Show NEWS SUMMARY Tho steel plant of tho United Stntes Steel corporation at Columbus Ohio naa closed down Indefinitely throwing 800 men out of work Four men wore killed ns the result of an explosion which blew up tho two mills of the Atlantic Dynamite company at Ashland Win President rtoosevolt has Issued his Thanksgiving proclamation through the secretary of state naming tho last Thursday In November the 28th A contract for steel rails amounting to 1C000 tons is said to have been closed between tho United States Steel corporation and the Imperial railway of Japan Threo armed men held tip a frelgnt train within five miles of Los Angeles Ange-les wounded one of thu train crew robbed them of 2liO and two watches and made their escape The physicians In attendance on Emperor Francis Joseph have decided not to Issue any further bulletins as they consider his convalescence Is progressing satisfactorily Tho stockholder of the Norfolk Southern railway have confirmed the plan of the directors to Issue 25000 000 In bonds for the purchase of rollIng roll-Ing stock and other Improvements What Is known as the Little Alton caso against the Standard Oil company com-pany of Indiana has been set for trial on January G by Judge Bethea of the United States district court at Chicago Chi-cago cagoMiss Miss Helen Gould was accorded too honors of a general officer of the American army by the officers and enlisted men of Fort Leavenworth Kilns In tho review of troops last week a The British steamer Cape Corso and the schooner Albert Meyer the latter sailing from Bellingham Wash were In collision Oct 19 while off Cape Flattery Both vessels sustained slight damage A dispatch from Mojl reports that tho Japanese freight steamer Kokwo Maru from Hongkong to Yokohama went ashore in a storm off Rlshma and is a completo wreck The crew was rescued in a life boat The purpose of Secretary Tafts visIt vis-It to Sublg Bay Is to endeavo to reconcile rec-oncile a difference of opinion between the army and navy respecting the con tinuanco of expenditures on a largo scale for the fortification of that bay Seven foreign workmen were Inured In-ured four fatally In an explosion atone at-one of tho blast furnaces of the Clair ton Steel company at Clalrton Pa It is said that the accident was the result of a premature discharge of dynamite Davis James one of tho owners of tho Globe Electric Light Gas company com-pany was shot and probably fatally wounded at Globe Arizona by H S Buckner It Is understood the reason I for the shooting was trouble over mining min-ing claims Mrs Jonathan Culp received a telephone tele-phone message at Oregon Mo saying her daughter Mrs Silas Allen had been killed from a shock from an olec trio wire and she dropped Oead Mother and daughter will be burled In tho same grave Relentless war against the bubonic plague has been declared by tho city and county boards of health nt Bellingham l Bel-lingham Wash What amounts to a ban on all vessels arriving from plague Infected ports including Seattle Seat-tle has been placed Asserting that they could not mako wages on the mileage under tho twen < tyflve miles an hour speed limit recently > re-cently Imposed on the Missouri Pacific Pa-cific the engineers of that road havo complained to tho state railway commission com-mission of Nebraska Tho report of tho board of inquiry Into the causo of tho grounding of tho battleship Kentucky fully exonerates from blame Captain Barry the commander com-mander It Is shown thai the accl dent was due to tho crowded condi < tlon of the roadstead Herbert Parkin a passenger on tho steamer Baltic which arrived at New York Saturday from Liverpool leaped overboard last Sunday night and was drowned Parker gave a follow passenger pas-senger the address of a woman In Hull England asking that she bo notified no-tified Tho supreme court of the United StaLes has declined to allow the Kansas Kan-sas vs Colorado case to be reopened Tho caso was an attempt on the part of Kansas to prevent the state of Colo ado from using for Irrigation purposes pur-poses the waters of tho Arkansas river The unexpired portion of the sentence sen-tence suspending rOm duty Captain William Swift who was In command of the battleship Connecticut when It went aground on Culebra Island has been remitted and the captain will be assigned to duty other than commanding command-ing a ship On October 24 at Sterling 111 Hon J E Henderson touched a gate which thereupon raised permitting tho water to flow through tho IllinoisMissis sippi canal This marked the completion com-pletion of the work on tho 7500000 government undertaklpg which was started by Mr Henderson twentylive years ago Sylvester Harrison a noted character charac-ter of southern Kansas IB missing from Wichita and charges have been filed against him by Mrs Kate Gathers Gath-ers alleging that he has with him 10000 of her money secured from her In what she claims was a clover real estate swindle A decrease of 18000 In the number of pensioners on the rolls at tho end of tho fiscal year 1907 as compared with the year previous Is tho feature of tho annual report of Pension Commissioner Com-missioner Warner just Issued This Is the greatest decrease in the history of the pension bureau |