Show NEWS SUMMARY y mrs alfred one of ta 6 most prominent women in springfield ill III died last week from a hemorrhage caused by fright during a terrific wind storm As the result of suspension of work in III the shops of the santa fe railway at topeka and newton kan avei a men have been thrown out of 0 employment W C smith former president of the national exchange bank of lexing ton ky committed suicide last week by shooting whilo while despondent he was wealthy it is reported that well armed afghans have made an incursion inac persian territory and have occupied began regan a town about miles couth east of kerman there will be an automobile race for the vanderbilt cup somewhere in the vicinity of new york city thi year the date and place have nol noi yet been announced two americans and one englishman were attacked by bandits and killed near Coa chinia one of the mining camps of the green copper company near dolores chihuahua A special from port arthur ont says the civic dam on current river burst causing a disastrous flood three lives were lost while the monetary loss will reach admiral A S U S N retired died at his home in phil adelphia adelph la on may 27 at the age of 72 the immediate cause of death being the hardening of the tissues of the body henry farman the british aeronaut began a series of experiments at ghent last week with his aeroplane he has accomplished tor for the first time a number of flights in the teeth of a strong wind ind president roosevelt was one of the guests at the wedding of elizabeth shaw olliver eldest daughter of the assistant secretary of war and francis K stevens at the olliver residence in washington on the A terrific wind storm of almost the proportions of a tornado which passed over the southern part of lowell county kansas killed one man and injured twenty two persons seven of them probably fatally thomas and james wycliff Wyclif fi the ta fa oklahoma outlaws who have been hunted by the government au ties of oklahoma tor for thirteen years surrendered to the state author ties at tallequah Tale quah last week A convict in the chester III pen has written the sheriff at I 1 laporte ind that the home of mrs gunness accused of a number of in murders was a fence for a sang gang of chicago cut throats and robbers As the result of several conferences between president roosevelt secre tary taft and general bell chief of staff of the army it has been decided not to withdraw any ot of the united states troops from cuba at present reports from maryville markville Mar oregon tarkio and other northwest missouri towns are to the effect that thousands of acres of lowlands have been flood ed most of this land had been plant ed to corn and the damage Is heavy by the sudden sinking of the cana dian than pacific roadbed at a point miles east of winnipeg man an ex press train was derailed several p pas as being slightly injured reg mail worth at least 15 was destroyed A dozen children were seriously hurt at lorberry horberry Lor berry pa when two rail road trucks on which they were riding down the grade crashed into each other the accident was due to sky larking the children getting on the trucks for a ride tornadoes that swept over the coun ty adjacent to hennessey forty miles northwest of guthrie oklahoma and cashion fourteen miles southwest brought great damage to crops and firm property it is believed no lives nave have been lost although details are meager mrs margaret hamilton who was one of the principal witnesses to the alleged identity of the duke of port land with T C druce has been sen fenced to eighteen months penal servi tude for perjury her appeal having been disallowed mrs airs hamilton Is 70 years old mae C wood the omaha woman who sued senator thomas C platt tor for divorce alleging that she was sr sa creely married to the aged senator in 1901 and who was arrested at the con elusion of the trial on a charge of per jurl has been released from prison on 5 bail the united states circuit court of appeals has affirmed the conviction and fines imposed upon the omaha railroad and its general freight agent H H pearce in the grain rebate cases tried last year in minneapolis the road was fined 20 and mr air pearce 2 fred J tramper a young civil en gincer of cleveland 0 was acquitted of a charge of murder at the clinto B C assizes tramper killed james coleman in the northern wilds of british columbia early this year he claimed that coleman had threatened to shoot him J W hamby a prominent real es tate dealer of cleveland ohio in evolved in frauds that amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars has been sentenced ced to three years in the penitentiary he was char charged ed with ob money by altering the title of the certificates the british gunboat shears ater ar rived at san diego cal last week from a long and fruitless search for the british collier rhom which Is supposed to have been lost with all on board near san fernandez island crusoe s island off the coast of 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