Show NEWS SUMMARY floods and fire at augusta ga last week caused a financial loss ot a million dollars american clerical employees aie to be given the preference over the al en employed emp loyes on the of panama by the canal commission president roosevelt has declined the invitation to attend the trans congress at san fran cisco beginning october 6 the thirty thousand employed emp loyes of the international harvester company f chicago are to have their own siok benefit and insurance association four firemen injured and prop erty valued at was destroyed by alre in the plant of the overbrook carpet company in west philadel phia mark A recently convicted at oakland cal of the murder of mrs vernie carmin normert tor mert of leeds mo has been sentenced to be hanged november 13 the postoffice post office at waukegan a chi cago suburb was entered by robbers the sate blown open by the use of dynamite and stamps and cash to the value of 3 stolen watson shot and killed his so i in law elijah crabtree at allison okia crabtree had eloped with wat sons daughter and domestic troubles resulted in the shooting A rumor coming from an alve source says the canad an pa railroad officials are getting tired of the strike and negotiations will be begun with a view to ending it rev I 1 D malligan pastor of the I 1 arst presbyterian church at canton ohio killed himself by a charge from a shotgun the coroner is inclined to believe the shooting was accidental five men were killed another is expected to die ani five others we e seriously erious ly injured in a collision at the warrior colliery of the hazemey coal company six miles from will escarre pa wade H ellia now attorney gen bial of ohio has been tendered by the president and has accepted the position of assistant to the adorney general recently held by milton D purdy F R easley superintendent of the rock island railroad has issued a bul letin notifying all employed emp loyes that cig arette smoking will not be permitted and that violators of the order will be discharged mrs kate howard 42 years old one of the leaders in the recent riot in ills committed sui cide by swallowing acid while being placed under arrest she died as she was being led into the jail the rolling mills of the national enameling and stamping company at granite which have been closed since june 30 reopened monday and within two weeks the complement of 1 men will be employed A thirty foot brick wall which was being erected for a bu iding on the site of one bained in the fire at chel sea mass last april collapsed and burled more than a score of workmen seven of the workmen were killed and fifteen injured margaret daly vokes the come dienne died at her summer home in wynnfield lynnfield Lynn field mass on august 27 after a long illness of tuberculosis she was the wife of harry yokes of the ward vokes corn any and was one of the famous daly family of dancers A missouri kansas texas train inbound to st louis narrowly es a serious accident when the train passed over a trestle feet high at gore mo just a moment be fore the structure collapsed owing to weakness caused by a washout mrs S J bloom and her daughter eva arrested in baltimore in connection with the death of S J of windber whose body was found in a trunk at camden N J have furnished bail in the s im ol 01 1000 each tor their api barance toi trial the state department has received assurances from david E thompson ambassador to mexico who was in aured by being knocked down by a bl cycle in the city of mexico that he was doing well and suffering onla from a badly broken and dislocates arm with a reward of said to b standing for his capture and return tc vladivostok where he Is alleged to be wanted to serve a life sentence foi murder 0 karlson alias bamert a local grocers clerk was arrested al beattle last week on a statutory charge friends of mrs harry thaw who has been suffering from worry arver her husbands case and the loss of her income consequent to the bank lupucy proceedings declare that her condition is not serious they denied that she is a nervous krecl as had been reported john henry briggs aged 62 ears a millionaire cattle ralser shot and killed himself at Ms home in attica ind standing before a mirror he shoved the muzzle of a revolver into Us mouth and pressed the trigger despondency due to ill health was the cause of his rash act the subcommittee of the senate committee on finance which has un der consideration proposed changes in the administrative features of the tariff law has completed its nary work in washington and ad journea to meet in new york at the call of senator burrows enoch hammonds storekeeper and gauger internal revenue service eighth district of kentucky was dis missed by the acting secretary of the treasury upon recommendation of the city service tor alleged pernicious political activity in a state senatorial contest last tall from out the busy throng of traffic n the eads bridge at st louis an unidentified well dressed man sud denly vaulted the rail and lunged into the mississippi river ninety feet below ho row aken spectators a urn come to the s face struggle 1 k few moments and ciak |