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Show NEWS SUMMARY The Illinois senate has refused to reconsider re-consider the vote by which the Chicago Chi-cago charter bill was lost. The third federal grand Jury called to Investigate the Muskogee town lot frauds has been completed. The town of Alger, O., has been almost al-most entirely wiped out by tire, George Phillips, a fireman, was killed. In a clash between union and nonunion non-union seamen at Toledo, O.. Frank Hoffman, a fireman, was shot In the head. Bank robbers secured $6,000 from the Cairo (Neb.) state bank, demolishing demol-ishing the safe and building by' three explosions. . The four children of Ernest Old-field Old-field of Toronto. Ont were burned to death as the result of the explosion of a lamp in their home. It is announced that Mrs. William E. Annis, wife of the man for whose death Captain Peter C. Mains is now-serving now-serving a sentence in Sing Sing, is to go on the vaudeville stage. Western Texas and southern Oklahoma Okla-homa were swept by a severe wind and rain storm May IS, that did much damage to .growing crops and nouses. Octavius Dodge of Bonham was killed by lightning. . The loca.1 option bill, giving cities and villages the right to vote on the saloon question regardless of the township vote under the present law, was passed by the Illinois house L. a vote of 7S to 70. Climbing merrily to the top of a steel linhi tower in San Diego, Qal., 15-year old Earl Weston came in contact con-tact with an uninsulated electric light wire and was knocked to the ground, dying four minutes later. the censor has prohibited the production pro-duction in London of George Bernard obaw's new pla", "TUle Showing Uy. of Blanco Pnsnol." The play was. on a theological subject aifd was in advanced ad-vanced rehearsal for an early production. produc-tion. A report received from St. Anne des Montes, twenty-five miles east of Quebec, says that while a party was crossing the river at that point the boat upset and fifteen persons were thrown1 into the water. Five were drowned. Adeline Hawkins, a negro woman, was frightened to death at Foroche, La., by a powerful searchlight of the battleship Mississippi on its way up the river to Natchez. "It's de judgment judg-ment light,'' she screamed, and then fell dead. There are still 100 Armenians in prison in Adana, according to a recent re-cent dispatch, and many of them are in chains. Christians alone are being punished for the recent outrages, and it is apparent that those really guilty are immune. Ex-Warden A. N. Armstrong of the Michigan state prison, has made an affidavit that Mi'.ton A. Daly of Chicago Chica-go paid him $1,500 for helping get a lot of second hand machinery accepted accept-ed In the state hinder twine plant as new material. Secretary Ballinger has decided to create a bureau of colonization in connection with the reclamation service ser-vice to take charge of immigration to lands as they are opened to settlement set-tlement on completion of various government gov-ernment projects. The wife of Bay Irish of Thorp, Clark county, Wisconsin, has given birth to five babies, three daughters and two sons. All are alive and well. There are now ten children in the family. TCie other rive were born singly, and al are living. Limitation of armament and the permanent per-manent establishment .if pea-oe throughout the world by arbitration of international disputes is the purpose of the Mohonk Lake conference on international arbitration, which opened at Mohonk, N. Y.. May 19. The incubator forcing process failed tragically at Los Angeles, when Rich-am Rich-am D. Spain, one' of the city's most promising young inventors, tried it on 'his two-m"nt.hs-old baby. The cork blew out of the hot water bottle and the babe was fatally scalded. All of rhe oliicers and men of the United States army who served in Cuba during the period of pacification, pacifica-tion, from October 6, 1906, to April 1. 1909. will receive from the government govern-ment service medals with ribbons in recognition of that service. Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, has accepted an invitation to unveil the monument erected at Gettysburg, Pa., in memory of the soldiers of the regular union army who participated in the Gettysburg campaign. The ceremony will take place May 31. Nord Alexis, deposed president of, Hayti, will come to Peru, Ind., for a visit, as the guest of James Turner, colored. .Turner and Nord Alexis have landed in New York from the West Indies. Turner is wealthy, and has invited the ex-president to spend the summer with him F. W. Lurvey. a ranchman, was struck by lightning at Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colo., dor ng a cloudburst of exceptional ex-ceptional violence. The physicfans declare that the fact that he was not instantly billed is due to his rain-soaked rain-soaked c'othing. which conducted the current to the ground. The board of foreign missions of the Reformed Presbyterian church, better known as the Church of the Covenanters, Covenan-ters, has issued an appeal to all the churches of the denomination for money to relieve the distress of refu-prpHS refu-prpHS who have fled to the protection of its missions in Syria. A new high record for wheat was established on the floor of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce at Cincinnati on May 20. when a choice carload of No. 2 red wheat sold for $1.53 a bushel. This price has been exceeded but once in this city, and that was when, in I 1876, wheat sold at $2.15. - j |