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gang Of notorious counterfeiters that
haslbeen operating in that vicinity for

wounded men were bystanders.
A report from Tampico. Mex, says
Emile Arnsten, formerly of Shreveport,
was shot and killed from ambush
Thursday of last week near that place.
Harry Lynch, forty-two years old. of
Cleveland, Ohio, shot his wife Monday
and then killed himself. Jealousy is
believed to have prompted his rash
acts.
Two men and two women We're killed
ut Lima, Ohio, Sunday night when |
fast Pennsylvania passenger train
struck their automobile at a crossing
in that place.
Forty persons were injured, none
seriously, when seven Pullman cars OF
an Atlantic Coast Line passenger train
turned over near Allenllurst, Ga,
Wednesday of last week.
Robbers broke into the office of the
Slnako Coal Company, in Madison,
Wis.,, Sunday night, blew the safe and
made their escape with 5000, according
to dispatch from that place.
Dr. Charles A. Powers, widely known
surgeon of Denver, Colo, dropped dead
| in the University Club, of that place.
last Saturday. DR.. Powers was presi-
dent of the American Society for Con-
troll of Cancer.
| Harry Schaff, piano dealer, his wife
and two maids. of Chicago, Ills, We're
| chloroformed and their home robbed
of $4,000 in money and jewels Sunday
4 night No clew was found by detectives
| set at work on the case.
A Washington dispatch says to-day
will be observed throughout the United
States as Woodrow Wilson Day by
friends of Mr.. Wilson and contributors
to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Mr.. Wilson will celebrate his Goth
birthday anniversary to-day.
W. L. Johnson. who wGs convicted
last Friday of killing g. L. Flowers at
Bassett, Texas, November 26th last,
was sentenced to ninety-nine years in
the penintentiary. The case had been
pending for three days in Texarkana,
Texas. when the jurors reached the
verdict.
Fire starting in restaurant In the
business section of Juarez. Mex. just
across the border from Ell Paso, Tex
as. Sunday destroyed the offices of the
American consulate and wiped out a
half block of business houses before 1t
was brought under control. The esti-
mated loss is $1jO,O0O.
. Former Brig. Gen. Marcus Joseph
Wright. Confederate leader, died yes.
terday at his home in Washington
d. c., from hardening of the arteries
Mr.. Wright was a native Tennesseeall
| and relative of the late Gen. Luke T.
Wright, of Memphis. Tenn. He was
ninety -one years of age.
A 7:,-room hotel, to cost $4,000, will
, be erected In Camden, Ark, according
I to plans perfected ut a meeting of .
: group of leading Camden business men
+ The Main Hotel Company, which wal
organized last week. will erect the new
! hotel They plan to have it ready fo
occupancy by April LIST next.
4 A total Of $15,OOO,OOO will be spen
by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line
| for new equipment and improvements
during the concluding weeks Of tn
receivership and Immediately followin
IS the reorganization of the lines, accord
ing to a statement made by officials 0
It the road in Fort Worth, Texas.
y 4 dispatch from Chicago, Ills, say
o Mrs. Mary vermett, who Monday celt
brated her 111th birthday anniversar
o on a farm near Woodstock. that state
g is believed to be the oldest Christina
IL baby in Illinois. Her son, Richart
IS seyenty-nine years old, helped in th
,e celebration. She has another son thre
II years older.
Three bandits one day last wee
10 held up the First National Bank, {
IS Dyer. Ind. and escaped with $500
e One bandit. who was dressed as a w
be man, was shot by John Keilman. gr'
,s Ger. and apparently mortally wounde'
pr His companions threw him into the
C. automobile as they made their depar
ure from the town.
he A law to permit the jailing Of spec
e. ers. card indexing and finger printil
he of all reckless drivers, and the curbil
IT. Of police and :. fixing" of violation
wv were three plans proposed last wet
ng by judges Of the Chicago Speedel
he Court. in an effort to stop the killil
of an average Of two persons day
~ that city by automobiles.
be A report from Lake Providence sa
nd the board Of aldermen of that city b
~. instructed the town engineer to co
,ly struct an additional concrete reserve
all at the municipal waterworks plal
or storage facilities becoming too sm'
.es for the present demand. The boa
it has also arranged for the constructi
OF concrete crossings in all the prin
on nal streets of the town.
ia. A news item of the week from Bal
les Ion. N. Il, states that Mrs Mary Ct
iy- ners. seventy-seren years old. widow
IA United States Senator John Collners,
ers California, a pallhearer ut Lincol
ley funeral. died at the home OF her dau:
ra- ter. She was sister-in-law OF Ca