Show NEWS SUMMARY the supreme court of illinois has declared that the new local option law passed last year is constitutional the forty sixth annual convention ol 01 the national educational assoria tion will be held in cleveland ohio june 29 t the churches of burlington N J have proposed a bar on the merry widow hats in the con grega iti on d dur ur ing the service by the discovery of two more bod les last week the number of lives lost in the fire at chelsea mass Is brought up to fifteen the russian government has order ed five new warships each one to be larger than the dreadnought Dread naught from a erm of clyde shipbuilders A federal grand lury jury Is 1 about to begin an investigation of several of the largest manufacturers of manila wrapping paper in the state ot of new york A serious fire which tor for a time threatened to wipe out all the property at cape may point N J de a dozen buildings before it was gotten under control fulliam willfam N cleveland nephew of ex president grover cleveland has been sentenced as a bridge trust agent to pay a fine of and serve five days in the toledo ohio jail ex president cleveland Is III at lakewood N J but the latest bulle bulls tins issued would indicate that there Is no cause tor for alarm and that his ic ie covery Is only a matter of time count and the countess formerly gladys vanderbilt had a narrow escape from drowning a vienna when their boat capsized they being forced to swim to the shore two prominent business men of milan mich were killed when their automobile was struck by i passenger train while they were at empting to cross the track near dearborn frank on trial at ottawa kans for the murder of his wife and wo mo children at their home at cen tro polis polls on february 3 1907 was found guilty of murder in the first degree by the jury the town of cairo III at the elec tion last week decided against clos ing the saloons at thebes where the prohibitionists were victor victorious lous there are six saloons which will be compelled to close their doors david wetherbee aged 75 his wife aged 65 and their daughter were ere cre mated and albert lemm the daugh ter s husband was probably fatally burned in a fire that destroyed tb th wetherbee home at Cent centerville erville pa it has been definitely decided thai that the american fleet of battleships will not call at any european port on lt it way home with the exception of tain points in the mediterranean N here it will be necessary to stop foi coal harry thaw Is to have a chance tc to prove his sanity and will be taken into court in the near future and ex by experts it if the court de aides that he is sane the chances ol 01 his release in the near future are very bright A dispatch from winnipeg an bounces that while on their way tc ti the peach river country emil card cardi nal wife and child were drowned in he the athabasca river they were trav elin eling on the ice with a dog train and tell fell through h A baseball va tossed by a boy struck mrs catherine murray of new york over the heart death resulting a few hours later an autopsy disclosed the tact fact that mrs murray s heart had swollen to an abnormal size as a re sult suit of the blow the northern pacific railway corn com pan posted a bu letin offering a reward of for the arrest and conviction of the bandits who at tempted to hold up the north coast limited near homestake Home stake fifteen miles east of butte bernard the 2 year old son ol 01 bailey B president of the pennsylvania Peni sylvania boiler works and gracd son of T M a multi million aire died at erie pa on april 24 as the result of taking medicine pre scribed for his mother b believing el leving it to be candy four men were killed three seri serf bously injured and others had a narrow escape from death when an explosion occurred in mine no 1 of the ellsworth EIls worth colliers company at ellsworth pa the dead are foreign ers their bodies were mangled and badly burned fiores flores ontaneda a noted eduado rean chemist is dead a Guay quil ecuador from bubonic plague which he contracted at the municipal labor atory while preparing Haff kines s pro twenty new cases and nine deaths have occurred at Guay quil in the week experts of the water pollution corn com cittee of the new york merchants association declare that 7 deaths annually from typhoid fever and kin dred dise diseases aes are directly attrib attribute ut able to the common house fly and v ar upon the house fly Is to be waged by y the association louis abrahams president of the diamond syndicate which controls 9 per cent of the diamond output of the world says that there Is to be no shrinkage in the price of diamonds despite the tact fact that there Is now a marked dec decrease in thee the demand tor for the precious stones ford warner a member of the house of delegates of st louis has been convicted of bribery and sen fenced to two years imprisonment warner was convicted of having ac cepter a bribe of to influence legislation permitting the erection c a garage bv a citizen |