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was wounded. The two had Quarreled
over business matter.
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The British turbine torpedo boat de-
stroyer Tartar broke all records in her
final trials, attaining a speed Of
37.037 knots.
WI Ting Fang, who has been reap.
pointed to the post Of Chinese ambas-
sador to the United States, has left
Pekin on his way to Washington.
The construction Of a second Sim
plon tunnel will begin as soon as prac-
ticable. The national council of
Switzerland has approved the plan.
The Austrian government repud,
ates all connection with or sanction of
the propaganda hostile to Argentina
now appearing in the Austrian press.
A small Bristol china teapot, pre-
scented to Edmund Burke by the found
er of the Bristol factory, was auction
ed at London and brought the remark
able price of $1,000.
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convention which provides for the
maintenance of Frances preferential
rights in the Congo Independent State
after the annexation of that territory
to Belgium.
The diocesan authorities have inves-
tigated the miracle alleged to have &C.
Cured in the village church at Brin,
France, recently, and found it to have
been an optical illusion caused by the
reflection of church image upon the
sacred wafer as the candles moved.
1t was announced at Copenhagen
that wireless telephone messages had
been transmitted successfully between
the Weissen Zee wireless station at
Berlin and the Lyngby station near
Copenhagen. The distance is about
200 miles. Prof. Poulson, the invent
or, said he hoped to communicate
with America via Ireland by telephone
in February next.
The throne has sanctioned the con-
struction of telegraph line into
Lhassa, the capital of Tibet and the
residence of the supreme head of the
Lamaist hierarchy. This innovation
was recommended by the Chinese res.
idents of Lhassa, who, since the ad-
vent of the British expedition of 1904
has been working for the enlighten-
ment of the Tibetans.
Casualty.
The Mercer county court house, To-
Gated at Mercer, Pa, erected forty
years ago, was totally destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at $780,
600.
Seven firemen were injured, one
perhaps fatally, in the burning of the
Saginaw Produce and Cold Storage
companys plant at Saginaw, Mich.
The property loss was about $4,000.
The three band mills of the Chicago
Lumber company were destroyed by
fire at Manistique, Henry Hammel, a
night foreman, and Night Waterman
Andrew Norton being burned to death.
The property loss was 100000.
Miss Alice Perry of Waterloo, Iowa,
sustained a fracture of her left wrist
in a peculiar manner. She is EN-,
ployed in the remodeling department
Of the Hieber haberdashery, and while
wringing water from pressing cloth
she broke her wrist.
William A. Schwartz, aged twenty
nine, policeman of Pittsburg, while
cleaning his revolver accidentally
shot and killed his mother, Mrs.
Rachel Schwartz, sixty-one years old,
and was so crazed by the accident
that he made several attempts to end
his own life, but was restrained by
relatives.
Carrying out mock lynching,
Willie Gordon, a sixteen-year-old ne.
gro, was hoisted to shafting at a
Memphis manufacturing concern by
several companions. Before he could
be released his clothing caught in a
belt and his head and arms were sew
cred from his shoulders. Several of
the participants in the affair, all of
whom were negroes, were arrested on
the charge Of involuntary manslaugh-
ter.
Domestic.
The supreme court Of Illinois has
decided that Mayor Busse had no
power to remove the appointees of