Show the bank in the village of manley neb was held up at noon by a lone robber R ho got between 2 and 3 and escaped about of the leading chinese mercantile establishments at canton china a ere destroyed by fire which brol e out there on the alti telegraph operators working under roa tracts biti brokerage firms and newspapers will continue at thia decision was reached at a meeting of operators held in chicago the great council of red men in session at va adopted an amendment prohibiting membership to all u oon 1 deepers and bartenders this not however retroactive the hoard of police commiss boners has elected W J biggy chief of police of san francisco Iran cisco biggy served a short term as chief of police under maor chelan several daib ago fhe negroes who were s looting craps on the baltimore and ohio railroad track near newbery W va were run down and killed by a train the bod es were horribly mangled W F lawaence La a liveryman of ba doka S D shot h s wife at sioux city iowa as she was boarding an outgo ing train he then committed suicide the had refused to live with him the sax war ministry says a berlin dispatch has accepted the delivery ot an armored motor car capable of re allting alsting rifle fire carding a machine gun accommodations for ten men the siberian postal train was held up by highwaymen at a point near siberia they separated the engine from the freight cars and then seized with which they es W H the only colored mem ber of ue georgia legislature has resigned his seat he gave no reason but it is believed belt eved that the passage of the negro disfranchisement bill influx encee him general railroad strike is threat ened in england as the result of ehg long struggle of the railwaymen s union with the british railway corn panics for the recognition of theia organization anthracite and bituminous operator say that the coal situation is grow ing serious throughout pennsylvania and it is freely predicted that before midwinter there will be a famine in many places chester R runyan paying teller of the windsor trust company of mew ork who confessed to sealing of the company s funds has been sentenced to sene seven years in sing sing prison M borodulina superintendent of tha political prison at trans Bai kalia russia was by an unknown person on the streets of pa koff his home village where he was spending a vacation the anniversary of the admission ol 01 california into the union was ce lebrat ed at san jose in splendid style by the native sons of the golden west A parade in which 10 persons par was the feature the coroner s jury has rendered a verdict that it could not state the real cause of the fall of the quebec cana da bridge but declared that according to the evidence adduced all necessary precautions were taken emperor william it is stated will make a special effort to give the amer lean secretary of war william H taft a hearty reception and memora ble entertainment during his sojourn in germany two months hence the united states army transport thomas which sailed recently for manila was in communication by wire less telegraph with san francisco while oft north head wash a dit tance of miles from san francisco As a measure to promote the aradi cation of the plague the san francis board of health has offered a boun ty of ten cents on every rat caught in the city and county of san and properly delivered to the health officer john R white a wealthy south da icota stockman has been convicted in tha federal court at deadwood S D of illegal fencing of government lands and sentenced to thirty days impels cament in the county jail and to a fine of an insane man named bolski arrest ed on suspicion that he was the rip per who murdered several school girls recently has escaped from ue observation ward of the prison hospit al at berlin it is feared he will per fresh crimes mark twain will not pilot president roosevelt s steamer down the sippi when the president makes his southern and western trip mr clem ens has declined the to at tend the waterways convention in memphis next month edward W vanderbilt the aged retired merchant of brooklyn who mar ried may S pepper bright eyes the medium is incapable t managing hie affairs because of lunacy to a verdict returned by a sheriffs jury in brooklin ferdinand pinney earle of affinity fame has returned to new ork he had a brief encounter with the ers of monroe where his home is lo 10 bated when about to board a train for new york several missiles were thrown at him but the artist escaped injure virginia reed the negro woman who according to charles E letten the defaulting tax clerk of new or leans received about 90 out of ahe or more be stole from the state attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the bayo i st john she was fished out just in time charles E laton chief clerk on the office of the first district tax collector at new orleans who disappeared a few days ago leaving a shortage of over was discovered standing on the bank of the mississippi attempt ing to summon up courage to jump in the water and commit suicide |