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Show NEWS SUMiUAIlY Ten laborers -were Injured, ono fa- , tally, by tho explosion of a gas tank la Chicago. John Dogan, a railroad flngmnn, shot his sister dead at Philadelphia because sho refused to lend him money. Robbers blew open tho safo in tho Farmers' State Hank nt Now Fouldcu, Minn., secured $2,200, and escaped. , A trial for murder nt Tchltn has established es-tablished the fact that voluntary slavery slav-ery exists In many districts of eastern Siberia. . A census of tho canal zone Just completed com-pleted shows- nenrly 50.000 Inhabitants of tho zono. About 20 per cent of tho total are whites. A largo portion of tho business section sec-tion of Princess Anno, county neat ot Westmoreland county, Va., has been destroyed by fire. Suit Is to bo Instituted by the government gov-ernment against tho Intomutlonnl Harvester Har-vester company, for alleged violation of thu Sherman anti-trust act. By an explosion In a dynamlto factory fac-tory at Doumltz, Gormany, nlno persona per-sona wcro killed, twenty dangerously injured, nud sixty Bllghtly hurt. Dispatches from Sulonlkl report thirty thir-ty Bulgarians killed In n battlo with Turkish troops near Munullk. Tho Turkish losses wero nlso heavy. President Roosevelt haB Issued an executive 'order mnklug Labor day, September 2, a holiday for government govern-ment employees and laborers who nro omployed by tho day. Tho National Christian Endeavor society so-ciety has planned to raise half a million mil-lion dollnrs for a building In Boston nB a memorial ot a quarter ot n century cen-tury of Christian Endeavor work. Tho American bark Pnissla hnB been wrecked In tho Straits of Magellan. Tho captalu committed aulcldo when tho vessel ran ashore, and fourteen passengers In addition to four sallorB, 'lost their lives. Tho Korean supremo court has passed sentenco UKn tho memborB of tho Haguo deputation. Sang Sol has been condemned to bo hanged and Yl Wi Chow and Yl Chun hnvo been sentenced sen-tenced to Imprisonment for llfo. Announcement Is made that a great .artillery training school will bo added to tho United States nrmy nud cstab llshcd nt Fortress Monroe, Va., for tho higher technical training of tho oflV cors and enlisted men of tho coast artillery ar-tillery corps. Mrs. Esther Davis, an Inmnto of tho Homo of tho Daughters of Jacob, Now York City, was 112 yearB old Sunday, and tho day was duly celebrated In tho home. MrB. Davis, to show that sho was still spry, danced a few steps for tho guests. t City Food Inspector Cutler of Kansas Kan-sas City has notified tho national government gov-ernment that his tostH of California nnd Arkansas dried fniltH cured with sulphlto shows that this fruit when cooked Is entirely wholesome, and Kansas City will accept It. Tho iiowb comes from Limn, Peru, to tho effect that tho British steamor Columbia, from Pannma, struck Saenz Point, August 9, on Lobos Tlerra 1b1--nnd, and Is a total loss. Tho report states that both passengers and crow of tho lll-fntcd steamer wero saved. An nllegod Japanese spy, captured in tho Philippines, brought a prisoner to this country for the disposal of tho military authorities lu San Francisco on thu transport Thoinas was ta-ken ta-ken to Mare Island for observation. The man's namo Is Tannkl Tsutsutl, Tho Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress which convones at MuBko-gce, MuBko-gce, in tho now statu ot Oklahoma, November 19-22, will not only bo tho guost of tho city of Muskogee, but will be the guest ot tho-Crcok Nation, In whoso ancient territory tho city of Muskogee Is located. Having in his possession a now dress suitcase, stuffed with $10 gold certificates, amounting to $4,700, Win- Hold Marson, aged 16, was arrosted at Oldtown, Mnlno, on tho chargo of stealing steal-ing $5,000 from tho Chlcopee, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, National Hank, in which ho had been employed. Dispatches from Shanghai state that tho dowager empress has announced her determination to abdicate at the next Chinese now year und hand thu nuthorlty to tho emperor. Since 1898, when tho dowuger took control from tho emperor, sho vigorously has kept hint In tho background. Jakob More n go, tho chief win caused thp Germans moro trouble In ttielr South African territory than all othors, nnd who has boon In British custody slnco ho sought rcfugo ln(Cupa Colony after tho last -hostilities, escaped es-caped last week, and with 400 follow-cr follow-cr Ih again marauding. A cage containing flvo miners who wero about to descend to work nt Sonman, Pa., shot upward Instead of downwnrd, struck tho top of thu tipple eighty foot ubovo the ground and overturned, over-turned, preclpltntlng tho men to the bottom of tho shnft 400 feet below. All live wero killed. Thcodoro Olson, former Dnnlsh vice-consul vice-consul nt Omaha, and former city comptroller, is missing, and It Is alleged al-leged that hla accounts with tho Danish Dan-ish government nre short about $1V 000 on account ot ostutos In Nebraska which carno Into OlBen'B hnndB for tho government of Denmnrk. It Is reported that 271 p-ra -n throughout tho Rupslan emplro were exiled for political offenses during tho month of July. It Is also stated that 54 ItUb-rilan ofllcers and 06 privates were killed and 47 ofllcers and 72 prlv-vates prlv-vates wounded whllo mnlntalng order during tho disturbances. Michael Detrain, an Italian of Chicago, Chi-cago, shot and Instantly klllod Alvlna Vnltmann, seriously wounded her cou bIu, Alvlno Awnld, uud tlimi killed hlmi,elf. Detrain and MIsb Vult'iinnu won said to hnvs been engaged, but that tho girl had refused to marry htui because ot Mb wild conduct. |