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Show NEWS SUMMARY Salvator Governale, who killed two New York City policemen April 14 1808, was electrocuted on February 1 According to dispatches received in El Paso, Texas, it is openly predicted in Mexico City that the gubernatorial campaign in the state of Mozlas will result in bloodshed. Reports received from orange grow. Ing sections south of New Orleans indicate in-dicate that serious damage to orchards! was done by the freezing weather, which extended to the Gulf coast. Mrs. Sydney M. Colgate, a wealthy woman of Orange, N. J., and Mrs. Edward Ed-ward Olds, of New York, were severely severe-ly injured in an automobile collision on the Meadow road, near Kearny, N. J. Eighteen persons, including several women and children, were carried out of a blazing tenement house ir Brooklyn, by policemen, after some of the former had been overcome by smoke. Seventeen men are dead as the result re-sult of an explosion in the Short Creek mines of the Birmingham Coal & Iron cqmpany, near Birmingham, Ala. Five of the dead are white and twelve are negroes. Six men were killed and several injured in-jured when a construction train on the New York Central railroad ran down a party of Italian trackmen near University Heights, in Bronx borough. Ex-Chief of Police S. C. Hodgldns, of Oakland, Cal., was shot twice and seriously, but not fatally, wounded while attempting to capture Charlea Clifton, who had attempted to hold up a drug store on Telegraph avenue. The lower house of the Texas legislature leg-islature has, by a vote of 85 to 44, defeated de-feated the resolution to submit state wide prohibition to a popular vote. The prohibitionists lacked two votes necessary to a two-thirds majority. The home of Mrs. Frank Lathrop, near Brentwood, Ark., was burned on February 4, and her two sons, William Will-iam and Frank, aged 15 and 25 years, respectively, and George Burris, a young visitor, were burned to death. The International' Harvester com-uany com-uany will pay the fine of $12,600 assessed as-sessed against it hy the district court of Shawnee county, Kansas, and approved ap-proved hy the Kansas supreme court for violating the Kansas anti-trflst law. The house committee on public buildings and grounds has agreed to a favorable report on the Rodenberg bill to purchase the Oldroyd collec tion of Lincoln relics now located in the house in Washington in which Dincoln died. Before a special master in Cleveland Cleve-land O., February 13, Government Attorney At-torney Frank B. Kellogg will seek to show, if possible, that the merger ot the Union and Southern Pacific railroads rail-roads under the control of E. H. Har-riman Har-riman is a monopoly. Mayor Taylor of .San Francisco has issued a proclamation setting aside five days in October for celebrating the one hundred and fortieth anniversary anniver-sary of the discovery of San Francisco Fran-cisco bay by Caspar de Portola, first governor of California. As' the result of family troubles, Dee Brown fired two shots at Henry Loch-ard, Loch-ard, near Madison, Ind., whereupon Lochard returned the fire, shooting Brown in the head, killing him in stantly. It is said the trouble grew out of Brown's wife deserting him. The coroner's jury investigating the death of Bruce Sheffler, a San Diego Cal., contractor, who was shot ta death, returned a verdict finding Mrs Effie Duden, sister-in-law of the dead man, had fired the shots. Mrs. Duden has been held in jail without bail. A bold daylight robbery in Chicago's Chi-cago's most crowded retail street was successfully perpetrated by a lone robber. The thief hurled a brick through the window of the Jackson Jewelry .company, and secured $4,000 worth of watches, rings and diamonds. dia-monds. Mrs. Mary Wright is on trial at Devil's Lake, N. D., charged with the murder of Beulah Wright, aged six teen years. The state alleges that Mrs. Wright strangled the girl and then smeared carbolic acid on the girl's lips to make it appear a case of suicide. When the British steamship Shi-mosa Shi-mosa leaves New York for the far east she will carry away the remarkable remark-able cargo of 8,000 dead Chinamen. From all points east of the Mississippi Mississip-pi trains have brought numbers of coffined Chinese, to be sent to the Flowery Kingdom. Wireless telegraphy has saved its first Mexican ship. The revenue cutter cut-ter Jose Yves Limantour became disabled dis-abled fifty miles off the coast, near Culiacan. and her calls for assistance by wireless were caught up by the Alamos, which immediately steamed out and brought her to port. Marion .Woolman. daughter of George. Woolman. of Burlington. N. J., who (He'd leaving her a fortune esti-mated'a't esti-mated'a't $200,000. is now the bride of ..Samuet. Hewitt, a captain in the Salvation ansjy. Mrs. Hewitt met the Salvation mny cap' ;n while doing . religious ojfcsjn the slums. Mis? Kmifyy ason. aged 94 years, a descendant 'ssfc.the distinguished colonial co-lonial family Masons of Gunston I Hall, and who. as the first confederate confeder-ate nurse, won renown for ministering minister-ing t the union soldiers in LJbby prison, at '"-Richmond. Ja ., is -critically 111 at her home in rWashihgtQp. African hunts and magazine writing writ-ing will not be necessary as the oc cupations of ex-presidents of the Lnlted States If a bill introduced by Representative Volstead of Minnesota be enacted. This measure provides a pension of $12,000 annually for every president after his term expires. |