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Show j CREAM OP THE NfWS. j J. T. Parks, auditing clerk of the State dispensary, and R. H. Covar, business manager of the Orangeburg Patriot, tvere mortally wounded in a street duel at Columbia, Co-lumbia, S. C. Two were killed and several injured at Aurora, 111., yesterday by the blowing down of a tent of RlngLIng Bros.' circus. In a severe windstorm. Destructive forest fires are reported at Nuevo Casa Grandes, Chihuahua. Mex., around which is located a Mormon colony. col-ony. Three men lost their lives in an explosion explo-sion at the Mohawk mine, Minnesota. The President has signed the railroad rate bill, the migration bill and the bill providing for the construction of a loVi canal over the Isthmus of Panama. A feud is on between the white and colored troops at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Sheriff Williams has ordered all gambling-houses and questionable resorts closed as the result of the action of a recent re-cent mass meeting at Hot Springs, Ark. Marvin Posey, Jr.. former deputy sheriff of Polk county, Minnesota, was found dead In his room at Seattle, Wash. Death was caused from Inhaling gas. His wife and child hah Just left him on account ac-count of alleged excesses. At a special meeting of the Hanover Fire Insurance company in New York It was voted to Increase the capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000. . The trial of George Mitchell, charged with the killing of Edmund Frans Cref-fleld. Cref-fleld. the leader of the "Holy Rollers," Is In progress at Seattle, Wash. . |