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Show NEWS SUMMARY The German .steamer Tlern lias been ink In tho North sea, with tho loss fit twenty-one lives. Tho upper house of tho Danish dlot Tins passed a 1)111 carrying the adoption adop-tion of tho metric system of measures In Denmark. Tho Russian evacuation of Mnnchu-rla Mnnchu-rla is -complete. Tho last battalion ot Russlnn troops left Harbin Thursday of Inst woek. Thirty woman suffragists wcro arrested ar-rested "Wednesday nrtcrnoon for attempting at-tempting to forco nn entrance Into tho House of Commons. Six former or present attendants ot the State hospital for tho Insane nt Clovclund, O., were Indicted luBt week for alleged attacks on patients, As the result of a collision between a pnsscngcr train nnd a freight train at Turuschlcho station, seventeen persons per-sons were killed nnd thlrty-flvo Injured. In-jured. Mrs. Jnmes Tolbert, wife of former Mayor Tolbert of Fairmont, da., was brutally assaulted and her 2-raonth-old baby waB murdered by a negro at their homo. Secretary Tuft uul party which is to accompany him to Panama, Cuba nnd Porto Rico will go on tho Mnyflower, which the navy department has placed at their disposal. Peasants hnvo again Invaded Botos-sab Botos-sab n I and set tiro to different parts of tho town, especially tho Jewish quarters. quar-ters. Troops Intervened nnd several of tho pcasantH wero killed or wounded. Every man in Fort Dodge, Iowa, between be-tween tho uges ot 25 and 45 years must become a mnrrled man or pay a fine, as tho result of an ordlnnnco Introduced by Mayor Bennett and passed by the city council. Count Arco, In his wlrelees telephono experiments, says a Berlin dispatch, has succeeded in obtaining distinct exchanges ex-changes ot words In a tolerable natural voico at a dlstanco of two miles, by using poles thirty fcot high. Two corps of Western Pacific engineers en-gineers nro surveying tho proposed lino between Ely, Nevndu, and tho main lino of tho Western Pacific, and will complete their preliminary work wlthlntho next thirty days. Mrs. Fred Belasco, wlfo of tho senior partner ot the Alcazar theatre and known on tho ntngo under the nnme ol Juliet Crosby, died suddenly in San Francisco, and nn hour later M. L. Mayer, Mr. Belasco's purtnor, died of tho shock. Edward Howell, ono of the most Influential In-fluential negroes in southern Mississippi Missis-sippi nnd president of tho Peoplo's bank, of Hattlcsburg, Miss., was shot In the back and killed while on his way home late at night. No motive is known. A Santa F.e freight locomotive boiler exploded at SImms, Cnl., killing Fireman Fire-man J. B. Kerr nnd fatally scalding Engineer P. Barniun. Brnkoman J. L. McElery wns badly hurt. Jmr cars wero demolished and tho track blocked with wreckage. f A murder trial presenting features of umfsual interest began at Carmct, Ills., Monday, when Jennie Burch, a fourteen-year-old girl will bo called on to answer the charge of poisoning Wilbur Wlnshlp, a two-year-old child whoso nurse she was. President Baer of tho Reading Railroad Rail-road company hns been authorized by tho board ot directors ot his company to advance tho age limit of employees from :!5 to 45 years. This is in lino with tho recent action of tho Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Railroad company. When Mrs. lsvl Jett, of Ashland, Ky., vns bathing her Infant, she suddenly sud-denly was seized with a pain In the head, It Is said, and fell dead. The babo tell from the lifeless arms of Its mother Into a tub of hot water and was scalded to death. Coventor Folk of Missouri has signed tho bill passed by tho last legislature leg-islature making it a folony to opernto a huckctshop In tills state; the penalty clauso also Includes any telegraph or telephone company which furnishes information to a huckctshop. Arthur Bean killed his wlfo with an ax nt North Baltimore, O., and then committed sulcldo by shooting himself. Bean hnd forbidden his wire visiting her rnmlly. Sho visited her parents at night, and ho Induced her to go homo and then murdered her. Tho court or Inquiry appointed to determine the cniiBO or the explosion or March 12 on tho battleship lena, decided de-cided that tho disaster was caused by a spontaneous explosion of "B" powder, pow-der, due to decomposition nnd tho elevation ele-vation or tho temperature of the magazine. mag-azine. Major C. W. Penrose, of tho Twenty-fifth Infantry hns been acquitted ot tho charge of neglect of duty, preferred pre-ferred against him ut tho Instance ot President Roosovolt for nlleged misconduct mis-conduct In connection with the "shoot-Ing-up" of Brownsvlllo, Tex., by no-aro no-aro soldlors. PrJ'ico Hermann von Hohenloho LuntUnhorg, viceroy or Alsnco-lxiraln, has arrlvod at Berlin to mnko n personal per-sonal roport to Emperor William on tho mlno disaster at Forbach. Tho causo of tho explosion by which sov-onty-rour persons lost tholr lives hns not yot been decided. |