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Show V NEWS SUMMARY v ProfcsFor Ktigeno Rcnovlcr, scientist, scien-tist, was killed nt Lucerne In nn elevator ele-vator accident. Fred Krlckson, n brnkenmn, was shot nnd fatally Injured by a negro tramp near Humphreys, Cal. August Hrnuti, a citizen of Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, committed suicide by Jumping from the Eiffel tower, Paris, whllo deranged. de-ranged. Eight thousand men nnil women took pnrt In labor demonstrations In Hyde Park, London, May 1. Complete order prevailed. Tho electricians of all tho telegraph companies In Minnesota, North and South Dakota, are on strike, nbout 800 men being out. Hnrvey M. Hutchinson, for eight years mall clerk at tho Peoria, 111., postofllcc, hns confessed to a shortngo of nearly $9,000. Seven hundred Btructurnl Iron workers struck at Pittsburg on May 1 for nn Increase In wnges and recognition recog-nition of the union. Eight thousand men nnd women took part In labor Aomonstrntlons in Hydo Park, London, May 1. Complcto Com-plcto order prevailed. Tho president hns signed tho bill mnklng an appropriation of $70,000 to moot emergencies In tho postofllco department de-partment In California. Sir Henry Tnschercau, chief Justlco of Candn, has resigned. Ho probably will be succeeded by Charles Fltzpat-rick, Fltzpat-rick, minister of Justlco. Abbe Morales murdered tho Jesuit Father Mutlnoz In tho sacristy of tho San Domingo church nt Murcla, Spain, nnd then committed suicide. It Is officially announced that Maxim Gorky will bo prosecuted again on a charge of fomenting an antl-Russlan nnd revolutionary movement abroad. It Is difficult to tell exactly how many temporary buildings nro being erected In San Francisco, but tho carpenters' car-penters' union report over 2,000 men nt work. Tho National Machine Builders' association as-sociation In convention at Atlantlo City, N. J., decided on a G per cent raise in tho prlco of tools for tho ensuing ensu-ing year. Colonel Snblcolff, commanding tho troops of tho garrison at Vlatka, Russia, Rus-sia, has been stabbed and mortally wounded by nn unknown man. The nssnssln escaped. In tho relchstag last week Hcrr Bo-bel, Bo-bel, tho socialist leader, liuulo tho statement that during tho disturbed period Russia fugitives deposited $187,-COO.OOO $187,-COO.OOO In Gorman banks. Two hundred men calling thorn-solves thorn-solves Socialists attempted to march through tho streets of Chicago on Mny 1 under tho red flog nnd were prevented by tho police In a fight which occurred In tho vicinity vi-cinity of tho Mullaya vnlloy with troops of tho sultan, tho pretender to the tlirono of Morocco lost thirty men in dead and wounded. The scnato has confirmed John H. Edwards of Ohio as assistant secretary secre-tary of tho treasury, and Julius Jacobs, California, ns assistant treasurer ot the United Stnto nt San Francisco. A statement has been Issued by tho Aetna Flro Insurnnco company of Hartford, Conn., on Its liabilities resulting re-sulting from tho San Francisco fire and tho loss of tho company is estimated esti-mated at $2,700,000. In tho presenco of n number of deputies dep-uties from tho county clerk's office the vaults In that department of tho ruined city hall in San Francisco wcro opened and tho contonts found In good condition. con-dition. Tho vaults wcro not reached by tho fire. Elizabeth Gates, 114 years old, said to bo tho oldost person in tho state, died at Brunswick, Ga., on tho 5th. She had been married throo times nnd leaves four children, twenty-threo grandchlldron and nineteen greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Tho homo of W. J. Eckers, a coal mlno superintendent at Smlthton, Pa., has been partly wrecked by dynamlto. Nono woro Injured. Eckers had been threatened by a "black hand" letter following tho dlschargo of two employes em-ployes last week. John W. Rugglcs, n momber of tho firm of Dodd, Sweonoy & Co., which lost a great dcnl by tho flro In San Francisco, committed sulcldo In the back yard of his resldcnco In Ross valley, by shooting himself in tho head with a rovolvcr. Eight unconscious men wcro takon from tho McAdoo tunnel under the Hudson river after an explosion in the tunnel. Flvo of them aro romoved to hospitals and four wero not expected expect-ed tci recover. Tho oxploslon was supposed sup-posed to hnvo been canned by gas. Stockholders of tho Traders' Insurnnco Insur-nnco company of Chicago liavo been assessed $200 per share on tho holdings hold-ings to meet tho losses nt San Fran-clsco. Fran-clsco. As tho directors who ordered the asscasment hold most of tho stock, tho assessment Is practically voluntary. |