Show NEWS SUMMARY three men were drowned at allt ton arizona in the recent floods bubonic plague 1 raging in yoko dima according to latest advices the business portion of arcadia pa has been by alre loss aio emperor william opened the reich stag himself reading the speech from the throne the speech was occupied chiefly with domestic affairs it has been formally decided at to klo to elevate the japanese legations at london washington paris berlin and st petersburg to embassies ex councilman james P davenport was killed and seven other persons were more or less seriously injured in a trolley car collision in loa angeles during the fury ot a storm at su perlor wis tour prisoners after at tempting a general jail delivery al the county jail escaped by boring through a brick wall william S Mc has con hessed to the murder of his wife and five children whose mutilated bodies were found in their home near inde pen dence iowa andrew hamilton to whom the new york life insurance company has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars charged to legal expenses has been located in paris the british allotment of 31 of the japanese loan of was so largely over subscribed that the lists were closed three hours after they were opened hia jugular vein severed and his neck broken the dead body of frank W aged 28 was discovered in detroit mich he had been mur dered for his money the monthly coinage statement is sued by the director of the mint shows that the total coinage executed at the mints of the united during november 1905 was 3 the indiana supreme court has decided that telegraph companies can not be compelled to furnish market quotations to brokerage firms which do a so called bucket shop business work on the great dam which will conserve the flood waters of the rio grande and reclaim a quarter of a million acres of land above and below el paso texas has been authorized the town of safford ariz la entire ly cut off by high water the globe alla valley railroad Is washed out on both sides of the town heavy rains have fallen all over southern arizona growing out of a trivial cause a suspension of work occurred on the river front at new orleans the re suit la that no cotton Is being hauled and other laboring organizations are idle the american exchange bank owned by J M mitchell of mt car mel was robbed early tuesday of 1000 A part of the safe was blown through the building and across the street col wilder S who succeed ed frederick funston as colonel of the twentieth kansas regiment in the philippines has been reappointed to the office ot united states agent at topeka nearly a score of persons were in aured when a crowded passenger train on the long island railroad crashed into a section of a freight train which had broken apart a few minutes be tore at newton L I 1 several and foreign capitalists ita lists are endeavoring to obtain from the government 0 panama a conces slon to build a railroad across the isthmus the probable route of which would be from to bocas del according to advices received by the steamer lyo maru agents of ha wallan planters are endeavoring to in duce numbers of russian prisoners in japan to emigrate to hawaii offer ing them work on the sugar planta alons the monthly statement of the pub lie debt shows that at the close of business november 30 1905 the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to which Is a decrease as compared with last month ot 12 A terrific blowout blow out of gas has oc burred in the humble oil field texas tearing a hole in the earth feet in diameter A derrick and machinery house tumbled into the opening and the escaping gas gives the disturbance a volcanic appearance carl axel fred a tourist from con cord N H died at the county hos pital at san bernardino cal after lying unconscious for tour days the county physician states emphatically that every indication points to fred having been sandbagged that the four big railroad brother hoods engineers firemen trainmen and conductors will take concerted action against government regulation of railroad rates is confirmed by war ren E stone grand chief of the brotherhood ot locomotive engineers A report received in washington says the number of employees on con work tor the panama canal now aggregates 17 about 4 having been added to the force since the last report from the isthmus ot the 17 about 1 are white ameri cans prof enrico de maranis a member of the chamber of deputies from pal mero who Is looked upon as an au dhority on foreign affairs in an in positively asserted that aus tria has secretly concluded an agreement with greece by which the latter Is to take over part of albania |