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Show NEWS SUMMARY TLa tug Sao Benito foundered In tho bay of Biscay whllo In tow for Brazil. Tho captain and six men aboard tho tug wero drowned. There wero 11C fires In Greater Now York during tho 4th. These figures break all Fourth of July records for tho big metropolis. Threo miners wero hurled down tho shaft of tho La Sallo Cbunty Carbon Cpal company, at Cedar Point, III., nnd wero Instantly killed. Tho men fell a dlstnnco of 525 feet. ' Tho ccntennary 6f tho birth of Giuseppe Gi-useppe Garibaldi, tho Italian patriot, was observed In Rome with great rejoicing. re-joicing. It-Is estimated that 60,000 persons marched In lino in Romo. Twenty-ono persons nro now known to have been killed In tho tornado which swept a path 100 miles long nnd from a mile to n fow rods In width through tho counties of central Wisconsin. Wis-consin. Firecrackers nnd flroworks woro barred In San Francisco on tho 4th, but tho parks and plcnsuro grounds woro thronged and music and athletic sports furnished entertainment to thousands. Secretary of tho Navy Victor M. Mctcalf, In nn Intcrvlow with tho Oakland Oak-land Tribune, confirmed tho report that a largo part of tho United, States navy will bo Been In Pacific waters next winter. It Is announced that tho Italian government gov-ernment granted amnesty to all political politi-cal and press offenders, with tho' exception ex-ception of anarchists, on tho occasion of tho centennial Jubilee of the birth of Garibaldi. Tho crusade against tho deadly toy pistol seems to bo bearing fruit, ns this yonr only 205 victims, are reported report-ed throughout tho United States after tho celebration of the 4 th as against 304 last year. Forest. Fires are ranging In tho Gila reserve near 8llver City, N. M. Ono thousand acres of timber have already been burned. Thero is no water available avail-able and rangers are fighting tho flames with backfires. Tho recent Tennessee legislature passed an act allowing Nashville to conflno tho saloons to tho uptown districts. dis-tricts. This saloon segregation act went Into effect on July 1. It puts about 100 saloons out of business. Mayor Harper, of Los Angoles, has decreed thnt he will exert all his authority au-thority to prevent a renewal of racing at Ascot park, which, by a special election hold last winter, was brought within the limits of tho city. All records of fatalities following the celebration of Independence day at Pittsburg woro broken this year. Nineteen violent deaths wero reported report-ed to the coroner's office, while the number of Injured was threo more. During a heavy rain at Youngs-town, Youngs-town, Ohio, several men look shelter under a train when a switching engine en-gine backed Into tho cars and knocked tho men down, one being killed and several seriously Injured. Carlos Waddlngton, son of Luis Waddlngton, who wns cha'rgo d'affaires d'af-faires of Chllo at Brussels, has been acquitted of the chargo of murdering murder-ing Senor Balmaceda, secretary of tho Chiloan legation, on February 24, It Is utated In military circle's that Major Alfred Dreyfus, tho former captain of artillery, who was sentenced sen-tenced on a charge of treason to Imprisonment Im-prisonment on Dovils Island, Is shortly to retire from tho army, accepting a pension. Two cars, heavily loaded with steel, becoming separated from a train nt tho steel works nt Bethlehem, Pn crashed Into a shifting engine, killing W. A. Gross, Hnrry J. Marsh, William Wil-liam Dorncy and Rudolph Nuss, employes. em-ployes. Flro started by burglars who looted loot-ed n small grocery store nt Houston, Texas, caused tho death of thrco boys,' sons of Jacob Pragor, tho storekeeper, who lived ou tho upper floor. Prager sueceedod In rescuing his wlfo and two daughters. .The town of Polk, Nebraska, waB badly wrecked by a wind nnd hall-storm hall-storm early Sundny morning. Tho best business buildings In the town wero demolished or damaged, 'and crops over u considerable dlstanco ruined. Mrs. Lee Miller was slightly Injured. A special dispatch from Melllln, tho Spanish seaport upon tho north coast of Morocco, snys that a heavy but Indoclslvo engugomont between Moroccan rebols and Imperial troops tooks place ou tho 4th, anil that among tho killed wns the rebel chief suitably.' suit-ably.' ' Four pounds of giant powder exploded explod-ed In n rowbont, nenr Cedar. RnpldB,. Iowa, kJHng two persons-njid Injuring Injur-ing flvo others, Tho powder wns to liu used to moke tho noise for :i small picnic. ' Tho survivors say thnt ono of those killed throw n clgnrotto ou top of the can. Honduras Is to remain neutral of any entanglements In central American affairs, according to Information received re-ceived In Washington by Senor Un-galll, Un-galll, who was sent to WiishJngton by Provisional President Davila" to make an effort to securo recognition from tho United Stntes government. Miss Ethel Dish or Findlny. 0., ou tho 5th recelvod $20,000 from Mm. Maiy M. Kendall, or Oswego, N. Y. Threo years ngo In Toledo, O., Mrs. Kendall wns Injured upon tho street nnd Miss Illsh saw thnt she was glv-on glv-on proporty nttonllou, Mrs. Kendall promised a rownnl at tho tfmo. Rlccluttl Garibaldi, sou ofs tho Italian Ital-ian patriot, and his wife and daughter wero reconciled at tho tomb of Onrl-baldl Onrl-baldl ou the 1th, where nil three hud gone to participate In t'.io ceremonies conimomorntlng tho cejitonnlul of tho patriot's body. Garibaldi and his wlfo hnvo beon estranged foi years. t |