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Show NEWS SCMMAJIY Tho Democratic state convention at Concord, N. H.. nominated Oeorgn II. ningham of Manchester for governor. gov-ernor. Seven men wore Injured and a hoy was killed In an explosion In tho factory fac-tory of tho Ideal Comb company, In Cnmbrldge, Mass. FIro almost totally destroyed tho plant of tho Sohaublo Hrowlng com-jpnny com-jpnny at Hudson, N. V. The loss will bo at least $150,000. The teti-iuonths-old daughter of H. O. Middleiuas, a farmer near Spring-Held, Spring-Held, Mo fell Into a bucket or milk and wna drowned before her parontii found her. Dr. W. F. Mpley. ex-mayor of Ashland, Ash-land, Wis., and lorinerly president of the Wisconsin Medical society, was found dead In a cistern last week. U Is suppose ho foil In by accident. Sonor Mngnlhnoz, tho Portuguese minister of public works, wns nr. saulleil by unknown persona at Cas-ceas, Cas-ceas, Portugal. As his train wns passing pass-ing through the town it was subjected to a volley of 'stones. H. O. F.mmnns, a well-known brokei of Duliith, was found dead In a berth on a train from Omaha as It was entering en-tering the Union station at St, Paul Fatty degeneration of tin1 heart It given as the cause of death. All Russian emigrants bound foi American ports aro now dotnlpcd ai Hamburg for llvo days beforo cm barking, and na a further jirecautlor against the spread of cholera tlieli baggage Is thoroughly disinfected. Two bulls escnpod from tho nrenr. nt Moita, Spain, and ran aniiicl through a crowd that was asscmbliiif. to witness n bull light. Soven per sons were killed and twenty wounded Troops wore summoned and shot the animals. Orders woro Issued nt tho war tie partition! last week directing Colonel William F. Htowurt, now nt Kovt tirant, Arizona, to report nt Washington Wash-ington and go boforo a retiring board Tho case has attracted widespread uttentloii. Tho report Is published In Paris that Prlnco Miguel of Hraganzn. tho eldest aon of Dom Miguel, pretender to tho throuo of Portugal, wna recently re-cently secretly married to Mrs. Samuel Sloan Chauncey, a rich American widow. fleorgo Chirk, a negro, shot Constable Con-stable W. H. Taylor, who nttomptcd to arrest him, nt Sltoro, Texas, and a mob hanged tho negro to a tree, leaving him for dead. Next morning morn-ing ho wna found to bo still nllvo and wna taken to Jail. Asiatic cholera has mndo Its appearance ap-pearance In tho upper classes of society so-ciety In tho cznr'a domain. Twenty-four Twenty-four enses alono have been reported In the excluslvo town of Potorhof where tho residents considered themselves Immune. Alexander Stnrbuck, aged SI! years, former president of Cuvlvor club id Cincinnati, and widely known as an advocato of measures for the protec Hon of game, shot himself fatally last week. Although oiieo wealthy ho had lost his money. Wilbur nalthnzor Martin, halfback of tho Watorbury, Conn., High school football team. Is In a serious condl tlon as tho result of an Injury to hit spinal column during a practlco game of football. Tho body Is paralyzed from tho shoulders down. Itcports to tho public health service show that cholera Is epidemic ic Amoy and Hnngkow, China, claiming nt the latter placo sixty victims pot day. Tho disease la also provnlonl nt Shanghai, Su Chow, No Slch, Hung Chow, Nlng Po and Nankin. Governor Goorgo I.! Sheldon of No brnska has denied the roport thnt ho would not bo n candldato for gov ornor because of tho dofent of tho bank guaranty plank In tho Republican Repub-lican stato platform convention. Hn declared tho roport basoles, Au attempt waa mndo to kill Joseph Jo-seph C. Gunstor, a grocer, and his family when a quantity of dynamite was exploded against u wall of his homo In Heading, I'd, Mr. (Inustet nnd members of his family woro thrown out of bed, but no ouo wns injured. Tho Canadian wheat crop this year, on the hnsls of current prices, Is valued at $85,0(10,000, us compnred with ?ro.000,000 last yoar, JGO.OOO.OOO In 1000 and $52,000,000 In 1005. The Northwest Grain Dealers' association estimates tho 1008 yields at 107.000,-000 107.000,-000 bushels. Klnnes Frlttor, of Columbus, O.. has received a cablegram from tho authorities in Manila stating that Ills brothor, Lincoln Frlttor, had died thoro of tho cholera. Mr. Fritter was prominent In real estato circles and nt ono tlmo wns reported to ho worth n million dollars. Tho repoit published In Ilorlln that Ilaron Muiniii von Schwartzonsteln. prosont Gorman embnssndor at Toklo, Is to bo sont to Washington In sue cession to tiro lato Ambnssador Ilaron Speck von Htornbiirg. Is without loundatlon. Sternburg's successor has not been selected. Members of the Amorlcnn Wine Growers' nssoclntlon mot In convention conven-tion In Now York City on tho 23rd. dologntes representing tho lending vinoyards of California and Now York being present. Papers aimed to comlmt tho contentions of prohl-bltloulsts prohl-bltloulsts woro read. Mrs. Henry Matigus, wife of an electrician employed nt tho Mnro Inland In-land navy yard, was shot and killed I by Charles Frteberg. Frloherg then ! turned tho rovolver on hlmsolf. blow Ing off the top of his head The , trngody was n result of Frloberg's ! fattiatlou for th- vuiun ! |