Show NEWS S U 31 TH A ry high waters in france have caused considerable damage to property mail advices from batavia report the ambuscade and massacre of two companies of dutch troops by natives la irk the celebes L C smith a night watchman and pioneer of fresno cal was shot and killed by a burglar as the officer was attempting to capture him there have been 64 cases of bubonic plague in san francisco there have been 37 deaths and 7 recoveries and aria 20 are now under treatment on account of the illness of the cm em geror of austria the king and queen of spain have postponed indefinitely their projected visit to N vienna lenna three trainmen were killed and much i property damaged by the explosion oi of an engine of the central of georgia which was standing near the station of reynolds ga four young men all residents of perth ambo amboy N J were drowned in bariban bay as the result of their boat catching on fire the boat being over turned in an effort to subdue the flames jose gutierez aged died lasi last at ysleta a few miles below el paso texas he drank whisky until he was 70 when he found it was not good for a man and quit gutierez ez was never married roy reed of portland shot hot and killed his wife sylva reed in the ot of flee fee of the hotel havre at havre mont and before any one could inter tere fere turned the gun on himself and blew his brains out H D reynolds owner of the rey bank at valdez alaska which closed last week says the them bank will be able to pay all claims he says the liabilities are 55 and the as sets principally valdez realty 92 an order directing joseph D lee a lawyer to produce the alleged mar ariage certificate and a letter in n which his client mae wood alleges senator thomas 0 platt admits his marriage to her has been made by the trial judge john mitchell president of the united mine workers entered the hospital at lasalle ill on october IS 11 and it is understood that he will sub mit hill to an operation for appendicitis when his condition becomes more ta fa the housing committee of the relief c corporation of san francisco has filed a report showing that permanent and substantial homes have been built foi fol 1 1382 2 82 refugee families at a cost oi of during the past eleven months elkan cohn a once prominent banker and wealthy business man waa was found on the streets of oakland cal last week in utter poverty and in a dying condition in the past eighteen months cohn has been robbed of by swindlers joseph wood aged 16 years who was arrested on suspicion in connect tion with the murder of 0 9 year old ethel levins nevins whose hose body was as found in a thicket not far from her home in east caman N J admits having murdered the child plans that will convert valparaiso chile into one of the worlds largest and best ports have been accepted by a committee appointed by the prest dent for the purpose french engi submitted their proposal the work will take nine years twenty carloads of mustard seed valued at 35 25 will be shipped from lompoc cal to eastern points in each car there will be sacks each weighing eighty pounds the shipment includes both yellow and red varieties of seed and Is the largest on record the body of frank meakin son of the english millionaire chi james meakin is being held under po lice orders in the medical depar department ament of st 1 louis university pending corn com muni cation with I 1 kinsmen of the dead man in england meakin died july 14 from injuries received by a tall fall from a window peter murray of buena vista colo at the age of 57 has gone to college he is a student at jefferson academy washington D C and the teachers say he is one ot of their most diligent pupils in his youth murray bad had to work for a living and sacrifice his schooling hundreds of lives were endangered thousands of persons were thrown into panic electric cars used on general crosstown lines were de strayed and property loss to the ex tent ot of v was as caused by a fire in I 1 n the fourteenth street car barns in new loik I 1 ork city on oct 9 the barge saxon lumber laden from georgetown S C to new york strand stranded cd thirty miles north of cape hatteras at midnight october 12 the captain and two men of the barge were drowned one man fred lunt managed to reach the shore and was picked up by life savers abraham ruef appeared in judg dunnes dunne s court on october at the time fixed for his sentence on the charge of extortion to which he plead ed guilty at the request of ass stant district attorney attorn ey look gook R cef s actor ney consenting the date of sentence wai wait postponed to oct 23 assistant secretary ecret ary of state adee characterizes as an absurd canard the report from san francisco that honduran land forces had captured a portion ot of in september after a battle with the army of salvador mr adee said that honduras and sal vador are on friendly terms the american roolen bolen company of boston has bought about 20 pounds of wool about 20 per cent of its annual requirements which will cost cleaned 4 to 5 when the company s new worsted mills are in lu full operation the annu annuik 11 requirements will reach nakif f |