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Show NEWS SUMMAitY" All danger from tho !iah fires tilt hnvo threatened Port Arthur, Ont for tho past few weeks has averted by rain. Flvo men woro killed and sixteen others Injured by n bollor oxplonion in tiro Laura mine, near Heerlep, oa tho Dutch border H. II. Smith, father of Governor Hoke Smith of Ocorgla, and ono of th best known educators In tho south, li dead at tho ago of 88. Firo which started In tho vlllago of Santn Angclo, Italy, was extinguished by tho uso of wlno, which Is more plentiful there thnn water. Tho chemical engines of tho fire do. partmont nro being used In Manila In disinfecting, houses suspected to have contained, cholera patients. Tho first downpour of rnln In Chi-cago Chi-cago Blnco August 12, started on September Sep-tember 19. Tho past summer has been rcmarkablo for tho absenco ot moisture . In tho postmnBtcrs1 convention m Chattanooga, Tcnn., resolutions wore unnnlmously passed urging congress to pass tho. proposed postal savlngi bank bill. A dispatch from Batcholor, La says n negro named John Miles wsi lynched thoro for Bhootlug a white man. ""ho whlto man waa not serf, ously hurt. Itnllan emigration lo tho United StutcB Is still decreasing. During th month of August only 4.3C8 emigrant loft Itnly for America,' whllo 20,820 returned re-turned homo. Professor Klrshnor ot tho Prussian 'ministry of publlo health says that thero Is not n slnglo caso of cholera In aormnny, tho system of Inspcctloa seemingly being perfect Ono man wns killed and sovon others oth-ers Injured, two of them fatally ,1a a collision between a ynrd onglno and a work truln on tho Pittsburg & Lake Krlo railroad at Glbsonton, Pn. Tho light on Mount Lnglorla, Curua-mllln Curua-mllln point, which mnrka on o' ie approaches to Valparaiso irom the southwnrd, has beon ro-e&tabllshed. This light was destroyod In 1900, It is reported that tho scheme of the Americans to control horso racing nt Jamaica, Kingston, has dropped tlrrough. It being Imposslblo to raise the necessary capital In tho United States. Dr. Gcorgo Clark, who was tho oldest old-est living graduate ot Union college, and a young teacher who "whaled Roscoo Conkllng when ho was a student, stu-dent, Is dead at his homo In Now York City, aged 92 years. Four persons wero killed nnd twenty-six Injured in a wreck on the Yazaoo & Mississippi Valley railroad near Clarksdalo, MIbb.,' whon two conches of n passenger train rolled down an embankment. A dispatch from Pony Sound, Ont, says: An almost Impenetrable veil of r.moko overhangs tho wbolo north country nnd tho forest fires continue to rngo with undiminished flercenesa. Many villages are; thrcatoned. Tho Rov. John Bnndlnolll. formerly former-ly provincial of tho Passlonlst Fathers Fath-ers In tho United States aud Mexico, died at tho Passlonlst monastery In Dunkirk, N. Y., on tlto 17th. Ho wbj horn In Genoa seventy-four years ago. A fog of London-llko density In Chicago Chi-cago wns responsible for thrco railroad rail-road wrecks of minor character, alight Injuries to over a acoro ot per-and per-and minor nccldcntH all ovor tho city sons, two deaths at Grand Crossing Tho citizens of Sallda, Colo., are much exerclsod over tho "Salo of Babies" advertised by tho Salvation army. Klght children aro advertised to bo sold, and thoro Ib said to bo i movement afoot to stop tho salo by court proceedings. Thrco cadets attending tho military school at Vllna, Russia, wero last week condemned by court-martial to oxllo In Siberia for having formed a society, which oporntod through the endot officers, to capture tho cadeti for revolutionary activity, Tho nvorago wagon per hour In tho principal manufacturing nnd mechanical mechan-ical Industries of tho country woro 3.7 per cent higher In 1907 than in 1906. -whllo rotnll prices of food wero 4.5 pur cent higher, according to tho July report of tho bureau of labor. An unknown man, nrparently i' years of age, a passenpor on tho west bound Union Pacific overland limited, killed hlmsolf with a knlfo whllo the train waa In tho yards at Koarney, Nob. Aftor Inflicting fatal wounds he throw tho knlfo from n window. Thirty men doscended on tbo camping camp-ing ground ot tho Irvlnltos, a rollgtoui sect which is holding a convontion at Brooklyn, nnd sot flro to two large tents. Both woro destroyed and a houso In which was stored a quantity or. provisions was partly burned. The semi-centennial colobratlon ol tho great dobato botweon Abraham Lincoln) and Stephon A. Douglas attracted at-tracted a largo 'crowd at Jonesboro Ills. It Is cstlmatod that 10,000 per Fons attonded tho celebration, which was hold In tho Union county fair grounds, Ernest Fickner, an American, cm-ployed cm-ployed In a Bmoltor at EI Pubo, Toxai. who refused to removo his ''ha whon tho band in tho plazn at Juaroz, Mex ico, was playing tho Mexican national air, was assaulted by a raging mob ol Mexicans aud beaten almost Into In-, In-, eenslblllty. According to an ordor Issuod at the war department Inst wook, a reward of S60 will bo paid In all cosob where n. desortor is dollvored V a civil officer of-ficer or civilian at n military post or at such othor places ns may bo deslR-, deslR-, nated for his dellvorv by proper mil1' riury uuthoii'tlcs. ' Ti Tho Bccrctnry of Btnto of Alabama 1 has decided that tho Thompson, or I regular wing of tho Republican parl I will ho recognized as tho legal partv and allowed to havo its nomlnecF 1 printed on tho stnto ticket as tho Re- I publican party. Thla Is a victory to' 1 tho Toft forces. 1 Walter C. Phillips, confidential see- J Totary of John Leonard, a ntlrfd I steel and iron founder of Montclalr. E N. J., has been held for the grand Jury I In $10,000 ball on a chnrgo of manslaughter man-slaughter In cnuslng tho death of Mr Leonard, Phillips declares Leonard tccldontally sbot himself. - J |