Show NEWS SUMMARY 1 The bank In the village or Mrmloy Neb was held up at noon by a lono I robber who got between 2000 and I 3000 and escaped About 100 of the leading Chinese mercantile establishments at Canton China wore destroyed toy fire which broke out there on the 11th Telegraph operators working under contracts with brokerage firms and newspapers will continue at work This decision was icached at a meeting of operators hold In Chicago The great council of lied Men In session at Norfolk Va adopted an amendment prohibiting membership to nil saloon keepers and bartenders This Is not however retroactive The board of police commissioners has elected W J Blggy chief of police po-lice of San Francisco Dlgpy served a short term as chief of police under Mayor Phelan several yeais ago Five negroes who were shooting craps on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad track near Ncwbory W Va were run down and killed by a train The bodies were horilbly mangled W F Lawrence a liveryman of Ka dolts S D shot his wife at Sioux City Iowa as she was boarding an outgoIng outgo-Ing train Ho then committed suicide The woman had refused to live with himThe The Sax war ministry says a Berlin dispatch has accepted the delivery of an armored motor car capable of resisting re-sisting rifle Ore carylug a machine gun and having accomodatlous for ten men menThe The Siberian postal train was held up by highwaymen at a point near Tomsk Siberia They separated the engine from the freight cars and then seized CO000 with which they escaped es-caped W H Rogers the only colored member mem-ber of the Georgia legislature has resigned re-signed his seat He gave no reason but It Is believed that tho passage of the negro disfranchIsement bill Influenced Influ-enced him A general railroad strike Is threatened threat-ened Jn England as the result of the long struggle of the Ratlwaymona union with the British railway companies com-panies for the recognition of theli organization Anthracite and bituminous operators say that tho coal situation Is growing grow-ing serious throughout Pennsylvania and It Is freely predicted that before midwinter there will be a famine In many places Chester U Runyan paying teller of tho Windsor Trust company of New York who confessed to sealing 100 000 of tho companys funds has been sentenced to servo seven years In Sing Sing prison M Borodulluk superlntendentof tho Aqultlta political prison at Trans Balkalla Russia was asassinated by an unknown person on the streets of Pa koff his home village where ho was spending a vacation The anniversary of the admission of California Into the Union was celebrated celebrat-ed at San Jose In splendid stylo by the Native fons of the Golden West A parade In which 10000 persons participated par-ticipated was the feature Tho coroners Jury has rendered a verdict that It could not state the real causo of the fall of thp Quebec Canada Cana-da bridge but declared that according to the evidence adduced all necessary precautions wero taken Emperor William It Is stated will make a special effort to give tho American Amer-ican secretary of war William H Taft a hearty reception and memorable memora-ble entertainment during his sojourn In finrmanv two months hence m The United States army transport II I Thomas which sailed recently for Manila was In communication by wireless wire-less telegraph with San Francisco while off North Head Wash a dls tanc ° of 720 miles from San Francisco As a measure to promote the eradication eradi-cation of the plague the San Francisco Francis-co board of health has offered a bounty boun-ty of ten cents on every rat caught In tho city and county of San Francisco Francis-co and properly delivered to tho health officer John R White a wealthy South Dakota Da-kota stockman has boon convicted In tho federal court at Deadwood S D of Illegal fencing of government lands and sentenced to thirty days imprisonment Impris-onment In the county Jail and to a fine of 600 An Insane man named Lolskl arrested arrest-ed on suspicion that ho was tho ripper rip-per who murdered several schoolgirls school-girls iccently has escaped from the observation ward of the prison hospital hospit-al at Berlin It Is feared ho will perpetrate per-petrate fresh crimes Mark Twain will not pilot President Roosevelts steamer down the Mississippi Missis-sippi when the president makes his southern nnd western trip Mr Clemens Clem-ens has declined the invitation to attend I at-tend the waterways convention In Memphis next mouth Edward W Vanderbilt the aged retired re-tired merchant of Brooklyn who married mar-ried May S Pepper Bright Eyes tho spiritualist medium Is Incapable ot managing his affairs because of lunacy according to a verdict returned by a sheriffs Jury in Brooklyn I I Ferdinand Pliancy Earle of affinIty fame has returned to Now York lIe had a brief encounter with the villagers villag-ers of Monroe where his homo Is located lo-cated when about to board a train for Now York Several missiles were thrown at him but tho artist escaped Injury I Virginia Reed tho negro woman who according to Charles E Lotton tho defaulting tax clntk of Now Orleans Or-leans received about 90000 out of tho 100000 or more he stole from the Btato attempted to commit muclda by lumping Into tho Bayou St John Bbc wan fished out Just In time |