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Show sbIssbbbhBsbbsbb NEWS SUMMARY The Trans-MlsMaalppl congress will moot In San Francisco next year. Speaker Joseph Cannon waa In a railroad wreck at Bismarck, Ilia., laat week, but eacaped injury. President Castro of Venezuela 1b again in 111 health at! Lob Tequcs, and In confined much of tho time to Wb bad. Tho Switchmen's union haB with drawn tho demand on JHo weBtern railroads for an Increaso or wages amounting to six cents an hour. Two men wero killed and a bulMIng Mown to atoms when an explosion lurrcd at tho E. I. Dumors Powder Ipany's plant near Plnolelf.Cal. .ia Louisa Williams, a young no-i-csB, has confessed that sho throw her 2-months-old babo from a Santa Fo train two mites west ot Cucamonga, Cal. Tho atrlko of tho St. Louts shoo wnrknra hnn lienn ofllcla'ltv called Off by the Joint executive board ot the Independcn Boot and Shoe Workers union. Famine conditions aro threatening the VcBternorrland and Veaterbatten districts ot Lapland, whero deluging rains havo had disastrous effects on the crops. Homer S. King, presldont of tho Clearing Houso association ot San FranciBCO, says that the local financial situation la gradually returning to a healthy condition. Governor Georgo I. Sheldon of "Nebraska "Ne-braska declarea that ho will uso all ot his Influence toward securing tho Republican Re-publican national convention for Kansas Kan-sas City next year. Tho Twolfth Ward bank, ot New York, ono of the Institutions which suspended payment during tho early days of the financial crisis, has reopened re-opened for business. Five men wero killed, ono fatally injured and a number seriously Injured In-jured by the explosion of a boiler in a planing mill at tho John L. Roper lumber mils, Gelmortor., Va. Flvo children wero cremated and their parents and two other women were seriously burned when the homo of Thomas W. Zuver, near Pleasant-tlllo, Pleasant-tlllo, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Russia wiped out tho balance of her Indebtedness to Japan, ariBlng from tho war, last week, the Russian embassy em-bassy handing over to tho embassy of Japan a check for $24,302,200. Chancellor Stout has rendered a decision de-cision revoking tho llceneo ot tho Standard Oil company to do business In Tennessee Illegal discrimination was alleged agalnat tho company. Tho Alabama legislature has passed a bill to prohibit the salo or giving awny or possession of liquors In clubs. It prohibits exactly what tho Georgia law allows. Tho act will become effective ef-fective Jan. 1, 1909. Worry over tho financial situation caused Oscar Nelson, a wealthy business busi-ness man of Rockford, Ills, to commit suicide by Inhaling Illuminating gas. Ho waB formerly a prominent furnl-turo furnl-turo manufacturer at Duluth. Waltor Wellman, loader of tho Chicago Chi-cago Record-Herald polar expedition, who Is returning from his first attempt to reach tho north polo by balloon, arrived ar-rived In Now York last week from Chorbourg on tho steamer MaJoBtlc. Tho court of appeals has decided that tho act passed at tho last -session ot tho Now York legislature providing for a recount ot tho votes cast at the mayoralty election In Now York City, In November, 1905, is unconstitutional. unconstitu-tional. Over 1,000 dologatcs wero presont at MuBkoceo. Oklahoma, on tho 19th. when David R. Francis, formor governor gov-ernor ot Missouri, called tho eighteenth eigh-teenth anual meeting of tho Trans-Mississippi Trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, to order. "Freo lovo will ho tho ultlmato fate of tho United States, If tho present pres-ent system of dlvorco Is continued." Tills was tho prophocy voiced before tho Twentieth Century club In Chicago last week by Mrs. Margaret Doland of DoBton. Before leaving Wlndeor castle for Hlghcllff castle, Kaiser Wllholm, it Is stated, left no less a sum than $10,000 to be divided as tips among tho servants ser-vants at tho castlo. On his previous trip to Windsor, In 1898, It was said $2,500 was left. A dispatch received from Santiago, Chill, says that the British stoamcr Hazol Branch, bound to England from Antofogasta, with a full cargo, has boon totally wrecked In tho straits of Magollan. Nothing was said regarding regard-ing the fate ot tho crow. Montaguo Newton and Joseph D. Fisher, the two Americans who wero convicted in London, charged with conspiracy to cheat and defraud, havo been Bontoncod to twenty months' Imprisonment Im-prisonment at hard labor and to ono months' imprisonment respectively. In consoquonco of tho cancellation of largo ordors for cigars from Now Vn-1.- f?Mnin nml nfhni- nltna tn. gethor with tho Bhortago ot tho Cuban tobacco crop, ovor 1,000 clgarmakeni wero laid off last week by some ot tho largo cigar factories of Tampa, Flu. In full view of 300 workmen nt tho Amorlcnn Car company, plant, Ernest Ilrazlol, u discharged employe, shot Foreman William Schruuek to death at St. Louis, nnd thou, with ItU buck agaiiiBt a wall and his revolver leveled, level-ed, dolled arrest until ho was ovor-powered. ovor-powered. Mra. William T. Hedgos killed lw-aolt lw-aolt and her two sons, Wllllnm, Vtgcd olovon, and Butler T aged six, by ao-phyxlatlou, ao-phyxlatlou, at hor homo tn Nowton- vlllo, Mobs., some time during tho night. All tho cracks In tho doors and I windows had been plugged aud tlia ?as was turned on. |