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Show NEWS SUMMAHY F.our. ml'nbrs' 'ero killed by falling rock In a mine near joplln. Mo. Mistaking her for a burglar, George W Thompson of Indianapolis, lnd.f shot and killed his wife. Between fifteen and sixteen passengers passen-gers woro Injured when two street cars collided in Baltimore. Ab the result of tho explosion of a nltro-glycerlno factory near Bradford, I'a., two men were blown to atoms. A bank guaranty bill, patterned after tho Oklahoma law, hna been approved Ihb Florida legislature A passenger and freight train collided col-lided near Wlster Junction, Okla., during dur-ing a blinding snowstorm, nlno pco-plo pco-plo bolng Injured. Daniel 'Loganstnn. a farm hand, shot And killed Mrs. Jamecs Abel at her homo near Topckn, Kane, nnd then killed himrolf. Three men havo been arrested nt Omaha, charged with complicity in tho Un,ion Pao'jflc train robbery near that city on May 22. . A passenger steamer while entering tho harbor nt Buffnlo, sank the tug Princeton, drowning the engineer, fireman nnd another man: A cloudburst nt Vordlgro, Nob., caused a number of families to desert their homes, aiid a number of railroad rail-road bridges wero washed out. Two xiantnloupcs, tho vanguard nf tho 1909 crop from tho Imperial valley, val-ley, shipped to Los Angeles last week, told in that market at $5 each. A. testimonial to tho memory of Henry H. Rogers, oflcrcd by Judgo Gary, has been adopted by tho directors direct-ors of tho United States Steel corporation. corpor-ation. Whllo wrestling 'On tho 'deck of a steamer on the Skeona river, northern north-ern British oltrmbla, Lee King and Ell nice fell overboard nnd woro drowned. II Is announced that tho Salvation Army is making arrangements to send missionaries to China in an endeavor en-deavor to convert tho Ctilncso to Christianity. Miss Lizzio-Vork Chase, tho well known writer of verso and proso, author au-thor of "There Is No Unbelief," died at her honib In Baltimore May 25, at tho ago of 72. Phllllppo H. Itoy, former president of tho Bank of St. John, Quebec, convicted con-victed of falsifying returns, has been given tho maximum sentence of flvo years' imprisonment. Masons of Indiana on May 24 dedicated ded-icated tho new $750,000 Masonic temple In Indianapolis, which they declare de-clare Is tho finest building devoted to Masonry In the world . John Hays Hammond has definitely declined the tender of tho ministership minister-ship to China, declaring that for tho sako of his growing children he prefers pre-fers to roma!n in America, Fred Vanbllder was arrested at Fnlbault, Minn., last week In o. cellar,' whoro ho had been hiding slnco last September. Ho is wanted In Montana Mon-tana and North Dakota on a charge of horso Btoallng. Andrew Carneglo has arranged to glvo a million .dollars for tho establishment estab-lishment of a "hero fund" In Franco, under practically same conditions as govern tho fund In tho United States, England and Scotland. On tho ovo of his trial for murder, Irving Carter of Huntsvllle, Mo., committed com-mitted suicide, Bhooting himself In the ihcad. A .year ago he ehot and killed Thomas Bagby because Bagby had wronged his sister. A number of rcsldonts of Panona, Iowa, havo recently received mystor-lotiB mystor-lotiB letters containing $100 bills, flvo persbns having admitted they havo received a total of $1,100, one woman, a widow, having received $22'5, wrapped wrap-ped in a note signed "Your friend.' With his leg fractured by a fall from hla, wagon, S. C, Coffman, CC years old, of Zeal, S. D drovo ninety miles to Philip, tho nearest railroad station',, wloro ho took a train to Rapid City to seek medical attendance attend-ance Ho' travolcd two' days and one night. A mob took Albert Aiken, a negiro, from the Jail at Lincolnton, Ga., and hanged him. after which they plnnod a card to his breast declaring that tho Bamo fato would overtake all negroes In tho county undor similar circumstances. circum-stances. Aiken had murdered n whlto farmer. Charged with Bonding letters, in which he demanded $100,000 from A. Douglas, a millionaire mining man of Bisbeo, Ariz., who, is rosidlng temporarily tempor-arily In Pasadenn, Oal., Sam Lo Itoe, nllns Fred Wvlora, was arrested at tho ranch ot I). Barrllanl, near no-dondo, no-dondo, Cal. Iloland". Itich. 23 years old, was ar rested nf. Day. UUy, Mich.., nn tour nftor ho had been married, charged with tho murder- of, his grandmother, whoso dead body was found a couple of hours before' tho wedding, tho ngpd woman having been beaten to death wltJj a club. Tho supremo court of the United States has decided 'tho caso of the Adams Ad-ams Exprpss cbmpany s. tho Com-monwqaltn, Com-monwqaltn, of . Kentucky, Involving the .right pt the company to ship liquor Into a local option county, contrary con-trary to tho Jnw qt HiQ stato, In favor of tho company, Willldm. E. Darragh, tho chauffeur who ran down, nnd killed Ingvaard Trlmblo, tho olovon-ycar-old son ot a promlnont Kentucky lawyer, In Now York City, March 27, was found guilty of ninn8laligiterln the first do-greo. do-greo. Tlio maximum' ponalty la twenty twen-ty years' Imprisonment. Tho editor of a Ban Junn, P. It, nowspapcr given oyer to the publication publica-tion of caricatures has been arrost-ed, arrost-ed, charged with Bonding lmpropor matter. through tho malls. Tho chargo Id based on n cartoon ot, President Pres-ident Taft and a roforouco to hla recent re-cent mesEngo on Porto IUco. |