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Show NEW S SUMMARY The Norwegian brig Steed was rwrecked off Jutland and eight of her crew perished. The town of Milton, thirty miles east of Pensacola, Fla., has been (wiped out by fire. ' Emma Goldman, the anarchist ppeaker, has been acquitted of a charge of calling an unlawful meeting in San Francisco. Slight earthquake shocks, accompanied accom-panied by subterranean rumblings, have occurred in the region near Beja, Spain. No damage has been done. Dr. William O. Lillbridge, an author, au-thor, died at Sioux Falls, S. D., January Jan-uary 29, of kidney trouble. He wrote "Ben Blair" and other western stories. Scores of constabulary have been Bent In pursuit of a party of armed Ladrones who looted three warehouses ware-houses at Laguna, P. L, and kidnaped 130 persons. Senator Cummins of Iowa made his first speech in the senate on January 6, addressing the senate in support oi his amendment to the postal savings sav-ings bank bill. The Spanish steamer Trinidad has rammed and sunk an unidentified Belgian Bel-gian steamer off Cape Roca. Eight members of the crew of the Belgian vessel lost their lives. The purchase of an oil painting of Abraham Lincoln for $20,000, to be hung in the capitol, is proposed in a bill introduced in the senate by Senator Sen-ator Carter of Montana. Walter Zeller, the Finn boy recently convicted of murdering his grandfather grand-father at Bridgeton, N. J., has been sentenced to be electrocuted during the week beginning March 4. Three men were killed as the result of a collision of coal cars on the incline in-cline railway leading to the mines on the mountainside near Piedmont. W. Va., the cars having gotten beyond control. Senator- Carter, in charge of the postal pos-tal savings bank and the omnibus claims bill, declares that he will keep the measures before the senate on every opportunity until they are disposed dis-posed of. Fire destroyed several boarding houses at Ardmore, Oklahoma. T. V. Littlejohn of McKinney, Texas, was cremated and his wife probably fatally fa-tally burned. They were on their honeymoon. The bill to repeal the whipping -post law was defeated in the lower house of the Oregon legislature last week, and the bill prohibiting .the wearing of hatpins in excess of ten inches in length was passed. While fighting their way through the storm near Fon Du Lac, Wis., John Kettling of Oakland, and Paul Keath of Marblehead, were run down by a Northwestern passenger train and instantly killed. Twenty persons were injured, j twelve seriously, in a panic at a bull fight at Marco de Canavezes, Spain. The bull charged the spectators, going go-ing right and left. An attendant finally final-ly shot the bull dead. The official messengers from Montana Mon-tana and Oregon, bearing the electoral votes of those states, who failed to deliver de-liver them within the time prescribed by law, which expired on January 25, are liable to a $1,000 fine. John Bedford confessed to the crime of killing Oscar Hoganson at Marengo, Ills., last October, burying the body and stealing Hoganson's horses which he sold and shipped to Iowa, where he was arrested. Fifty cottages will be built at the naval hospital at Fort Lyon, near Las Animas, Colo., operated by the federal fed-eral government, for the treatment of tuberculosis patients. The total cost of the buildings will be $150,000. Frank Kramer, the world's bicycle sprint champion, announces that he has retired from the bicycle racing game to take up automobile racing. He says there is no longer any money for the professionals in the racing game. Thirteen men accused of gambling on Sunday were arrested in St. Louis after they had barricated themselves in a room and resisted the police for sixteen hours. They will now face a charge of resisting an officer in addition addi-tion to violating the Sunday closing law. George Slosson of New York City, who eleven years ago won the championship cham-pionship at 18.1 billiards, and lost it two years later, last week regained the title, defeating George Sutton of Chicago at the Madison Square gar den music hall, the score being 500 to 328. Six persons were shot in a revolver duel between Thomas Littleton, a bricklayer, and police officers at Peoria, Ills. The fight started in 8 quarrel between Littleton and an aged man. Littleton was shot twice in the stomach and once in the shoulder. shoul-der. Internal strife, rather than a wage contest, is feared by the convention of the United Mine Workers of America, now in session in Indianapolis. JohD Walker of Illinois is making a contest for the presidency, claiming he re ceived a greater vote than President Lewis. Julius Herring, a steel worker, aged 26. dropped dead at the feet of Mary Robertson, at Pueblo, who he had threatened to shoot, after he had taken tak-en a dose of poison. It is thought he had intended to kill the girl, but that the poison acted quicker than he had expected. |