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Show NEWS SUMMARY. A tornado at Welch, Iowa, caused the death of four men and the serious Injury of two others. Fifteen people were drowned In the west bottoms of Kansas City, Sunday, owing to the high waters. Three young men were drowned at Bristol, R. I., Sunday, as the result of the capsizing of their boat. President Harper of the University of Chicago is strongly opposed to the Idea of students acting as "strikebreakers." "strike-breakers." The rise in the Mississippi river has brought heavy damage to the islands md bottom lands in the vicinity of Hannibal, Mo. About twenty-five acres of lowlands sear the packing houses in South St. loe., Mo., are flooded. Numerous truck !arms are ruined. In a severe windstorm at Pollock, S. D., a number of buildings were demolished de-molished and several peopjfc Injured, but none seriously. It has been formally announced that Thomas A .Edison has been taken into the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company as a member of Its board of technical directors. While six men were attempting to cross the Arkansas river ten miles below Salllam, I. T., In an overloaded skiff, the boat was upset and four of their number were drowned. It la now reported that In addtion to the six trainmen killed in the Southern South-ern railway wreck at Bryan, Ala., that Ave tramps, four negroes and one white man were killed and burned. Paul Lessar, the Russian minister, has returned to Pekin after a visit to St. Petersburg. No radical action regarding re-garding Manchuria is expected, but the course of events indicates that Russia will enforce her policy there. The United States grand Jury has returned thirty-six indictments against white citzens of Coosa and Tallapoosa Talla-poosa counties, Alabama, charging peonage, or holding negroes In servitude. servi-tude. The British steamer Virgil, which has arrived at Deptford from Buenos Ayres, has been found to have on board cattle affected with foot and mouth disease. They will be immediately imme-diately slaughtered and incinerated. His health undermined by business worries and his mind unbalanced for several days, Frank Emmett, a prominent prom-inent cotton broker of New Orleans, who retired from business a few days ago, has ended his life with a penknife. pen-knife. Nikolas Kolessoff, of the Russian legation le-gation at Pekin, in an interview there, says that Russia intends to keep 30,-000 30,-000 troops in Manchuria as railway guards, for towns being built along the railway and military centers established. estab-lished. The Posener, Prussia, Tageblatt publishes a report that a ferryboat, having on board forty-five children, capsized on the river Witharthe, near Dembro. The ferryman and eleven of the children, the paper says, were drowned. At Dawagiae, Mich., Mrs. Fabe Martin Mar-tin killed her five-year-old son and then attempted suicide by taking morphine. mor-phine. Mrs. Martin is a writer of some note, and it is believed that owing to her recent disappointments her mind became unbalanced. An order has been issued in the circuit cir-cuit court, Chicago, directing that the Ferris wheel that stood on the Midway Mid-way at the World's fair be sold, after June 1, to the highest bidder; and if no bids are received it will be broken op aad sold for junk. |