Show NEWS SUMMARY RY the santa fo fe railroad shops at la junta colo were destroyed by fire on tho the lith seven locomotives were badly damaged colorado springs lias has declared a quarantine against manitou llan Man itou colo because of 0 an epidemic of scarlet fever at the latter place queen alexandra ot of kneland n bigland igland had a narrow escape from burning to death during a fire which destroyed her sleeping chamber at clarksburg Clarks burg N J sir mr and mrs clayton fowler and three of their children were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their residence spain will not participate in tho the st louis exposition the reason given being that there would not bo be sufficient time to complete operations operation senator patterson has hag introduce i a resolution attention to lebed military outrages in colorado and asking for a senate investigation norman wolf jack mcgovern james burns and james smith were killed and several other men injured by a boiler explosion near montrose colo the panama railroad nail nall road company has declared a dividend of 4 per cent payable january the last dividend which was paid on october 1 1903 was 2 per cent it has been decided at a meeting of the leaders of 0 the citizens union ot of new york city to favor the sunday liquor selling plan proposed by district attorney jerome united states minister thomas at stockholm has informed tho the state department part ment that the govert government ment of sweden and norway has recognized the republic of panama as an independent state three americans and seven natives were killed by the fumes from a blast of forty six tons of dynamite in a quarry of the atlantic pacific company at mariveles Marl veles near the entrance to manila william dawson aged ag is dead at longmont Long mont colo from injuries received by falling into a lime pit eleven feet deep at the sugar factory he struck on his head and brain fever developed the venezuelan government has purchased rifles and cartridges and it Is reported is preparing to invade colombia in case of war between the latter country and the united states claiming descent from a signer of the declaration of independence and kinship with ono one of the noted families of new york william W morris has been sentenced to six months for soliciting li alms la in the street russian troops have defeated a band of chinese robbers on lao river manchuria killing and wounded as many the great loss of the robbers Is attributed in a port arthur dispatch to a panic among them the iowa society for suppression of 0 disease and degeneracy has prepare prepared d a bill to be introduced in the coming asse assembly ably a certificate of examination before a marriage license can be issued john mccrea colored who killed detective william murphy last june while the officer was trying to arrest him bim tor for stealing coal was hanged banged at peoria ills friday last ile he protested his innocence on the scaffold lJ james cheney said to be the tha wealthiest man in indiana his fortune being estimated at la is dead at fort wayne aged SG years lie ile was associated with jay gould could in financing his affairs la in ohio indiana and illinois booker T washington in a speech in new york city declared the real problem for the colored parent in the north Is not of 0 getting his big son and daughter educated but of finding a job tor for them after they r receive th their e ir diploma in the presence of people at frankfort ky and with elaborate ceremonies em onies onles governor J C W beckham was on the ath tor for the second time inaugurated as governor making the third time he has taken the oath in ID that office the national league ot of professional baseball clubs has decided to lengthen tho the baseball season each club will play games instead of games as last season the season will open about april and cont continue lilue until antl october loth dr I 1 B washburn Is dead at valparaiso ind two years ago he was operated upon at a chicago hospital when a pair of steel forceps were used in an operation just performed here the fo forceps were found in tho the patients side aide n near ear the liver charles bone 74 years old of buffalo N Y has been hold on the charge of having murdered P franz balaz and johanna frehr the aged couple who disappeared on nov 13 and w choso whoso h ose mutilated bodies were found on dec 3 burled buried in their own yard mrs 1 E I T hazen wife of 0 general hazen of topeka kans was fatally burned by a gasoline explosion she was cleaning a dress when the accident happened gas had formed from the open can a lighted lamp stood near and the explosion followed |