Show NEWS SUMMARY three men are dead as a res lit ot e freight wreck on the canad an main line caused by a cashs it near lit ton it 1 reported that president elect raft will visit havana to attend the inauguration ot general jose miguel comez on january 28 as p resident ol 01 cuba two persons a laborer and a boy sere 1 1 d and six others injured as a result of an explosion of gas in the basement ot a commission ho ise ih I 1 ansas city i J W dalzell known a P hate dalzell announces that at the citation of ohio comrades he 11 be willing to accept the united states from ohio hugh 0 Is ell an attorney shot and seriously wounded michael gachter a retired hotel man on market street in san francisco the two men meled over a business robbers held several eizens at ba at attica 0 while they blew open ind robbed the afe of Ren office ot in cash tre lobbers ft ere fired upon but escaped io trace has been found ot the as ot mrs J D lord who was at tad ed in her home at long beach cal by an man baui d gagged and nearly strangled to death M la croix the minister ot colonies announced in the french chamber ot deputies last week that the ownership ot cl apperton island in the pacific ocean would be submitted lo 10 arbitration the national ban ot ky has closed its doors on account ol 01 a shortage ot over 20 in the cashiers department the bank has a capital of 50 and total resources il about an carried a by a plu bality of according to an ot acial tabulation in the office of the secretary of s ate Tatt received bryan chaan received and debs 3 votes As a result of argent eions made by the po vers the servian government has withdrawn its special nill tary guards on the austro ciungar lan tion tier and d sch arged the re serves decently lecent ly cal cd to the colors one man nas killed and four in ired when a rod island tre train crashed into an extra freight at brink ie arl the caboose caugh t fire and was destroyed charles A clarl aged 27 of los angeles cal was birned to a crisp it la anno meed that mrs russell sage of new lorl has given toward the of a college for colored buths in kentucky to be a branch ol 01 berea college the col lege will be modeled after the tuskegee institute the gros s earnings of nineteen rail roads tor he first weel in november 1908 were against 12 for the first week in novem her 1907 an increase of 1208 oca seven roads show increases and twelve decreases the hawaii publishes what I 1 purports to be the text of a new treaty between the united states and japan the official announcement of which it says will not be made until next feb auary the treaty as published guar altees the integrity of china telegrams from medina arabia brief details ot an engagement between the troops and a large torce ol 01 bedouins three battalions occupy ing the belt el ral were compelled to retire in med na and suffered suf feied se vere losses during the retreat patrick ford editor of the ir sh world 0 new york who was the sub eject of an astad in the house ol 01 corn mons as his rumored approaching i isit to england with 0 meagher con don was discussed announces that he I 1 as not definitely decided on the pro loed visit an effort as beins made in st pet to sell the russian rights in the wright aeroplane to atie russian government for military purposes the I 1 reposed contract with the russian Is similar to that under aich the trench rights were sold to pans syndicate the committee on es of the house of lords has declared the right of albert kirby fairfax who is a na live of virginia and who has been described bed as the only american bear ing an title to the rani and title of lord fairfax of cameion in the scottish peerage kaing yu wei the head of the chi rese reform movement gho it ire world is at present in he 1 as refused to see an interviewer who his opinion on the recent s tu aaion in china on the ground that he vas prostrated with gnet oyei the death 0 the emperor brief funeral services accord ng to the ritual of the improved older ot ped men were held over the remains ct morris haas who committed sul de after shooting francis J heney jq san francisco A score of friends and relatives were present at the tor mer residence of haas S lillis former president 0 the I 1 amoore cal bank and a w balthy was found guilty by a jury in the federal court at fresno ot ma n kalning a fence in which were en closed acres of government land the punishment is a bear in jail and a fine of 1 A revolution has brol en out in southern haftl general simon for mer commander of the troops in the southern department has besieged the city of les cayes and the region the telegraph lines haap been cut and the government troops are surrounded bv rebels the date of the trial of broughton brandenburg the writer who is under indictment on a charge of larceny growing out of the sale of an article I 1 ur ported to have been written by the late grover cleveland has been fixed for november 30 brandenburg was arraigned and pleaded net g bilty |