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Show Orccim 0! the News Dr. Julian P. Thomas had a narrow escape from death in a balloon at Augusta, Au-gusta, Ga., which roae 1000 feet in the air, but came down without injuring the aeronaut. Philip Nelson, a wealthy ' copper miner of Missoula, Mont., asphyxiated himself oa the receipt of aews from Stockholm, Sweden, that-bis wife could not live anothermonth. Five persons perished in agony as the result of an explosion in a sugar house on the Shell Hill plantation at vacherc, Lt Souvenir postcards mav have writing on one half of the front according to a ruling of the Postmaster-General. Judge Joseph E. Gary, who presided st the trial of the Haymarket rioters in Chicago, in 1SS8, died yesterday. Motiona for the appointment of receivers re-ceivers for the Chicago Union Traction and Underlying companies were found vesterdav after being buried under a pile of paper for aeveral days. Judge Grosseup has the motions under advise- mtBt- ... Alex "Walker, the negro who murdered mur-dered County Policeman J. L. Heard at Atlanta was sentenced to life imprisonment. impris-onment. ... Secretarv Taf t spoke twice at Omaha yesterday in thetariff jssue. Nnel Rodriguez killed his wife at El Paso, Tex., when she came home and found him in the company of another woman. He and the woman were also killed and a detective and negro were wounded in the fight that ensued. It has been recommended tnat sol-diera sol-diera wear identification tags of aluminum, the size of a dollar, under their clothes, the tags to be furnished bv the Government. The number of dead soldiers unidentified shows the wisdom of this plan. Indictments hsve been returned against fifteen members of the South Omaha Coal exchange for alleged violation vio-lation of the anti-truet laws. Reports of the moderate uprising in Santa Clara and Matanzas have been received. . The inhabitants on the island f Hondo, are in terror over an earthquake following a volcanic eruption. ' The biggest wool transaction of the year oa the Boston market wss consummated con-summated this week when the American Wool company took the last of a lot of 20,000.000 pounds of Territory and Montana stock, half and three-eighths blood grade. , ... The condition of Bishop Charles B. Gslloway, who was stricken with congestion con-gestion or the brain, shows derided improvement. |