Show NEWS SUMMAflY Tho plant of tho Jenkins Uuboer company at Elizabeth N Y line been practically destroyed by fire causing a loss of 100000 John Grcgson a stockman of Columbus Colum-bus Mont was killed by a train at Kenzlo S D while en route to Chicago Chi-cago with a shipment of cattle Tho ShevlinMathlu Lumber com pangs sawmill at Boatt < lotto Wls caught flro and burned to tho ground causing a loss of approximately 250 000Tho Tho Hearst Independence party Is planning to put a full state ticket in time field in Kansas by means of a petition containing the names of 2500 voters Tints now Finnish diet was formally opened at tho palace at Holslngfors on August G by GovernorGeneral Boockman with tho customary ceremonials cere-monials Formal ratifications of the now trademark and copyright treaty between be-tween tho Japanese government and tho United States woro exchanged on August GIn G-In an encounter between time police and a band of brigands who have long terrorized tho suburbs of Tlllls five of tho lattor wore killed and tho others captured John Zott a farmer living on tho Bolton road near Vernon Conn killed his wlfo and granddaughter and tried to hill his son using a sled go hammer ham-mer and a knife William E English a private In company 115 coast artillery awaiting trial for desertion was shot and killed at the Presidio San Francisco while trying to escapo Three children I 1 aged 1 2 and 4 years respectively were burned to death at Minneapolis The mother Mrs Frank Lindbcrg locked the children chil-dren in a room and went shopping A number of persons wore burned 10 death and 100 houses wore do rayed by fire at Germany Ger-many Fortunately a heavy rain fell anal stopped time progress of the conflagration con-flagration Chlna has formally accepted tho date January 1 next and tho selection selec-tion of the city of Shanghai as tho time and place for holding tie meetIng meet-Ing of the International opium commission com-mission Tho people of Constantine Algeria fro still In a state of terror from time uarthquako shocks of a few days ago fearing a repetition and thuro Is In consequence a steady exodus to tho country Tho Orthodox Missionary congress which Is now in session at Klov has takon a backward and unpopular stop In petitioning tho government to again make obligatory In Poland the uso of tho Russian calendar William F Downing a member of the old Stiles Alyord band of outlaws who ten years ago operated in southern south-ern Arizona was killed in hIs saloon at WIlcox Ariz by Ranger William Speed while resisting arrest Tho First National bank of Boll Plalno Minn has been closed by order or-der of the comptroller of Uio currency cur-rency Tho bank was reported insolvent insol-vent followed by the suicide ot tho president of the bank J G Lundo Official estimates of the fire losses to tho insurance companies as the result re-sult of tho forest fires In British Columbia Co-lumbia havo been prepared by tho special representatives and adjusters They place the amount at 2850000 Members of time United Brotherhood Brother-hood of Tailors of Now York City aro again threatening a general strike which if called will involve 30000 coat makers and helpers At present ho men aro working from ten to cloven hours Branson Howard tire dean of AmerIcan Amer-Ican playwrights died Alugust 4 at Avon bytho Sea He wasborn In Do troit In 1842 Like most men of his profession ho began his career In a newspaper office being a reporter1 on the Detroit Free Press Miss Elizabeth Barnett recently acquitted of the murder of Oscar Peterson Pet-erson a bachelor farmer and re arrested ar-rested on a charge of forgery escaped from Sheriff Hartley to tho brushcov ered sand ridges on tho shore of Sagl naw bay ten miles northwest of Bay City Mich Scott Pound and Ray 0 Baird two I Seattle youths about 18 years of age WEre surprised aC work robbing a saloon sa-loon in San Francisco into which they had forced an entrance and in trying to cscapo Pounds was shot and killed by a policeman after a chaso cf two blocks While clearing away tin inns of the explosion in tho Rlkovsky mIne which resulted in tho death of about two hundred men tho authorities found a set of counterfeiting tools and a quantity of spurious money It is believed the counterfeiters caused the explosion Tho record run from Denver to Cheyenne in an automobile was mado last week by J W Barker president cf tho Northern Colorado Power company com-pany and party They left Denver at 226 p m and at 630 p m stopped stop-ped at Cheyenne Mr Barkers son was at tho wheel Giving of lands for playgrounda Is becoming a very popular form of benefaction ben-efaction Gifts by citizens havo been mado recently In Auburn N Y Now Britain Conn and Sprlngtlold Mass Jho PIttsburg Playground association has asked for a bond Issuo of 2000 000 for playgrounds Hugh Rehwaldt a member of tho Germanla baseball team who was spiked while playing with tho Basin Wyo team on July 4 died a fow days ago as a result of blood poisoning caused by the spiking Before death I came Rehwaldt had Buffered paralysis from the hips down |