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Show NEWS SUMMAilY All danger from tho yish fires that havo threatened Port Arthur, Ont., for tho past fow weeks has been averted by rain. Flvo men woro killed and sixteen others Injured by a boiler explosion In tiro Laura mine, near Hcorlep, on tho Dutch border II. II, Smith, father of fJovornor Hoko Smith of Ocorgla, nnd ono of tho best known educators in tho south, is dead nt tho ngo of S3. Fire which started in tho vlllago of Santa Angclo, Italy, was extinguished by tho uso of wire, which Is more plentiful there tl ator. Tho chcmlca' ..,, ..v. jf tho flro department de-partment nro . - , oJ lu Manila In disinfecting house suspected to have contained cholera patients. Tho first downpour of rnln In Chi-1 cago since August 12, started o.n September Sep-tember 39. Tho pant summer has been remnrknblo for tho nbsenco of moisture. In tiro postmasters' convention nt Chnttnnoog.i, Tumi., resolutions were unn'nlmously punned urging congress to pass tho proposed postal savings hank bill. A dispatch from Hatchelor, La., sn's n negro named John Miles viyi lynched thcro for f hooting n white man. Tho whlto man Wns not seriously seri-ously hint. Italian emigration to the United States Is still decreasing. During tho month of August only -4,:!Cf, emigrants left Italy for America, while 20.S20 re turned home. Professor Klrfhner of tho Prusslnn ministry of pirbllc health says that thcro Is not n single rase of cholera In Germany, tho system of Inspection seemingly being perfect. One man wns killed nnd seven others oth-ers injured, two of them fatally ,in a collision between a ynrd engine nnd a work train on tho Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad nt Olhsonton, Pa. Tho light on Mount Lnglorln, Curua-mllla Curua-mllla point, which marks on f .ho approaches to Valparaiso irom tho sotith-wnrd, hns been re-established. This light wan destroyed In 190G. It is reported that the scheme of tho Americans to control horse racing nt Jamaica, Kingston, hns dropped through, It being Imposslbln to raise tho necessary capital In tho United States. Dr. George Clark, who wns tho oldest old-est living gradnato of Union college and n young teachor who "whaled" Itoscoe Colliding when ho was n student, stu-dent, Is dead at his homo In Now York City, nged 92 yenrs. Four persons wcro killed nnd twenty-six Injured In n wreck on tho Vnzaoo & Mississippi Valley railroad near Clarksdale, Miss., when two coaches of a passenger train rolled down an embankment. A dispatch from 1'orry Sound, Ont., says: An nlmost Impenetrable veil of rmoko overhangs tho wholo north country nnd tho forest fires continue to rngo with undiminished fierceness. Many vlllngcs nro threatened. Tho Hov. John Ilnndlnolll, formerly former-ly provincial of tho Pnsslonlst Fathers Fath-ers In tho United States nnd Mt'Xieo, died nt tho Passlonlst monastery In Dunkirk, N. Y.. on tlw 17th. Ho was norn In Genoa socnty-four years ngo. A fog of Londnn-liko density In Chi-utgo Chi-utgo was responsible for three railroad rail-road wrecks of minor character, flight Injuries to over a pcoro of pop find minor nccldonts all over tho city.' tons, two deaths nt Grand Crossing Tho citizens of Salldn, Colo., aro much exercised over tho "Salo of Hnhles" advertised by tho Salvation nrmy. Klglit children nro advertised to bo sold, nnd I hero Is said to bo 'i movement nfoot to stop tho solo by court proceedings. ' Three cadets attending tho military Fcliool nt Vllnn, Iliumln, woro Inst week condemned by court-martini to cxllo lu Siberia for having formed n eoeloty, which operated through th-o endet officers, to enpturo tho cadets for revolutionary activity. The average wages per lrour In the principal manufacturing nnd mechiin-tcal mechiin-tcal Industries of thn country woro .1.7 per rent higher In 1907 thnn In 190C. ivhlle retnll prices of food were 4.2 tier cent higher. nrrnrriliig to tho July -oport of the bureau of labor. An unknown man, apparently 25 years of ago, n pnssenger on tho west-omul west-omul Union Pacific overland limited, killed himself with a knlfo while the rnln was In tho yurds nt Kearney. Neb. Aftor Inflicting fatal wounds ln throw the- knife from n window. Thirty men descended on tho camping camp-ing ground of the Irvlnlles, a religious pect which Is holding a convention nt Brooklyn, nnd sot flro to two large tents. Itoth were destroyed and ii houso In which wns stored n quantity of provisions was partly burned Tho seml-cenlennlnl celebration of , tlw great debato between Ahrahnm Lincoln and Stephen A. Dnuglns nt- , tracted a largo crowd nt Jonesborn. Ills. It Is estlmnted that m.onn perrons per-rons attended tho celebration, which wns hold In tho Union county fair grounds. Krncst rickner, an American, employed em-ployed In n smelter nt Kl Paso, Texas, who refused to rcmovo his lint when iho band In tho plazn nt Juarez, Mexico, Mex-ico, wns playing the Mexican national plr, was assaulted by a raging mob of Mexicans nnd beaten nlmost Into In-sensibility. In-sensibility. According to nn order Issued at the war department last week, a reward of $50 will bo paid In nil cases where a deserter Is dellvoroi by n civil officer of-ficer or civilian nt n military post, or at such other places as mny be designated desig-nated for his delivery by proper mill-dry mill-dry authorities. |