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Show NEWS SUMMAItt F1t. p6rsons woro killed In a- collision col-lision botweon traction cars nlno miles north of Plqua, Ohio. . Ira p. Bankoy, the singing evangel-Istj evangel-Istj died ni his homo In, Brooklyn ct. AugusT 14, nt tho ago" ot C8. 'Mistaking his wire, who had got up to close ti window, for a burglar, Geo. Parker, of Harper, Knns., shot her dead. By tho capsizing of, a pleasure launch on tho Wisconsin river near Kllbem, Wis., four Chicago peoplo wofo drowned, Tho Canndlan Pacific railway Is All-iny All-iny the vacant places In ,the shops nt Toronto and In WcBt , Toronto with strike brqakcrB. Thretj. wornon wore burned to death when a gas explosion wrecked ,tho dry goods storo of Ji V Gavin nt Wheeling, W, Vd. John Anderson shot and killed J. R. Lelghton and wounded J. It Brown ai Vdrrton, B. C, following a dlsputo over an Irrigation ditch. A soml-ofllclal statement Is published pub-lished In Athens asserting that tha Bulgarians havo commenced tholr campaigns ot vlolcnco In Macedonia. Six persons woro killed and eighteen eigh-teen Injured In a gun explosion aboard tho French gunnery schoolshlp Couronnet, off Lcs Sallnos d'Hyorcs. Tho death toll by Alplno climbers' this year Is a record ono. In tho month of July -nlono fourteen porsons wero killed, nnd Jtwo nrrimiHly Injured. English is destined to becomo tho universal languago of the world, In tho opinion ot A.- C. Meyer, member of tho lower houso of tha Danish parliament. parlia-ment. Thomas Robinson, counsel for tho Winnipeg grain exchange, whllo in a dollrlum, Jumped from a train near Montreal. Ho was found dying besldo tho tracks. Tho Paris newspapers announco that King Alfonso will visit tho French capital In September, on his way to tho Islo of Wight to Join Queen Victoria. Thomas A. Edison Is reported to bavo accumulated $25,000,000. Now ho proposes to dovoto his .tlmo to science, puro and simple, with no regard for financial productiveness. As the result of an explosion of flro damp In tho Dudwell mine, near Saor-soufkon, Saor-soufkon, Germany, .fifteen persons woro killed and bIx aro In hospitals sufforlng from serious Injuries. Tho offluoru of tho American Atlantic Atlan-tic fleet entertained 2,000 Now Zca-landers Zca-landers aboard the battleship Louisiana Louis-iana on August 13. Among tho throng woro many handsomely gowned women. wo-men. Tho bank ot ' Atton, Oklahoma, which was closed last week ponding an investigation ot Its affairs, han been reopened, tho Investigation showing thoro was no shortago whatever. what-ever. Delegates to tho convention of tho. Independence party met nt DallaB, Texas, on August 11, and nominated E. W: Klrkputrlck, president or tho Texas Farmors' congress, for 'governor. 'gov-ernor. Michael T. Maroney, aged 25, 0! Mcrldcn, Conn., Is dead as a result ot injuries received In a baseball game. Ho collided with another flayer whllu running bases, and was Injured in tho abdomen. A. messenger's pouch containing United States government pay checks for nearly $2,000 was early last wodk stolen, In front -of tho building occupied occu-pied by tho department of commorce and lnbor. Tho Mothodlst Episcopal church has begun nn actlvo crusado for .tho election of. a spcakor ot tho house of representatives "who will allow congress con-gress to voto on tho tntorstnto liquor shlpmoMt bill." Georgo Wilcox, a nogro, fqrmorly employed as a Janitor in tlio National Bank ot Commcrco, Kansas City, has confessed to tho theft ot a packago containing $8,500 from tlio bank on April 25, 190 1. Tho Luthor Loaguo of America, with a membership ot 150,000. nnd representing rep-resenting 2,000,000 mcmbors of the Lutheran church In .tlio United States, held Its eighth biennial convention In Chicago Inst weok, with 1,500 dele-gates dele-gates present. Dispatches from Baku Bay that a decrco has boon Issued at Tchoran Indefinitely In-definitely deferring tho convocation of tho Persian, parliament and that tho hah has summoned flvo hundred ad-horonts ad-horonts of tho old rcgimo to form a council ot stato. Tho Poruvlan congress voted unanimously unan-imously to protest against tho Insult offered tho republic, when Presldont Padro was pushed off tho sidewalk on a street In Lima by n former political prisoner named" Plorola. Tho .Pomo- cratlo mombors of tho houso woro absent ab-sent l"v ' Dr. Robert Koch, tho distinguished. Gorman scientist, tho discoverer pi tho tuberculosis bacillus and of .the cholera germ, .will attend tho International Interna-tional congress to be held in Washington Wash-ington in Soptembor ns an, official representative- ot tho German government. govern-ment. Judgo William II. Toft, through" np agent, has bought a southern plantation planta-tion horso 10 hands high, weighing 1,320 pounds. Tho horso won tho first prlzo at tho Bluo Grass fair at Lexington, Lex-ington, Ky last week. It will bo shipped to Judgo Tatt before the end of this weok. During tho chango of guards In tha early morning shift, William Schon-ski, Schon-ski, held on a chargo of murdor, committed com-mitted suicide In his cell In tho Raymond Ray-mond strcot Jail In Brooklyn by hanging hang-ing himself from tho bars by his bub-pendora. bub-pendora. Tho man had protested hli Innocenco of crime. 1 |