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Show Condensed TeSegrams Work on the now Arkansas capital at Llitlo Rock Is again nt a standstill, thin time because of a strike of 175 union laborers. President Taft has prevailed upon John Enibry lo withdraw his resignation as United State? attorney for Oklahoma and to remain in the office. The Rev. Dr. Richard Lewis Howell, known as the richest, preacher in tho I'nited Slates. Is dead at his home In Now York. He was i"." years old. Tho lives of too non-union miners wore endangered early yesterday by h. fire that destroyed the Campbell hold at Lead. S. D. The management of the hotel ho-tel declares tho blase was Incendiary. Tho retail price of diamonds is to be raised from J.- to $10 a carat, because of an advance of 12J per cent In wages just granted by tho Maiden Lane diamond merchants to members of the American Diamond Cutters Protective association. President Taft, at Washington, announced an-nounced yesterday that he did not consider con-sider an amendment to the corporation tax law necessary In order to prevent rival concerns from obtaining Information Informa-tion as to the private affairs of competitors. competi-tors. A fire In tho Illinois penitentiary power house at Jollot. yesterday, caused great excitement among the convlets. None, however, tried to escape. On tho contrary, con-trary, according to Warden Murphy, they turned In. willingly battling against the Haines. Tho loss was at least 5100,000. The final appeal for a motion for a new trial was made before the supreme court at Washington yesterday by General Gen-eral Luke E. Wright In behalf of Col. D, B. and Robin Cooper, convicted of the murder of former United States Senator Carmack and sentenced to penal servitude servi-tude for twenty years. The tenth anniversary of the dea.th of William Goebel. who was the central figure fig-ure In ono of the most stirring chnpters In the latter days of Kentucky's blstory. wns observed at Frankfort, Ky., yesterday, yester-day, by the unveiling of a marble and bronze monument aboo the grave in tho State cemetery at Frankfort. The establishment of a series of municipal dance balls In New York City, where young men and women can go without being subjected to serious tt-mp-tation, has been promised by Mayor Gavnor's new park commissioner, as the result of a report recently submitted to him bv a committee on nmusements for working girls, appointed by the Women's University club. |