Show NEWS BOILED DOWN The directors of the Republic Con strucllon company Chicago voted a fee of 5MOOOO to Levy Mayer for his work In selling the Ogdon Gas company Chicago Chi-cago The tobacco factory of W G Dun nlngton Co In Petersburg Va containing con-taining over one million pounds of line tobacco burned last night Loss 100000 A nonunion plasterer working In the basement of tho Matslmll Field building build-ing Clark and Adams streets Chicago was assaulted und seriously Injured by a union picket yesterday The habeas corpus proceedings begun in behalf of Tallow Dick Coombs one of the Goebel suspects came up yesterday In Judge CantriUs court Frankfort but went over a day Thirtytwo paintings comprising the collection of Frederic Banner and fifty paintings owned by the American Art dssoeiatIoui were sold at auction last night In Chlckerlner lioll N1 Yctk The attendance was large Tho Star Construction company contractors con-tractors for the Thirtyninth street Interception In-terception sewer notified Chicago city authorities of Its Inability to complete the contract It will cost 3512000 to complete ito work Splrltuallsis from all parts of lie country met in Chicago yosiqrday for the third annual mass convention under un-der the Joint auspices of the National Spiritualist association and the Illinois Stale SpIritualist association The residence of O W Potter a Chicago Chi-cago mulilmllllonalre expresident of the Illinois Steel company was robbed by porchclimbers last night whilo the family was at dinner Jewelry and other valuable worth a large amount were taken Four laborers employed nt the site of the new Western Electric building Jefferson and Congress streets Chicago Chica-go wore attacked by union men and J Strom and R Ilagan were seriously Injured In-jured The others were badly beaten before they escaped A coniract to buy 30000 to 33000 horses for the British Government was about completed in New York oily yesterday yes-terday The horses arc for cavalry rag InuMits and the artillery service In South Africa and they will cost several sev-eral million doll firs Municipal elections were held yesterday yester-day In most of the important cities of New Jersey and In Kovoral of the smaller small-er ones Councilman only were elected In mont of the jCltle that voted today Local Issues were Involved and there was no striking overturn anywhere There was a riot at Maamaroneck West Chester county N Y between striking laborers and men hired to take their places on local Improvement yesterday yes-terday One of the strikers an Italian was shot In the thigh and probably fatally fa-tally wounded another was shot In tho 1 nee and Hevurnl others received ledger Injuries |