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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe passen'
ger depot at Sweetwater, Texas, and
obtained $1,000. 1t was the fifth time
since 1911 the depot safe had been
robbed.
Pure-bred cattle come high in Iowa.
At recent sale of forty-odd head OF
the Angus variety near Otumwa, an aV-
erage price of $3,210 was paid for each
animal. "Elluna E. "A prize COW,
brought $4,000.
Passenger train No. 50 on the Great
Northern railroad, running between
Sioux Falls, S. D., and st. Paul, Minn.,
was totally destroyed by fire near
Pipestone, Mimi, the seventy-fiye per-
sons aboard escaping with only minor
injuries.
In race riot in Denison, Texas, the
outgrowth of dispute between ne
gro and white boy, seven negroes were
beaten and injured by mObs of 200 or
more white men and boys. The trou-
Bile started over an argument at a base
ball game. None was injured seriously.
Francis II. Cook, aged 10, publisher
VI lilt LII Sl HCN cIaPNi ~ e'ffoHAiN '''N'
owner of the first street car in that
city, died there after lingering i'll
ness He was born in Marietta, Ohio.
and came to the Northwest in 1871. He
left a widow and eleven grown chill
dren.
Frank Hanson, parachute jumper,
jumped 400 feet to his death from an
airplane at Casper, Wyo., when de-
fective snap on his harness released
him from his parachute. A large
crowd was given a thrill as Aviator
Bert Cole attempted to dive his plane
beneath the man and break his fall.
Cole missed him.
A dispatch to the Ell Paso Times
from its correspondent in Torreon,
Mexico, says Francisco Villa has
signed an armistice and agreed to
cease attacks on trains, garrisons OF
towns The rebel chieftain also has
agreed to surrender under certain con
ditions to be approved by Provisiona
President de la Huerta.
Detective William GOodenbour wa
instantly killed in pistol battle witt
a bandit in the H. Marx clothing stor'
at Waterloo, Iowa, and the bandit wa
killed by Officer William Wilson, VIII,
rushed to the detectives assistance
The bandit was attempting to cash al
American Express money order, stolel
In Bertha, Mimi, when the officer ap
peared on the scene.
WASHINGTON
Governor Larrazolo of New Mexico
decided against the plea of Elbert "
Blapcett for executive clemency an
Blancett will be hanged on July
Blancett soht and killed Clyde Al
mour of Sioux City, Iowa, in Santa F
county in the fall of 1916.
Lord Abernon, the newly appOinte
British ambassador to Germany, pre-
sented his credentials to Presider
Ebert at Berlin. He declared that tn
'.worId crisis will be overcome only b
general collaboration of which tn
basis is maintenance of firm, friendl
alliances and strict execution of til
peace treaty"
Marked improvement in the yellO
fever situation in San Salvador wa
reported in an official dispatch r.
ceived at Washington by the Salv;
dorean legation from its government
1t was stated that the quarantine !;
Sonsonate and nearby towns had bee
lifted, and that sanitary condition
throughout the country are good.
J. S. Eubanks, president Of the
Louis Yardmen's Association, and I'll
Rev. J. P. AregOod, a Baptist ministt
of st. Louis, were escorted out of tow
py a citizens committee of nine {
they were about to address mas
meeting of labor union people at Pir
Bluff, Ark. They were taken thre
niles from the city. partially strippe
whipped, and told to leave the cit
and stay away.
The War Department has avail
BILE quantity Of condemned gun
mortars and howitzers for donation
municipal corporations, posts of IL
Grand Army of the Republic and So
diers' Monument associations, Col. !
w. Maish, ordnance officer of the eas
ern department has announced. Appl
cations may be made to the office {
chief of ordnance, War Department
Washington.
The federal trade commission ht
cited Montgomery, Ward 4 Co, Chic
go mail order house, in n formal con
plant of unfair competition in the sa
of liquid roofing cement. The chare
is made that false representations WEI
made by the company in its catalc
when liquid roofing cement was adve
tised as containing no coal tar. 1t
claimed it did contain coal tar.
Representative Dick l. Morgan
woodward, Okla, died at Danyille, II
from Iobar pneumonia. He had repr
sented the Eighth Oklahoma district
Congress for the last twelve years.