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Show .NEWS SUMMARY Tho supremo court of Illinois hns declared thnt tho now local option law passed Inst year Is constitutional. Tho forty-sixth annual convention ol tho National Educational association associa-tion will bo held In Cleveland, Ohio, Juno 29. Tho churches of Burlington, N. J., liavo proposed n bar on Uio "Merry Widow" hats In tho congregation during dur-ing tho service. Hy tho discovery of two moro bodies bod-ies last week, tho number or lives-lost lives-lost in tho tiro at Chelsea, Mass., is brought up to llttecn. Tho Russian government has ordered order-ed flvo now warships, each ono to be larger tlran tho Drcadnaught, from a firm or Clydo shlp-bulldors. A federal grand Jury is about to begin an Investigation of several of tho Inrgcst manufacturers of manila wrapping paper In tho stato of Now York. A serious tiro which for a tlmo threatened to wlpo out all tho property prop-erty nt Capo Mny Point, N. J., destroyed de-stroyed n dozen buildings beforo lt wns gotten under control. William N. Clovclnnd, nophow of ox-Presldont Grover Cleveland, has been sentenced, ns a bridge trust agent, to pay n lino of $500 and servo flvo days in the Toledo, Ohio, Jail. llx-Prcsldont Cleveland is ill at Lnkowood, N. J., but tho latest bulletins bulle-tins Issued would Indlcato that thoro Is no cnuso for alarm, and that his recovery is only a mnttor of time. Count Szcchcnyi and tho countess, tormorly Gladys Vnnderbllt, had n narrow escapo from drowning nt Vienna, when their boat capsized, they being forced to swim to tho shore. Two prominent business men of Mllnn, Mich., were lnstnnly killed t hen their automobile was struck by j passcngor train while they were at-:emptlng at-:emptlng to cross tho track near Oonrborn. Frnnk Schneck, on trial nt Ottawa, Kans., for tho murder of his wlfo and two children, nt tholr homo nt Con-tropolls Con-tropolls on February 3, 1907, was found guilty or murder In tho first degree de-gree by tho Jury. Tho town of Cairo, 111., at tho election elec-tion Inst week, decided against closing clos-ing tho saloons. At Thebes, whore tho prohibitionists wcro victorious, thoro nro bIx snldons which will be compelled to closo their doors. David Wctherbeo, aged 75, his wlfo, aged CD, nnd tholr daughter wcro ere mated, and Albert Lemm, tho dough tor's husband, wns probably fntally burned in a Ilro that destroyed tin Wctherbeo homo nt Contcrvlllo, Pa It haB been dellnltcly decided thnt tho American Ilcot of battleships will not call at any European port on Its wny homo, with tho exception of cer tain points in tho Mediterranean whore lt will bo necessary to stop foi coal. Harry Thaw Is to have n chance tc provo his sanity, and will .bo taken Into court in tho near ruturo nnd ex nmlned by exports. If tho court do cldcB thnt ho Is nano, tho chances ol his rolcnso In tho near ruturo ar very bright. A dispatch rrom Winnipeg announces an-nounces thnt while on tholr way tc tho Peach river country, Emll Cardl nal, wlfo nnd child, wcro drowned in tho Athabasca river. They wcro traveling trav-eling on tho Ico with n dog train and fell through. A baseball tossed by a boy struck Mrs. Cntherlno Murray of Now York over tho heurt, death resulting a fow hours Inter. An autopsy disclosotl tho ract Unit Mrs. Murray's heart had swollen to nn abnormal bIzo ns it ro suit of tho blow. Tho Northern Pacific Itallwny com pnny lt-n posted a bulletin offering n roward of $500 for tho arrest and conviction of tho bandits who at tempted to hold up tho North Coast Limited near Homestako, llftcer miles cnBt of Uutto. Uornnrd, tho 2-yoar-old son ol Dalloy I). Nagal, prosldent of tho Ponisylvnnia boiler works, and grandson grand-son of T. M. Nngal, a multi-million-nlro. died at Erie, Pa., on April 24, ns tho result of taking medlclno prescribed pre-scribed for his mother, bqllovlnu lt to bo candy. Four men wore killed, three sorl-ously sorl-ously Injured nnd 100 others had n nasrow escapo from doatlt when an explosion occurred In Mlno No. 1 ot tho Ellsworth Colllors company at Ellsworth, Pa. Tho doad nro foreigners. foreign-ers. Tholr bodies were mangled nnd badly burned. Florca Ontnnedn, a noted Ecuadoran Ecuado-ran chemist, is dead a Guayquil, Ecuador, from bubonic plague, which ho contracted at, tho municipal laboratory labor-atory while- preparing Haffkino's prophylactic. pro-phylactic. Twenty now cases nnd nlno deaths lmvo occurred at Guayquil In tho past wcok. Exports of tho wntor pollution committee com-mittee of tho Now York Merchants' association declaro that 7,050 doaths anntinlly from typhoid fever nnd kindred kin-dred dlsonsos nro directly attributable attribut-able to tho common ltoutio lly, and wnr upon tho houso lly is to bo wagod by tho association. l,ouib Aurnnnms, prcsiaeni oi uio diamond syndicate which controls 98 per cont of tho diamond output of tho world, says that thoro is to bo no Bhrlnkago In tho prlco of diamonds, desplto tho fact that thoro Ib now a mnrked decrenso In tiro domand for the precious stones. Ford Warner, a member of tho houso of delegates of St. Louis, has been convicted ot brlbory and sentenced sen-tenced to two years' lmprlsonmont. Warner was convicted of having accepted ac-cepted a brlbo of $500 to Intluenco legislation permitting tho erection r u ijaraco bv a citizen. , |