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Show NEWS SUMMARY A tornado which struck New Uos-ton, Uos-ton, Iowa, demolished a church and injured 11 number ot peoplo. Half of tho business section ot Mid-dlcvlllo, Mid-dlcvlllo, Mich., has been wiped out by lire, tho loss being $75,000. Ton members of a plcnsuro party wcro drowned by tho upsetting of n motor ferry boat on tho lako near Lit-beck, Lit-beck, Germany. Tho Oklahoma lcglslntiiro has passed a law making it a crimo, pun-iHhablo pun-iHhablo by it fine of from $5 to $25, to smoko cigarettes. Conventions between Jnpan and the United States and Jnpan and Great Britain covering Undo marks and pntcnts will bo signed shortly. Fnvorablo health conditions con-tlnuo con-tlnuo on tho zone, nccordlng to tho lntest report of Colonel Gorgns, chlct sanitary officer of tho Isthmian Canal commission. Ferdinand Dudenhcfcr, formorly tax collector of tho Third district of Now Orleans, who disappeared about n year ago, being short In his accounts about $75,000, has been captured. Over a scoro of persons were injured in-jured when nn intcrurbau car on the Ann Arbor branch ot tho Detroit United rnlhvay, bound for Detroit from Jnckson, Mich., was derailed by dofcctlvo rails. Drury Lano theatre, ono of tho most famous In London, was practically practical-ly destroyed by firo on Mnrch 25. The wholo Interior of tho thentro waa destroyed de-stroyed and tho outsldo walls woro badly damaged. Tho Fifth Avcnuo hotol, a landmark land-mark ot Now York, and for half a csntury tho gathering placo of Itopub-llcnn Itopub-llcnn politicians, will closo April A. The hotel will bo torn down to make room for a skyscraper. A coronor's Jury has declared Chief of Pollco Slilppy, of Chicago, and J. H. Foley, his driver, to havo boon Justified In killing Avorbuch, tho young Russian Jow who attacked tho chief in his homo recently. Thero is a movement on foot among tho Japanese to erect a monument monu-ment to Durham W. Stovens, tho American advisor to tho Korean council coun-cil of state, who was assassinated by n Korean in Snn Francisco. Tho government is preparing to send 1,000 workmon to the Philippines for work on tho fortifications of tho Island of Corrlgidor, at tho entranco of Manila bay. This will raako 1,500 to bo sent within n month. W. H. Kennan of Mexico, Mo., former for-mer ndjutant general ot Missouri, committed sulcldo nt Farmington, Mo., by hanging, in his quarters in tho utato hospital for tho insane Ho was formorly a member ot tho legislature. Notices announcing n wago reduction reduc-tion of 10 per cent, to tnko effect on April G, woro poRtcd nt tho cotton mills of tho Boston Manufacturing compnny nt Wnltham, Mass., last weok. Tho company employs 1,000 men. I. Wnng Chncng nnd Ming Wun Chun, tho Korean patriots who elected elect-ed to kill Durham W. Stovens of San FranciBco for what they considered his treachery to U10 Hermit kingdom, are behind tho bars and will bo tried for murder. Soven mon nrrcstcd In Pekln recently re-cently charged with trafficking in governmental secrets, havo been found guilty nnd sontenced to lqng '.onns of Imprisonment. This punishment punish-ment is generally considered to bo worso than death. Tho statistical bureau of tho Union Pacific passenger department has Is-?ucd Is-?ucd a statement compiled from government gov-ernment reports, showing tho value of farm products In soventcon states west of tho Mississippi in 1007 to havo been $1,091,000,000. Rov. F. Z. Nesblt, pastor of tho Presbyterian church nt Coallnga, Cnl., and a spcakor at the incorporation colobratlon of that town, dropped dead Immediately nftor ho had concluded con-cluded his addross, and in tho pres-enco pres-enco of a crowd of 1,000 people. Jim Leo nnd Leo Ellorlck hnvo boon arrested at McLoud, Oklahoma, on tho chargo of robbing tho Hoffman bank nt Hoffman, Okla. A blank hoolc wns dropped near the bank containing con-taining the names of two young mon and on this duo they wcro located near Mcloud. Tho last of tho clearing houso certificates issued In Now York City during tho financial stringency beginning begin-ning In October last, woro retired last weok when tho National Rank of North America pnld oft a balance or $250,000 which it owed to the clearing house. Tho Jury in tho enso ot A. II. Sniff, editor of iho Missouri Valley News, on trial at Logan, Iowa, tor tho murder mur-der of M, B. Ilrundlgo, returned n verdict ver-dict of not guilty. Sniff shot and killed Rruudlgo In 100G and acquittal was on a plea ot Bclf-dofenso. It wns his second trial. InconBod because tholr chlof, Paul Dlgannml, tho Bo-callod king of Iho Snn Francisco anarchist colony, was taken into custody by Dotcctlvo John Rocca, four Hods took oath on a mln-laturo mln-laturo coffin markod with skull and crossboncs that they would havo tho llfo of tho officer. R. R. Nagamlne, a Japanoso expert on agriculture, who has been employed em-ployed by tho Japnneso government at Formosa for tho past fow years, hns arrived In San Francisco on Ills wny to Washington to investigate tho mothods of tho United States department de-partment of agriculture. Mrs. Osa Allen of Peru, Ind whilo escorting n party ot friends through tho Hagenbcck & Wnllaco circus win ter quartors, was grabbed by n Hon and tho flesh of her faco and bnck seriously lacorated. Tho clothing was torn from her back. Hor brother pulled her away from tho Hon. |