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Show NEWS SUMMARY All ilanger from the V'isli fires that have threatened Port Arthur. Out., for the past few weeks has been averted by rain. Five men were killed and sixteen others Injured by a holler explosion In thr Laura mlno, nenr Ifccrlop, on the Dutch bonier H. H. Smith, father of Governor Hoke Smith or Georgia, and one or tho best known educulorn In the south, Is dead nt the age or 88. Fire which startetl In tho village of Snnta Angclo, Italy, was extinguished by the use or wine, which Is more plentiful there than water. Tho chemical engines or tho fire department de-partment are being used In Manila In (Uninfecting houses suspected to have contained cholera patients. The first downpour of rain In Chicago Chi-cago since August 12, started on Soi-tember Soi-tember 1!). The past summer has been remarkable for the absenco of moisture. In the postmasters' convention at Chaltnnoogn, Tenn., resolutions were unanimously passed urging congress to pass the proposed postal savings bank bill. A dispatch from Hatchclor, La., says u ui'Kro named John Miles was lynched there for shooting a white man. '"he white man was not seriously seri-ously hurt. Italian emigration to the United States Is still decreasing. During tho month of August only l.:!f,0 emigrants left Italy for America, while 20.S20 re turned home. Professor Kirhner of tho Prnsslnn ministry of pirlillc health says that there Is not a single ense or cholera In Germany, the system of Inspection seemingly being perrect. Our man was killed and seven others oth-ers Injured, two or them fatally .In a collision between a yard engine and a work train 011 tho Pittsburg & Lake Ih'le railroad at Glbsonton, Pn. The light on Mount I.nglorln, Curua-mllla Curua-mllla point, which marks on "? !. approaches to Valparaiso irom the southward, has been re-established. This light wiib destroyed In 1000. It Is reported that the schemo of the Americans to control horse racing at .Jamaica. Kingston, has dropped through. It being Impossible to raise the necessary capital III the United States. Dr. George Clark, who was tho oldest old-est living graduate of Union college, and a young teacher who "whaled" Roscoe Conkllng when he was a student. stu-dent. Is dead at his, homo In New York City, nged 02 years, Four persons wore killed nnd twenty-six Injured In a wreck on the Ynzuoo & Mississippi Volley railroad near Clarksdale, MIsb.,' when two coaches of 11 passenger trnlu rolled down an embankment. A dispatch from Perry Sound, Ont.. says: An almost Impenetrable veil df rmoko overhangs the whole north country anil the forest fires continue to rage with undiminished fierceness. Many villages are threatened. Tho Rev. .John Dnndlnolll. formerly former-ly provincial of the Passlonlst Fathers Fath-ers in the United States nnd Mexico, died nt the Passlonlst monastery In Dunkirk. N. Y., on the 17th. Ho was born In Genoa seventy-four years ago. A fog of London-like density In Chicago Chi-cago was responsible for three railroad rail-road wrecks of minor character, alight injuries to over a score or per-and per-and minor accidents all over the city, pons, two deaths at Grand Crossing The citizens or Sallda. Colo., arc much exercised over the "Sale of Rabies" advertised by the Salvation ariny. ICIght children nro advertised to be sold, and there Is said to ho h movement afoot to stop tho sale by couit proceedings. Three cadets attending the mllltnry school at Vllnn. Russia, were last week condemned by court-martial to exile In Siberia for having formed a society, which operated through tho cadet ofllcers. to capture tho cadets for rovoltitlonnry activity, The average wages per hour In the principal manufacturing and mechanical mechan-ical Industries or the country wore 3.7 per rent higher In 1007 than In 100(1. whllo retail prices of food wore 1.2 per cent higher, according to tho July report of the bureau of labor. An unknown man, apparently 25 years of age, a passenger on the wpbI-I wpbI-I omul Union Pacific overland limited, killed himself with a knife while the 1 rain was In the ynrds ot Kearney, Neb. After Indict Inn fatal wounds he threw tho knife from a window. Thirty men descended on tho camping camp-ing ground of the Irvlnltes, a religious Feet which Is holding a convention at Rrooklyn. and set lire to two large tents. Roth wero destroyed and a houso In which wns stored a quantity of provisions wns partly burned. Tho semicentennial celebration of Uk great debate hotween Abraham Lincoln ami Stephen A. Douglas attracted at-tracted n largo crowd at Jonosboro, ills. It is estimated thot 10,000 perrons per-rons attended tho colobratlon, which wns hold In tho Union county fair grounds. lCrnoBt Flckner. an Amorlcan. employed em-ployed In a Btnoltor at Kl Paso. Texas, who refused to remnvo his hot when tho band In tho pluzn at Juarez, Mexico, Mex-ico, wns playing the Mexican nntloua' nlr, wns assaulted by a raging mob of Mexicans nnd beaten almost Into In-rcnslblllty. In-rcnslblllty. According to an order issued nt the war department Inst week, a reward or $50 will bo paid In all cases where 0 dosortor Is delivered by a civil of ftcor or civilian at a military post. 01 it such other places as may ho deslr natcd for his delivery by propor mill tury authorities. |