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Show NEWS SUMMARY Floods and flro nt Atigustn, Ga., last week caused a financial loss ol a million dollars. AmcrlcMi clerical employees arc to he given tho preference over tho alien employes on tho Ishthmua ot Panama by tho canal commission. President Iloosevclt has declined tho Invitation to attend tire Trans-mlsslsslppl Trans-mlsslsslppl congreBS nt San Francisco, Fran-cisco, beginning October fi. Tho thirty thousand employes of tho International Harvester company f Chicago aro to havo their own sick bunoflt nnd Insurance association. Four firemen were Injured nnd property prop-erty valued at $100,000 was destroyed by flro In the plnnt of tho Ovorbrook Carpet company, In West Phllndel phln. Mark A. Wilklns, lccontly convicted nt Oakland, Cal., of tho murdor of Mrs. Vornlo Cnrmln, formerly ol Leeds, Mo., has been sentenced to be hanged November 13. The iiostofllce at Waukcgan, a Chi cago suburb, was entered by robbors tho safo blown open by tho uso .of dynamite, and stamps nnd cash to the value of $3,000 stolen. C. II. Watson shot and killed hi? iMin-lu-law, Klljah Cvablrco, at Allison Okla. Ciahtreo had eloped with Wat son'a dnughter, and domestic troubles resulted in tho shooting. A minor, coming from an authorita five source, says tho Canadian Pacific Pa-cific railroad ofllclals aro getting tired of U10 strlko nnd negotiations will be begun with a vlow to ending It. rtnv. I. D. Milllgan, pastor of the First Presbyterian church nt Canton Ohio, killed himself liv 11 chargo from a shotgun. Tho coroner is Inclined tc bollovo tho Bhootlng wns accidental. Flvo men woro killed, another In expected to die, and flvo otlrors wore seriously Injured in a collision at tho Warrior colliery of tho Ilavcnicy Coal company, six miles from Wllkesbnrro Pa. Wado II. Kills, now attorney Ben-oral Ben-oral of Ohio, has been tendered by tho president and has accepted the position of assistant to tho ntornoy-genornl, ntornoy-genornl, recently hold by Milton D. Purdy. P. It. Easloy, superintendent of the Hock Island railroad, has Issued a bulletin bul-letin notifying all employes that clg areMo smoking will not bo permitted and that violators of tho order will be discharged. Mra. Kato Howard, 42 years old, ono of the lcndors In tho recent riot In Sprlngvillo, Ills., committed suicide sui-cide .by swallowing acid whllo belag placed under arrest. Sho died as she was being led Into U10 Jail. Tho rolling milts of tho National Knamellng and Stnmplng company at Granite, 111., which hnvo been closed slnco Juno 30, reopened Monday and within two weoks tho complement of 1.C00 mon will bo employed. A thirty-foot brick wnll which was being erected (or a building on tho Bito 'of ono bumcd tn tho flro nt Chelsea, Chel-sea, Mass., last April, collapsed and burled more thnn a scoro ot workmen. Seven of tho workmen were klllod and fifteen injured. Mnrgarot Daly Vokos, tho conio-dlcnno, conio-dlcnno, died nt her summer homo In Lynnflcld, Mass., on August 27, aftoi n long Illness of tuberculosis. Sho wns tho wlfo of Harry Vokcs of tho Ward & Yokes company, nnd was ono ot tho famous Daly family "t dancors. A Missouri, Kansas 3- Texas train Inbound to St. Louis, narrowly escaped es-caped a serious accident when tho train pnBBcd over n trestlo 150' foot high at Ooro, Mo., just a moment bo-(oro bo-(oro tho structuro collapsed, owing to weakness caused by a washout. Mrs. S. J. RoBcnbloom and her daughter, Eya, arrested In Baltimore In connection with tho denth of S. J. Hoscnbloom of Wlndbor, whoso body wns found In a trunk nt Camden, N. J havo furnished ball In tho sum of $1,000 ench for their appcarnnco fot trial. Tho stato department has received assurances from David K. Thompson, embassador to Moxlco, who was Injured In-jured by holng knockod down by a bl-cyclo bl-cyclo In tho city of Moxlco, that he was doing well and Btifforlng only from a badly broken and dislocated arm. With n reward of $500 said to bo ttandlng for his enpttiro and return to Vladivostok, whoro ho Is alleged to be wnnted to Borvo n llfo sontonco for murdor, O. Knrlson, nllas Ilcmort, n local grocer's clork, was arrested at Soattlo last week on n statutory charge Friends of Mrs. Hnrry K. Thaw, who lias been Biifforlng from worry ovor her husband's caao and tho loss of her Incomo consequent to tho bank-niptcy bank-niptcy proceedings, dcclaro that hor condition Is not serious. Thoy donlod that sho Is a nervous wreck, as had been reported. John Honry flrlggs, aged C2 yeara.a j millionaire cattlo raiser, shot and killed himself nt his homo In Attica, Ind. Standing boforo a mirror, ha 1 shoved the muzzlo of n rovolvor Into Ms mouth nnd pressed tho trigger. Despondency duo to 111 health wao tho causo of his rash act. Tho subcommittee ot tho senate comnilttco on llnnnco, which has un-dor un-dor consideration proposed changes In tho ndmlnlstratlvo features of the tariff law, has complotod Its preliminary prelimi-nary work In Washington nnd adjourned ad-journed to meet In Now York nt the call of Sonntor Uurrows. Enoch Hammonds, Btorekocpor and gaugor Internal rovonuo service, olghth district of Kentucky, was dls-mltiBod dls-mltiBod by tho acting socrctnry of the treasury upon recommendation of the city sorvlco commission, for nllogod pornlclous political activity lu a state senatorial contest last fall. |