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Show ' hVhI NEWS SUMMARY I Tho European residents "f Fez, ex- coptlng tho Germans, left on tho 25th for El Aralsh. They wero escorted by troops, HjB A passonger train cairylng Secretary of War Taft was wrecked near Sprln's Hall, Knns., but nono rf tho pnssen- Hi gcrs woro Injured. HI Thero will bo no strlUe of tho team- Btcrs employed by the meat packing firms of Chlcngo. Committees repre-scntlng repre-scntlng both sides hate agreed to n compromise. HI Tho historic Dent farm of 438 ncres, outsldo the city limits of St. Louis! has changed hnnds for $75,000. Thy log cabin occupied hy General Grunt still stands. HI Louis ainss, vlco president of tho Pacific Stntcs Telephone company, was convicted on tho first ballot by tho Jury, for bribery of tho super visors of San Francisco. H A platform erected by n Oporto, Pop tugal, now8ipcr on tho occasion of a. lottery drawing collapsed, hurling to tho ground nbout 500 persons, of whom HJ ten wcro killed nnd eighty Injured. An unidentified girl aged about boy-bn boy-bn years was killed by a tramp, near Gary, Ills. When discovered by work. men, tho girl hail uufflclent strength to tell of tho attack, but died Immodl- mmm atcly. HI Searching for an tj.lt, hemmed in on nil sides by fire, Walter and Sadl-j Ward, Lillian Rayo and Verglo Wallar.o wcro burned to denth In Oklahoma City. Tho fire Is believed to bo Incou- A fast passenger truln on tho St. Paul railroad collided with a crowded street car at a crossing in La Crossn, Wis. Ono man was seriously injured, tho other passenger escaping with bruises. H Witness fees nnd mllengo clnlmod by John D. Rockefeller for his appear-anco appear-anco beforo Judgo Lnndls In Chicago -H some weoks slnco wero paid last week. A check for $83 was mailed to him In Clovoland. H Haymond W. Clark, lalo captain ot troop 3!) of tho Indiana regiment, nnd a veteran of tho G. A R., killed him self In Oakland by gas asphyxiation, , "H His action Is attributed to financial ' embarrassment. H Advices received from tho American coiiBtilnto at Hakodate placo tho Io3 caused by tho conflagration there at $10,000,000. About 15,000 houses, vary-In vary-In In value, woro burned and 50,000 pcoplo wcro rendered homeless. Miss Joscphlno Murphy, a teacher in 'H tho high Bchool at San Jose, Cnl., wns drowned In Coyoto creek by tho cup- HI sizing of a row boat In which she wa3 'mmm seated in compuny with Miss Kato Bollow, daughter of a wealthy rancher. HH A dispatch from Morocco, datod August 25, says Mulaf Hafig made sov- .H eral charges In his ministry boforo departing for tho cast nnd also ro-leased ro-leased all tho prisoners Incarcerated at Morocco City during tho reign of Abdul Azaz. mmm As tho result of a tornado nt Eu mmm Claire, Wis., Mary Thompson and Thos. mWM Huguo aro dead and one boy was In- mmm lured. Flvo resldcncen 27 barns, two U schools, ono church nnd many hny W stacks were dcstroyo-1. Tho loss la a mWrn )vcr $75,000. Severo floods throughout central .BV Japan hns caused many millions ol HJ jollarn damnges, and havo not yet WJ abated. It Is not believed that tho HH loss of llfo will bo heavy, nlthougt HJ dotnllcd reports from tho flooded dla W trlcts aro lacking. m John Oster, a youth, la doad a mWM Moscautnh, Ills., of wounds alleged ta WJ havo boon Inflicted by his father. Th WJ elder Oster had quarrelled with hit U wife, and tho son went to his mother'd defense, enraging tho father, who thou HJ attacked tho son. mt Tho war department has declined Wt to grant tho request of tho mayor ot WU San Francisco for tents to nccommo- HJ date tho patients in city hospitals who H nro to bo removed from tha buildings WJ to rcduco the chanco of extending the mt ravages of tho plague HJ Congressman Joseph G. Cannon, ol BBJ Illinois, Is quoted as replying, in an. wt swer to the- question as to whether ho W was a candldaV) for tha presldoncy: wt "Am. I a candidate for tho Republican WJ nomination for president? No, I havo HH not tho bee, personally." HJ Charles A. Andrews, a former rest- W aurnnt keeper of Elkhart, Ind., shot nnd killed Ethel Blnlno of Flora, Ind., JWM and then committed suicide In n Chlca HJ go hotel. Andrews hml boen lnfnfii- RBI atcd with tho Blalno womnn nnd had HH left his own wlfo und children in In- HJ dlnun. i9H Wesley Christopher, n youth whe lilwll killed Chnrley L. Stnnley, n commcr- wQ& clnl traveler at St. Jpo, Mo., March jlftf 30. last, has been sentenced to ten I'-w years In tho ponltontlmy. Chrlstophoi jiifW assaulted a woman In an nlley and (fW when Stanley wont to her rescue th tSfA& boy shot him. fctf&Ff Tho Pacific Coast Steamship com W'l pnny'u steamer Acnpulce, which wns tc havo snlled from Sun Francisco for i.M , Puhamn nud way ports, turned turtln and sunk nt her dock Just before K if hor tlmo for departure em tho 2C, Nc W-lives W-lives were' lost, but tho cargo wa ruined by water. H'yw William J. Brynn hni mado public br ills comments on' 'Tuft's Columbue ii&iJ speech, Ho Buys Taft. Is a straddlor M on nearly nil .Importnut Issues, nnd . Irvfyi criticises him for fnllnro to tako ad -SJV vanoed ground In reforms. Bryan Kci! also complains thnt Taft misrepresent- SPkhI od Bryan's position. ImJ Detectives in tho employ of tho HBI Southern Pacific havo uncovered a long series of thefts from tlu baggago room HbB of tho ferry depot In San Francisco. BQ "or nearly six months t'loso depre- BBjl datlous havo been colnn, on nnd it Is BBl estimated tint "r "0 worth of plun- BBl dor hnvo been tnl.i n. BBl |