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Show NEWS SUMMARY Mrs. Emily S. Nettleton, a "reft !) daughter" of the revolution, died at Sioux City, Iowa, May 14. A passenger train ran through an open bridge into Bull creek, near Ran dolph. Mo., and several trainmen arc missing. A. P. Riddle, former lieutenant-governor of Kansas, was killed near Sa-lina, Sa-lina, Kans., May 14, in an automobile accident. Fifteen families have been bunted out in the Rush lake, Saskatchewan district, by prairie fires, two children losing their lives and others being badly burned. Salvator Rizzo, fruit dealer, who died suddenly at his home in Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, having received threatening letter! let-ter! from the "black hand," is believed to have been poisoned. A disiatch from Tangier says it is reported from Megador that a party of Americas tourists has been captured by natives near Agadir, which is the most southern part of Morocco. Henry Goodale was fatally burned and his son, Thomas, badly injured at St. Joseph, Mo., by an explosion of gas, caused by lightning during the worst electrical storm of the year. ltev. W. G. Barber, superintendent of the Iowa Anti-saloon league, announces an-nounces that the league has decided to abandon the fight for the re-suh mission of constitutional prohibition in Iowa. Ex-President. Roosevelt, in the current cur-rent number of the Outlook, combats the statement, credited to Count Leo Tolstoi that Bryan represented the party of peace in the last presidential campaign Wjhile clearing a lot In Burnaby, a suburb of New Westminster, B. C. workmen found the body of a woman in an advanced stage of decomposition, death having occurred at least six months ago. Five persons, four girls and a young man, members of a party of eight, were drowned when a boat in which they were attempting to cross the river at Hackensack, N. J., during a storm, capsized. Fire accompanied by an explosion In the big general storehouse of the Seaboard Air Line railway at Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, Va, entailed a loss of from $200,000 to $250,000 and resulted in the injury of four men. Miss Clara Cooper, of Montaur, Iowa, was suddenly stricken blind on the eve of her departure for Iowa, after af-ter a visit to friends in Redding. Cal. Miss Cooper had never had any pre-viouslrouble pre-viouslrouble with her eyes. George Hall, aged 21; R. H. Sweet, aged 45; Sweet!s wife and four children chil-dren were drowned in Chippewa river at Eua Claire, Wis., when Hall's gasoline gaso-line launch capsized in midstream upon striking some sunken piling. The mangled body of James Moore a waiter of Butte, was found lying beside the tracks of the Oregon Short Line, several miles south of Silver Bow. Moore is supposed to have fallen from the southbound passenger train. In an explosion on the quarter boat-No. boat-No. o at Codjoes Key, about twenty-miles twenty-miles from Key West, Fla., on the Key West extension of the Florida East Coast railway, three men were instantly killed and twelve badly injured. in-jured. By a vote of 74 to 104. a resolution by Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee, directing the speaker forthwith to appoint a committee on insular affairs to consider con-sider the president's Porto Rican message, mes-sage, was defeated in the house on May i;i. A large "rat" in her hair saved the life of Mrs. Richard Frost in an automobile auto-mobile accident at Jackson. Mich. Mrs. Frost and her baby were both thrown from the machine when it collided with a telephone pole. Mrs. Frost struck on her head. Julius Meyer, for many years ' a prominer.t figure in business circles of Omaha, and president of the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan club, committed suicide at Hanscom Park, April 10, by shooting. Despondency on account of ill health is the supposed cause. The war department at Washington has awarded to Amos Weaver, of Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, Ind.. a medal for conspicuous bravery in the Philippines. Weaver, on November 5. 1S99, alone routed a band of fifteen insurgents, killing four and wounding several others. Because his son-in-law. August Loss, would not plow a furrow the way he wanted it. Herman Rabner. a wealthy farmer, living near Des Moines, Iowa, shot and killed the young man, and then burned his body. Rabner. who was 70 vears of age, then killed himself. him-self. The Kochnische Zeitung semiofficially semioffi-cially announces that the German banks will not deliver up deposits of Uhe former sultan of Turkey, unless he voluntarily renounces them or a law-court law-court orders their delivery to the representatives rep-resentatives of the new Turkish government. gov-ernment. Rata gnawing at matches in a small store at Maturana. Mexico, started a fire. The fire reached a quantity of gunpowder and the resultant explosion caused ;he fire to spread to other buildings. build-ings. Almost the entire village was burned. One man was killed in the explosion. With impressive services the public funeral of Heinrich Conreid, former director of the Metropolitan Opera company, was held May 13 in the build ing which had been the scene of his labors aud many triumphs in the years of his directorate. The auditorium he'd a great throng. |