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Show NEWS SUMMAUY Senator Dick, of Ohio, has como out With a declaration In favor of Senntor Fornkcr for president. Edward Hnnlon, cx-champlon 00113-man 00113-man of tho. world, 1b dead at Toronto, Ont., from pnoumonla. Curtis aulld, Jr., was Inaugurated on Jnnunty 2 for a third terra ns governor gov-ernor of Massachusetts. A school building at Santa Monica, Cnl., was destroyed by fire, but tho 400 pupils all escaped without Injury. MrB. A. Mosler, whllo smoking a pipo in bed in Lincoln, Neb., set her coverlet on flro nnd was burned to death. Trans-Atlantic passcngor trnJIlc during dur-ing 1907 was increased by nearly 1,000,000 passengcre over tho trafllc In 1000. Tho bubonic plaguo In San Francisco Fran-cisco has been nlmoBt ontlrely stamped stamp-ed out, tlioro being but threo caBOS in tho city on Jnnuary 1. Cracksmen blow tho safe or Millet & Sons bank nt Tructon, N. Y., securing secur-ing $3,000 In cash, and escaped with a stolen horso and buggy. Altogether 1,126 men nnd 99 women sought tho assistance ot'tho London anti-sulcldo bureau to save them from Bolf-destructlon during tho past twelve months. Tho district court haa upheld tho Omaha "bluo laws" na being entirely constitutional nnd in tho futuro tho Sunday closing law will bo enforced strictly. William P. Harris, a brakeman, was shot by a holdup In Minneapolis, and died later without having given any cohoront Btatemont of what had occurred. oc-curred. ' Thomas West, of San Francisco, was shot ilvo times by Paul Mullen, au ox-puglllst, as tho result ot n quarrel quar-rel over tho Attell-Moran light. West may recover. Work which was discontinued In December for tho purpoBO of curtailing curtail-ing tho output in tho Malno woolen mills, was resumed on January 1, with n full forco. In hlB annual message, Governor Warilcld ot Maryland advocated an amondmont to tho constitution which would practically cllralnnto tho Ignorant Ignor-ant negro vote At tho ago of 107, Ithaun Tharp died on January 4, nt Nashvillo, Ohio. Mrs. Tharp lived under every administration adminis-tration except that of Washington. She was born in Virginia. Adding tho valuo of cotton, mcate, dairy producU, poultry, eggs, nnd all other items raised by tho agriculturist, tho year's total attains tho phenomenal phenome-nal value of $7,400,000,000. A total of $2,000,000 spont In the Installation or safety dovlccs with a vlow to lessoning tho possibility ol nccldent 13 tho record of tho Union Pacific Pa-cific for tho pnst twelve months. A. J. Dullard ongnged in a shotgun duel with Alllo and Boono Henry, brothers, ot Ynlo, Ky., a mlnlug town. Ballard and Boono Henry wero fatally wounded. Furthor troublo is feared. In n thirty minutes' trial, tho death penalty was passed upon Hobert Weston, Wes-ton, n negro, nt St. Franclsvlllo, La, On December 21 ho shot up a passenger passen-ger train near Baton Rouge, killing A. K. Wrldort, a student. Ono of tho most complcto bomb factories fac-tories over discovered in Itussla has been unearthed at a farm bouao twenty twen-ty miles from Sebnstopol. It consisted of a completo apparatus for tho manufacture man-ufacture of high explosives. Two men stolo a chest containing $2,8ti9 from n street car Btandlng In front of tho Main street east car barns In HocliCBtcr, N. Y., at G:25 o'clock in tho morning, and got safely away with it in an automobile. Announcement Is mado by tho provincial pro-vincial government that tho Bell Tel-ophono Tel-ophono system In Manitoba has been purchased by tho government, Tho prlco paid was $3,300,000. Tho government gov-ernment will nssunio control on January Janu-ary 15th. Mrs. Molllo Llsncn, aged 100 years, died at Pueblo, Colo., last wook. She served as a nurso during tho war between be-tween Denmark and Austria In 1807, and told many reminiscences of tho German rebellion of 1848 and tho Froneh war of 1871. After uhootlng and killing' his mother-in-law, 70 years old, driving his wlfo and children from homo and holding at bay a sheriff's posso which surrounded his house, Edward Butter-field, Butter-field, a Sutton, Vt., farmor, was found dead In bed, having shot hlmselr. Tho montniy siatuiuunr. 01 tno government's gov-ernment's recolpts and dlBbursoinent shows that for tho month of December, Decem-ber, 1907, tho rocelpta woro $47,283,-825, $47,283,-825, nnd tho expenditures $55,912,893, leaving u doflclt for tho month of $8,-535,000. $8,-535,000. ' Tho explosion ot a lamp in tho homo ot Holmor Duwluskl, at Colllnsvillc, Ills., set lire to tho houso and threo children portBhed In tho names. Tho children woro in bed when tho exploding ex-ploding lamp Bcattorcd coal oil all over tho room and saturated tho bed clothing. Mrs. Von Schocnbock, whoso husband, hus-band, a major In tho Prussian army, was 1(111 o-a by Captain Von Goebcn on Chrlstmns night, after tho major found him In his wUo'b apartments, has gtno Insano. It Is now declared that she haa been mentally deranged tor soveral years. Garrett Hedden, who six years ago murdered his brothor in Polk county, Tenn., was shot and killed laBt weelc by Shorlff Biggs. Hodden's eighteen-year-old son was also shot and killed by members of tho Shorlif's posso, Hedden had become so defiant that bo openly defied arrest. |