Show NEWS SUMMARY forest fires in the vicinity of tatt taft mont have caused damage of at least 15 the first national bank of friend ly W va with a capital of 25 has closed its doors A young farmer near paris shot and I 1 filed his parents he was refused funds to buy drink hence the tragedy dynamite was used to kill a forty foot finback whale which entered a salmon trap at smallpox bay san juan island says a bellingham wash dispatch A general breakdown in balth led thomas L redlon redion former city actor ney of lead S D to blow out his brains he was 60 years old and a civil war veteran acting under orders of the board of health sixty policemen have been busy for days killing every dog that ih 1 found running at large without a zie in new york city four years ago robert perry digap feared from Sout southington hington conn with 5 in his possession his ills skeleton was found last week his wife is un der suspicion of the murder robert walsh of payette kan and plato brock of bozeman mont were killed on oil a ranch near bozeman while moving a derrick which came into contact with a live power wire both were ranch hands red ants crawling into the eyes ears nose and mouth of the little three cearold year old daughter of tonie a alowa indians living near Ana darka okia okla inflicting wounds from which the child died later james H budd former governor of california and long prominent in democratic politics died at his rest dence in stockton on july 30 after an all illness of a fortnight of uraemia he was 68 58 years old the Chine ses steamer ying king engaged in the passenger trade foun dered during a typhoon three hun dred chinese are known to have been drowned only twelve of those on board were rescued cholera that has made its appear ance in russia this ear is most viru lent according to investigations made by a distinguished medical au dhority the sanitary conditions in the volga towns are horrible there Is bad news from the french congo where a factory in the naua district has been destroyed by the na tives in the sangha district twenty soldiers who were engaged in tax col electing have been murdered tad smith a negro boy 18 years yearn old charged with criminal assault on miss viola delancey of clinton hun county texas after being identified by the young woman was tied to a stake by a mob and burned to death robert S bradley secretary of the transcontinental freight bureau was found dead in his gas filled bedroom in chicago by his wife mr bradley was ill but whether his death was ac ci el dental or self inflicted is not known A summary of reports received from two hundred correspondents on bar vest conditions in the canadian west showed 90 per cent of the wheat will have passed the blossom stage from august 15 to 20 the grain Is filling well william WIllfam niver a young aeronaut ol 01 mason mich was killed while mak ing a parachute drop just as the par achate filled the strings of one side snapped and the aeronaut dropped 2000 feet to his death the parachute trailing a useless rag after him the interstate commerce commis slon has issued a statement to the ef feet that without waiting for filing or ot complaints it will institute an hinves ti gatlon gation on its own motion for the purpose of determining whether ad vances in freight rates are justified walter goodwin a farmer who at the last term of the county court gave the names of seven men who with himself composed a nightrider night rider squadron at central furnace ky was shot from ambush and seriously wounded while returning home from town A reorganization of the pope manu fracturing fac turing company was effected last week the new capitalization will be 2 preferred stocal and 4 of common stock the new corn com pany will purchase the factories at hartford conn and at westfield mass the government department of commerce and labor has begun the work of gathering data in regard to the timber resources of the country and will soon have full information as to how much standing timber there is in the united states and where it la Is located bl egmund friedberg the berlin banker who fled after alleged detal aggregating and who police commissioner muller of berlin in an open telegram invited to come home and give himself up has decided after negotiations with the police to do so at the mining town of stafford ra leigh county west virginia keg jot of powder in a powder house explode ed nearly every building in the town was wrecked and several person persona were hurt several per sons were blown out of their houses but not seriously hurt shocked to death in a manhole in new york city was the fate of james 0 connell who Is said to have been admiral dewey s chief gunner on the olympia when the flagship opened the fight in manilla IT anilla bay 0 connell was making repairs when he came in contact with a live wire while a train was speeding between sparks and reno nevada the 18 months old daughter of A 11 pett assistant division freight and ger agent of the southern pacific fell out of the pullman window and mirac escaped death the child sus talked a few slight bruises |