The log cabin Democrat., 1908-03-12

med up agalnst doors that opened ln- ward, between 160 and ITO children in the suburb of North Collinwood, were killed by fire, by smoke, and beneath the grinding heels of the panic-stricken playmates. The aw- ful tragedy occurred Wednesday morning in the public srhool at North Collinwood, suburb of Cleve- land. Ohio. At 10 o'clock that night 165 corpses were in the morgue at ColIinwood. six children were still unaccounted for and all the hospi- tals and houses for two miles around contained a number of children, some fatally and many less seriously in- iured. All of the victims were be- tween the ages of 6 and 17 years. The school contained between BIO and 32O pupils, and of this number, only about so are known to have left the building unhurt.
 It is reported that Mt. Ore, a vil- lage forty miles east of Cincinnati, O., was the scene of a daring bank robbery by which number of yegg- men, evidently skilled in the use of pitro-glycerine, blew open the yault of the Mt. Ore Bank and made way with $45,OO0 in cash and cur rencv. Telephone wires had been cut and though the explosion made q great noise the robbers escaped be- fore the citizens were sufficiently aroused to discover what had taken place.
 After thirty-fve years of tele- graphing, Mrs. Jennie Anderson has lost her position on the Wabash rail- road. at Wabash, Ind, because under the nine-hour law regulations the road requires operators on all but first tricks" t.o handle baggage and sell tickets. This she is unable to- do, and so she quit her duties.
 It costs a quarter to say 'damn" in Borough Recorder w. $. Browne's office at Vineland, N. J. The squire has a little box with a slot in 1t which he immediately presents to friend or stranger who happens to use the word. It costs more to say larger words. The money IS to be devoted to charity.
 It was announced at Boston Sat urday that the principal cotton manufacturers throughout New Eng land have decided to continue the curtailment of the normal produc- ton 25 per cent for another three months. This decision follows an in- quiry into the probable demand for cotton roads.
 Indictments were voted by the Grand Jury at St. Louis, Mo-, late Monday against Henry s. and Gil bert Whitener, George B. Gale and James A. and George M. London on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government of valuable tracts of timber lands in Montgomery county Ark.
 While apparently friendly in a drinking bout at saloon in Hous- ton, Tex, Wednesday morning, words passed between J. l.. Simp- son and J. H. Lee, two officers of the police department. Lee shot Simpson twice, the wounds proving fatal few hours later.
 The senate at Frankfort, Ky, passed the Wilhelmi bill to prohibit the operation of 'poolrooms, but 1t contains this section: "This act shall not apply to race tracks licensed by the state racing commission nor trot- ting races conducted by regularly or ganized associations. :.
 The city council of Barboursvllle, Knox county, Kentucky, the former home of Caleb Powers, has passed a resolution asserting the belief that Powers ts innocent of complicity in the murder of Senator William Goe- bel and petitioning Gov. Wilson to pardon him.
 Charles E. Miller Jr., of 1o5 Sturges street, Mansfield, O., was murdered in mysterious manner i1 the railroad yards at Memphis, early Tuesday morning. His body was found, shot through the heart, when switchmen investigated a muf-