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Show v NEWS SUMMARY V Firo at Winona, Minn., destroyed property valued nt $115,000. Carter Harrison will bo a candidate for mayor of Chicago nt tho next election. elec-tion. Ono mnn was killed and flvo Injured In a head-on collision between a light engine nnd frclgiit train near Oil City, Pa. In a fire at tho Kubarl colliery, on tho island of Hokkaido, 418 buildings wero destroyed and nlno minors perished. per-ished. A naval lieutenant named Halschov-nlkoff Halschov-nlkoff has been Identified ns tho would-bo would-bo assassin of tho governor-general of Moscow. President Hhontji says thnt If a lock canal should bo constructed, tho Panama Pan-ama canal would bo In operation July 1, 1914. Mrs. Sallcl Elizabeth Sneed Vest, widow of tho lato United State Senator George Graham Vest, is dead at St. Louis, aged 74 years. Tom Jackson, a negro, who hnd been arrested for holdlng-up and robbing Henry Barnos, a white boy, of ono dollar, dol-lar, was lynched at Blanchard, La. Six men wero killed and fifty others more or less Injured by an explosion ex-plosion In the plant of the Now York Qlucoso company nt Shadysldc, N. J. Flvo persons wero Injured by a collision col-lision between two automobiles near Springfield, O., one of tho machines being thrown down a ten-foot embankment. embank-ment. During a ball gamo near Mobllo, Ala., lightning struck in the midst of tho crowd of spectators, killing flvo and moro or less Injuring twenty-flvo others. Tho resldenco of J. W. Duko, near Waxahachlo, icxna, wob struck by a cyclono nnd demolished, an Infant being be-ing killed and other members of tho family Injured. Count SolBky has been relloved of the presidency of tho council of tho empire, or upper houso of parliament of Ilussln, at his own request, and on account of ill-health. The remains of a man, supposed to be H. K. Shaw, a mining promoter, were found under tho Mission street wharf, San Franclqco, weighted down with eighty pounds of scrap Iron. R. Brent Mitchell, tho former San Francisco stock broker who failed for $100,000 somo months ago nnd fled tho city a self-confcBscd embezzler, has been located In Spanish Honduras. Charles McEwcn, a prominent farmer far-mer and horseman of Cowles county, Kansas, wos clubbed to death by Amassa Thomas as tho culmination of a feud of long standing between tho two men. Tho British steamer Oakbum, which sailed from Now York April 18 for Sydney, N. S. W., has been wrecked off Duykor point, near Capetown. Her crew, with tho exception of two Chinamen, China-men, were saved. Tho American National Red Cross received $30,000 last week from tho Japanoso Red Cross for tho relief of fhp 8an Francisco earthquako sufferers. suffer-ers. This brings tho total Jopaneso Red Cross contribution to $80,000. Tho British Felucca Consuolo has been captured off tho Anghcra coast by plrntcs, who aro adherents of tho brigand chief, Vnllento. Tho sum of $2,000 Is demanded ns ransom for tho vessel and tho rolcaso of her crew. In thirty fathoms of water and nt tho risk of his own life, Wllllnm Conk-lln, Conk-lln, a '14-year-old boy, of Stapleton, Stnten Island, rescued Captain August Cnmarton, of tho Gloucester fishing schooner Maud 8., from drowning. In tho district of Tadlakensk a peasant peas-ant couplo wero klllod nnd their six-year-old Bon was wounded nnd their homo sot on fire by n band of revolutionists. revolu-tionists. Tho crlmo was an act of ven-gcanco ven-gcanco becauso tho peasant had led ft Cossack patrol. S. A. D. Puter, accused of complicity In tho Oregon land frauds, nnd who has been hunted for montliB by tho federal authorities slnco ho escaped from detectives In Boston, was arrested arrest-ed in Alameda, Cal., last week by secret sec-ret sorvlco men. George 11. Younger, a negro, who shot and killed n well-known citizen named Rector nt Columbus, Miss., whllo tho latter, ns a raomber of a posse, was ondeavorlng to effect tho negro's arrest, was taken from tho Jail by a mob and lynched. The overturning of, a rowboat In the Desplalnes river near Willow Springs, twenty miles south of Chicago, resulted result-ed In the drowning of Charles Sacn-ger, Sacn-ger, Robert Holdon and Albert Brunko, all of Chicago. Rocking the boat caused it to capsize. A band of 100 Greeks began burning tho Bulgarian village of Stnrchlna, near Monastlr. When six houses had beon burned, Turkish troops appeared on tho scene and killed seventeen of tho Greeks. Tho remainder of tho Greeks fled, tho Turks pursuing. t |