Show NEWS seven persons were in ned one fat ally when a street car jumped the track in chicago at dalhart texas eight convicts sawed through the jail ceiling and es making ropes of their blankets A waterspout caused damage within a radius of 15 miles of leavenworth kansas estimated at halt half a million dollars governor hughes hughe of new york has signed a bill making adultery a crime punishable with a fine of or six months in prison or both thousands of acres of farming land lying along the smaller streams in the kaw valley of kansas are under water as the result of heavy rains during the past few weeks deserters have been listed and adver used from the battleship minnesota one of the warships in hampton Harn roads burglars broke into the postoffice post office at south san francisco at an early hour in the morning and secured 1800 1 in stamps and money the robbers es james H wood an alderman of asherville basherville N C has been sentenced to thirty days on the chain gang for selling tickets in disregard of the new rate law henry berg a retired grocer corn com bitted suicide by throwing himself over the railing from the twelfth floor of the chamber of commerce building in chicago governor vardaman of mississippi has pardoned mrs angle birdsong she was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for the killing of dr but ler in lawrence county captain aug azzala leader of the mexican band which organization ac compan led the el paso tex lodge of elks to philadelphia was drowned while bathing at atlantic city N J the constitutional convention of ok 01 lahoma has adopted the election ordin ance anee calling the state election for sept 7 when the state officers as well as the constitution will be voted upon richard croker according to ad vices from dublin has declined the nationalist nomination for member of parliament for east wicklow to re place D J cogan nationalist re signed at their home at fort smith ark T 0 gholston a well known educator kissed his wife and then cut her throat killing her instantly the cause of the murder was jealousy gholston wa was placed under arrest returns of deaths from the plague in india show the appalling total of 1060 1 tor for the six months ending june 30 the monthly total Is at present decreasing however the death roll for june being placed at 69 As a result of exceedingly heavy rains all the streams of poland hae have overflowed their banks the water Is damaging the crops a number ol 01 persons have been drowned and many small houses have been carried away P 0 mulford former cashier of the defunct american bank at manila has been sentenced to imprisonment for eight years and ten months on condic tion of having falsified notes purport ing to be part tart of the assets of the bank tchun a member of the korean mis sien to the peace conference which was mas refused official recognition died suddenly on the there were ru mors that tchun had not met a al death but doctors state the mar died of apoplexy in a pistol duel at petersburg va john W wheelhouse was shot anc instantly killed and his nephew richard wheelhouse perhaps batall wounded the fight between uncle and nephew was the culmination of a fain fam ily feud of long standing Katsu the ambas amb assado of japan to the german empire has been recalled the reasons for this action are not given it is reported hon however ever that he Is to be promoted to membership on the committee of el der statesmen of japan the bathhouse upon the estate of count tolstoi at yasna polyna russia was as burned at night by this gave rise to the report that the manor mallor house had been destroyed by fire and that several members of the family including the count had per dished an man who was wall ing with a crutch and cane leaped into the rapids above the niagara falls and nas as carried over the american cata bract his ills crutch and cane be he left behind with a it note signed D J say ng tel tell my friends that I 1 have gone to glory yany a small In Russia has recently suffered severely at the hands of incendiaries one hundred and fourteen bouses houses occupied by jews and fifteen tenanted by christians as well as seventy shops have been burned several persons perished in the flames fire destroyed the southern pacific depot and hotel and the mc loud river exchange depot at sisson cal and miss laura saxie of new york a 8 school teacher who had just arrived to meet friends and climb mount shasta lost her life several others were badly burned james courtney is wanted in new york city to answer a charge of mur dering clara englebart with whom he associated the woman was found brutally murdered in her apartments on oct 7 1900 her head had been crushed in and there were pistol wounds on her body owing to the phenomenal success that has attended the tests of the air ship patrie the french minister of war has asked the budget commission for a credit of 1000 1 the greater part of which is is understood ill be devoted to the construction of dirigible bal bat loons of the patrie type |