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Show NEWS 'SUMMAJRY Count Zeppelin ftlrsfrtp imada v successful flight of twolvo hours' duration dur-ation one day last week. ' Three, men woro killed when 100 quarts of nitroglycerin explode- In a construction camp at Blun Sulphur, Wi. Va. . A violent earthquake occurred Saturday Sat-urday near Sundsvnll, Sweden, It lasted nearly a minute, and, according accord-ing to reports, did considerable dam-ago. dam-ago. Wool growers of Mexico have reduced re-duced considerably their shipments of wool to tho' United States becauso of the duty. Most of the product Is going to London. A .100-ton, schooner for tho north polo expedition under Walter Well-man Well-man was lnunched at Christiansen, Norway, last weok. It will bo taken to Spitsbergen in May. Tho date for the trial of tho Star company, publishers of the New York American, charged with criminal libel against John D, Rockefeller, Jr., has been sot for April 29. "Tom," an efcphnnt In a circus nt Des Moines, Iowa, ran omuck. and Helr.lng his keeper, Charles Bcllew, hurled him high In tho air and when ho fell trampled him to death. Tho Illinois Central Flyer struck and Instr.ntly killed Anna, Mabel nnd Ruby, aged 7, 8 nnd 14, respectively, daughters of Fred Foldor, four miles west of Dubuquo, Iowa, Sunday morning. morn-ing. By a majority of 11,403, Frederick Krlesmann, Republican, was elected mayor of St. "Uuils. Ho received 59,-Sir, 59,-Sir, vote? nnd his Democratic opponent, oppo-nent, William O. Wocrncr, 4S.3G3 votes. Thirteen school boys were drowned near Pnmnetz, ItiiPHln. as a result of. Mm fiond. Thov wore on n bridge over the Morrltc'.i river at tho -village f Orlnina when the structure col- npsed. Governor Bhallenborgcr of Nebraska Ne-braska has signed the "dayllpht" fea-loon fea-loon bill. Tho measuro forbids the sale of liquor except hetwoen 7 n. m. and 8 p. m. The bill goes Into effect July 0. Tho city -council of Snnta Fo. N. M., by a voto of five to four, passed an ordlnanco closing all saloons In Uio city after December 31. 1D09. In tho meantime the license fee for snloons will bo doubled.- A dispatch from Pyatigorsk, a watering wat-ering place in Sis-Caucasia, says tho governor of tho province has issued orders that .Tows bo denied admission to tho" health resorts in tho Caucasus during the coming season. . Mrfi. Fanny Vnn Zamlt, 'mother of the Texas republic," died at Fort Worth, Texas, April 8, aged 91 years. She was the widow of tho late Isaac Van Zandt, who Blgned tho treaty between be-tween tho Texas republic and Mexico. Former Queen Llluoknlanl of Hawaii, Ha-waii, o'" erwlse Mrs. Lydla Domlnls, must pay $11,000 to her "court physician," phy-sician," under a Judgment rendered by Chief Justice Callmuph of tho supremo su-premo court of tho District of Co iumhla. .Toe Land I, a miner, lias been nr rested at Hartshorne, Okla., charged with being a member of tho Black Hand organization and with trying to extort 11,000 from J. H. Baker, vice-president vice-president of tho First Stato bank of Hnrtshorno. With a posslblo prohibition battlo In prospect tho Florida legislature convened at TallahaBso, ApriJ C. Although Al-though the prohibition forced havo waged a vigorous campaign, their opponents op-ponents hopo to block all "dry" legislation leg-islation from the outset. Anonymous blackmailers, who wrote from Dolavnn, Wis., havo threatened tho lives of tho mother and sister ol 10-ycar-old Harold Moon, whso body was found In a pond nt Flint, Mich., unless 1, N. Moon, the boy's fathor, turns over $3,000 to thorn. Sergeant l.lmu, who botraypd his comrades Involved In tho revolutionary revolution-ary uprising of January, 1908, when King Carlos and the crown prince of Portugal were assassinated, was stabbed to death In Lisbon, April G. The act was ono of revongo. Just as Mrs. George Gulliver of Osage, la., had started a search for her aged mother, sho was horrified to see her plunging to tho ground from t fifty-foot windmill to hor death. Mrs. .1. Pierce was 75 years old and ind been ill several months. Tho British steamer Mabrltta, from Calcutta for Indon, which went ashoro on Goodwin Bands, hnn broken In two and been abandoned. Tho passengers pas-sengers woro landed soon aftor tho vosBel struck, nnd all tho crow wero rescued. Tho loss Is estimated at $1, 000,000. Tho geueral lund olllco holds that In order to onablo tho heirs of a home-stoad home-stoad cntryman to submit commutn-Ion commutn-Ion proof of his entry, thoy must show both residence on and cultivation cultiva-tion of tho land for fourteen months by tho cntryman or heirs, or partly by both. Whllo playing "wild west" with five companions, at Linton, Ind., Clifford Wolford, 15 years old, was shot and killed by Loren Hamilton, 18 years old. Hamilton then tried to commit sulcldo, but was prevented by tho other boys, who took his rlflo away from him. A special diupatch from MeBslua to a Loudon nowspapor declares that, tho king nnd queen, who recontly visited tho earthquake districts, aro grently displeased with tho small amount or work so far accomplished, No attempt at-tempt has been made to clear away tho ruins. HorborC Nattago of Bingham. Maine,, jind his girl-wlfo could not agroo which should havo tholr baby boy, so ho sottlod It by .killing hor Nattago then oscaped. Tho couple had separated and lintucdlntqly before the tragody had been conferring ahou' the child. |