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Show SUMMARY ' 'One hundred nnd twenty additional American 'tenchers nro wantod In tho Philippines for tho next school year. Tho'Odcssa grain trade 'Is at present at a standstill as a result of tho strike inaugurated by all railroad employes. Tho 'total resources of the 8B trust companies In New York stato show a decrease of about 130,000,000 in three months. Tho Citizens' bank ot Cedar Hill, Texas, was robbed of $2,500, the robbers rob-bers using nitroglycerine In forcing open tho safe. Koprcsontatlve Lacey ot Iowa has introduced a bill making $12 tho rolm-lmum rolm-lmum pension to bo paid veterans of the war of 18C1. Tho Sennto In -executive session oil the 13th rntlfled a treaty with Guatemala for the reciprocal protection protec-tion of patents. Tho war department has selected tho slto for tho government powder factory, for which congress appropriated appropri-ated $105,000 Uiu last session. The steam trawler Forsoga has beon sunk In a storm oft Christian-sand, Christian-sand, Norway. All of her crew, numbering num-bering twelve men, were drowned. Fourteen merchants and business men of East St. Louis havo entered pleas of guilty to charges of violating vio-lating tho Illinois child labor laws. Julius Pcrsky, of Hammond, lnd., died lasts week from excessive smoking smok-ing of cigarettes. He said that he had smoked 500,000 cigarettes during his lifetime. Mrs. Frank Coonrad Is believed to havo been killed and property valued nt $50,000 destroyed In tiro which consumed the Amorlcan houso block In Hurllngton, Vt. Ten prominent lumber dealers havo been Indicted by tho grand Jury for nn alleged violation of tho Oklahoma anti-trust laws by entering Into, a combination com-bination to fix prices. John C. Drain died at Tampa, Kla., of paralysis. During the civil war he commanded several warships. Ho was the last Confederate prisoner to be released nfter the war. In response to cables from the chief of police of Warsaw three Husslan Immigrants Im-migrants were arrested Immediately after leaving tho North German Lloyd steamer Hallo at Daltlinore. Tho passenger steamer Monarch with ten passengers and a crew of thirty Is a wreck on iBle Koyale, Lako Superior. The passengers and crew succeeded In reaching shore. Tho differences betweon tho federal and Insular governments over tho division di-vision of tho public lands in Porto Rico have been amicably adjusted, subject to tho npproval of tho secretary of the navy. It Is the opinion of Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas, an ho outlined out-lined his position In a speech in the houso. that the government 1b paying too much for tho carrlago of railway mall. 13. C. House, proprietor of a laundry laun-dry at El Paso, Texas, shot three mon whom he claims attacked him in a saloon, fatally -wounding two of them and seriously injuring the other. For the first time In 20 years tho great Trcadwell mines of Alaska are closed. Douglas and Juneau ore suffering suf-fering from coal famine and lack of fuel has resulted in the closing of the mines, Andrew Carnegie has sent to the board of trustees of St. Vlateurs college, col-lege, Kankakee, 111., a check for $32,000 for the rebuilding of the col-lego col-lego building, which was recently dc-stmyed dc-stmyed by fire. Emperor WUIllam hus authorized Chancellor Yon Duclow to dissolve the relchstng and order new elections If tho supplementary appropriations naked for by the government aro not granted by tho house. Dr. George M. Gray, citizen's candidate, can-didate, was elected mayor ot Kansas City, Kan., by n plurality of 320 votes over M. J. Phelan, democrat, and 'John P. Sims, republican, at a special election held last week. Changes in administration In six of the nineteen Massachusetts cities which held elections on tho 11th will tnko place on January 1, and noxt May threo cities where ' liquor has been sold will return to no license communities. Ono of the most Important ethnolo gleal expeditions In tlio history ol Harvard university has left, under the leadership of Dr. W. C, Furadee, fot South America, to make un Investlga tlou among tho Indian tribes of tho Andes mountains. Tho nowly seeded area of winter wheat In tho United States Is estimated esti-mated as being 1,1 per cent greater limn tho area miwii In the fall of 1905 equivalent to un Increaso of 353,000 acres and a total acroago of 31,005,000 acres. Tho house cummltteo on public Innds him derided to mnko n favor able report on tho Mondull resolution providing Unit the secretary of tho Interior In-terior shall make a full report to congress con-gress of all public laudH withdrawn from entry since July I, 1900. |