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Show e, NEWS SUMMAHY Josoph Ford wns shot and killed bj J. L. Hutchinson at Tracy, Cat., in a row over n gnmo of cards. Tho provision in tho nrrriy appropriation appro-priation 4)111 Increasing tho pay of privates pri-vates nnd non-commlsslonod omcers hns been stricken out. Prlnco Ferdinand or Bulgaria nnd Elononorc Caroline Gnsparlno Louise, Princess of Ilcuss, wero mnrrlcd nt Coburg, Gormuuy, on tho 28th. Thrco men wero killed and a fourth mortally wounded in a battlo with revolvers following a quarrel in n lumber camp near Evelyn, Ky. Al mother and her thrco children woro burned to death and several per-rions per-rions wero injured by a flro In tho district dis-trict Inhabited by foreigners in Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. Tho Bending, Pa., plant of tho American Am-erican Iron and Steel company, has resumed operations nftor two months' Idleness, nnd 1,000 men aro again at work. Cndldo Garcia, n wealthy stock grower, was shot and nlmost instantly instant-ly killed from ambush near Ctnyton, N. M., nnd a neighbor 1b charged with tho crime. Jiiatlco Day, In tho Now York bu-prcmo bu-prcmo court, set nsldo tho vordlct of n Jury nnd lined twelvo Jurymen $50 each for deciding tho vordlct by tho flip of a coin. Nunzlo Nasi, the former minister of public Instruction of Italy, has been sentenced to a tortn of Imprisonment on tho chargo of embezzlement from tho stnto treasury. Tho vnult of tho First Stnto bank ot Clcnr Lake, Minn., wns blown early ear-ly on tho morning of tho 28th. Tho cracksmen secured $3,000 in currency nnd escaped on a handcar. Dnl Hawkins, now confined In tho Tucson, Arizona, Jail, has confessed to killing Albert Lconhart,. a carpenter, carpen-ter, on December 22, whoso murder lias been a complete mystery. Discussing tho recent financial crisis In tho senate, Senator Nelson said thnt lt was not duo bo much to tho scarcity of money ns to tho difficulty diffi-culty in keeping money in circulation. Tho scnato has confirmed tho nominations nomi-nations of Louis A. Cool Id go ot Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, to bo assistant secretary of tho treasury; and Charles P. Grand-Held Grand-Held ot Missouri, to bo first assistant postmaster general. Conductor L. D. Cook of thu Rio Grando, Yaqul & Pacific railroad, reports re-ports that Yaquls killed thrco Mexican Mexi-can members of his trnln crew, but spared himself and tho englncor bo-causo bo-causo thoy wero Amorlcans. Tho Indictments against Judgo Peter Pe-ter S. GroBscup of tho United States court and four other directors of nn electric rnllway, ot Chicago, charging manslaughter, becauso of an accident last August, have been qunshed. Tho Women's Municipal leaguo ol Now York City Is Investigating dishwater. dish-water. It has been suggested that an organized effort to purify dishwater In Now York's hotels nnd restaurants will bo of great valuo to tho city. From present indications It Is estimated esti-mated that thero will bo about fifty United States warships of tho various classes assembled in tho San Francisco Fran-cisco bay with tho nrrlval of Bear Admiral Evans fleot early In May. Whothor or not n republic is soon to supplant tho monarchy In Portugal, It Is practically tho unanimous opinion opin-ion in Lisbon that tho near futuro will witness a violent strugglo in which tho life of tho monarchy may bo nt stake. Becolvcr .Strawn of tho defunct Farmers & Drovors' National bnnk of Wnynesburg. Pa., has notified tho former directors of tho bank that they will havo to contribute tho sum of $1,500,000 as n result of tho failure of tho bank. An opinion, written by Judgo Oantt, wns handed down, by tho supremo court of Missouri last week, holding that tho law creating tho court of son-oral son-oral sessions in tho city of St. Louis Is unconstitutional anu tno conn is invalid in-valid and void. J. P. Morgan sailed for Europo oil tho 26th. Tho fact that Mr. Morgan regards tho financial situation as sufficiently suf-ficiently cleared to permit him to go abroad was interpreted as a favorablo Indication In Wall street and in banking bank-ing circles generally. Threo children of Mrs. W. A. Davis wero burned to death in a flro which destroyed their homo In Santa Bosn, N. M. It Is supposed tho lire wns started by explosion of a gasoline Btovo whllo Mru. DavlB was calling upon a sick neighbor. William Jones and his wife, Ircno Jones, havo bcon sentenced to tho ponltontlary for tho kidnaping of Lillian Lil-lian Wulff, nn elght-yenr-old Chicago girl, last Decomber. Tho man was given n thirty-year term and tho woman wo-man twenty-llvo yours. All tho railroads doing business In Minnesota huvo reported their 1907 earnings to Stato Auditor Iverson. Thn total gross earnings for tho year, ns, reported, voro $88,814,893, as against $84,751,847 tho year previous, nn in-crcaso in-crcaso of more than four million dollars. dol-lars. Tho uso in small quantities ot bon-zoato bon-zoato of soda nnd sulphur dloxldo as food preservatives will bo permitted pending tho formal action of tho ref-oreo ref-oreo board of consulting scientific ox-pcrts, ox-pcrts, according to nn order issued lust week by tho dopnrtmont of agriculture. agri-culture. Tho monthly Btntomont of tho collections col-lections ot internal rovonua shows that for tho month of January, 1908, tho total rocolptB woro $19,742,001, which Is a docrenso as compared with January, 1907, or $907,013, In tho col-lections col-lections on spirits there was a do-crcaso do-crcaso or $479,533. |
