.
An explosion of gas occurred in No.
4 colliery of the International Coal &
Coke company at Coleman. Canada.
and afterdamp caused the death OF
three men.
L. j. Marks, a prominent citizen of
Chicago, died suddenly at the Hotel
Manhattan, New York. Apoplexy was
given as the cause of death. 1t was
stated that Mr. Marks, with his wife
and son, was on his way to Bermuda.
Constantine, arrested in New York
for the murder OF Mrs. Gentry in Chi
cago, declared the woman committed
suicide.
Thirty years in prison was the sen.
tence imposed in New York upon
Folke Engel Brandt who had pleaded
guilty to burglary in the first degree
in entering the house of his former
employer. Mortimer L. Schiff, the
banker
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth expect to spend a month
in Alaska the coming summer. They
will leave their home in Cincinnati
about July l.
Benjamin Thaw, half brother OF
Harry X. Thaw, has donated $4,000
to the fund for the proposed new
building for the Western university
OF Pennsylvania.
Large bodies of troops, including
dragons and Cossacks, are pouring
into st. Petersburg, as they did pre-
vious to the dissolution OF the first
parliament.
NJ. A. Lang. an uncle OF Charles
Schwab, was fatally crushed between
cars in the Duquesne steel mills al
Pittsburg.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Redfield State bank at Redfield
near Fort Scott, Kan, but got little
money.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested fol
writing BLACK Hand" letters to prom
inent families in Havana, Cuba.
The Columbus CO., Railway ant
Light company voluntarily raised the
pay of its conductors and motormen
The Mississippi river is flooding the
lowlands about La Crosse, Wis.
Myer l.. Wilson, aged %, son OF II
!. Wilson, a prominent business man
killed himself with revolver as h,
stood on the corner OF Eleventh AM
Walnut streets, Kansas City.
Emile Grigsby, whom the lat,
Charles T. Yerkes took from the stag
and made his ward, has settled he
claims against his estate. II is re
| ported that she will sail for Europ
worth more than a million dollars.
Thirty firemen, among them Chic
Croker and Deputy Chief Guerin, wer
injured by falling debris, and damag
estimated at $4,000 was caused by
fire in the five-story building at Is
Maiden lane, New York.
AS a result of the examination o
the books and accounts of Ferdinan,
H. Dudenhefer, state tax collector, b.
State Auditor Paul Capdevielle o
Louisiana, IT was announced that Their
was a shortage of over $4,000.
DR.. and Mrs. Lloyd Garee. who ha
been married but one day, wer
burned to death in hotel at Sutton
w Va.
Bartholomew G. Cavagna, forme
teller in the First National bank @
Cincinnati, was indicted by the fedel
al grand jury for the embezzlement c
$4,000. was Immediately arraignet
pleaded guilty and was given 81,
years sentence in the Ohio peniteT
tiary. Only three minutes were taker
Richard II. Lyon, associate edito
of the South Bend Qnd) Tribune
with which paper he was connecte
for SO years, died after a long Hines!
He was 60 years of age.
One person. an Italian. was kilie
in hotel fire in San Francisco. an
16 persons were hurt
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald, OF tn
Methodist Episcopal church, died q
Hongkong. His home was in s
Louis.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy issued
personal note saying that she had pr