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Show NEWS SUMMARY A windstorm did dtmago estimated at $50,000 in St. Louis county, Missouri. Mis-souri. Fourteen men In a coal mlno at Honald, PntsBla Silesia, wero killed by tho breaking of n ropo while their car was descending the pit. A band of Chinese bandits engaged in pillaging along tho Sungarl river was shelled by a Russian gunboat and a largo nunimber of tho bandits woro killed. Wesley Shaffer, n farmer, living near Cedar Ilnplds, Iowa, killed his wife, choking her nnd striking her with a hnmmer. Tho couple had twelve children. M. Mnckenzlo wns shot nnd killed by tho accidental discharge of a shotgun shot-gun in tho hands of C. B. Nichols at Cahuengu Pass, about ten miles northwest north-west of Los Angeks. Pensants of the vlllago of Tcheneer-nlk, Tcheneer-nlk, Husslnn Poland, murdered four Socialists upon their arrival In the vlllago vll-lago for tho purposo of Inciting the peasants agnlnst the landlords. W. II. Denny, former mayor and banker, of Wllllstou, N. D.( who was convicted on a charge of receiving stolen horses, has been sentenced to sorvo three years In tho penitentiary. Sir Francis Scott, hart,, a lieutenant of tho Royal British navy, retired, was found dead at his residence, Dunnald, South Sea, with a bullet In his heart It is surmised that ho committed ml-cldo. ml-cldo. A British launch, tho Wlngcnat, waa attacked by pirates close to Wu Chow, China. Ono of her crew was killed and throe woro wounded. Tho pirates secured about $500 and a chest of opium. Advices were received from Hongkong Hong-kong by tho stonmcr Mont Eagle to tho effect that sovoral Chlncso 'firms of Hongkong havo become bankrupt as a result of losses occasioned by the San Francisco dlsnstcr. Tho correspondent nt Aden of the London Mall reports that tho Mad Mullah has raided tho Somallland bor-'der, bor-'der, killing more than 1,000 of tho Haron tribe, dwelling In tho Ogaden region, and capturing 10,000 cnmels. A coroner's Jury has recommended that K. O. Knudson, a wealthy Chicago Chi-cago contractor, whoso wlfo died ro-contly ro-contly under Busplclous circumstances, bo held to tho grund jury on tho suspicion sus-picion that ho had poisoned, tho woman. wo-man. On tho gallows of tho state prison at Snn Quontin, Cul W. 11. Trebllcox wns hanged for tho murder of his wlfo in Grnss Valley on March 14, 1005. Tho doomed man went to tho scaffold without nuy unusunl display of nervousness. nerv-ousness. Milton Whetstone, ngod .13, cashier of tho Citizens' National bank of Lans ford, Pa., was killed, and Daniel Mc-Gcchnn, Mc-Gcchnn, aged 27, assistant cashier of tho same Institution, was fatally injured in-jured by their carriage being struck by a trodcy car. Tho Lisbon correspondent of tho Paris Journal eays that a Brazilian named Gucrrolro 1ms been arrested there charged with tho thoft of tho crown of tho Brazilian emperor, which Is formed of precious stones nnd valued at $500,000. . While- bringing tho body of his mother, Mrs. Mary Itlloy, to Springfield, Spring-field, Mo., for burial from Peoria, whero sho died, George Riley stepped out on tho train platform and dropped to tho rails between tha baggage and smoking cars. Ho wns ground to death. Frank Mulllns was shot and killed by his 10-ycar-old son at Bowloton station, sta-tion, Miss. It was said that Mulllns was whipping another of his children nnd that his wife, when sho attempted to Intcrforo, was struck with tho strap In her hushnnd's hand. Wllllnm II. Taft, secretary of war, has consented to como to Kansas and mnko two speeches during tho campaign. cam-paign. Tho Ropubllcnn stato central commlttco has mndo arrangements for Secretary Taft to speak in Topeka a few days boforo election. Thomas Daniels flvo children perished per-ished in n tiro which destroyed the family resldenco nt Oak Park, n suburb sub-urb of Otiinlfa. Mrs. Daniels was seriously-burned and may not recover, and her husband wns badly burned In an effort to savo his family. Thomas McKennn, n waiter, threw his 4-ycnr;old child through a third-story third-story .window of his homo in Cincinnati Cincin-nati und jumped from tho window to tho sldownlk bolow. Tho child wns doad when picked up and McICcnna died on tho way to tho hospital, Generals Andro nnd Negrlor fought a duel with pistols in tho park surrounding sur-rounding tho resldenco of Prlnco Mu-rat, Mu-rat, in Paris. General Andro flrod without hitting his opponent, nud General Gen-eral Negrlor declined to llro. Tho principals left tho Hold unreconciled. Orchnrdtets in Nnpa vnlloy, Cul., report re-port heavy fruit crops this year. Ilnlph K. Hutlor, manager of tho Napa Fruit Drier, estlmntos, with other authorities on fruit, that California will this year produce between 160,-000,000 160,-000,000 nn'' 200.000,000 pounds of cranes. ' |