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 Laporte, Ind, April 3-Roy Lamp here who figured in the famous Gun ness farm murders and house burning mystery, now confined in the peniten- tiary, is dying from consumption. Since his confinement he has gradual ly been ailing and it is now feared he can live but a short while.
 Chicago, April 3--President Frost dollars for the building and equipment of the Alaska Central Railway.
 This railway has been surveyed from Seward northwest to the Shsshitna river and considerable work has al- ready been done on it. The announce ment that sufficient funds have been raised to build it will be received with glad acclaim by all Alaskans.
 New York, April 3-The firm of John Dickinson Company suspended today with liabilities of over quarter million dollars.
 This is the first big failure of the season and resulted from a big bull in the wheat market. The notice of suspension was given out at noon to- day and created considerable excite ment in financial circles.
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 London, April 3-Contrary to all expert predictions, the crew of the University of Oxford today finished three and one half lengths ahead of Cambridge in the annual four and one half mile race on the Thames.
 The event was witnessed by thous- ands of enthusiastic spectators OK ford took the lead from the start and soon the Cambridge crew became de- moralized and their distress became evident as they fouled their oars, and gradually lost their chances.
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 Chicago, April 3-Vincenzo Geraca- ci believed to be the chief of the black hand in America was arrested today in the office of the Victim. an anarchistic publication.
 Geracaci's arrest followed an at tempt on his part to eXhort blackmail from Dr. Cutreara from whom he de- manded three thousand dollars or death, and when taken by the police he put up terrific fight, battling like a madman before being locked in jail
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 Seattle, April 3-James Bryce, the English historian and statesman and best known in America by his author ship of The American Commonwealth. has been invited to speak for Great Britain at the opening of the A. Y. r. E. Jas. J. Hill. president of the Great Northern railway and empire huilder, has been requested to speak for America on the same occasion.
 It has been tipped off to the man. agement that both these gentlemen will accept.
 Washington, April B The demo- crats in the house declare that the Payne tariff bill is filled with imper- feclions, aud was designed principal lv with the intention of covering up the extravagancies of the republicans : that it doesn't fulfill the pal ty pledges and the passage of the makeshift will sound the death knell of the republi- can party.
 The republicans suggest the forma- tion of a permanent tariff commission, none seeming to be satisfied with the present measure.
 President Taft has notified the sen- ate that he is considering new bill which is to provide for minimum -ariff to apply for one year.
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 Washington, April 3-Secretary Ballinger has appointed Clarence Booth of Indiana and Joseph Hend- rick of Kansas to go to Seattle to in- vestigate the frauds of the Pacific coast. It is also presumed that they will take charge of the gations of the land frauds in Alaska.
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