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Show NEWS SUMMARY The Illinois senate has refused to reconsider re-consider the vole ny which tho Chicago Chi-cago charter bill -was lost. Tho third federal grand Jury called to Investigate the Muskogco town lot frauds has been completed. The town of Algor, O., has been al-moK al-moK entlrelv wlnort out ly Vn George Phillips, a fireman, was killed. In a clash between union and nonunion non-union seamen at Toledo, O., rutin Hoffman, a fireman, was shot In tho head. Dank robbers secured $C,000 from tho Cairo (Neb.) state bank, lienui-lailng lienui-lailng the safe and bu'ldlng by three explosions. Tho four children of Ernest Old-field Old-field of Toronto, Ont., were burned to death as tho result of tho explosion of a lamp In their homo. It Is announced that Mrs. William R. Annls, wife of tho man for whose death Captain Potcr C. Hnlns Is now serving a sentence In Sing Slug, Is to go on the vnudevlllo stage. Wosfern Texas and southern Oklahoma Okla-homa wcro swept by a sovoro wind and rain storm May 18, that did much damage to growlncr Tops and nouses. Octnvlus Dodge of Donham was killed by lightning. The local option bill, giving cities nnd villages tho right lo vote on the snlcon question regardless of the township voto under tho present law, was passed by the Illinois i.o u'Jb u.- 1 a vote of 78 to 70. Climbing merrily to tho top of a steel llgtit tower in San bic&D, Cdl., 15-ycarold Karl WceIoii cumo In contact con-tact with nn uninsulated electric light wire and was knocked to the ground, dying four minutes later. I lit' u.11 ui li m prouiutied the pro-d"cicn pro-d"cicn la 1 onilon of Oeorge IJcrnc.d . nnw b no.v pla", "Tic Bh'iwlng lt of Blanco I'osncl." The p'n was o.i a theolcglcnl subject and w.n In advanced ad-vanced rehearsal tor an early produc-t produc-t on. A report received from St. Anno dea Montos, twenty-live miles east (if Quebec, says that while a party was crossing tho river at that point the boat upset arid fifteen persons wero thrown Into tho water. FIvo were drowned. , Adeline HawklnB, a negro woman, was frightened to death at Korocho, La., by a powerful searchlight of tho battleship Mississippi on its way up tho river to Natchez. "It's do Judgment Judg-ment light," she screamed, and then fell dead. There are still 100 Armenians In prison In Adana, according to a recent re-cent dispatch, and many of them aro In chains. Christians nlono aro being punished for tho recent outrages, and it Is npr.arcnt that thoso really guilty aro immune. 13x-Vardon A. N. Armstrong of the Michigan state prleon, has nvado nn nlBdavIt that MI Mr a A, UaW ot Uilcv go paid him $1,500 for helping got a lot of second hand machinery accepted accept-ed in the stnto binder twluu plant as new material. i Secretary Balllngcr has decided to I create a bureau of colonization In ' connection with tho reclamation sor-! sor-! vlco to tnko charge of immigration I to 1 mi ds lie they arc opened to set- tlement on completion of various government gov-ernment projects, j The wilo ot I-ny Irish of Thorp, Clark ccunty, Wisconsin, has given I hlrth to Ilvo babies, three daughters I nnd two sons. All nre allvo and well. I There nre now ton children In tho Inmlly. 'ibo other llvo wore born singly, nnd all nro living. Limitation of armament nnd tho permanent per-manent ps'libllshmenC i-'i yeno throughout tho world by arbitration of International disputes Is tho purposo cf tho Mohonk l.ako conference on Intcnmtlonnl arbitration, which opened at Mohonk. N. Y.. May 19. j Tho lncuhntor forcing process failed I tragically at Los Angeles, when Illch-, Illch-, ai. u. puin, ono of the clty'n most I promising young Inventors, tried It on H twn-nrnths o'd Imhy. The cork , blow out of tho hot water bottle and tho baho was fatally scalded. All nf the oIlictiK ;u.i men of tho I United States army who served in I Cuba during tho period or paclflcn- tlon, from October C, 100G, to April 1. I l'J0(i, will recolvo from tho govorn-I govorn-I nient sorvlco medals with ribbons in recognition of that service Miss Helen Tnft, daughter of the president, has accoptcd nn Invftatlon to unvoll tho monument erected at Gettysburg, Pa.,- In momory of tho soldiers of the regular union army who participated In tho Gettysburg campaign. Tho ceremony will take placo May 111. Nord Alexis, doposcd president or Hnytl, will como to Peru, Intl., for a visit,, as tho guest of James Turner, colored. Tumor nnd Nord Alexis have landed In New York from tho Wegt Indies. Turner is wealthy, nnd hits invited the ex-prcsident to spend tho similiter With bun. V. W. Lurvoy, a ranchman, wns struck' hy lightning t (hand June t'on, Colo,, dnr ng a cloudburst ot exceptional ex-ceptional violence. Tho physicians dccluro that, tho fact, that ho was iui Instuntly. kll'ed Is duo to litft rain-soaked rain-soaked o'othlng, which conducted tho current to tlio Rro'iuiL Tho board of foreign missions of the Iteformed I'rcsbytorlnn church, hotter Itpown as tho Church of-tho Covenan-lors, Covenan-lors, linn Issued an appeal to nil tho churches of tho denomination for money to rollovo tho distress of rofu-rotH rofu-rotH who have I'od to tlio' protection of Its missions In Syria'. . ' ' A now high record (or wheat was established on tho door of tho Chamber Cham-ber o( Commnrco at Cincinnati on Mny 20, whon a cho!c carload of No, 2 red wheat sold for, fl.QS A bushel.-This bushel.-This prlco has boon oxeccdod but once In this city, nnd that was when, In 187C, wheat sold at $2.15. |