Show NEWS + SUMMAirr All I danger from tho Viah fires thai have threatened Tort Arthur Ont for the past few weeks has boon I averted by rain I live men voro hilled and sixteen ith rs Injured by a boiler explosion III Ute Laura inluo near llcorlep on he Dutch herder II H Smith father of Governor floko Smith of Georgia and ono of the host known educators In the south is lend nt tho ago of 8S Flro which started In tho village of Santa Angelo Hair was extinguished by I tho uso of wine which Is more plentiful thero than water Tho chemical engines of the tire de mrtmeiit arc being used III Manila In disinfecting houses suspected to have contained cholera patients Tho first downpour of rain In Chicago I Chi-cago since August 12 started on Sop temper 19 Tho past summer has been remarkable for tho absence of moisture In lira postmasters convention nt Chattanooga Tenn resolutions woro unanimously passed urging congress to pass tho proposed postal savings jnnlt bill A dispatch from Batchelor Ia says a negro named John Miles was lynched there for shooting a whlto man r ho whlto man was not seriously seri-ously hurt Italian emigration to tho United States Is still decreasing During Uio month of August only 43GG emigrants loft Italy for America while 20S20 returned re-turned homo Professor Klrshnor of tho Prussian ministry of pirbllc health says that thero Is not a slnglo case of cholera In Germany tho system of Inspection seemingly being perfect Ono man wad killed and seven others oth-ers Injured two of them fatally ln a collision between a yard engine and n work train on tho Plttsburg Lake JMj rnllfont at GJbsonton Pn I Tho light on Mount Lnglorla Curtin nillla point which marks eon n t lie approaches to Valparaiso nom tho southward has been reestablished This light was destroyed In 190C It Is reported that tho scheme of tho Amorlcans to control horso racing nt Jamaica Kingston has dropped through It being Impossible to raise time necessary capital In tho United States Dr George Clarl who was tho oldest old-est living graduate of Union college and a young teacher who whaled Hoscoe Colliding when he was u I student stu-dent Is dead nt his Rome In Now York City aged 02 years Four persons were killed and twentysix Injured In a wreck on tho Yazaoo Mississippi Valloy railroad near Clarksdalc Miss when two coaches of a passenger train rolled down an embankment A dispatch from Perry Sound Ont says An almost Impenetrable veil of smoke overhangs tho wholo north ountry and tho forest fires continue to rago with undlmlnlshcd fierceness Many villages are threatened Tho Rev John Bandlnelll formerly former-ly I provincial of tho PassIon Fathers Fath-ers In tho United States and Mexico died at the Passlonlst monastery In Dunkirk N Y on the 17th Ho was norn In Genoa seventyfour years ngn A fog of Londonlike density In Chicago Chi-cago was responsible for three railroad rail-road wrecks of minor character light Injuries to over a score of per And minor accidents all over tho city Ions two deaths at Grand Crossing Tho citizens of Sallda Colo are much exorcised over tho Sale of Babies advertised by tho Salvation army Eight children are advertised to be sold and thero Is said to bo n movement afoot to stop tho salo by court proceedings Three cadets attending the military school at Vllna Russia were last week condemned by court martial to exile In Siberia for having formed a I society which operated through the cadet officers to capture the cadets for revolutionary activity Tho average wages per lour In tho principal manufacturing and mechanical mechan-ical Industries of tho country woro 37 per cent higher In 1907 than In 1900 while retail prices of food woro 42 per cent higher according to Uio July report of tho bureau of labor An unknown man apparently 25 years of ago a passenger on the west tound Union Pacific overland limited killed himself with a knife while tho train was In the yards at Kearney Neb After Inflicting fatal wounds ho throw the knife from a window Thirty men descended on the campIng camp-Ing ground of the Irvlnltes a religions feet which Is Holding a convention at Brooklyn and sot fire to two largo tents Both were destroyed and a house in which was stored a quantity of provisions was partly burned The semicentennial celebration of tho great debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephon A Douglas attracted at-tracted a largo crowd at Joneshoro Ills It Is estimated that 10000 per eons attended tho celebration which was held In tho Union county fairgrounds fair-grounds Ernest Flckncr an American employed em-ployed In a smelter af El Paso Texas vho refused to remove his hat when tho band in the plaza nt Juarez Mexico Mex-ico was playing tho Mexican national Ill was assaulted by a raging mob of rfcxlcans and beaten almost into In trnslblllty According to an order Issued at tho war department last week a reward if 50 will be paid in ell cases where 1 deserter Is delivered by a civil of tear or civilian at a military post ort or-t such other places as may be deslc anted for his delivery by proper will I try authorities |