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Show NEWS SUMMARY Thore has been an outbreak of bu-bonlo bu-bonlo plnguo at Campos, Wo de Janeiro. Ja-neiro. A serious potato blight has nppeared np-peared In tho heart of Ireland and threatens the failure of tho crop. A. B. Lnmason, a wealthy banker, cashier of tho Bank of Ankcny, Iown, was struck by lightning nnd killed. .InniH Mpolly whr filnlly Injured In a collision between two street cars at Granite City. Ills. Thirteen other per-sons per-sons wore moro or less seriously hurt. Joseph Cnstlemnn, living In Weakley Weak-ley county, Tennessee, shot nnd killed his divorced wiro nnd then killed him-self. him-self. Ho wob CO years old and sho wns 50. 1 Tho Rhino & Moselle Insurnnco company com-pany of Gcrmuny has decided that It will not pay Its J2.000.000 of liabilities nrlslng from tho San Francisco conflagration. con-flagration. Revolutionists armed with revolvers revolv-ers killed Chief of Pollco Mlronovltcti and seriously wounded Captain Hot-roff, Hot-roff, tho chief of tho Rurnl Guards, at Votslavsk. Prince Mohammed Ibrahim of Egypt was most sorlouBly Injured In nn nuto-mobllo nuto-mobllo accident nt a level crossing at Bcrnay, Norraandlc. Ills chauffcut was killed. Between thirty and fifty Mexican laborers and bystanders wero killed at Chihuahua, Mexico, by tho ox plosion plo-sion of a carload of dynamtto on a Mexican Central train. James Plorrc, nn Englishman, was fined $25 In pollco court nt Bayonno, N. J., for hissing tho American flag during tho performance at a theatre. Pierre's notion almost caused a riot. In a dispatch from Warsaw tho correspondent cor-respondent of tho Tribune says that tho house of opo British and ono American Am-erican resident ot Lodz wero looted by cossacks nftor tho bomb outrago of Wednesday. Tho United Teamsters of America, the nowly launched rival of the International Inter-national Brotherhood of Teamsters, completed Its organization at Chicago by electing Newton W. Evans, Bloom-ington, Bloom-ington, 111., as president. The murder of Dr. Graham ot Holder, Hold-er, I. T who was shot and klllod about a month ngo by Ben Steward, was avenged Inst week, whon unknown un-known parties shot the latter from ambush, killing him Instantly. Eight armod men attacked the treasurer treas-urer of tho Black Sea company at midday mid-day on tho principal street of NIcolaeI-voff. NIcolaeI-voff. Thoy killed tho treasurer as well as a pollcoman, who was accompanying accompany-ing him nnd mado oft with $14,000. John Waters of Doniphan, Nob., a dclcgato to tho Populist stato convention conven-tion at Lincoln, whllo suffering from heat loft his hotel and wnndorcd to tho Burlington railroad yards nnd wns struck by a switch cnglno nnd klllod. Stnto Senator F. O. Butt of Pcry-vlllo, Pcry-vlllo, Ark., hns boon convlctod by a jury In tho circuit court on a charge of offering a brlbo to another stato senator. Ho was sentenced to two years In the penitentiary and to pay a fluo of $200. John Donnnue, n wealthy farmer, was shot and killed ut his homo nenr Coyvllle, Kan., by his wlfo, whom ho had attacked with n butchor knltc. Donnhuo wns 70 years old and had lived near Coyvlllo moro than a quarter quar-ter ot n century. A boy throw a bomb Into n procos-slon procos-slon nt Moscow, returning from n pil-grlmngo pil-grlmngo to tho shrlno of the Holy Virgin Vir-gin at Rokltno, wounding two of tho processionists. Tho explosion attracted at-tracted n patrol of Infantry, who flrod nnd wounded thirty persons. Tho Forest City, a small passenger stcumcr plying between Muskogeo, I. T nnd Fort Gibson, on tho Grand river, sank near tho latter placo. Thoro woro forty passengers on board, but all escaped safely, bolng removed from tho craft In smnll boats. Wrapping n sheet around him so that Its folds mndo a perfect shroud, J. W. Brown, nn ICnst Dos Moines, Iowa, commission merchant, lay on tho floor of his bath room, nnd, in. scrting n gas tubo Into his mouth, In-hnlod In-hnlod a sufficient qunutlty to causo death. Four boys, all undor 9 years of ago, wero struck and killed by n train whllo walking across tho railroad brldgo ovor Broad Btroot, In Elizabeth, N. J. Tho bodies of two of them fell Into tho crowded street amidst n numbor of women shoppers, several ot whom fainted. As a result of n row between twenty drunken Mexicans engnged nt Prospect Pros-pect Heights, Canon City, Colo., Mar-elial Mar-elial Berggantz was clubbed and Map slial Plllmon wns sorlously stabbed. During tho fight throo Mexicans woro sorlously Injured and one Amorican slightly. With ono bullet through his honrt nnd another through his tcmplo, entering en-tering nt ono side of tho head and coming out nt tho other, Charles Williams, Wil-liams, n negro ot Hattlcshurg, Miss., has survived for thrco days, and tho prospects nro that ho ovontually will recover. Threo Canadian Indian chlofs, In thoir plcturesquo dress, wero recolvcil by King Edward at Buckingham pal-nco pal-nco last week. Tho Indians enmo to plead for tho restoration ,ot tholr hunting hunt-ing rights and certain native customs which huve been curtnlled by tho Do-, Do-, minion government. |