Show NEWS the plant of the jenkins rubber company at elizabeth N Y has been practically destroyed by flie file causing a loss of john gregson a stockman of colum b bus us mont was killed by a train at kenzie S D while en route to chi cago with a shipment of cattle the shevlin macmu lumber corn com pany s sawmill at beaudette wis caught fire and burned to the ground causing a loss of approximately the hearst independence party Is planning to put a full state ticket in la the field in kansas by means of a petition containing the names of 2 voters th the tha a new finnish diet was formally opened at the palace at Helsing fors n august 5 by governor general Lo eckman with the customary cere Plo moniale nials formal ratifications of the new trademark and copyright treaty between the japanese government and the united states were exchanged on august 6 in an encounter between the police and a band of brigands who have long terrorized the suburbs of tiflis flie me of the latter were killed and the ethers others captured john zett a farmer living on the bolton road near vernon conn killed his wife and granddaughter and tried to kill his son using a sledge ham mer and a knife wilbam E english a private in company coast artillery awaiting tor for desertion was shot and killed at the presidio san francisco while trying to escape three children aged 1 2 and 4 years respectively were burned to death at minneapolis the mother mrs frani franl lindberg locked the chil dren in a room and went shopping A number of persons were burned to 0 o death and houses were destroyed by fire at Donau schingen ger many fortunately a heavy rain tell fell and stopped the progress of the con fla gration china has formally accepted the date january I 1 next and the tion of the city of shanghai as the time and place for holding the meet ing of the international opium corn com mission the people of constantine algeria ire still in a state of terror from the earthquake shocks of a few days ago fearing a repetition and there Is in consequence a steady exodus to the country the orthodox missionary congress which is now in session at kiev has taken a backward and unpopular step in petitioning the government to again make obligatory in poland the use of the kussian russian calendar A william V downing a member of the old stiles alvord band of outlaws who ten years ago operated in south ern arizona was killed in his saloon at wilcox ariz atiz by hanger ranger william speed while resisting arrest the first national bank of bell plaine minn has been closed by or of the comptroller of the cur rency the bank was reported insolent followed by the suicide or of the president of the bank J 0 G lunde official estimates of the fire losses to the insurance companies as the result of the forest fires in british co lambla have been prepared by the special representatives and adjusters they place the amount at 2 members of the united brother hood of tailors of new york city are again threatening a general strike which it if called will involve 30 poat oat mal ers and helpers at alt present fl 1 e men are working from ten to e even hours bronson howard the dean of amer lean ican playwrights died august 4 at A on by the sea he was born in de troit in lit 1842 like most men of his p ofes sion he began his career in a newspaper office being a reporter report eri on the detroit free press miss elizabeth barnett recently a quitted of the murder of oscar pet eison ei son a bachelor farmer and rear re ar tested on a charge of forgery escaped from sheriff hartley to the brush cov ered sand ridges on the shore of sag sagi naw bay ten miles northwest of bay city mich ilich scott pound and ray C baird two seattle youths about 18 years of age were surprised at work robbing a sa I 1 on in san francisco into which they had forced an entrance and in trying to escape pounds was shot and 1 billed by a policeman after a chase of two blocks while clearnt clear na away the urns of the explosion in the Ri kovsky mine which resulted in the death of about two hundred men the found a set of counterfeiting tools ai d a quantity of spurious money it is believed the counterfeiters caused the explosion the record run from denser denger to cheyenne in an automobile was made last week by J W barker president ct cf the northern colorado power corn com pany and party they left denver at 2 26 p in and at 6 30 p in stop ped at cheyenne mr barker s son was at the wheel giving of lands tor for playgrounds is becoming a very popular form of ben ef action gifts by citizens have been made recently in auburn N Y new britain conn and springfield Spring held mass I 1 he pittsburg playground association has asked for a bond issue of 2 tor for playgrounds hugh a member of the germania baseball team who was spiked while playing with the basin wyo team on july 4 died a few days igo as a result of blood poisoning caused by the spiking before death aine came Reb had suffered paralysis from rom the hips down |