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Show Hews of the lUorid, Domestic. Chicago servant girl problem has reached critical stage, and demand so far exceeds supply that few available can make their own terms. Forest fires in Washington and British Columbia wined out entire villages and vast amounts of stock and timber being destroyed by flames, which show no signs of abatement. Order of presbytery giving aged Indiana Indi-ana minister alternative of losing his annuity or moving from his home rescinded re-scinded because of his popularity in the community. - Conference between Governor Stone of Pennsylvania and President John Mitch- ' ell of the miners' union for urnoae of ending strike thought to have been fruitless. fruit-less. Governor Savage of Nebraska declared intention to fight merger of big packers and enforce state law on subject. Detroit iudge decided street car companies com-panies must use patent brake devices on lira. Three killed In wreck on Santa Fe at Strube. Colo. Gottlieb Neigenfind. Pierce. Neb., killed his divorced wife and her father, Albert Brever. seriously wounded Mrs. Breyer, and attacked his sister-in-law; blood- jiuuiiua aiitr nun. Five St. Louis men indicted on bribery charges asked release from Jail under habeas corpus; ground jury investigating lightning bill, reported passed for $47,0Ct. Forest fires in Cascade and coast ranges destroying timber, farm bouses and livestock and threatening towns; two persons killed and others missing-. "Ted" Roosevelt, president's oldest son, reached Ovster Bav from western hunting hunt-ing trip and told of catching twenty-two pound muskelunge. Josef Bannalfe. New York violinist, went insane and plaved nine hours without with-out stopping. "Boss" Alexander R. Sheppard. former vice president of District of Columbia board of public works, who improved Washington with public buildings and sewer svstem. died at age of 67 years. President Roosevelt considering declaration decla-ration favoring immediate tariff revision during Ohio trip; question probably will be submitted to Senators Aldrich. Piatt (ConnJ. Hanna. Soooner and Allison on Wednesday: cut on articles made cheaper here than abroad favored. Charles B. Rabson. gold mine owner of At'.in. British Colombia, who married Mi.-ij Phoebe Grant Stephens. Saginaw, Mich., on Friday, went violently insane in latter city, dragged bride through streets, and then drowned himself in river. The Rev. H. H. Washburn, rector at Ovster Bav. made President Roosevelt uncomfortable in sermon by calling him David providentially raised to fight trusts: president had reauested McKinley memorial address. Boston hotel for women on Franklin sauare in successful operation; clerks, students, teachers, and professional women wo-men its chief patrons: enterprise philanthropic phil-anthropic and not business investment. Anniversary of William McKinley's death observed bv. services throughout United States: manv flowers placed on Canton tomb. Schooner Experiment, wrecked off St. Joseph Friday night, capsized fifty-four years ago near same soot: Captain N. W. Naoier once commanded it. Pennsylvania railroad freight engine boiler exploded and thrown 40O feet at Jersey City, killing Engineer George Lutz and iniurins two others. George Huber. New York, shot and j killed his wife near Great r7" 1 f Mass.. on finding her In .nrr- n-,r'r'. K i Wo ,,e,'?0,ls kill1'! bv for-sr ;.c f I Washington and Oreson l-,Jr s "l 1 t thousands more homeless I Booth Tarkington. "indi-nn . I bought pet dog h had lo"t r li who found it. for 5 cents. -irrTi. 3 Manna .cigars imported to i , . ( States not subject to intern'? r'..'V"'J tax or So a thousand, no nartment of justice ruling ." ':"" lected will bo refunded ' " - '"i- Progress of for.-ign r.avi.-s r'., year shown bv fatitain SiW.e.'"' r' ward larger battleships aiv'r i r" V" massing second caliber tn-s iWrV?'''1 cltadei. '" '---t.'ji Recent armv- and raw m v,. ,, showed forts guarding l.otig Island' not strong enough to prevent' ti iiN strong fleet: searchlight' f, ,"',;' 1',' ':! fective. " Great lakes commerc- reeeiots fn-months fn-months increased nearly 7.'0,,,'i. ,, u - ' ! 