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Show " I mm v NEWS SUMMARY V A school building In course of construction con-struction at Antwerp collapsed, killing flvo men nnd Injuring twelve. Thirteen solcllore o( tho I'ocrulsk (nusfilnn) gnrrlon have been ncn-tenced ncn-tenced to death for mutiny, 1 Ohio coal operators have decided not to concede the demands of tho miners for an IncrcnRO In wages. Four hundred military executions havo occurred In Livonia ns a result of tho government's repressive measures. meas-ures. Tho socialists of Finland aro ngltat lng for n general strike to show tho discontent of tho pcoplo of the conditions. con-ditions. By tho collapse of the gallery staging stag-ing In Earl's mlno, nt Haiti!, district of Tarvld, forty miners and one engineer en-gineer wcro killed. A snow avalanche nt the Lofoten Isl-, i nnds burled n number of fishermen's huts. Rescuers extricated twenty-ono dead and thlrtynlne Injured. Thcro Is greaP rejoicing In Oklahoma Okla-homa over tho .passage of the statehood state-hood bill by tho senate, and universal concurrence In the amendments. A military train with tnachlno guns Is held In constant readiness at tho railroad station In Moscow, In caso of - emergency ln the neighboring cities. A wholesale bomb foctory was cap tured by the police at tho lodgings of a druggist' In St Petersburg. Ono hundred and twenty bombs wero seized. A provision limiting tho snlarlcs of government clerks over CG years old to $1,000 a year has been attnehed to tho legislative appropriation bill by a sub-commlttco. For refusing to handle their guns against tho revolutionists In Odessa during tho disturbances, thirty soldiers sol-diers havo been sentenced to various terms In prison. , Tho blto of n black spider brought agonizing death' to Edmund Seccombe, tho 11-year-old son of Mr. nnd Mrs. F. 'W. Seccombe, prominent residents of '.San Bernardino, Cal. Tho lntcrnatloaal watcrVayB commission com-mission has reached an agreement regarding re-garding Niagara Falls, by which both countries will take all precautions to save Us scenic beauty. Tartars of tho village of Allatlou fired on a detachment of passing cos-sacks. cos-sacks. Tho latter, bombarded ho village) vil-lage) for three hours and dislodged tho Tartars, killing several of them. Tho three men who on February 10 attempted to assassinate General noycBV, tho president of tho Itopub'llt of Columbia, werj shot last -week at tho spot where the attack occurred. Tho bodies of Mrs". Clinton Metz nnd hor two children, who wore frozen-to death In tho recent blizzard, havo been found about half a'mlla from tho Metz rnnclf;near Harrlson; Nob'.', i In a saloon flglit near the lino1 of tho Chickasaw nation, thirty miles cast of Lawton, I. T Ed Buchanan and Thomas Caldwell wero shot and killed, and a third man was seriously wounded. Tho London Express says that In consequenco of repeated raids by the Wazlras and other warllko tribes on tho northwest frontlor of India tho authorities au-thorities contemplate sending a powerful power-ful expedition to tho disturbed districts. dis-tricts. At tho vlllago of Fucceechlo, twenty-threo twenty-threo "miles west of Florence, Italy, a houso where a dance was In prog ress took fire, In the panic which ensued, en-sued, tho floor gave way and sixteen persons perished while mapy others wero Injured, In tho twentieth annual report ol tho Boston chamber of commorce Issued Is-sued last wcok, It Is pointed out that Boston has rc-4,ttabllshcd herself as tho second port of tho country on combined values, taking tho placo ol New Orleans. The supremo court nt Jefferson City, Mo., holds to bo constitutional tho statute making It a folony for a man to live In Missouri with his second sec-ond wlfo though married to hor in another stnto, tho first wlfo living nnd not bolng divorced. L. Stuckcy, editor of tho People's Demands, was shot and killed nt Colfax, Col-fax, La., i)y A. M. Goodwin, editor of tho Colfax Chronlclo. Tho cauie of tho tragedy wus tne publication of an artlclo by Stuckoy rellectlng on tho ctiarnctcr of Goodwin, "Interesting, but untrue," Is tho British focolgn olllco's comment on a story published In Paris too tho ef-j ef-j foct that a formal political alllanco botwoon Great Britain and Spain will promptly follow King Alfonso's mar-rlago mar-rlago to Princess Ena. W. E. Balnbrldgo of Iowa, who ro-cently ro-cently declined tho consulship to Amoy, China, has boen solocted by Socrotary Shaw to bo spoclal,ngont of tho customs- servlco at Paris, succeeding succeed-ing Major William II. Williams, who will bo sent to another post. |