Show NEWS SUMMARY U at NA R Y five persons were killed hilled in a collision between traction cars nine miles north ot of ohio ira A sankey the singing evangelist e van go ilet lied died at his home in 14 brooklyn on august 14 at tho the ago agi ot of 68 mistaking his wile wife who nad got up to close a window for a burglar geo parker of harper kans shot her dead by tho the capsizing of a plem pleasure sure faun launch ch on the wisconsin river neat kilbern wis four chicago people were drowned tho canadian pacific railway Is fall 1111 ing tho the vacant places placed la in the shops nt at toronto and in west toronto with strike breakers three women were burned to death when a gas explosion wrecked the dry goods store ot of J V gavin at wheeling IV va john anderson shot and killed J R leighton and wounded J IL brown at vernon D B C following a dis dispute over an irrigation ditch A semiofficial semi official statement Is pub athens athena asserting that the bulgarians Bulga rians have commenced their campaigns of viol violence ened in Mace macedonia donto six persons were killed hilled and eighteen injured in a gun explosion aboard the french gunnery school Cour onnet off les salines dH yeres the death toll by alpine climbers this ibis year Is a record one in the month anth of july alone fourteen persona were killed and two seriously injured english Is destined to become the universal language of the world in the opinion of A 0 meyer member ot of the lower house of the danish parliament thomas robinson counsel for tho the winnipeg grain exchange while in a delirium j jumped from a train near montreal he was found dying beside the tracks the paris newspapers announce that king alfonso will visit tho the french capital in Sep september r on his way to the isle of wight to join i queen victoria thomas A edison is reported to have accumulated now he proposes to devote his time to science pure and simple with no regard for financial productiveness As the result of an explosion of fire damp in the budwell mine near ee germany fifteen persons were killed and six aro are in hospitals hospital 3 suffering from serious injuries the officers 0 the american atlantic fleet entertained 2000 new zea randers aboard the baille battleship ship louisiana on august 13 among the throng were many handsomely gowned wo men the bank of afton oklahoma which was closed last week pending an investigation of its affairs has been reopened the investigation showing there was no shortage whatever relegates delegates to the convention of the independence party met at dallas texas on august 11 and nominated E V W kirkpatrick president of the texas farmers congress for governor michael T maroney aged 25 ol of Merl meriden den conn Is deadam dead as a result ol of injuries received in a baseball game he collided with another player while running bases and was injured in tho abdomen A messengers pouch containing united states government paychecks pay checks for nearly 2000 was early darly last week stolen in front of the building occupied p led by the department of commerce and labor the methodist episcopal church has haa begun a an n active crusade for tho election of a speaker of the house ot of representatives who will allow congress to vote on the interstate liquor shipment bill george wilcox a negro formerly employed as a janitor in the national dank bank of commerce kansas city has hag confessed to the theft of a package conia containing ining from the bank on april 25 1907 L the luther league of america with a membership of and representing members of the tha lutheran church in the united states held L ys ts eighth biennial convention in chicago last week with 1500 delei dele gates present dispatches from baku say that a decree ha has been issued at teheran indefinitely defer deferring xing them the 1 convocation of the persian parliament and that the shah has sum summoned monid five hundred adherents of the old reg regime fine to form a council of state the peruvian congress voted unanimously to protest against the insult offered the republic when president padro was pushed off the sidewalk on a in lima toy by a former political prisoner named Pl erola the demo cratic members of the house were absent dr robert koch the distinguished german scientist the discoverer ot bf the tuberculosis bacillus and of the cholera germ will attend the international congress to be held in washington in agton in september as an official olal representative of the german govern me deot neot tm taws |