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Show j .NEWS SU3IMAEY A farm house near Carml, 111., was I tiemolished by a windstorm and a child killed. I Burglars dynamited the safe in the Southern Pacific railroad station I Bt Sour Lake, Tex., and secured sev- ' ral thousand dollars. Six persons were killed, more than ; score were injured, several seri-jusly, seri-jusly, and practically every building in the town of Fisher, Ark., was wrecked by a tornado February 23. While handcuffed and sitting in the sheriff's office at Bessemer, Ala., Jim Brown, a negro, was shot and killed by James Robinson, white, father of the girl the negro had attempted to assault. The Servian government has given orders that until further notice no passports are to be issued to men under 45 years of age. The object jf this measure is to keep all men of military age at home. Mrs. Odessa Norris was shot twice, but not seriously injured, by Fred Knoblock, who killed himself after shooting thfi woman, the . tragedy occurring oc-curring in Los Angeles, jealousy be-' be-' ing the cause for the deed. I After pleading guilty to rebating in the case of a shipment of glass to California, the Illinois Terminal association was fined ?4,fJ00 and costs ind the Illinois Glass company ?12,-000 ?12,-000 and costs. Both paid. Dr. F. W. .Sells of Osceola, Iowa, president of the Osceola hospital, has been sentenced to twenty-five years in the pententiary. He was convicted of committing an assault upon Miss Stella Hartman, a patient in the hospital. hos-pital. , According to a dispatch received r.t Buenos Ayres the minister of marine ma-rine states that forty persons lost '.heir lives in the wreck of the Argentine Ar-gentine steamer Presidente Roca. The Presidente Roca went ashore and caught fire. Ex-Queen Lilioukalani of Hawaii, otherwise Mrs. Lydia Dominis, has Leen sued in the district court at Washington by Dr. Charles H. English En-glish to recover $11,000 alleged to be due for breach of contract in the payment of a medical bill. Two masked robbers forced an entrance en-trance into the home of S. I. Andus-ky, Andus-ky, a wealthy resident of Raton, N. M., and after beating him into insensibility in-sensibility forced Mrs. Andusky to reveal the hiding place of money and jewels amountin gto $1,400. From 50 cents each to $10 is the remarkable re-markable rise in the 'possum market within the past month, as a result of the featuring of this marsupial in the ., recent Taft banquet. Atlanta dealers are swamped with orders from the north and east at $10 each. Orville Foland, aged 19, who was arrested at Hutchinson, Kan., j charged with the murder of Jesse Haymaker, a Wells-Fargo express clerk, found dead in the company's office at the depot, has confessed that he was- guilty of the murder. Louis Schulz, poet, magazine writer writ-er and "gaspipe" thug, convicted of a murderous assault upon Sig Hur-tig, Hur-tig, a San Francisco jeweler, wnose place he robbed, has been sentenced lO thirty years' imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Folsom. It is learned that the attitude of Russia is still doubtful in connection with the Austro-Servian situation. Servia has neither received assurance of Russian support in case of hostilities hos-tilities nor has Russia intimated that assistance would be withheld. A boy aged 5 years and a girl of 3 were burned to death and a baby was perhaps fatally burned in the destruction destruc-tion by fire near Durant, Okla., of the home of Henry Gorday, a farmer. The mother had gone to a neighbor's and Gorday was working in the field. Jesse Haymaker, aged 22 years, night clerk for the Wells-Fargo express ex-press company at the Santa Fe depot de-pot in Hutchison, Kan., was shot and ' killed by a robber, who then looted the express office safe. Haymaker was killed by his own revolver. The contract for making a statue of Columbus, to be erected in the plaza of the Union station in Washington, has been awarded to Torado Taft of Chicago, a relative of the presidentelect. president-elect. Congress has appropriated $100,000 for the Columbus memorial. It cost the city of Evanston, 111.. $28 for each ballot cast at last week's primary election. There was no contest con-test in the election and only the Socialist party had a ticket In the field. Tweuty live votes ware cast i:t a total cost of $700 for holding Ihe primary Retiring President Eliot of Harvard tiuversity, who addressed the Texas legislature, said regarding a published report that he would likely be offered the embassadorship to Great Britain and that it would be impossible lor 'Mm to accept the post should it be tendered bim. Although every effort had been made by the detectives employed in '.he case, no clue has been obtained lo the manner in which the $50,-000 $50,-000 pearl necklace belonging to Miss Jennie Crocker disappeared from her ;hroat at the Mardi Gras ball in Ban Francisco. Frederick William. the crown prince of Germany, has been talking !or several months of the possibility )f visiting the United States when tne Sonder class yachts go over for he races next summer, but no den-lite den-lite plans for this visit have been decided upon. Ten persons were killed and seventeen sev-enteen injured at Hamburg through (he slipping of a gangway between '.lie wharf and the steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, which was beint ;oaded preparatory to sailing foi "ew York Saturday. No passengers -ere among the victims |