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Show NEWS SUMMARY ' t Tt is now said that -mora than C;OO0 "painters ars on strike Jn Greater Mew York. The army transport Sheridan has sailed for tho Philippines -with i cargo of supplies. ' 1 James Wesley has Taecn convicted at BemldJI, Minn., of tho murder of 77. O. Dahl and hlB daughter, and Bon-tenccd Bon-tenccd to death. It Is estimated that 15 per cent of tho wheat and 2G per cent of the oats crop in Oklahoma lias been destroyed toy tho grcenbug. Engineer William Cornell was Wiled and two firemen injured In a read-end collision in tho Santa Fe yard In Los Angeles. A bill making It unlawful for lirew-crs lirew-crs and wholesalo liquor men to own saloons has passed both houses of the Nebraska legislature. s, A police Inspector named Floloft -was killed at Soropul, Russia, by a lG-ycar-old school boy named Rfcznct-bow, Rfcznct-bow, who was captured. A Jury at Kenosha, Wis., found Edward Ed-ward Collier guilty of manslaughter In running down and killing William Dryer with his automobile. Twenty Italians wero burned to death and a scoro or more seriously Injured by tho conflagration of an Italian lodging-house in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Six trainmen wero killed in a head-on head-on collision between two freight y trains on tho Missouri' and Texas railroad, six miles south of Fort Worth, Texas. Tho Fedorad grand Jury at Chicago has returned an Indictment containing contain-ing 175 counts against John It Walsh, tho former' president of the Chicago National bank. J. S. Williams nnd Sam Nesblt miners, w'cro burned to death in thcii cabin near Packard Station, Arizona-Their Arizona-Their charred bodies wero found Id the ruins of tho cabin. A. B. Jacqulth, 48 years old, ono of the promotors of tho Omaha Grain exchange, shot and killed himself at his home in Omaha. Ho is bclloved to have been despondent over financial finan-cial reserves. Catherine Waugh McCullock, who conducts a law office In Chicago, and who is known all over tho country as a champion of woman's rights, wat elected Justice of tho peace in Evan I ston, III., at tli o rcqent election. Great Britain has not withdrawn ot in any way altered her request that . the reduction of tho expenditures on ' armaments should bo placed upon the programme of subjects to bo discussed at Tho Hago pcaco conference. Tho comparative statement of the government receipts nnd expenditures for March, 1907, shows tho total receipts re-ceipts to have been 154,221,953 nnd tho expenditures, $43,602,007, leaving a surplus for tho month of $10,G19,9G4. Tho man arrested In Brooklyn on suspicion that he murdered Mrs. -A. W. Gentry, of Chicago, has admitted that ho Is Consldlno. He said that ho did not kill Mrs. Gentry, but that sho committed sulcldo In his presence. Mrs. Phllomena Sotupo and her four chlldron perished In a tonoment houso flro at Passaic, N. J. Many women and children wero taken down laddqrs by tho firemen, but tho Sotupo So-tupo family probably wero suffocated. In vlow of tho constant conflicts between be-tween tho prefecture, tho faculty of tho university nnd tho students, the university nt Moscow has been shut down for ono year. Tho faculty will endeavor to hold tho llnnl examination examina-tion In May. a. J80 Aynla, ex-chlof of pollco of ks' Gulnez, Havana province, wns assassinated assas-sinated nt Gulnez on tho 3rd. Tbo crlmo apparently was political, as the victim led tho government forces In tho vicinity of Guinea during tho August Aug-ust revolution. Kov. J. J. Blockshoar, who came to Columbus, Ohio, from Marshall, Tex., recently to tako tho pulpit made vacant va-cant by tho death of tho noted colored minister, Jlov. James Polndoxter, wiib fatally' Injured by an oxploslon of natural nat-ural gas In his room. Edward Murphy, who was employed upon tho now Business Men's club. In tho course, of erection, In Memphis, Tenn., climbed to tho roof of tho 1 building and, pouring n gallon of i bonzino over his clothing, set flro to hlniBolf, being cremated. Mrs. Sydnoy Heurlcks has been sentenced sen-tenced to two years In San Quentln by .ludgo Smith of. the Superior court, at Los Angolos, on a conviction of burglary. Sho broko into tho room of nnothor woman and stole wearing apparel ap-parel and other effects. ,,. Governor Hnrrls has granted a ro-1 ro-1 " splto to Dr. Haugh of Doytou, Ohio, r who was to have been electrocuted Sattirdny for tho murdor of his father, fath-er, mother and brothor. Tho respite Ib given-to April 19 to allow his Inw-ye'rs Inw-ye'rs to present his caso to tho pardon par-don board. Charles G. Stanley, n commercial traveler, was shot and killed at St. Joseph, Mo., by Wesley Christopher, 19 years old. Slanloy heard screams for holp nnd found tho liojr In a dftrk alley choking u young wotnnn domes-tic. domes-tic. Stnnley Inturfcrcd and was shot through tho heart. |