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Show NEWS SUMMARY Major General William II. Shatter, U. S, A., died at IJnkersflcld, Cnl., on tho 12th, from pneumonia. Herbert Bradley, a wealthy flour exporter, ex-porter, wns hilled V' a pot door on tho'prcsorves at his homo nenr Mont-clulr, Mont-clulr, N. J. Four men wcro killed and a scoro Injured, several fatally, by the explosion explo-sion of a holler of n cotton gin at Caulksvllle, Ark. The streets of Warsaw aro again In control of the cavalry In consequence of threatened disorders because of tho high price of meat, Tho first-class Japanese battleship Sutsninn, 19,000 ton, tho first battle-'ship battle-'ship to be launched In Japanese waters, wa-ters, was launched on the IGth. A reactionary newspaper of Moscow demands' the expulsion of Count Wltto from ltussln, and says ho will remain In Kusslu at the risk of his life. - Representative Bourke Cochran and Miss Annie Ide, daughter of Henry C. Ide, formerly governor general of tho Philippines, were married on tho IGth. Prlnco Albert of Fluriders, tho heir apparent to the Belgian throne and nephew of King Leopold, has been sworn In as a member of the Belgian Senate. Although there exists no law to tho contrary, the government of Peru has refused to allow n local firm of bankers bank-ers to ship 12,000 silver sols (about 12,000 pounds) to London. V. C. Swcntnmn, of Philadelphia, dropped dead whllo running to catch a train. He was 85 yearn of ago und was one of the heaviest dealers In malt in the United States. Mrs. Charles A. Strong, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, died nt Cannes, France, on the 14th. Mrs. Strong hnd been III for somo time and suffered a paralytic stroke on November 12, William It. Hearst, Independence league, and Democratic candidate for governor of New York, has certified to tho secretary of state that he spent $:tSli,370 In promoting his- canvnss. Mrs. Charles Mowry and her three children, Homer, aged G years; Louise, 3 years, and a baby of C months, wero burned to death In their home on a farm nt Batavla station, Michigan. Six men wero killed and flvo seriously seri-ously injured when a holler In tho power house of tho Lake Shore nnd Michigan Southern railroad, In Collin-wood, Collin-wood, n suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, blew up. Generals Kolan and Cnstellancn wcro severely wounded near Vnloncln, Spain, as a result of tho explosion of n land mlno during experiments which wore being conducted by tho military engineers. Two persons wcro seriously Injured and n number of women nnd children bruised and otherwise slightly hurt In a panic caused by an Incipient blaze from a moving picture machlno nt Evnnsvllle, Ind. Dr. W. C. Phillips, aged 811 years, former secretary of tho stato of Texas, nnd brother of United States District Judge John F. Phillips of Missouri, committed suicide at Hochoport, Mo., by drinking poison. Throe robbers escaped with tho contents con-tents of the safe of tho Bank of Walker, Walk-er, at Walker, Mo. Tho safe and front portion of tho bank building wcro wrccke'd by tho explosion of a heavy chargo of dynamite. President Roosovcll will bo asked to deliver tho nddrcss ot tho unveiling of the monument to General Lnwton, being erected at Indianapolis by tho people of Indiana. Tho ceremony will tnko place next Memorial day. Tho American International Congress Con-gress on Tuberculosis wns held In Now York last week. Dr. F. 15. Daniel ot Austin, Tcxbb, tho president, declnrod tho keynoto of tho convention Is to ho the prevention of tuberculosis by legislation. legis-lation. Robbers dynamited n safo In tho Bank of Lohomn, In Garfield county, Oklahoma, and escaped with $2,700 In cash. Tho bank hnd Just received $10,000 to pay farmers for their cotton, cot-ton, but tho robbers overlooked this-money, this-money, Bort Seeloy, who was undor bus-plclon bus-plclon in connection with tho murder of Edwin Gnrwln, In West Haven, Mich., wns found dead In his bed, and lying beside him wnB his young wife, nlso dead. It In thought that tho cou-pin cou-pin committed sulcldo. Tho United Slates grand Jury at Pensacola, Fin., after four dayB' session, ses-sion, returned indictments against twelve persons, charging peonago In connection with cases which originated origin-ated at the Jackson Lumber company's camp several months since. The Worklngmnn's Savings and Loan coinpnny of Greenvlllo, S. C, tho only negro banking Institution In tho state, has closed its doors by order of tho stilto bank examiner. Cnrolcss bookkeeping is said to ho tho cnuso nt tho bank's embarrassment. Immediately after congress convenes con-venes noxt month, Senator Cnllom of Illinois will Introduce n Joint resolution resolu-tion In the Honato providing for tho appointment of an export tariff commission com-mission to consider and report on thoso schedules which would bo revised. |