Show NEWS SUMMARY joseph ford was shot and killed III J L hutchinson at tracy cal in a row over a game of cards the provision in the army appropriation pria tion bill increasing the pay of vates and arid non commissioned officers has been stricken out prince ferdinand ot of bulgaria and Elen onore caroline gasparine Gaspar lne louise princess ot of reuss were married at coburg germany on the three men were killed and a fourth fourth mortally wounded in a battle with revolvers following a quarrel in a lumber camp near evelyn ky AS A mother and her three children were burned to death and several per sons were injured by a fire in the dis brict inhabited by foreigners in pitts burg the reading pa plant of the am iron and steel company ha has resumed operations after two months idleness and 1000 men are again at work cadido garcia a wealthy stock grower was shot and almost instant ly killed from ambush near clayton N M and a neighbor I 1 charged with the crime justice day in the new york eu su preme court set aside the verdict of a jury and fined twelve jurymen 50 each for deciding the verdict by y the e flip of a coin nunzio nasi nast the former minister of public instruction of italy has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment on the charge of embezzlement from the state treasury the vault of the first state bank ot of clear lal e minn was blown ear ly on the coming of the the cracksmen secured 3 in currency and escaped on a handcar dal hawkins now confined in the tucson arizona jail has confessed co n f e ased to killing albert leonhart Leon harf a carpen ter on december 22 whose murder has been a complete mystery discussing the recent financial crisis in the senate senator nelson said that it was not due so much to the scarcity of money as to the dim culty in keeping money in circulation the senate has confirmed the nomi nations of louis A coolidge of massa chu to be assistant secretary of the treasury and charles P grand field of missouri to be first assistant postmaster general conductor I 1 L D cook of the rio grande yaqui pacific railroad reports that killed three can members of his train crew but spared himself and the engineer be cause they were americans the indictments against judge pe ter S grosscup of the united states court and four other directors of an electric railway of chicago charging manslaughter because of an accident last august have been quashed the women a municipal league of new york city Is investigating dish water it has been suggested that an organized effort to purify dishwater in new york s hotels and restaurants will be of great value to the city from present indications it Is esti estl mated that there will be about fifty united states warships of the barlou classes assembled in the san fran cisco bay with the arrival of rear admiral evans fleet early in may whether or not a republic is soon to supplant the monarchy in portugal it I 1 is practically the unanimous ion in lisbon that the near future will witness a violent struggle in which the life of the monarchy may be at stake receiver strawn of the defunct farmers drovers national bank of waynesburg Way pa has notified the former directors of the bank that they will have to contribute the sum of 1 1500 as a result of the failure of the bank an opinion written by judge gantt was handed down by the supreme court of missouri last week holding that the law creating the court if of gen eral era sessions in the city of st louis is unconstitutional and the court is la in valid and void J P morgan sailed tor for europe on the the fact that mr morgan regards the financial situation as sut suf cleared to permit him to go abroad was interpreted as a favorable indication in wall street and in bank ing circles generally three children of mrs W A davis were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home in santa rosa N M it Is supposed the fire was started by explosion of a gasoline stove while mrs davis was calling upon a sick neighbor william jones and his wife irene jones have been sentenced to the penitentiary tor for the of lit llan lian an eight year old chicago girl last december the man was given a thirty year term and the wo man twenty five years all the railroads doing business in minnesota have reported their 1907 earnings to state auditor iverson the total gross earnings or the year as reported were 88 as against 84 the year previous an in crease of more than four million dol dot lars the use in small quantities of ben of soda and sulphur dioxide as food preservatives will be permitted pending the formal action of the ret ref cree board of consulting scientific ex according to an order issued last week by the department of agri culture the monthly statement of the col sections of internal revenue shows that for the month of january 1908 the total receipts were 19 which is a decrease as compared with january 1907 of in the col sections on spirits there was a de crease of |