144 ports: shipments at 217 uorts .j!r over T.MO.OyO tons. ' "' 1 Percentage of children h' tuw.n j., 14 vears old able to read and wr:-. ; creased between tV and 1: ' ex, . 'V' Arizona and Nevada. Battleship Wisconsin ordered , ma to prevent bombardment l.v re. -," " tionists. and cruiser Cincinnati ' to ,',;', j on similar errand; steamer 1'iath. ",-,L f dered to Colon with 3 marin-s; ; . vessel now at Bremerton, Wash' "' f Trust Question brought Vf.-r. i,r I partment by application of Alaska ing combine for St. Miehai U li' -r-es I iginally granted individual ::;,, 4 request likely to be refused, a.- nv .; F would be fostered. '"' f William Tamhlyn. member of H-house H-house of delegates, arrested ar ' t j on bribery charge and lodged in S' ; .','.'.' jail: electric lighting bill und r Eation. Dressmakers' convention. Ne?- y r. given tips on forming trade com'-::;. v.V? local merchants to sell corsets. -, "'.' holding "openings" to display '-v. Indianapolis judge compelled Mr- itar , Lyons and Mrs. James Harrr.it, : -, Ir'. ! on night gown to prove who nwi .. ; r ' United States governmTt i. ,fl-j,r house, to determine effect of f..n.j' servatlves, coloring, and adiilter:i-;on' y healthy persons, will be started Wb lnirton by Dr. H. W. Wiley, s rr,nr.t chemist; department employes t - :.e jects." Dressmakers' convention at X-.v Yor blamed ill fitting corsets for ap:.arar., of ugly women: good Uressmak rs arn,,t ' fit gowns properly over bad cors-ts: gVn,j Ji corsets necessity. f United States treasury deficit f,r V..ic-A ' year wined out and S79.956 credit brd--r ' exists: $12,221,412 debit July 2.' x--:i gradually; gold deposit yesterday roa, h 1 I ?57,22,374. I F. P. Garretson. ex-mayor of X-wj-irt T R. I., replied to Henry Watter?,,n s a.' ' tack on "smart set." declaring drir.kln? and gambling charge untrue. Mrs. Rosa La B. Dauphin. Nw ( rWr,s, widow of Louisiana lottery prsid-rr, dieted for perjury for secreting i,i."v from supposed JloO.OW estate. Six St. Louis indicted boodlers st!H being be-ing hunted by deputies; Delegate H.irrv R. Faulkner offered to turn state's evi". f dence, but was reindicted. , United States said to be prepared to issue ultimatum to Hayti that unless dis- order is stopped there by (jet. 1, island mav be annexed and made part of th United States. Seventeen miners killed by gas and powder explosion in Algoma big four coal mine at Blue Field, W. Va. ; evelvti bodies bod-ies removed and six more located First Church of Christ, Scientist, refused re-fused charter by Philadelphia court hp-cause hp-cause church and selling of Mrs. Eddy's books both were contemplated. Wisconsin Methodist conference, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, asked President Roosevelt to r-fute r-fute rumor he had asked pope to appoint Archbishop Ireland cardinal. Lieutenant John R. Morris. U. S. N.. ,H committed suicide on cruiser Olympla by (i shooting; vessel's chaplain killed himself j last week. '1 Mrs. Ogden Goelet's housekeeper killed f in elevator at former's Newport villa dur- I ing visit of Grand Duke Bori3 of Russia. I Forest fires in Washington and Oregon tjrt abating; Portland harbor dense with t smoke and vessels unable to move. Sewing machine trust with $3,000.') capital and including twelve concerns being be-ing formed in New York: Belvidere. Ills., probable western manufacturing center; Domestic, Davis. White and Chicago com- panies interested. Former United States Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray died at Nahant, Mass., aged 74 years; Oliver Wendell Holmes succeeded him following latters resignation last month. Foreign. German government informed Secretary Hay that Charlemagne Tower, Bellamy Storer, or David J. Hill would be acceptable accept-able to succeed Ambassador White. Closer political alliance between Franc and Spain declared unlikely, but friendship friend-ship will be maintained because of the French interests in Madrid. King Edward officially declared sound in health and is turning his attention t grouse shooting after a successful week of daar stalking. Speakers at meeting of British Association Associa-tion for Advancement of Science declared Great Britain far behind the world in application ap-plication of discoveries. V French treasury showed deficit of Ja.