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Show I CREAM Of THE NEWS ii j FROM EVERYWHERE The Supreme Court of New York yes- I terday granted the application of W. R. Hearst to have five ballot boxes opened and the ballots cast at the recent election recounted. Great damage was done yesterday by the fierce storm which swept the British channel. Several boats were swamped and many lives lost. Gov. Devis of Arkansas was assaulted last night at Fayetteville by former Congressman Con-gressman Hugh Dinsmore and Jack Walker Wal-ker after a political quarrel. Gov. Davis belabored his assailants with a cane. Papers were served on George Edward Adams, the embezzling cashier of the assay as-say office at Seattle, yesterday, to recover JM),O(0. This amouift was decided on by the cash and property Adams "is known to possess. His defalcations will reach $153,000. The Supreme Court of the Ignited States yesterday sustained the ordinances of the cities of Detroit and San Francisco, granting exclusive franchises" to remove the. garbage of the two cities. Sheriff J. M. Dredger of Minneapolis yesterday tendered his resignation to Gov. Johnson, saying ,he had been unjustly un-justly criticised for his administration of the office, and did not care to continue. Justice McKenna handed down an opinion opin-ion yesterday In the Supreme Court of the I'nlted States giving Mary McCune title to a homestead in the State of Washington, holding that the widow had all the rights in the property that her I husband had had and that In such cases 1 the National law must control, regardless of State statutes. Warren C. Crosby has been commissioned commis-sioned postmaster at Hazleton, Wyo. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick desires to go on the stand to testify in the bankruptcy proceedings against her and promises to tell without reservation all the facts concerning con-cerning her financial transactions. The first shots between rural guards and insurrectionists were exchanged yesterday yes-terday near the center of Havana province. prov-ince. At South Royalton, Vt., yesterday. Junius Ju-nius F. Wells of Salt Lake directed the sealing of a copper casket that is to be placed In a monument now being erected there to mark the birthplace of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church. The Irrigatton Land and Development company yesterday brought suit in the District of Columbia against Secretary Hitchcock to enjoin the United States from completing its irrigation project near Tuma. Ariz., on the ground that It would render useless the canals built by the company. e Marshall Field. Jr.. son of the Chicago merchant, who was accidentally shot while cleaning a revolver, died last night of his wound. An inquest will be held. The Supreme Court of Montana has confirmed the decision of the lower court awarding $30000 damages to Martin Burke, who was permanently injured in the Colusa-Parrot mine at Butte by grasping a wire upon which the insulation was faulty. Justice Geigerich in the Supreme Court of New York yesterday decided that the intent of the voter should govern the marking of the ballots. |