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Show NEWS SUMMA11Y Robbers secured $3,000 In cash from the safe of tho Stato Hank of Dickey, S. D., and escaped. An explosion of gas in a coal mine at Pratt City, Ala., caused "tho death of four men and tho Injury of Beveral others, Tho supremo court of Illinois has bnnilcd down an opinion declaring I tin new primary election law uueonstb ttitlonnl. Flro which started In a hotel tic stroked every building but ono In tho block whlcn tonne tho business fiec tlon of Yuba, Oil. ' v Forty-two persons, Including thirty Jnpanese soldiers, were killed or Injured In-jured by the derailment of a train near Seoul, Korea. The balance sheet of tho Standard Oil company has been mnde public for tho first time. It shows a total surplus sur-plus or $201,000,000. Tho Russian authorities have ordered or-dered the confiscation of Count Tol-Htol's Tol-Htol's book entitled "A Comparative Study of tho Gospels." The mnnngement of tliv Illinois Central railroad has decided to throw Its Influence In favor of n tleep-wator-way from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. A special dispatch from Peking says tho dowuger empress has Issued a decree de-cree declaring the government ol China to be n "constitutional num.-urehy." num.-urehy." A now law by which boys under tho ago of fourteen aro prohibited from selling papers between 10 p. m. and C a. m. hns gone into effect In New York city. Ludwlg Szczyglol, tho Polish priest convicted nt Pittsburg of the murder of Andrew and Stephen Starynskt, hns been sentenced to thirty years' Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. Mrs. Susan Wallace, widow of General Gen-eral Lew Wallace, Is dead at Craw-fordsvllle, Craw-fordsvllle, Ind. She had great literary ability and assisted her husband In his writings. i Ono man was killed, nnd three, Including In-cluding Hobby Wnlthour, tho American Ameri-can rider, were seriously Injured In a series of accidents on tho Spandau bicycle track. Tho announcement of Miss Gladys Vandcrbllt's engagement to Count Las-zlo Las-zlo Szechenyl or Hudapest, was made last week. Miss Vandetbllt Is tho youngest child of the lato Cornelius Vanderbllt. Tho Do Ueers Diamond company, known ns tho diamond trust. Is reported report-ed In cable advices as having formed n pool with tho principal independent compnnles In order that prices shall ho maintained. All danger of a strike of the marine onglneors on tho ocean nnd coastwise steamship lines, whoso vessels sail from New York, bearing tho American flag, has boon aveited. Hoth sides made concessions. Tho coroner's Juiy summoned to Investigate In-vestigate tho mysterious murder, nt Sioux Falls, S. D., of John W. O'Grady, an aged pioneer, returned n verdict holding Mrs. O'Grady respon-Bible respon-Bible for tho death. Another county In Kentucky hps gono "dry" in local option election. In McLean county tho tempcrnnco forces wero vlctotlous by a majority of 1,055. Only nineteen of the U'J counties In Kentucky remain "wot." Tho mutilated body of Georgo Hanson, Han-son, of tho Caucasian Printing company com-pany of Shroovcport, La., was found nndor a bandstand on Douglas island. Hnnson had been beaten to death with a heavy railroad wrench and robbed. Professor Jacques Loeb, tho famous biologist of Herkoloy, Cal., makes tho statement that ho believes tho germ of life can bo discovered, provldlns tho chemical icaetlons surrounding the process of fertilization nro Investigated. Investi-gated. A tcrrlblo explosion occurred at tho Tamatsuko factory, Osaka, Japan, whoro u number. of girls wero at work Bortlng shells and cartridges which had been condemned. SIxty-throo girls wero killed and over sixty Injured. In-jured. Tho Immettso cotton shipping business busi-ness of New Orleans has been tied up by the strike of 800 members of tho dock and cotton handlers' union. Tho cotton handlers hnvo arrayed against them nil tho business exchanges of Now pi leans. The general oflieers of tho Western Union Telegraph company, In Now York, hnvo been ndvlsed that nt a meeting held In Toronto on Sunday tho fow operators remaining on strike declared tho strlko n failure In Can-nda Can-nda and agreed to apply for reinstatement. reinstate-ment. That Harry Huber and S. V. narrctt, young men of Wichita, Kans.. put dynnmlto on tho, Santo. Fo railroad track fofir miles north of that city, August 10, to win n Cnmcglo modal and a reward from tho railroad company, com-pany, was tho testimony of Harrott nt tneir trmi. Claude H. Perry, a soldlor of tho coast artillery, stationed at Ft. Hamilton, Ham-ilton, and his wife, Ullzaboth, wore found dead In tliblr apartment In Ilrooklyn. It Is bolloved Porry shot his wife and then killed himself, be-cnusii be-cnusii ho wns to hit transferred to nnothor post. During a Republican rally In n club room at Watorbury, Conn., tho floor collapsed, precipitating 150 men Into tho collar ot tho building. Hy tho explosion of a lamp tho building was set on lire nnd tho crowd ot men struggled In tho flames nnd debris almost al-most helplessly. Tho Kansas railroads last wook withdrew their request to tho Stato Hoard of Railway commissioners to bo allowed to chargo throe cents a mllo for passengers who fall to buy tickets. It Is nssutned that the railroads rail-roads Intend to take thounattor 4nto their own hands. |