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Show NEWS SUMMARY Halt tho business section of Attica, At-tica, N. Y., has been wiped out by flro. Tho oxtrcmo heat which has prevailed pre-vailed in Cleveland, Ohio, tho past tow days has resulted In a number of prostrations. Two men nnd two women, wlillo boating In tho lako at Muskegon, Mich., on Sunday wero drowned, tho boat capsizing. Trachoma nnd not bubonic plaguo Is responsible for tho order forbidding forbid-ding 1,000 Japancso to land at tho port of Sallna Cruz. Luclon Baker, former United States senator from Kansas, died at Leavenworth Leaven-worth on tho 22nd, after a month's Illness, ot Brlght's disease. Typhoid fever Is again epidemic In Pittsburg. The dlscaso is said to bo of a moro virulent typo than last year and tho mortality Is greater. Six hundred men of tho Seventeenth Seven-teenth infantry, who mutinied nnd marched to Uezlors under nrms, have returned to their barracks at Odgo Franco. Tho Japanese In tho Los Angoles public schools havo been officially classified as "Mongolians," notwlth standing their, objection to such class location. Moro than ono hundred persons wero drowned by tho flood caused by tho overflowing of tho Lothos rlvor, which Inundated tho town of Trlknla, In Thcssaly. H. L. Lalng, an attorney ot Colorado Colo-rado Springs, was drowned while bathing In tho surf nt Ocean Park Cal., being overcome by tho breakors His body was recovered. Ronaldo Chavez, a Puoblo Indian, aged 17, a member ot this year'& graduating class nt Haskell Instltuto, Lawrence, "Kans., was drowned In the Makarsa whllo swimming. Tho derailment of a work train near Detroit, Minn., caused tho death ol Brakeman Lcnlmen and Engineer Charles Anderson. Engineer W. O. Grconbaugh wns seriously Injured. Using for ropo tho bandages with which his Injured font had been wrapped, John Iarvoy, 42 years old, of Now York, committed suicide by hanging himself from tho door of his" room. Four deaths and n dozen prostrations prostra-tions on- Saturday mark tho record for tho hottest day so far this summer sum-mer in New York. Streot thermomo-tors thermomo-tors registered as high as 95 shortly after noon. William Route, a carpenter of Detroit,'' De-troit,'' cut his wife's throat and then slashed his own with the samo razor, and both died whore they fell, in the bod room whero their two children wore sleeping. Tho chief ot pollco ot Vilna has ordered or-dered all Polish shop signs to bo removed. re-moved. The owners of shops nro now obliged to paint their signs nnd publish pub-lish their advertisements in tho Russian Rus-sian language only. Albert LnnzcndorfT, a San Francisco policeman, shot himself through tho brain becauso ho was unable to sleep. He feared that ho would loso his mind and would bo cumpolled to resign re-sign from the police force. Thero will bo no strike of tho packing pack-ing house teamsters of Chicago, for somo tlmo at least. The men havo accepted tho offer of arbitration mado by tho packers and will remain nt work ponding tho arbitration. Tho Jury In tho enso of Mrs. Emma Kaufmann, a wealthy woman of Sioux Falls, S. D accusod ot tho murder of Miss Agnes Polrels, hor lC-year;old servant, returned a verdict of manslaughter In tho first degree. A sheriff's Jury has determined that James Bartlctt Hammond, presllent ot tho Hammond Typewriter company, Is Incompetent to manage himself and his affairs, and will so report to the supremo court. His estnto Is valued at $800,000. Mrs. Annie Bcsant of Adynr, India who has just been elected world president pres-ident ot the Theosophlcnl society will attend tho annual convention tc bo held In Chicago In tho mlddlo of September of tho American scctlou ol the society. Mrs. Russell Sngo has sent to the Lincoln Farm association a eontrlbu tlon of $25,000 to the fund for tho preservation ot the Abraham1 Lincoln Farm and Log Cnbln and for tho memorial building that will bo put up on tho farm eventually. Tho strike which ha been Ia pre-gross pre-gross at tho Wyundottu yard of the American Shipbuilding company ut Detroit, since March 12, was settled Sunday, tho mon resuming work under un-der the samo conditions which prevailed pre-vailed before tho strike. Tho RusBky Vledmostl, the veteran Liberal organ, has been lined $300 for publishing mi article Inlmlcnblo to the government. Four other newspaper news-paper were lined sums ranging from $250 to $500 each, and numerous other liussluii papers havo been fined. Tho governor of Novgorod, Count Modem, has caused to bo posted In tho cities nnd villages of the province an order minouuclng that severe measures wll bo tukuu to suppress disorders, and warning the Inhabitants Inhab-itants tnnt the troops will use tiro-arniB, |