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Show NEWS SUMMARY 'Governor Sholdon, 'of Nebraska, Tiaa algnod tho -anti-pass and child .labor bills. Tiro lias -practically wiped out the oyster sottlomont at Maurlco Tlvcr, near Mlllvlllo, N. J. It was mado public last week that 3enernl Kurokl will represent tho Japanese Jap-anese army at tho Jamestown eclebr lion. By 'the explosion of tho Roller of a locomotive drawing a Santa Fo freight train, nenr Onava, N. M., thrco men were killed. Snfeblowers robbed fho Formes and Merchants Nntlonnl bank ot Hanover, Han-over, Mich., securing $3,000. Tho robbers escaped. On May 1 next, all the Iron trades In San Francisco, comprising twenty-ono twenty-ono unions and 0,000 mon, will strike for an eight-hour day. Tho scaling steamer Greenland, which became disabled upon tho scaling scal-ing grounds, has sunk. All members of her crow were rescued. An unKnown woman Jumped to death ovot tho brink of tho American falls from Prospect park, according to a dispatch from Niagara Falls. Stove Zramokl Is dead and Frank j Holslngcr is thought to bo fatally burned as tho result of an explosion at tho Lowellvllle furnace, neat Youngstown, O. Tho explosion ot n coal oil lamp at Hutchinson, Kans., started u tiro that destroyed the Morton salt plant, tho largest In tho world, Including a new $250,000 addition. Ripe peaches gathered months ahead of time wore picked last wek In Phi-quemluo Phi-quemluo Parish, La. The mildest winter win-ter In thirty years was tho cause of tho early ripening. Forest fires are raging In South Alabama, Ala-bama, near the Florida lino, nnd millions mil-lions of dollars worth of pine timber Is in peril. Dry weather Increases th.) dlfllculty of checking tho llnmes. The report that Horace N. Marvin, Jr., the kidnapped boy, has been found In tho woods near tho homo of his father at Kltts Hammock, Dela., upon Investigation was found Incorrect. In a duol over a poker game at Deserve, La., Superintendent T. W. Marrell, of tho Ruddock-Orleans Lumber Lum-ber company was killed, and Uonjamlu Bourgeois, the opponent, wns seriously serious-ly wounded. Premier Stolypln has sent a circular circu-lar to tho governors of provinces ordering or-dering "them to prohibit tho printing of news of tho Agrarian disorders In Roumanla, In tho Tear that they might spread to Russia. Harry A. Faulkner, former member of tho St. Louis houso ot delegates, who was convicted of doodling and sent to tho .penitentiary for thrco years, was released Saturday, having served his sentence. A locomotive attached to an oro train oxplodcd at Lockwood, Ohio. Tho engineer, II. M. Watson, cannot bo round, and It Is thought that ho was blown to pieces. Tho fireman and a tramp were badly hurt. Dr. William Under, a prominent physician of Union, S. C, was shot and killed by Lucy Lltsey, who walked Into tho physician's ofllco, closed tho door and fired a bullet Into his back. Tho woman was arrested. An enormous flow of natural gas was struck near Iluntsvllle, Aln., last week. Ono hundred and seventy fact of casing, weighing 7,000 pounds, wns blown out by tho pressure, and tho How has not yot been controlled. Dr. Marvin, rather of Horace Marvin, aged four, who bus been missing from his homo near Dover, Dela., for more than two weeks, has deposited $1,000 in gold with tho cashier of a local bank, which will be paid for the return of tho boy. Elmer 'Shoppard, a negro known throughout the country as "Big Kno," tho heaviest man in the United States, is dead ut Appleton, Wis., of fatty degeneration de-generation of tho heart. lie weighed C10 pounds, although only seventeen years old. That tho revolted peasants or Roumanla Rou-manla aro at least temporarily beyond tho control of the government torces In tho field Is amply evidenced by tho stories or pillaging and Incendiarism coming In from all parts ot Moldavia and Wallachla. It Is stated In Honolulu that President Presi-dent Roosevelt has offered to npnolnt Governor Carter for a second Form. Tho governor Is considering tho matter mat-ter and probably will confer personally with President Roosovolt before reaching reach-ing a decision. Tho Minnesota supremo court has uphold tho Great Northern railroad In Its contention that It had tho right to Issuo tho $CO,000,000 of stock authorized author-ized by tho hoard of directors somo months ago and which was enjoined by Attorney Genoral Young. If Governor Stuart approves the two-cent railroad fare bill, which has pnssed tho Pennsylvania senuto and house, and which is now In his minds, tho Pennsylvania and Reading railways rail-ways will begin action to test tho constitutionally of the act. |