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pended sentence in the case OF Hugo
c. Voecks, who pleaded guilty TO
Matchmaking Raymond Hitchcock, the
comedian.
Col Benjamin G. Lockwood, com
handing the Twenty-ninth regiment
of infantry, has been placed on the re-
tired list of the army, as brigadier
general, on his own application, after
more than AZ years service.
An attempt was made to blow up
the new steel bridge of the Pennsyl-
construction over the Erie railroad
tracks at Newark, N. j.
Railroad construction in the United
States has progressed during the past
year on almost as large a scale as
during the year 1906, according to
statistics gathered by the Railway
Age.
At Carmi, Ill, a crowd of men and
boys held up and robbed Big Four
coal train of more than 200 bushels of
coal.
Violent gales prevailed for "a hours
in Colorado. Near Boulder two
coaches of a train were blown into
the ditch, one man being killed and
five badly injured.
An employe in the post office at
Erie, Pa, found a Christmas gift pack
age containing an Internal machine.
Search is being made in Kansas and
Missouri for Gentle Cave-Browne
Cave, believed to be the heir to the
title and estates of Sir Mylles Cave
Browne Cave, an English baron re-
! Gently deceased.
A sudden cold snap at the head
waters of the Allegheny river averted
food which threatened to work
great damage at Pittsburg.
Gen. Skallen, governor of Warsaw,
who recently closed 1000 Polish
schools and disbanded a number of
labor unions, has ordered all the Jew
ish clubs in Poland to close.
James Garden, colored, was lynched
at Henriette, Okla, for the murder of
a white man.
AS a result of the reorganization of
| the Pere Marquette Railroad company
| the OlHCe lOIC6 VI Inc IOdu Will NC
moved from Cincinnati to Detroit
A talking machine and discs bear
ing records of the voices of the great
est singers of the present were buried
for 100 years in Paris.
Rev. Frank S. Hatch, general secre-
tary of the Christian Endeavor move
ment in India, Burmah and Ceylon for
several years, died at his home in
Brookline, Mass.
The United Hebrew Charities of
New York, the largest Jewish charit-
able organization in the United
States, which has annually extended
aid to over 5000 families, closed its
doors for the first time in its history
for lack of funds.
James Renslow, 81 years old, in
ventor of the spoon oar and maker OF
oars for most of the prominent boat
clubs of the country. committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head
at Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
At Conway, Ark, Mrs. Emma Hear
ness, widow, was shot and killed by
James Hall after a quarrel over two
dogs which Hall had killed
Christmas in Pittsburg and vicinity
was made doubly joyful by the an
nouncement that by January 6 all OF
the thousands of wheels of industry in
the mills of McKeesport, Glassport
Duquesne and allied plants in the
Monongahela valley would be in op
Grafton. Over 10000 men who have
been idle for several weeks will return
to work.
Milton B. Owen, 10 years of age
was arrested upon the charge of at
tempting to kill the entire family o.
his employer, Richard Owens, of the
town of Algoma, Wis. by poisoning.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana pardoneC
Samuel Harmon and Joseph Osborn
serving life sentences for murder.
Col. Charles Trowbridge, formerl!
lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-thirC
United States South Carolina volun
teers, United States infantry, and TO
many years custodian of the Mime
sofa state capitol, died in st. Paul.
Sister Theresa, nurse at st. Mary
hospital in Milwaukee, was shot ant
killed by Gustav Wirth, aged 80, VIII
is supposed to be insane.
Christian w Stengel, president o
the Feigenspan Brewery interests II
Newark, N. j., died in Philadelphia
less than IL hours after he had beel
married to Mrs. Marie Louise Feigen
span, widow of the man who once EN-
ployed him.
Saloonkeepers of Chattanooga
Tenn, voluntarily closed their place
all day Christmas.
Hudson o., voted out saloons to &c
a 100000 gift of ]. w. Ellsworth,
> coal magnate, made on condition tina
the town go dry"
l. John Erickson was killed in tn
power house of the Chicago sanitar
> district by current of $4,000 volts c
Z electricity.
A man believed to be Robert Fl. Hal
4 ris of the brokerage firm of Harris
d. Co.. Kansas City Kan, was crushe
4 TO death under the wheels of a Nortl