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Show NEWS SUMMARY j A mol- lynched three negroes .-ftt Marshall. Tex. The negroes liaa Killed a deputy sheriff. Four people were killed, aJ least twelve injured and great damage done by a tornado in Gold, Mo.. April 29. Eighty-two saloons in Muncie. Ind., are to be closed as the result of the victory at the polls last week of the "drys." Fourteen persons were injured, two seriously, in a tornado at Knoxville, Tenn., April 29. Many houses were wrecked. The woman's suffrage bill, which passed the Wisconsin senate some lime ago, was killed in the assembly last week. Cipriano Castro, deposed president of Venezuela, announces he will wait in Paris the coming of his wife from the West Indies. Four workmen were killed by an explosion in the glycerine packing house of the Potts Powder company at Reynolds, Pa. Beech Hargis was refused a new-trial new-trial at Irvine, Ky., and Judge Adams directed that Hargis be taken to the penitentiary at once. A cyclone struck Horn's Lake. Miss., April 29, killing three white men. Horn's Lake is a small town 15 miles below Memphis. In a fight caused by an election day arrest at Talequah, Okla., John Taylor was shot and killed by Peter Smith, a special election policeman. Henrich Conreid, former director of the Metropolitan Opera house in New York, who suffered a stroke of apoplexy apo-plexy at Meran, Austria, died April 27. The German crop report for April IS shows the condition of wheat and rye to be considerably worse this year than for the corresponding period of 1908. i An explosion on the submarine boat Foca at Naples killed seven men and injured several. The boat was sunk at her dock to prevent further explosions. explo-sions. Furious because his sweetheart, Mo-desta Mo-desta Fuentes, refused to elope with him without a wedding certificate, Pedro Pe-dro Secundino of Toluca, Texas, stabbed stab-bed her to death. By an official majority of 7G8, Tippecanoe Tip-pecanoe county, Indiana, lasj week .voted "wet" in the county option election. elec-tion. Jefferson, Marlin and Washington Washing-ton counties voted "dry." A verdict of guilty of criminal libel was found against the publishers of the New York American by the -jruy in the trial charging the publication of an article libeling John D. Rockefeller. Rocke-feller. Because she had not been, included in a fishing trip, which her husband had planned, Mrs. Anna Fry, aged 24, of Los Angeles, placed a pistol in her mouth and fired a shot which immediately imme-diately ended her life. Charles K. Shu, probably the first Chinaman to be made a justice of the peace of this country, has been invested in-vested with that authority by the commonwealth com-monwealth of Massachusetts. Shu is a native of Seattle, Wash. A bill has been introduced In the Hawaiian legislature prohibiting women wom-en from wearing sailor blouses, military mili-tary hats, hat pins made of military or naval buttons, warship ribbons, or other naval or military insignia. Eleven men were killed and eleven wounded as a result of the explosion at Naples on board the Italian submarine subma-rine Foca. The American gunboat Scorpion, although, only ninety feet, distant from the Foca, suffered no damage. Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice-president, has concluded through agents a deal for the purchase of a $30,000 residence in one of the fashionable fash-ionable districts Jof Pasadena, Cal. It is said he will make Pasadena his future home. A pitched battle at Asher, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, between the families of Stanley Ware and Perry Brewer over rent due Brewer from Ware, resulted in the killing of Ware. Brewer was perhaps fatally, and Jesse Brewer, his son, seriously injured. Brooding over a quarrel wrlth his sweetheart, Alexander Jennings, 21 years old, the son of wealthy parents, threw" the congregation at a crowded country church at Little Hickman, Ky., into a panic by firing a bullet into his brain. He died shortly after. The secretary of agriculture has sent to the senate the Information regarding re-garding the beet industry for which he was asked in a resolution. The data shows that the production of sugar su-gar from beets has increased from 42,000 tons in 1S96 to 425,000 tons in 1908. Confederate Memorial day was observed ob-served at Atlanta. Ga., April 26, with all the dignity and reverence that has characterized this occasion for several sev-eral years. The graves of the Confederate Con-federate dead were decorated and the schools and business houses were closed. Official reports of the recent rioting at Velardlna, Mexico, following the stopping by the municipal authorities of a religious parade, show that nc less than twenty-five men were executed, exe-cuted, for participating in the rioting, riot-ing, and seven were killed during the rioting. A special grand jury has been ordered or-dered by Governor Haskell to Investigate Investi-gate the lynching at Ada, Oklahoma, on April 19. of James Miller. Jesse West. Joseph Allen and W. T. Bur-rell. Bur-rell. cattlemen, for the murder of A. A. Bobbitt. a United States deputy marshal. In the United States court at Tombstone, Tomb-stone, Arizona, Ricardo F. Magon, Antonio An-tonio J. Villareal and LIbrado Rivera were arraigned April 26 on indictments indict-ments for having violated the neutrally neutral-ly laws and abetting a revolutionary movement against Mexico. The trial has been postponed. J |