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Show NEWS SUMMARY An epidemic of typhoid fovcr fs raging In tho city prison at Klov Itussla, more than 200 deaths having occurred. Chnrlea Mntthls, a Chicago Journalist Journal-ist of prominence, suicided at Hot Springs, Ark., becnuBo or continued 111 health. Tho miners' union hall at Globe, ; Arizona, has been destroyed by lire, tho loss to tenantB nnd tho miners totaling $40,000. Flvo young men out of a party ol nlno wero drowned In the Ohio rlvor near Kast Liverpool, when their gas ollno lnunch went down. Tributes to tho memory of tho lato Representative Adolph Moyer of lxnilBlnna were paid In tho houso of ! representatives on Sunday. Uaronesa Udo Von Ituxleben, who bhot nnd killed her husband and then shot herself, nt their chateau at Hud-denberg, Hud-denberg, Germany, is dead. Four young women, from 1G to 20 years of ago, wero drowned nt Hnrt-ford, Hnrt-ford, Kalis., as the result of tho cap-Blzlng cap-Blzlng of tholr gnaollno lnunch. As tiro result or tho embezzlement of $40,000 by J. W. Sharp, ft bookkeeper, book-keeper, from the Citizens' bnnk of Rutherford, Tenn., that Institution has closed Its doors. The lower houso or tho Oklahoma legislature has killed tho hotel bill vlilcli required nine-foot sheets on beds nnd provided n penalty for tho use of cracked cujis. Uy tho overwhelming vote of 1C7 to 40, the houso of representatives 1ms again gono on record "against tho re-establishment re-establishment of the canteen In the National soldiers' homo. Tho German rolchstag has adjourned adjourn-ed until October 20, about twenty Mipplcmantnl appropriations nnd other bills being ndoptcd In tho last two hours of tho sitting. By tho explosion of n ch-argo of dynamite In tho gangway of tho Draper colliery at Pottsvlllo. Pn., Andrew An-drew Cnvalnge, n contract miner, and four foreigners wero killed. Tlilrty-llvo thousand coal miners o Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, Ar-kansas, who havo been on etrlko slnco April 1, havo returned to work on n two-year contract with the mine owners. Every male In Russia over 1G years of ago smokes 150 cigarettes a veok, according to a British consular report on Poland and Lithuania. Ono pound of tobacco suffices for 1,000 cigarottca. A ferry boat on tho river Dnieper capsized nenr Bykhoff, Russia, and 120 persons wero drowned. Tho bont was overcrowded by peasants nnd tholr wives and children, returning from church. Tho entlro front of tho postofllco building at Sunnyvale, Cnl., was blown out by an explosion, and tho lntorlor of tho building wrecked, when a burglar mado an unsuccessful uttempt to secure tho contents of tho safe. Tho working tlmo of tho employees of the Rending railway roadwsy deportment, de-portment, uccordlng to n dispatch from Reading, Pa., has been Increased In-creased from nlno hours to ton hours u dny, 1,000 men bolug nffected, but no troublo Is anticipated. Arrested In Denver ns ono of tho pair of bandits who held up tho cashier and robbed tho Citizens' Stnto bank of Chnutauqua, nKns., on April 17, of $3,000, William Tenant mndo a confession and rctnrnod all that ho still possessed of tho loot, about $3G0. In n light nt Crockcttsvlllo, Ky., F.d. Callahan, former sheriff and feud lender, was stabbed anil fntally Injured In-jured by his brothorln-law, John Spyer. Callahan's son, William, Bhot and killed Spyer when his father was iiBsnulted. Tho light occurred In Callahan's Cal-lahan's store. Mile. Stolypln, dnughter of tho Russian premier, who waa so seriously serious-ly Injured when tho attempt waa mndo at tho Stolypln resldcnco In St. Petersburg in 1U0C, to kill tho premier pre-mier by a bomb, has fully recovered and was married 011 May 4 to Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Dock. With this session of congress rapidly rap-idly iioarlng tho end, lt seeniB evident evi-dent that tlforo will bo no important rallwny legislation passed, unless It bo the Klklns Joint resolution, providing provid-ing for ft postponement of tho penalties pen-alties of tho commodity clause of tho Hepburn act. At Phoenix, Arizona,, Magglo Wng-nor, Wng-nor, aged 14, shot herseir because or parental restraint In her lovo affairs, nnd when her father found that sho could not recover, ho placed tho muz-zlo muz-zlo of n gun In hlfl mouth and blow off the top of hlB head. Wagner wns a nurseryman. William Carmen, a thontro usher, shot and killed Iiuisa Galla, n waitress, wait-ress, at hor homo In San Francisco, nnd then killed hlmsolf. Carman was in lovo with tho girl und thoy had quarreled, ho having mado the throat to kill her on Bight, which ho did at the first, opportunity. |