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Show 1 Flashes from the Wire Thp Paullst community of New York began last night the celebration of Its golden Jubilee with solemn vespers ln the presence of Cardinal Gibbons. Solomon Plaut, aged 72, millionaire, pioneer bunker and land owner of Dan-vlllo, Dan-vlllo, III., died suddenly of heart disease yesterday. He hod been In business In that section for half a century. Senator Tillman of South Carolina thinks ho and his wife will not be deprived de-prived of tho custody of their two grandchildren, grand-children, for the possession of whom their mother. Mrs. B. R. Tillman, Jr., will, It is said, begin habeas corpus proceedings proceed-ings at Columbia. Ten persons wcro seriously Injured, three probably fatally, noar Pittsburg, whon a McKeesport-bound trolley car Jumped a defective rail early yesterday near Dravosburg. and rolled down a ten-foot ten-foot ombankment. The injured wero taken to a McKecsport hospital. On tho eve of her departure for the cast to comploto a tour around the world. Miss Offou Scattcrgood. an English Eng-lish artist, aged 35, dropped dead Sunday Sun-day while at dinner in her San Francisco hotel. She Is said lo havo undertaken the tour in search of health, having suffered suf-fered from heart disease. Miss Alice Paul, tho American girl who Joined the British suffragottes In London Lon-don last year nnd served a term In Holloway Jail for throwing stones at members of the cabinet, has returned to her homo In Moorcstown. N. J. She glories In her experience abroad and says she would gladly suffer moro "if it would benefit tho cause." Mrs. Juana Corona, said to be the oldest old-est person in Arizona, is dead at Pata-conla, Pata-conla, Ariz., at the aged of 116 years. Her youngest surviving child Is sixty. Mrs. Corona was born in Sonora. Mexico, Mexi-co, October 20, 170-1. Sho had been married mar-ried three times. From hor tenth birthday birth-day to her death sho was a constant user of cltrarot'tos. For tho first time In more than a quarter quar-ter century, West Point Is confronted with tho possibility of having soon to admit a negro as a cadet. The negro, Olllo Ji. Smith of Cheyenne. Wyo., has been named as tho alternnto for the next Wyoming vacancy, which will occur In a few months. Senator Clark of Wyoming Wyom-ing made the appointment. The report of the Nevada stato license and bullion lax agent. J. F. Haley, covering cov-ering tho first three-quarters of the venr 1900 and Including a resume of tho conditions con-ditions existing at the close of last year, has been forwarded to Governor Dlck-crson. Dlck-crson. It shows that over $1G8,000 of rovenuo has been added to the state, an Increase of 100 per cent of that collected for tho corresponding mouths of 100S. Secretary of War Dickinson, who ro-tumcd ro-tumcd last week from an extended trip to Porto Rica and Cuba, has apparently been chosen by President Taft to do tho official globe-trotting for the present administration. ad-ministration. His next trip, it wos announced an-nounced yesterday, will take him to the Philippines and to Hawaii. "If a man is to sorve ns secretary of war properly. It s essential that he bo familiar with our Insular possessions." said Mr. Dickinson. "Tho pleasant thing about my election ns president of the National Conservation Conserva-tion association is that I follow Dr. Bllot ,y ."I?, own ""cslro." said Glfford Pin-chot Pin-chot Monday night after tho announcement announce-ment of his election to that position had boon made. "It is most fortunate that hq will remain in tho work as honorary president. I appreciate keenly both the honor and tho chance to hcln in the movement." The pleadings of a blind sister probably prob-ably will win tho release from a Montana Mon-tana penitentiary to which ho w;is sentenced sen-tenced for eighty years of Harvey Whit-ton, Whit-ton, a former Washington boy. Governor Gover-nor Norrls of Montana, who was ln Washington last week, attending tho Ty?'01'3., conference, promised Miss Wh tton that If her brother continues u model prisoner, ho will recommend that ho bo released on parole. Whitton has served most of tho twelve and a half years required by tho Montana law bc-forc bc-forc a pardon can be granted. |