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At the Modern Woodmen of Amer
ica convention at Toledo. O., the az
officers were yindicated
and elected by a vote OF 200 to 145
A. r. Talbot of Lincoln, Neb.. was re
elected head consul.
One of the most important deals o.
modern times was contaminated al
London, England, when It was official
ly announced that the London City
and Midland bank had been amalga
mated with the Metropolitan bank Of
Wales. The aggregate capital stock
viii be s525.ooo.ooO.
President William r. Janeway Of
Janeway & Co., New Brunswick, N
r., the oldest wall paper concern In
the United States, announced that his
concern would retire from the indus
try when contracts now in force have
expired.
An attempt to burn church al
a southeastern suburb Of
was made by an larson
SQUAD of militant suffragettes. The
flames were quickly extinguished and
the damage was small.
Police Inspector Thomas F. Morton
of Boston was shot fatally In re
volver battle following an attempt te
arrest Lawrence Robinson, wanted In
Grand Rapids, Mich. on charges Of
murder and robbery.
By a margin of four inches Yale
won the varsity four-mile eight-oared
race from Harvard on the Thames
river, London, Conn, after struggle
which will stand out in rowing his
tory when the competing oarsmen are
Two hundred coal miners had mar
row escape from death in the Vieille
colliery, near Liege, Bel.
GUM, when fire broke out and penned
them inside.
Two hundred and twenty-five men
were entombed by an explosion in
mine No. 20 of the Hill Crest Col
lieries, Ltd, at Lethbridge, Alberta.
Twenty have been rescued alive, %
bodies have been taken out and 1872
still buried in the spit are probably
dead.
The steamboat Majestic of Peoria,
H., hit the cribbing of the new water.
works intake tower north Of st. Louis
and sank within 15 minutes. Two
men who were said to have jumped
overheard after the crash are not ac-
counted for.
BY a vote of 1875 to 1903, the house
Df representatives decided that Mi.
chael j. Gill (Democrat) was duly
elected a member of that body at the
1912 election.
Sections Of Missouri are overrun
with unemployed men as the result of
! bulletin issued by the state bureau
Of labor statistics that 10000 men
we're needed in Missouri to harvest
The wheat crop, according to reports
1t Jefferson City.
An attempt was made near Tschu-
dovo, in Russia, to blow up the Rus
sian imperial train, carrying the en-
peror of Russia and his family. Ac-
cording to dispatches from st. Peters
burg, bomb was found on the track.
Fifty-three prisoners at the Milwau-
kee house Of correction got their
names on the honor roll when they
placed their lives in jeopardy in fight
Ing a fire which destroyed the big
barn on the prison farm at North Mil
President Wilson issued an execu.
tive order reducing from so to so
vears the maximum age limit for ad-
mission to civil service examinations
'or appointment Of unskilled laborers
IN federal offices outside of Washing.
ton. D. G.
Former United States Senator
Thomas M. Patterson Of Denver an
nounced his candidacy for the guber-
material nomination on the Democrat
c ticket.
Telegraph operators Of the Illinois
Central received word that the strike
had been averted, the company grant.
Ing an increase of 8 per cent in pay,
with improved working conditions.
The men demanded Is per cent ad-
vance.
Four state banks In Chicago, with
m aggregate of $6,411 ,997 In deposits
and reported cash resources Of $1,434,-
B23, were taken in charge by the state
department. The banks were
closed and the department began a
close examination of the affairs of the
Speaking to one OF the organizers
Of the Baltic exhibition at Malmo,
Saxony, King Gustav of Sweden ex.
pressed great surprise that In several
leading foreign newspapers he had mo-
Liced nothing about the exhibition.
A dispatch from Athens says Greece
Ls actively making naval preparations.
According to the Durazzo correspond
emit of the Times, he Is authorized to
deny that Prince William has any In
tention to abdicate the Albanian
j,