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Show NEWS SUMMARY Seven men lost their lives in a Toomlng houso fire In Kansas City. Firo at Houston, Texas, Sunday last destroyed property valued at $7GO,000. Mayor John Vnn Fosscn of Ypsllan-tl, Ypsllan-tl, Mich., shot nnd killed himself whllo temporarily insane. New York bankers nro looking forward for-ward to a resumption of cashr payments pay-ments within a very short tlmo. According to reports, tho recent storms on tho Blnck sea havo resulted in terrlblo suffering and great loss ol nro. Tho strike of 750 union employees of tbo Ixiulsvlllo Railway company waa called off by a vote taken by tho men last week. A fire In tho Harvard houso at Gloucester, Mass., resulted in ono death, several Injured, and a dnmngo estimated at $15,000. Two minors were burled by a fall of rock in tho Cnlumot & Hocla copper cop-per mlno at Houghton, Mich. Both wero instantly killed. Tho extraordinary rush of aliens to Europe continues unabated nnd eight steamships sailing Saturday carrlod 12,000 Htcerago passengers. A band of robbers entered tho government gov-ernment pawnshop In Turaln, Russia, gathered togothor diamonds and gold to tho value of $75,000 and escaped. Tho Isabella furnaco of tho American Amer-ican Steel & Wiro company at Etna, Pa., has been closed Indefinitely, throwing over 1,000 mon out of employment. em-ployment. Tho Hot Springs (S. D.) National bank has closed its doors, owing to tho financial stringency. Tho officers say the bank's assets exceed Its liabilities lia-bilities by $34,140. John Miller, leader of a fraction' of feudists, was shot and killed at Whltcsburg, Ky., and Andy and Morrill Mor-rill Jones, mombers of another faction, fac-tion, wero mortally wounded. Mrs. Louise M. Taft, mothor of tho eocrotary of war, Is again Borlously 111 at Mllbury, Mbbb. Recently bco was believed to bo on tho way to recovery, but she has now sufforcd a relapse. Dr. Shrady, who was tho attending physician during tho Illness of tho lato President Grant, died In Now York City, November 30, death resulting re-sulting from a complication of diseases. di-seases. Thlrty-flvo mills and factories In Now England, which havo been curtailing cur-tailing production or shut down for ropalra for a brief period recently, aro oxpectcd to rcsumo operations during the week. Santa Fe Agont Perrlno, stationed at Ncbo, Col., had an encounter with three Mexican bandits. In tho shoo't-Ing shoo't-Ing that followed, ono Mexican was killed outright and another wounded In tho leg. The third escaped. Edward Burko, formerly a famous ball player with tho Now York Giants, died nt iv charity hospital In Utlca, N. Y last weok, agod 43 years. For tho last year or bo ho had worked as a cook for a railroad section gang. Endeavors aro being mndo to hnvo tho general government pay $5,000,000 to tho now stato of Oklahoma In the lmmedlato future This sum Is duo as an appropriation contained In tho enabling net creating tho new stato. W. H. McVay, presldonot of tho First National bank of Ynnkton, S. D was- found dead In bed Sunday morning. morn-ing. MoVay was C8 years of ago, and had been prominent In tho financial and political history of South Dakota. Mrs. Ida Wolkcr of Cleveland, O., twenty-two years old, was shot throo times by Herbort Fround and was probably futally wounded. Fround, who Is hut twenty ycarB of ngo, fired two shots ut himself. Ho will r.ccovor. A Chinaman cannot bo legally convicted con-victed of a crlrao when his solo of-fonso of-fonso Is that of entering Canada without with-out paying tho $500 head tax required by tho Canadian government, accord-lug accord-lug to a decision by tho Biipromo court. Aftor holding up Henry C. Kohl nnd four customers In Kohl's saloon In Chicago, threo young desporadoes forced their victims into tho saloon Ice box and turned on n phonograph to drown tho cries of tho prisoners, then mndo their oscapo. President Roosovolt spent Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day at tho old homo of Presi dent Madison, near Montpollor, Va. This trip was tnkon In variation ol tho custom of tho president, which has been to go to his country homo at Pino Knot, Va., on Thanksgiving day. Tho Jury which hoard tho case against R. Moado Shumwny, charged wltli tho murder of Mrs. Sarah Martin, Mar-tin, near Adams, Nebraska, on the aftornoon of September 3, found the defendant guilty and recommended that tho court sontenco Shumway to hnnc. Ernest O. Tlmmo, auditor of the treasury Jor tho stato department, has tendered his resignation to tho secretary secre-tary of tho treasury. Mr. Tlmmo, who resigns for porsonal reasons, was appointed fifth auditor of tho treasury i department in 1892, nnd Is from Kenosha, Ken-osha, Wis. Clio, Arkansas, tho homo of 300 lumber mill employees and their families, fam-ilies, is to be dopopulatod, as tho result re-sult of an ordor Issuod by Judge Elliott El-liott of Little Rock, which grow out of tho triple assassination thero ot Clarence Bush, Thomas Gadfrey and A. R. McEwou. Members ot a prospecting party who have been in tho st&tp ot Sonora, Moxlco, bring a story of butchory by Yaqul Indians, In which four poreoivs were killed and two injured, The Indiana In-diana attacked a pack train and scattered scat-tered provisions In the train over a distance ot several miles. , 1 |