Show NEWS SUMMARY serious forest fires are raging west arf f marquette mich william lee colored was hange hanged at crisfield md for assaulting tac white women the striking freight handlers of th the southern pacific company at oakland bave have resumed the gas workers at lublin russian poland have gone out on strike and the city streets are in darkness severe crop damage is reported from several meveral points in minnesota north da kota and iowa resulting from hall rain and windstorms ir despondent over ill health jame maor cashier of the carlton kan kant state bank shot and killed himself in a room of the bank H C holmes a merchant while insane opened fire on policeman ros in cincinnati the officer ie re turned the fire killing holmes richard Oggen dun recently arril arrived ved from switzerland was killed at on tarlo cal by the accidental discharge of a shotgun while hunting rabbits rabbas american dairy and stock farms are needed in the panama canal zone ac a cording to a report from cons consul J G Kel kellog lol to the bureau of manardo tures 4 T je a first death from smallpox at coln was reported to the washing ton office of the isthmian canal corn com mission last week by governor ma goon at kingston in williamson Wllliam son county tennessee a gave birth to six children the children are well formed and all were alive at last ac counts three men were killed in the yards of the erie railroad at jersey city when a spread ng rail sent a fast freight train plunging down an em ban kment in consequence of revolutionary ter the administration of the vice royalty of the caucasus haa has been corn COM plemely paralyzed and officials are re signing in large numbers captain castelo of the artillery a son of general castelo was danger easly and probably mortally wounded in a duel with swords fought with senor arroyo at madrid the democratic executive tee of the eighth district of miss a sippi has formally declared john sharp williams the party candidate tor for oon congress gress from that district on account of the long continued drought the water supply of the of central asia Is practically exhausted the people are drinking from thick stagnant pools A baby boy was born to mra mrs stella brennan in the state prison at still water minn mrs brennan Is serving a life sentence for the murder of her step children in minneapolis about a ear ago during the fiscal ascal year ending june 80 1906 the united state states sold to the people of other countries products of the value of 1 and bought from them goods in the total sum ot ol 01 1 charles F murphy leader of tarn tam many hall says that it is possible that tammany hall will support will lam R hearst tor for the democratic nomination tor for governor in the next state convention the demand for labor in california promises to exceed the supply tor for many months to come altogether california off offers erso employment tol to not less than 40 men at the highest wages on record A whitehead torpedo fired from the dock at the torpedo station during the practice at newport R I 1 struck and sank a boat in which four sea rien gunners were seated A lifeboat life boat rescued re the seamen three of a party of BIX six persons who were boating on lake N J were drowned when their craft capsized caps laed through the apparent inex peri per lence ence of the man who had under taken to handle the he boat the budget committee in taking up the estimates of the french governa govern tor for 1907 struck out the salary 4 of M diebler jr the public execl lioner thus foreshadowing the digap bearance pe arance of the guillotine every dollar of e russell sage s great fortune of 60 Is left to mrs sage by a will made in 1901 except an insignificant bequest made to mrs fannia fannie chapin of onelda oneida N Y an only sister who died two years ago russian officers spending leave of absence at austrian watering places have been ordered by telegraph to re turn to russia the orders point out that threatening conditions make it necessary to place the army on a war tooting footing the lower house of the georgia leg lature Ss has passed what Is known as a the boykin anti bucket shop bill by a vote of to 15 the bill prohibits all dealings in futures on margin and will close all bucket shops exchanges etc in the state A committee of jews representing frankfort and other german societies cleties ao arrived at lemburg austria from russia last week with children who have been made orphans recently as the result of another jewish out weak break at various places Paper makers in the thirty three mills milli of the international intel national paper corn com pany in the united states and canada have bave given notice that they will go on strike on august 6 unless their work ing hours are reduced to eight hours a day without reduction in the scale of wages judge B N smith in the criminal department a of the superior brior court at los angeles sentenced hilaro garcia a mexican to five years at hard la bor in folsom penitentiary lor for the heft theft of a pair of 15 cent suspenders suspend ers from rom a room in a japanese lodging house louse |