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Show NEWS SUMMARY Three trainmen were killed when an engine running light crashed Into a freight train at Mars, Pa. The senate judiciary committee has decided to report favorably the nomination nomi-nation of A. W. Cooty is federal judge in New Mexico. Six young men were seriously injured, in-jured, one probably fatally, during an automobile hill climbing contest at Bridgeport, Conn. By thepremature explosion of a cannon can-non at Wapakoneta, O., on Memorial day, Henry Mahan, aged 70 years, a former soldier, was killed. A tornado in the San Jose mining district in Mexico did considerable damage. Practically all the native shacks in the district were wrecked. Two men lost their lives by the premature pre-mature explosion of a charge ot dynamite dyna-mite in tlie Coalinga, Cal., oil fields. The bodies were frightfully mangled. Luke O'Donnell and his wife were drowned and two others narrowly e& caped the same fate in a row boat collision col-lision at Washington park, Chicago. The premier of the province of Quebec Que-bec declares that the policy of Canada will be to prevent the exportation of pulp wood from the crown lands to the United States. Charles Barr, who claims to be a bricklayer, has been arrested at l.os Angeles on suspicion of having strangled stran-gled to death Laura Register, 26 years old, in Providence. R. I., on the night of May 10. Bert Simpson, an Englishman well known throughout the southwest, was shot and killed by S. S. Carpenter at a ranch near Clint, Texas. Carpenter Is one of the most prominent ranchmen ranch-men in west Texas. Wholesale harness and saddle dealers deal-ers of the middle west, at a convention conven-tion .at Des Moines, Iowa", adopted resolutions reso-lutions demanding free hides. Present high prices of leather, the resolutions declared, are due to the tariff. One was drowned and five others narrowly escaped drowming in the Potomac Po-tomac river at Washington when a large gasoline launch carrying three young married couples caught fire from the explosion of the oil tank. Mrs. Catherine Teal, a wealthy apartment house owner, was murdered mur-dered in her home in St. Louis, presumably pre-sumably by robbers. Her face was hacked almost beyond recognition, and her skull was fractured. She also was shot. Sheriff Frank Cazalas, of MoBTre, Ala., has been ordered removed from office by the state supreme court in a decision which followed the trial o' Cazalas on a charge of dereliction c duty to allowing a negro to be lynched in Mobile on January 21 Calvin Johnson, a negro, has been convicted at Alexandria, Va., of the murder of Walter F. Schultz, a Chicago Chi-cago .artist, on March 5 last. Schultz was lured to a field just outside the city of Washington, and his throat cut, robbery being the motive. The new freight rates on coal recently re-cently announced by the National Railways of Mexico went into effect on June 1. It is declared by promi-ment promi-ment coal men that in six months the revised rates will result In an annual saving to Mexico of '600,000. Flying into a rage when told that his twenty-year-old sister, Bessie, was to be married, William B. Blessing. 30 years old, attacked the girl in their home, in New Orleans, with a hatchet, inflicting several aeriouc wounds. He then threw acid in her face. Official noticos have been posted in all the mills of the American Sheet and Tinplate mills at Wheeling, W. Va., announcing that after June 30 all of the plants of the company would he open shops. The order affects about 10,000 men. and a strike is expected. For the first time in history wheat has been shipped hack from New York to the west for consumption. Recent inquiries have been received from as far away as Texas for New York red wheat. This is a result of the great scarcity of wheat all through the west. The Chicago Journal published an affidavit sworn to by Alois Jaeger, a masseur of Chicago, in which the latter lat-ter states that in 1ST4-75 he was valet to Joann Salvator, archduke of Austria, Aus-tria, and that on June 2, at Paines-viile. Paines-viile. O.. he recognized Joann Salvador as the lost, archduke. The test case of the Southern Railway Rail-way company against the interstate commerce commission, inyolving the right of the commission to fix the charge for the consignment of hay shipped through East St. Louis, has been decided by the supreme court against the commission. At the United Presbyterian general assembly at Knoxville, Tenn.. Dr. Wallace, a former pastor, now editor of an Iowa publication, declared that the entire United States is over-churched, over-churched, and that the church at large would be in better condition with half the number of preachers, John Maxey. a negro, who shot and seriously wounded B. C. Bowers, a circus cir-cus man. was taken from jail at Frankfort, Frank-fort, Ky.. and lynched. The jailer resisted re-sisted the mob. but the door was broken down. The shooting was the result of the negro's efforts to get into the tent without a ticket. A murder, followed by a spectacular urresi. occurred at Middletown Ohio, last week. The body of an af."5 umbrella um-brella mender was found in a lot. The hpad had been crushed and the man robbed. The. police sent to Dayton for bloodhounds. The dogs' went direct to the home of Perry McNeal. Bert Taylor has been found guilty of murder in the first degree at Minden. Neb., and the judge sentenced him to be hanged on Friday. September 15. Taylor killed a young girl. Pearl Taylor, Tay-lor, the sister of his dead wife, whom he had induced to visit his home. He fled and was pursued for weeks L |