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Show NEWS SUMMARY During a storm the Greek sailing boat Urania went on tho rocks near Ancona, Italy, and was wrecked. Thirteen Thir-teen of the crew wero drowned. It may be suvernl weeks before tho charges filed with Postmaster General Gener-al Cortelyou against the Now York cotton exchange are given a hearing. Edward Main and Stephan Jokc-wlch, Jokc-wlch, two victims ot a powder mill ex. plosion nt Kenosha, Wis., died early Sunday. Threo others Injured cannot live. In a riot of 400 Greek laborers cm-ployed cm-ployed on the United Railroads In San Francisco, Mnrkos Romnntes, a Greek, .was struck on the head by a brick and killed. A westbound Rock Island passenger passen-ger train ran Into an open switch near Klugsflshcr, Oklahoma. One passenger pas-senger wns killed and a number seriously ser-iously hurt. Brigadier-General George A. Hell, U. S. A., retired died at his residence In Washington on the 2nd, Ho wns hrevettcd four times for gallant conduct con-duct during tho Civil war. Snowstorms nnd blizzards of exceptional excep-tional severity aro prevailing throughout through-out southern and southwestern Russia. Rus-sia. Traffic on tho railroads Is Interrupted Inter-rupted nnd grcnt loss of life Is reported. re-ported. Tho discussion ot tho cplsodo In Brownsville, Texas,' which resulted In tho discharge of three companies of negro troops, will continue this week the topic of paramount Interest In tho senate Ono man Is dead, ono severely wounded and another slightly Injured, as tho result of a despcrato fight which occurred between Mexicans In the public road nlno miles cast of El Paso, Texaa, Mrs. Lena Margaret Ltllls of David City, Neb., In tho penltentlnry for llfo for tho murder of her husband, Harvoy Llllls, four years ago, has been granted an unconditional pardon by Governor Mickey. Advices from Lowell, Ariz., aro to the effect that thu damago done to tho town by thu explosion of tho Dcnn-Arizona Dcnn-Arizona company's maguzlno containing contain-ing 8,700 pounds of dynamite, will bo less than $30,000. Tho elective state officers of Michigan, Mi-chigan, with tho exceptions of Governor Gover-nor Warner and Attorney-General Bird, were administered tho oath of ofllco on tho 1st. Governor Warner's Illness prevented his being preBont. A plenary council of tho French bishops to discuss tho situation of the church In Frauco, has been summoned to meet January 15 at tho Chateau do la Muetto, where Louis XVI and Mnrle Antoinette passed their honey-moon. honey-moon. State Senator Smith will Introduce a bill In tho Knnsas leglslnturo providing pro-viding that all marrlago engagements must be published In local papers and churches at least thirty days boforo tho wedding ceremony Is to bo performed. per-formed. Six hundred and fifty miners went on strike at Grass Valley, Cal., on tho 2nd. Every union miner, with tho exception ex-ception of fifty, who uro employed In four of tho smnllor mines, went out. Tho miners demand nn eight-hour eight-hour day. Mrs. Harry Gorman, daughter of Governor J. Frank Hardy, was shot nt her homo nt Laporte, Ind., by an Insane In-sane man whilo she was walking with her husband. Tho shots struck both Mr. and Mrs. Gorman, but did no serious Injury. There is little doubt Unit tho Bonnto will order un Immediate Investigation Investiga-tion of tho discharge of negro troops of tho Twenty-fifth Infantry on account ac-count of their alleged participation In tho "shooting up" of tho town of Brownsville, Tex. At tho boarding house In Joplln, Mo., where hu lived, F. W. Troy fatally fa-tally shot his wife, Patosla, aged 30, through the head and brenst, and shot Ralph Qulnn, nged 24, son ot tho Jnnd lady, through tho shoulder. Qulnn will recovor. According to Information sent to Judge Georgo 11. uruy, of Wilmington, Dola., tho dispute between tho Southern Sou-thern railway company and Its machinists ma-chinists has been adjusted. He was selected as umpire, but his services will not bo required. Depressed, It Is believed, over his defeat for re-election ns a registrar of deeds, an office which hu had filled for twenty-tlvo consecutive years, Thomas Temple committed sulcldo In Doston by Inhaling Illuminating gas. Ho was 70 years old, Tho entlro family of George Dovlno at Wlnooskl, Vt consisting of elx persons, the father, mother and four children, wero killed during tho night by Illuminating gas, which entered the houso from a break In the street main through n sewer pipe. Frank M. Ridley, Jr., of La Grango, Ga., was shot and dangerously wounded by Harvey Hill of Atlanta. Tho shooting occurred at tho wedding of Miss Ellle Ridley, a cousin of tho wounded man. It la nMserted that Hill wan In lovo with Lie bridt. |