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Show NEWS SUMMARY ! Governor Smith of Georgia has Jdgncd itho prohibition bill, effectlvo January 3, 1008. ! -JoBorlh P. Johnson lins- been elected United States Senator to succeed Senator Sen-ator iPdtttiB of Alabama. 'In accordance with tho Imperial decree de-cree 'recently Issued, all tho opium donB 'In 'Canton wero closed on tho 9th 'without disturbance. Dr. C. P. Dlnsmoro of Deep Valley, W. Va 'is dead nnd four others aro dying, us tho result of a family toIb-taking toIb-taking toadstools for mushrooms. Mrs. A. L. Ferguson was killed and her sister, Miss Henrietta Sharko, seriously Injured, by falling from tho same street car nt Long Uracil, Cal. The Nrltlsh bark Glcncrilrn, Captain Nlchol, from Itochester, Kngland, for Seattle, has been wrecked 'Off San Paolo. Two 'of tho crow wero drowned. I)y tho capsizing of n boat, Miss Lucrctla Kvans. and Kmory McDougal wero drowned 'In Henr Lake, O. McDougal, Mc-Dougal, In trying to aavo tho girl, was drawn under by her. Seven freight handlers of tho Northern North-ern Pacific road wero run down by a tug In tho Duluth'hnrbor Sunday evening even-ing while returning to their homes in a rowboat nnd drowned. Leon Malik", tho naval reservist, who fired two revolver shota nt President Pres-ident Kallleres on tho streets of Paris July 14 'last, has been declared Insano and was sent to nn asylum. Severn fighting Is reported from Formosa, For-mosa, where (ho natives aro making strenuous resistance agaliiBt tho Jap-ancso Jap-ancso troops. At Talkokan tho Japanese Jap-anese casualties numbered 200. Representatives of silk mills In 'Lackawanna and Luzomo counties, Pennsylvania, havo refused a shorter work day to silk workers Moro than 'C.000 persons nro now on strike John Butts shot and killed Tom Crowley on tho lattors' ranch, four miles east of Laytonvlllo, Cal. Dutts and his Bon, whllo hunting, had a quarrol with Crowley over a dog. Commander Hobort 13. Peary's dash for tho North polo Iiub been postponed Failure to comploto the repair on hit ship, the Roosevelt, compelled tho explorer ex-plorer to put off his trip until next year. August Howo was brutally murdered murder-ed near Hilda, Neb., his head being beaten Into n Jelly with a hammer. Ludwig Korcek, n neighbor of Howo, Is under arrest on suspicion and Is In Jail. Tom Hall, a negro living at Oollan, Texas, was arrested charged with an attempted assault upon two youns whl to women. Thu next rooming hie body was found hanging to a trco In front of tho Jail. A detachment of Infantry, com-mnndod com-mnndod by two lieutenants, has been massacred by rebels In tho Mori district dis-trict of tho Island of Celebes. The victims, Including sumo convicts numbered forty-live. ThomaB Myer, who claimed that he hoisted thu stars and stripes ovei Santiago do 'Cuba during .(ho .Span iBh-Americaii wnr, was drowned oft Cour(own whllo practicing for nn attempt at-tempt to Hwlm St. George's channel. Randolph Rucklow, n structural Ironworkur, who weighs 270 pounds, fell from tho fourth story of a building build-ing In thu course of construction In San Francisco and escaped with nc moru serious Injury thuu u broken ankle. It Is surmised, (hat Shirley Davidson, David-son, son of Judgu Davidson, and Mist lilngston, daughter of thu lato Sir William IltngRton, tho great Canadian surgeon, wero drowned In (ho Illver St. Lawrence Sunday, as their sailboat sail-boat was found drifting nnd empty. One of threo robbers who attempted attempt-ed the robbery of tho Fanners nnd Merchants bank at Strongsvlllu, Ohio, was found .later wounded and unconscious uncon-scious In a gully near Strongsvllle. Ho hall been shot by citizens Immediately Immediate-ly following tho attempted robbery. Mrs. Robert E. Peary, wlfo of the Polar explorer, has announced her Intention of remaining nil winter at Kagle island, their summer home, and ioiegolng all social enKngemeuls. Kngle Islnnd Is a rocky hit of laud In Cuhco bay and four miles out to sea. Thu pollco searched tho Imperial technical schools at Moscow and discovered dis-covered (ho cen(rnl revolutionary laboratory lab-oratory for manufacturing bonds of a new pattern and tremendous explosives, explo-sives, regular supplies of which were being shipped to various Interior points. A Hensudonal suicide has occurivd at Antwerp. M, Jacques Simon, a silk merchant, in tho presence of a erowj that th rongod Cathedral sqiiuro Jumped from tho second gallory ol thu cathedral tower, a distance ol mora than 200 feet. Death wax instantaneous. in-stantaneous. Congressman Nicholas Longworth, In n speech made at tho Commercial club's luncheon nt Honolulu, said he hoped that tho Ililllpplnos "would not long be with us. In tho meantime free trade with (ho Philippines would bo n square deal and feo sugar would not Injure Hawaii." Andrew Carnoglu has deposited in tho Hank of Kngland 1500,000 us a contribution to (ho King IMward hospital hos-pital fund. Mr. Cnrnogto oxprotged tho desire (hat tho money bo spent us seems best, adding that tho moru strenuously It Is used for reform thu better for nil concerned. Abo Cohan, who was shnl whllo accompanying ac-companying Anna Markowllz, who was choked (o death by a criminal assallani, is dead at Dayton, O. Owing to his delirious condition, tho information infor-mation hu gave concerning thu (ragedy Is conslduitid by thu authorities authori-ties In b of Utile value. |