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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, democratic nominee for vice-president, spoke at Peoria yesterday. Arthur Hazelton and wife and little gir were drowned yesterday afternoon by the capsizing of their skiff in French creek, near Mendville, Pa, Additional accounts of the tornado which passed over Audrian county. Mo.. Saturday night, tell of great destruction of property and the painful injury of a - number of persons. per-sons. As far as heard from, but one life was lost, at Red Top near Mexico. The secretary of state has received advices confirming the reported trouble along the Rio Grande near San Antonio. The troubles involve no political features, but simply individual in-dividual acts of desperate citizens of both countries. Instructions were sent General Wheaton commanding the department of Texas to communicate with the Mexican general commanding in the adjoining province prov-ince with a view of co-operating in the enforcement en-forcement of the neutrality laws and preventing pre-venting further violence if possible. An iron ehip, Peter Stewart, St Johns for Liverpool, with deals, went ashore off Che-bogn Che-bogn point Sunday evening. The ship broke up and all the boats but the life boat were smashed. In cutting away the life boat she capsized and the captain's wife and child were never seen again. The boat righted and eighteen out of twenty -seven aboard started off in her. The total loss of life was fourteen. She again capsized and five more were drowned. Several of the rescued were badly bruised. |