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Show Condensed Telegrams DANVILLE, III . Aprlt 15. Two piers of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad rail-road bridge at Clinton, over tho Wabash river, were shattered by Oynamlto tonight. to-night. Trains are being dctourcd. GUTHRIE, Okla.. April in. By a. ruling rul-ing of the prison board of control, Oklahoma Okla-homa convicts hereafter will wear yellow yel-low uniforms. Stripes will bo worn only as a punishment when prison rules arc broken. JACKSON. Miss.. April 19. Judge W. A. Henry, in the Hinds county circuit court, today overruled tho motion to quash the Indictment against L. C. Iai-lanev, Iai-lanev, charged with bribing State Senator Sena-tor T. C. Wilbur. CLEVELAND. O.. April 19. A snowstorm snow-storm that broke the telephone and telegraph tele-graph wires In many parts of the state, and Is believed to have caused heavy damage to tho fruit crop, swept over Ohio last night and today. WILKESBARRE. Pa., April 19. John Walters, president of district No, 7. United Mine Workers of America, was stricken with heart disease while addressing ad-dressing a mass meeting of minors near Hazclton tonighL lie died two hours later. CLEVELAND. 0-. April 19. Mayor Herman C. Baher today received a letter let-ter signed "Mafia." written In red ink, which demanded $SO0O on pain of death. The mayor was ordered to place the monev in the hollow stump of a tree In Woodland Mills park by 5 o" clock Sunday Sun-day morning. NEW YORK. April 19. Albert Wolter. In court today, faced the mother of Ruth Wheeler, the Ilftccn-ycar-old stenographer stenogra-pher with whoso murder lie stands charged. He did not wince, but his eyes evaded the mother's. The Jury box was filled shortly after the opening of the afternoon session. BALTIMORE, Md.. April 19. According Accord-ing to advices received hero today C. F. Meserve. a noted mining expert, will-be will-be the new president of the Consolidated Consoli-dated Coal &. Iron company, succeeding J. P. Hoadlry. who will become chairman of the board of directors. QUEBEC, April 19. A dispatch from La Taguo. Quebec, nearest telegraph point to the scene of yesterday's Ka-koucache Ka-koucache landslide,, on the new transcontinental transcon-tinental railway, which overwhelmed tweuiv-Ilvc workmen on a construction train, savs that three dead and a number of fatally Injured have been removed from the wreckage. VICTORIA. B. C. April 19. Commander Command-er William Balfour MacDonald. son of Senator MacDonald of this city, has been appointed to the command of M. M. S. NIohe. bought bv Canada and due at Halifax on July 10 to form the nucleus of Canada's navy. Commander Mjic-Donald Mjic-Donald was born In Victoria. CINCINNATI, O., April 19. Charles Lanson of Pasadena. Cal.. filed suit In the United States district court here today to-day to enjoin the Wright brothers from engaging in the manufacture and sale of aeroplanes. Lanson charges that the box-klto. which tho Wright machine includes, in-cludes, infringes on a patent box-klto invented by him. HARTFORD, Conn., April 19. The house in Muddyhroke, a suburb of Grcut Burrlngton. Ma-ss.. where the Rockefeller family formerly resided, is to be sold at auction on April 30. The house, which was at one time the home of John D. Rockefeller's father, is now a part of the estato of the late Cyrus Avery and Is being disposed of by the executors. CINCINNATI. O., April 19. Arrangements Arrange-ments have been started to have Former President Rooricvelt and President Taft meet here at the Ohio Valley exposition next fall. President Taft has accepted the Invitation and Lincoln Mitchell of this city. Is now en route to Paris to ox-tend ox-tend ihe Invitation to Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt The exposition Is to he. held in cole-bratlon cole-bratlon of 100 years of navigation on the Ohio river. CHICAGO. April 19. Chicago butter dealers today declared an Investigation of conditions under which the Elgin bul-tev bul-tev board llxes prices has been started with a view to presenting the evidence to the United States district attorney. At the meeting in Elgin yesterday, It Is declared by Chicago commission men, the Elgin board fixed the weekly price at r.2 cents, out-voting tho Chicagoans by packing" tho mooting vlth clerks and other employees, THE HAGUE. April 19. Tho fiftieth anniversary of tho conferment of degree de-gree of Dr. of Laws on the International jurist T. M. C. Assor. was celebrated In the- "Hall of Truce" today. Every member mem-ber of the cabinet, diplomats and othor distinguished persons were present and listened to tributes to the achievements of the noted Hollander in the Hold of International In-ternational law It was announced that a fund of 52730 had been subscribed by admirers of Assor, in twenty counties for the purchase of a collection of works on international law to be known as tho Asser collection and placed In the library of the palace of peace. |