- t 600,000 for month of August, making total to date J29.0O0.0O0 and probable shortage for year $40,000,000. French military department lays claim to superiority in army tactics and discipline disci-pline and points to recent maneuvers at Toulouse as evidence. British military experts criticised continental con-tinental army trials for completely ignoring ig-noring lessons learned by English in the Boer war. Pall Mall Gazette said Englishmen ars studying American banking system, with a view to applying it in London. Professor Murri of the University cf Rome denounced his son as murderer of Count Bonl Mantinl at Bologna. Continental and British press united ia praise of soldierly bearing of American generals at army maneuvers. Venezuela government In control of only one port on coast east of La Guayra, and rr rebels making rapid gams. P Proclamation of crimes act in Ireland ! has roused populace there to high pitch I Of indla-natinn I Woman who went to Lourdes with can- j cer said to have been cured. English autumn political campaign will 1 be marked bv attack on government bill -v. from liberal leaders: Irish likely to block parliamentary action with coercion coer-cion bill. Colonel William A. Raffertv. Fifth cavalry, cav-alry, died at San Filipe, Philippine islands, is-lands, after falling from window; Manila Man-ila Chinese banaueted Governor Taft. Malcr General Young and Brigadier General Leonard Wood. U. S. A., with Emperor William, led charge of 9.000 cavalry at German armv maneuvers and captured thirty guns and 2.0W infantry. Canadian ministers ignored reported differences with Chamberlain over defense: de-fense: Laurier and colleagues known to have resisted proposal that dominion share naval and military expenses. Boer generals. Botha. Dewet and De-larev. De-larev. arrived at Amsterdam to seek aid for destitute burghers' families. Transport Sherman reached Nagasaki with four cholera cases on board; three deaths on vovase from Manila. Kruger's au:obiographv, containing l,v-0) l,v-0) words, will be published Nov. 15 simultaneously sim-ultaneously in the United States, France. Holland. England and Canada; complete 1 history of his life dictated to his secre- I taries. I f Boer generals' demand on Secretary I I Chamberlain at recent conference in- I I eluded yearly grant to Boer widows, or- l I phans and Injured burghers; concessions , i iJl refused. t Colombian revolutionists captured Cule- ! bra: government troops erecting breast- works at Colon and Panama; attack on . I latter expected: rebel gunboats in sight. t Erminie Earle. actress, daughter of T. S T. Boulware. Chicago, appealed to Lon- don police for protection against rich I English wooer. j Hayti provisional government decree declaring Gonaives and other ports blocn- adid will be ignored bv United States. j Municipal ownership of British street s railways increasing: 100 out of 212 now owned bv cities: Glasgow profits for 1301 s were $i2.5CO: Liverpool. $30,000. above all ? charges for interest and maintenance. Speakers at British association for Ad- i vancement of Science meeting. Glasgow. i declared protection fostered trusts, but f brought unexpected lower prices in j America: tree trade predicted for latter. Governor Taft released many prisoners from Manila iails who were held for j weeks without arraignment: cholera cases decreasing: Moro campaign prepa- Professor Heilprln. Philadelphia geolo- j gist, in Martinioue. declared last eruption I f cf Mont Pelee surpassed one of May s; I t entire north portion of island endan- eered. 1 f The Rev. F. B. Mever. English evan- J gelist. declared after American tour pros- verity here causes lack of interest In re- s ? ligion, though moral ideas are growinsr. Prince Henrv of Germany will attend Frederick the Great statue unveillnr at Washington In Aorll: Field Marshal von Waldersee also to come next year. : Major General French tcok command or 1 British First arm corps at Aldershot ; only five Infantry battalions stationed there, and army chiefly on paper; gold . j exports likely, j j f S . r- |