Show NEWS SUMMARY all danger from the yash fires that bave threatened port arthur ont lor the past few weeks his been averted by rain five men were killed and sixteen others injured by a boiler explosion in the laura mine near on the dutch border II 11 II 11 smith father of governor hoko smith of georgia aadne of the best known educators in the south Is dead at the age of 88 fire which started in the village of santa angelo italy was shed by the use 0 wine which is more plentiful there than water the chemical engines of the fire de are being used in manila in dis infecting houses suspected to have contained cholera patients the farst downpour of rain in achl eago since august 12 started on september 19 the past summer has been remarkable for the absence of moisture in the postmasters convention at chattanooga tenn resolutions were passed urging congress to pass the proposed postal savings bank bill A dispatch from batchelor la says a negro named john miles was lynched there for shooting a white man he ahe man was not seri bously hurt italian emigration to the united states is still decreasing during the month of august only 4 emigrants left italy tor america while 20 re turned home professor kirshner of the prussian ministry of public health says that there Is not a single case of cholera in germany the system of inspection seemingly being i berfect one man was killed and seven oth ers injured two of them fatally in a collision between a ard engine and a work train on the pittsburg lake erie railroad at gibsonton Gibs onton pa the light on mount lablona curua milla point which marks 0 e approaches to albara so irom the outboard out bward has been re established his light vis destroyed in 1906 it is reported that the scheme of he americans to control horse racing at jamaica kingston has dropped U rough it being impossible to raise the necessary capital in the united baates dr george clarl who was the old st living grad aate of union college and a young teacher who whaled roscoe conkling when he was a stu lent is dead at his home in new t city aged 82 years four geons peons acre 1 llred and twenty six injured in a wreck on the mississippi alley railroad near clarksdale miss when two coaches of a passenger train down an embankment A dispatch from perry sound ont bays an almost impenetrable veil of overhangs the whole north country and the forest fires continue to rage with fierceness many villages are threatened the rev john Bandl nelll former ly provincial of the path in the unite 1 states and mexico ailed riled at the monastery in dunkirk N Y on the he was bom in genoa seventy four i ears ago A fog of london e density in achl eago was responsible for three rail road wrecks of minor character blight injuries to over a score ot per ind minor accidents all over the city tons two deaths at grand crossing the citizens of hallda colo are much exercised over the sale of babies advertised by the salvation army eight children are advertised i to be sold and there is said to be t movement afoot to stop the sale by court proceedings three cadets attending the military lbook at vilna russia were last week condemned by court martial ti exile in siberia for having formed a society which operated through the cadet officers to capture the cadets I 1 r revolutionary activity the average wages per hour h our in the principal manufacturing and inechen cal industries oa the country were S 7 per cent higher in 1907 than in 1906 valle retail prices of food were 4 2 per cent higher according to the july aport of the burea i of labor an unknown man appal antly aa ayears ty ears of age a passenger on the west toa u union pacific overland limited tilled himself with a knife while the train was in the yards at kearney eb after inflicting fatal wounds he threw knife from a window thirty men descended on the camp li g ground of the a religious pet which Is holding a convention at brooklyn and set fire to two large tents both were destroyed and a luse in which was stored a q antiey of provisions was partis burned the semi centennial celebration of great debate between abraham 7 lincoln and stephen A douglas at a large crowd at jonesboro Jone it is estimated that per 1 ns attended the celebration which was held in the union county fair rounds arnest fid ner an american em boyed in a smeller at el paso texas aho refused to remove his hat when s band in the plaza at juarez ico was playing the mexican national 1 was assaulted assail ted by a raging mob of mexicans and beaten almost into in according to an order issued at the war department last week a reward bojt 50 will be paid in all cases where is delivered by a civil ot steer or civilian at a mil tary post or at euch other places as may be desi bated or Us delivery by proper mill tary authorities ahe secretary of state of alabama las decided that the thompson or regular wing of the republican party effi be recognized as the legal party fed allowed to have its nominees on the state hicl et as the re publican party this Is a victory for UK hafl forces |