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Show I NEWS SUMiUAEY The mills of tho Now England Cot. ton Yarn company, nt Now Bedford, Mass., aro to run but flvo days a week In future. Judgo William Hogun Roid, agod 55 years, formerly Judgo of a court at Tacoma, Wash., died at Lynchburg, Vo.. on tho ICth. Because of lack of cash, Houston, Texas, Is forced to pay employees B with checks. This Is the first city In -Texas compelled to do this. The money exported from Chill during dur-ing tho recent financial stringency In Europe and America is estimated to have been ono million pounds. The Sanford Plush mills, nt Sand-ford. Sand-ford. Me., will bo operated but threo days a week until further notice. Eleven hundred hands nro affected. It Is announced thnt tho recent census cen-sus taken shows that Havnna hns a; population of 299,278, being an Increase In-crease of 45.8C0 over tho census of 1S99. Ten million dollars in gold bullion from England has been received at the Philadelphia mint, and will nt once be mndo Into eagles for American Ameri-can circulation. Daniel C. McKnlght, cnshler ot tho Foster Stnto bank, of Fostor, Ky Is" under arrest, charged with embezzling S1C.C00. lt Is snld McKnlght lost tho mo'iey In speculation. Large reductions In working forces In many Industries In Chicago havo been made within the Inst few days, owing dlrectiy to scarcity of orders and business depression. Tho Jury In tho case of Leonardo and Nlckollna Gebbla, on trlnl at Now Orleans, charged with complicity In the kidnaping nnd murder of Walter Lamana, brought In n verdict of guilty. The mint nt Now Orleans has received re-ceived nn order directing ovcrtlmo In order to coin monthly $200,000 of tho -subsidiary coin In addition to tho regular coinage of $500,000 per month. Two lives wero lost in tho flro that visited Iqulquo, Chile, nnd destroyed a largo section of the poorer residential residen-tial quarter. A total of 3,000 peoplo are homeless as a result of tho conflagration. con-flagration. Slnco Comptroller of tho Currency Rldgoloy Issued his circular urging national na-tional banks to tnke out additional circulation, cir-culation, tho totnl lncrcaso from November No-vember 1 up to November 1C amounted amount-ed to $23,480,300. Tho Hercules nitro-glycerlno factory, fac-tory, located a milo from Brndner, O., blew up with terrific force. Onty three employees wero in tho neighborhood neigh-borhood when the explosion occurred, and all were killed. Doxtor M. Ferry, head of tho great seed houso which bears his nnmo. was found dead in bed at his homo In Detroit. De-troit. Ho retired at night In apparoat good health, and died from heart dls-easo dls-easo during tho night. Herlanda West, of Mexico City, Moxlco, was burned to death at tho homo of Deputy Sheriff Bert Rico In L03 Angeles, whero sho was visiting. Hor clothing became ignited from tho flames of u gas stove. For tho second tlmo In seven ! months Loulsvlllo Is suffering fram a Btrcet car strlko, tho 800 union employees em-ployees of tho Loulsvlllo Rnllway company having walked out shortly after midnight on tho ICth. J. B. Thomas, aged 05, cashier of tho Bank of Albany, Mo., committed suicide at a hotel in Kansas City by shooting. Thomas walked into a bath room and deliberately blow out his brains. No motivo Is known. Tho outlaw Stout, wanted for tho shooting of Williams at Llttlo Fort, B. C, last week, has beon shot and killed about thirty miles north of Knmloops, by Charles McLean, a member of tho pursuing posso. Tho negotiations which J. Plorpont Morgan & Co. havo been conducting with tho Bank of Franco to obtain between be-tween twenty and forty millions In gold for direct shipment to Now York were-definitely broken off last wook. Forty tonB of powder nnd shells passed through Omaha last wook over tho Missouri Pacific and tho Northwestern North-western on ItB way, to GottyBburg, S. D., tho sceno of tho Uto trouble Tho . shipment was from Fort Leavenworth, also Including several galling guns. Secretary Motcalf last wcolt signed contracts aggregating $2,270,000 with tho Electric Boat company of Now York for tho construction of sovon Bubmarlno torpedo bontB, several of tho Bitmo size and typo of tho Octopus, Octo-pus, and others of tho samo typo but I larger. Tho ateam schoonor Borkoloy, In ballast from San Pedro for San Fran-, clsco, was dostroyed by flro nbout flf-' teen miles from Oavltoa, Cal. Tho vessel was. an oll-burnor and tho lire Btnrted' In tho cilglno room. AU on .board took to tho boats and woro saved. Ernest Thompson Seton, tho author, who has roturncil to tho United Stntos from an exploration trip of sovornl monthB through northwost Canada; Into tho great plains of tho Arctic re. glon, Is very enthusiastic ovor that pait of Canada below tho Arctic zone calling It Ujo "White Man's Last Opportunity." Op-portunity." Colonel Frank West, In chnrgo for tho government of tho Uto Indian situation sit-uation nt Thunder Butto, S. D., ro. ports that tho Indians havo finally consented to nccopt tho employment on tho Mllwnukeo railroad for tho u-lntni nnil till nctlon Is n solution of tho question. A Jury nt Jollet, 111., acquitted Rov. Donjnmln F. Graff, a former Baptist mlnlBtor, who wna accused of forgery In connection with nn Insurnnco application. appli-cation. In n previous trlnl the Jury disagreed. Tho defendant was nrrest-cd nrrest-cd in Michigan and has been in jail at Jollet several months. |