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Show Condensed Telegrams iiiV JrlAVli.N, Conn., AUf?. I. Tho for-nml for-nml calt lor ih Democratic convention here on September 7 and S WU3 Issued today. to-day. BOSTON, Aug. . Two persons were killed and several injured by tho explosion explo-sion ot a Ktoam pipe on board the schooner Salllttc au-snc wa proceeding down tho harbor today. There was no punlc among the passengers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. President Tuft has commuted the siontenco of Ami B. Todd, who hau served almost his entire en-tire term of three months in Fremont, Neb., Jail lor fraudulent homostcud on-tr on-tr His sontoncc Included a $1000 fine. Todd is reported dying from cancer of tho stomach. DANVILLE, 111., Aug. !. Attorneys for Mrn. Lucy Saylcr, now serving .t sentence sen-tence In tho .Toilet penitentiary for the murder of her husband, John B. Saylcr. at Crescent City, a year ago. have Med a petition for a writ of error In the supreme su-preme court, asking for a new trial of tho case. GREENS BURG, Pa.. Aug. i. An open letter addressed to Theodore Roosevelt was today forwarded by oftlclals of the union soft coal miners on strike In the Grcensburg-lrwin tleld. asking the former for-mer president to visit the strike zone and make an Investigation similar to the one Just completed In tho anthracite Held, of eastern Pennsylvania. TOLEDO. O , Aug. -I. With the slayer of Sheriff Edmund Dull believed to be In custody the residents of Monroe, Mich., and the surrounding territory have given up tho man hunt and returned home. William Harris, the second negro suspect sus-pect lodged In tho. Monroe Jail, has been identified by a number of persons as tho man who shot tho sheriff. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. A. According to a clerk In his office. George H. Parker, Par-ker, liscal agent of the United Wireless Telegraph company In tho territory west of the Mississippi and who was indicted by a federal grand Jury In New York yesterday yes-terday on charges of conspiracy to defraud, de-fraud, will return to Scalllc next Saturday, Satur-day, from a vacation In tho country. It Is cxpoctod that Mr. Parker, who is reputed re-puted to be worth more than. $2,000,000, will go to New York next week to furnish ball. CHICAGO. Aug. 1 Judge Kersten to-dav to-dav refused to rjuash tho Indictments against Lee O'Noil Browne, Democratic minority leader of the Illinois legislature, charging him with purchasing votes for William Lorlmcr for United States senator. sena-tor. The court deferred judgment on the plea of Browne's counsel that tho testimony of Representatives Link. Meyers and Bcckcmeyer. that they have been paid or offered money for voting for Lorlmcr Lorl-mcr be barred from this, the second trial of Browne. The first trial resulted In a disagreement after tho jury had been out 115 hours. |