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Show NEWS SUMMARY At Llssola, near Monnstlr, a Uroek band murdorcd eight Bulgarians, Including In-cluding two priests. A building In course of construction at nnmberg fell, six workmen being taken out dead and four Injured. The bourse has passed a bill granting fo the stnto of California five per cent of the net proceeds of the sale of public pub-lic lands, Dr. 12. M. Sutton, ono or tho leading surgeons or Illinois, committed sul-cldo sul-cldo at Peoria, by shooting himself through tbo head. M. D. Wilcox, a morchant and postmaster post-master at Dixon, 8. D., hns been convicted con-victed in the circuit court nt Fairfax Fair-fax of horse-stcallng. As a result of an Inquiry by Governor Gov-ernor Pardee, It Is ascertained that 300 Grand Army men lost tholr homes In, tho great Are In San Francisco. Tho cotton manufacturers of Falls' Itlver, Mnss., havo granted tho opora-tlvoa opora-tlvoa a 14 per cent Incronso In wages. About 26,000 hands nro bonellted. Information has reached Washington Washing-ton that Jlmlnoz, one-tlmo president of Santo Domingo, has takon command com-mand of the revolutionary forces thero. A captain of gendarmes named Shoronatlcff was killed on tbo streets Lt Kartell, Ilusfrla, by revolutionists. Ills wife, who ncoompanlod him, was seriously wounded. A primary oloctlon bill containing a provision which Is lntondod to ro-kttrict ro-kttrict tho voting of negroes at tho primaries Iiiih beon passod by the Louisiana legislature. All records for largo trees In British Brit-ish Columbia rorests have been broken brok-en by tho foiling of a gigantic Dc jglas fir at Ilocky May, B. C. Tho troo con-lalni con-lalni 18,600 feet of merchantable lumber. lum-ber. The Duko of Almodovar, minister of torofgd affairs, who acted as president presi-dent of tho conferenco on Moroccan reforms hold at Algeclras early In the present year, died at Madrid, Saturday. Satur-day. Two meu lost their lives, anothor was fatally lnji red and six moro wore sovorely hurt as tho result of an accident ac-cident In tho Pennsylvania tunnel between be-tween New York and Long Island City. Adherents of tho Sultan of Morocco unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate assassin-ate Bulmnara, the pretendor, while ho ! was sleeping In his tent. Sovoral ot . tho pretendor s guards woro killed and others wounded. Four men nro dead nnd one perhaps fatally Injured, all wlilto inon, as tho result of an nttompt by three life-term cbnvlcts to escape from tho Angola, La., state convict fnrm, Bovonty mllos from Natchez, Mies, William Bates, n clam tlsher at Bed fylnir'Mlnn..ha8 found a poarl In a clam shell which Is snld to be tho largest larg-est fresh water pearl in existence. Its worth Is ostlmntod at anywhere from 910,000 to 1100,000. Mrs. Minerva Williams, tried aa accessory ac-cessory before tho fact In tho murdoi of James Leigh last January, at Evans-vllle, Evans-vllle, 'ind., has been found guilty of murder In the first degree, and sentenced sen-tenced to life imprisonment. G. W. Martin, a farmer, his wife nnd three children were drowned noar Sis-seton, Sis-seton, S. D., whllo returning homo from a circus. In tho darkness Martin drove off tha brldgo Into the rlvor, which was bamy swollen from rocent rains. Dr. W. T. Hnrrls, commissioner of .education, has tendered hie resignation to tbo president nnd the latter has announced an-nounced tho appointment ot Dr. Elmer R. Brown, professor of education In tho Unlvorslty of California, as hla succossor. J. B. Baremore, a farmer residing noar Fort Smith, Ark., nnd two of his children, are doad of ptomaine poisoning. pois-oning. A daughter, aged sovon yenra, is at the point ot death. Thoy hnd eaten sausage purchased from a street lunch stand. Governor Folk has granted a respite re-spite until Soptomber 3 next in tho cases of Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frank Hottman, undor sentenco of denth for tho murder of tho woman's husband, Clarence Myere, at Kansas City two years ago. Clarenco M. York, private secretary for many years to Chief Justine Fullor of tho Supremo court ot tho Unttctf States, jumped or fell from a window nt Gartleld hospital, Washington, nnd received Injuries from which ho shortly short-ly afterwards died. In tho otllco ot Chief of Dotcctlvog Desmond ot St. Louis, Mrs. W. 0. An nold confessed thnt sho killed Frank I j. Phelps at her houso because she thought he was going to mnko hot carry out n compact botween thotr) to commit suicide. By a unanimous voto tho oxecutlvd board .of tho Wostern Federation ot. Miners hns turned down the nppllca tlon of tho coal mlncm of Ohio and Illinois, affiliated with tho United Mlno Workers of Amorlca, for ndi mission to tho feneration. |