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caused $500, 900 loss.
Two persons died from the heat in Rich
nond, Va, last Thursday.
Sixteen men were killed in a mine dis
aster in Germany last Tuesday.
A boy fisherman at Biloxi, Miss, caughtl
an unidentified dead man on his line.
Seven men were killed last Tuesday by
a dynamite explosion at Blairstown, N. J.
Thirteen prominent Turkish revolution
lists were hanged in Constantinople Monday.
By the overturning Of launch near
Cincinnati five persons were drowned last
Sunday.
The flood in the Mississippi River at st.
Louis reached its crest Friday, with $50
feet of water.
Through money orders sent abroad, the |
u nited States now sustains a net loss of
SEC, 100000 year.
Three persons were drowned by the cap
sizing of launch in Kings Lake, near
Elsberry, Mo-, last Sunday.
Seven persons were killed and twenty
five injured when building collapsed in
Philadelphia last Thursday.
jeanette Dolan, the musical comedy star,
and James Dolan, her brother, were drown
ed last Friday at Chillicothe, Ohio.
S. C. w. Stovall, Confederate veteran,
drowned in three feet Of water at Beauvoir,
Miss, while trying to save his hat.
A storm of cyclonic proportions swept
through Frost, Texas, Saturday afternoon,
doing damage estimated at $4,000.
Two trainmen were killed and seven
passengers injured in railroad wreck
near Manchester, Indiana, Sunday.
A Russian soldier who was being logged
killed the officer, stabbed two soldiers and
plunged the knife into his own breast.
Fifteen Masonic lodges participated in
the laying of the cornerstone for the new
5000 school building at Pontotoc, Miss.
Preferring death to confinement in an
asylum, Mrs. Annie Schenkle, of Chicago,
killed her two young sons and suicided
with gas.
Conney Covington, seven years old, of
Silas, Ala, died at Mobile from swallowing
piece of bisque doll, which lodged in his
windpipe.
Sixteen persons, five of them women,
met death by drowning in the waters either
surrounding or in the vicinity of New York
last Sunday.
The tariff conferees agreed to a reduce
ton of per cent in the Dingley rates on
women's and children's dress goods made
of cotton warp.
Democrats and Republicans Of the House
of Representatives played game of base
ball at Washington last Friday for charity.
The Democrats won, 26 to Is.
Justice Humbird of Cumberland, Md,
thrashed John Hepp, who attacked him,
and then sentenced him to six months in
Jail for being habitually disorderly.
"Fifteen have been hanged, 800 deserve
death, Il, 900 deserve hard labor for life,
is the finding Of the court-martial on the
recent massacre at Adana, Asia Minor.
Twelve more deaths due to tetanus as a
result of the Fourth of July celebration
were reported throughout the country on
the 18th instant. This brings the total
deaths due to observance of independence
day from all causes up to ia.
In an effort to better fit it's members 10
the cultivation and handling Of cotton, the
Farmers Union will hold six.weeks'
term of school at Little Rock, Ark, for the
purpose of instructing the members on cot
ton and subjects closely associated with it.
The cotton market was sensationally
strong last Tuesday, recovering all of
Mondays loss, on the failure of the official
weather report to confirm the talk of a break
in the Texas drouth and renewed prospects
of dry, hot weather in that part of the
country.
Ten lives were lost and 100000 worth
of property was destroyed by hurricane
which swept over the Gulf Of Mexico and
struck Galveston yesterday morning, con-
tinuing until midday. The city was held
safe against the fury of the storm-lashed
waves by the new 100000 sea wall.
Representative Tawney, of the House
appropriations committee, admitted in the
House Monday that Francis j. Heney had