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Show NEWS SUMMARY Tho first snowfall of the season is roportcd nt Marquotto nnd Jloughlon, Mich. Charles Suydan, 19 years old, was killed In a football game at Morrlston, N. J. Fresh outbreaks of boxers are reported re-ported In North China In districts west of Poking. A majority of tho victims of the steamer Hankow burned nt Moscow wero women. John Gadomskl, editor of Gazette Polska, who wns shot by bandits at Warsaw, Is dead. A clgnr stub left In tho opera-houso at Brlstow, la., started a fire which destroyed the business section. Joseph II. Glldden, tho Inventor ol tho barbed wlro fence, is dead at his homo in Dekalb, Ills., at the age oi 93. Flro at Summorflcld, Kansas, destroyed de-stroyed throo stores and tho Sun, a newspaper office. For a time tho entire en-tire town was threatened. Vincenzo Rnymundo, a teacher of languages In Chicago, murdored his 11-year-old son nnd then suicided. Raymundo was insane. Tho carthquako shocks in Sicily contlnuo, and are causing sorious damage to dwellings and churches, some of which have fallen. Tho activity among tho .fanatical bands In tho lowor part of Morocco is causing considerable anxiety In French gvornment circles. Suslo Becker, thrco years old, tho daughter of Fred Becker, a Buffalo, N. Y., saloonkeeoor, Is bellovcd to bo In tho hands of kidnappers. Tho very sovero rainy season in Panama has caused Inundations in the Interior of tho province of Los Santos, whero heavy losses havo been suffered. Advices from Important cotton sections sec-tions of Oklahoma nnd Indian Territory Terri-tory aro to tho effect that- tbo cotton crop wns badly damaged by last week's frost. Thero Is no Incrcaso in yellow fever at Havana, nnd Major J. R. Kean of tho medical department says thoro aro no special elements of danger In tho situation. Eight Indictments In the so-called sugar rebate cases were handed down by tho October Federal grand Jury of New York City, which completed its labors last week. Tho National Wholesale Druggists' association has determined to aid tho government authorities in every possible pos-sible way to carry tho puro food and drug law Into effect. Two men wero killed and a dozen wero wounded In a conflict between striking mill hands and provincial pollco at MacLarcn's saw mills at Buckingham, Quebec. Aunt Jano Mttcholl, colored, aged 117 years, died at Frankfort, Ky of burns received by her clothing catching catch-ing fire. Her husband died a short tlmo ago at tho ago of 100 years. In a baseball game near Roll a, Mo., two men, Clark and McKoo, collided with terrific force whllo trying to catch a ball. McKoo was killed almost al-most Instantly and Clark rendered unconscious. un-conscious. The peonage caso recently tried at Cape Girardeau, Mo., which resulted In Charles M. Smith and his son and Ave others being fined and sentenced to tho Leavenworth penitentiary, will bo re-heard In St. Louis. The monthly statement of the collections col-lections of civil rovenuo show for the month of August, 190C, tho totnl receipts re-ceipts wero J21.848.CC3, which was a gain, as compared with tho month of August, lflOC, of ?1,913,E90. Sccrotary Taft having Indicated that ho had no further uso for tho battleships Indiana and Kentucky in Cuban waters at this time, theso vessels ves-sels havo boon ordered to rojoln tbo Atlantic licet off tho coast of Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. Tho general managers of tho rail-roads rail-roads in Chicago who recently received receiv-ed demands from tho union switchmen switch-men on their lines that an eight-hour day nnd other concessions bo granted, havo decided to refuso tho demands of tho men. Tho rebolllon against TurklBh rulo in tho provlnco of Yaman shows no signs of subsiding, nnd whenever a pitched battle Is fought tho rebellious Arabs seem to be victorious over tho unwilling Turkish conscripts sent to subduo them. Richard Croker hns formally Inaugurated Inau-gurated the libel suit which will bring to a definite Issue the question whether wheth-er be used his position as chief of Tammany hall for purposes of financial finan-cial profit. Tho suit Is against a London Lon-don magazine. T. D. Gamon, a roal estnto operator oper-ator and capitalist, was scalded to death in a bath tub in a harbor shop in Oakland, Cal. Ho had an attack of heart failure and fell into tho tub of scalding water that ho was preparing prepar-ing for a bath. Captain Michael J. Ehrot of tho Chicago Chi-cago flro department was killed, nnd Chnrlos Slayhlzo, flroman, fatally hurt, whon tho Bvanston "flyer" on tho Chi. co go & Northwestern railroad struck a flro truck at Rates avenuo crossing In Rogers park. |