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Show NEWS SUMMARY More than 5,000 emigrants sailed from Bremen for the United States during the past week. Robbers blew open the safe in the First State bank at Carrier, Oklahoma, Oklaho-ma, and escaped with $3,000. The German steamer Wangard from Tacoma, which went ashore at Pnnta Migoles, is a total wreck. Pope Isio. the leader of a fanatical band of ladrones of southwest Neg-toes, Neg-toes, has been sentenced to be hanged. Slight earthquake shocks continue to be experienced at Messina at brief intervals, sho ving that the earth has not settled. Thomas Dougherty, who was chief dispatcher to General Grant during the Civil war, is dead M his home in Trowbridge, Ills. He was 73 years old. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation of the University of Berlin to give a lecture to the students stu-dents and faculty of the university in May, 1910. The Tennessee senate passed the state-wide prohibition bill over the veto of Governor Patterson by a vote cf 20 to 13, the vote by which the original bill was passed. By unanimous vote the National Shoe Wholesalers' association of the United Uni-ted States at a meeting in Boston adopted a resolution favoring repeal of the duties on hides Fully 3,000 able seamen, fresh from their world-encircling cruise with the Atlantic battleship fleet, will comprise com-prise the naval division of the inaugural in-augural parade on March 4. In a collisio nbetween the Erie railroad rail-road ferry boats, Goshen and Suf-fern, Suf-fern, in the North river, off the Jersey slips, one passenger was injured and both boats were damaged. The jury in the case of Herbert Grigg the 18-year-bld boy on trial for the murder of William Read of Vineland, N. Y., brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. de-gree. With gas escaping from every jet in his room, Frederick E. Osborne, 55 years old, of the. International Bank Note company, was fonnd dead in a hotel in New York City. He was in ill health. , The home of the late Grover Cleveland, Cleve-land, at Princeton, N. J., is advertised for sale. The house has been Mr. Cleveland's home ever since his retirement re-tirement from the White House, March 4, 1897. February 23 is the date set for the beginning the retrial of the rebate case against the Standard Oil company com-pany of Indiana. This is the case in which Jndge Landis's fine of $29,240,-000 $29,240,-000 was reversed by the appellate court. At the close of his preliminary examination ex-amination in San Francisco, J. Walter Wilson, accused of killing Henry Boas by means of poison sent In a letter was held by Police Judge Conlan to answer a charge of murder in the superior court. Governor John Harmon, of Ohio, who resigned as receiver of the Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad 1-efore his inauguration as governor, has withdrawn his resignation at the urgent, request of United States Circuit Cir-cuit Judge Lurton. William Collier, a wealthy farmer living alone two miles north of Long-mount, Long-mount, Colo., was found murdered in the kitchen of his home by a neighbor on January 20. He had been dead four or five days. Robbery was the motive for the crime. Jon Bently, a farmer living near St. John, N. D., killed his wife and himself him-self as a result of a quarrel. The man cut his wife's throat with a razor in the presence of their six children, ranging in ages from fi to 13 years. He then cut his own throat. Johne A. Ince, the veteran comedian, comed-ian, who had appeared with Edwin Booth, Barrett, McCullough, Adelaide Neilson, Clara Morris and Mrs. John Drew, died on January 18 at his home at Sheepshead Bay. Mr. Ince was 68 years of age and was born in England. Eng-land. A special dispatch from Turin to the Petit Parisienne says that the Duke of the Abruzzi has decided to resign re-sign from the navy and to renounce all rank and honors in order to marry Miss Catherine Elkins. but that the king has refused to accept the duke's resignation. As Judge Murphy of Hamilton, Ohio, sentenced "Buck" Cottongame, Kentucky Ken-tucky feudist, to prison for life for the murder of Parish Arnet, the father of Arnet fell dead in the courtroom. court-room. Arnet accused Cottongame of wrecking his home and Cottongame killed him. After forcing the engineer or the plant to cut off the current, leaving the town in darkness. a party of young men took a negro named Hilli-ard Hilli-ard from the county jail at Hope, Ark., and hanged him to a telegraph pole. The negro had spoken insult-ir.gly insult-ir.gly to a woman. Believing that a can contained kero-osene kero-osene instead of gasoline. Mann Headstrom. living fivemiles from Roby, Texas, poured some of the fluid into a stove to hasten the fire, and when it ignited an explosion followed, fol-lowed, which resulted in the death of Headstrom and his son. Because clients charged that his treatment had been harmful, John H. Woodbury, who had been engaged lor some years in the business of removing re-moving facial deformities and otherwise other-wise Improving the personal appearance, appear-ance, committed suicide at Ccney Island by shooting himself. |