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Show NEWS SUMMARY Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., will be put on trial April 19 at Flushing. N. .1.. m the charge r,f murdering William "1, Annis. The Missouri senate has defeated :ne bill providing for the reading of a chapter of the Bible daily in the public pub-lic schools of the state. A bill was passed in the Minnesota legislature last week, allowing the councils of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to permit boxing matches. William Cook, who enlisted in the navy from. Newark, X. .1., together with three other men, were shot and killed during a fight in the Philippines. Philip-pines. A sergeant of police and two policemen police-men have beeen sentenced to death at Vladikavkoz, Russia for the recent murder of a rich nobleman named P--karieff. Nine persons were injured as a result re-sult of the wrecking of a tenement house in St. Joseph, Mo., by an explosion explo-sion of natural gas. All except one are Italians. Gertnany has Indicated its desire to resume negotiations for an agreement agree-ment on a general arbitration treaty with the United States, which were broken off at the time of Baron Ster-berg's Ster-berg's death. Failure of the house of delegates of Porto Rico to pass the deficiency appropriation ap-propriation bill has resulted in the closing of a number of night schools, the insular library and other public institutions. Christian Scientists of Missouri gained a signal victory last week when the senate judiciary committee agreed to amend the senate bill which sought to restrict the practice of divine healing heal-ing in the state. Riciiard C. Kerens of St. Louis has been offered and has accepted the post of embassador to Austria. Mr. Kerens is a native of Ireland, was a Civil war veteran and is one of the wealthiest men in the country. Charles H. Morton, former president of the Ohio and Pennsylvania baseball league, who disappeared from Cleveland Cleve-land January 13 last, has been found in Chicago, wandering around the streets in a demented condition. Dr. William Ray, aged 68, an old-time old-time and well-known physician of western Montana, died at Philipsburg, March 19, from the effects of injuries sustained by being thrown from his buggy in a runaway accident near Flint Station. Prof. Clark Kellar, principal of the high school at Laceyville, Pa., has been arrested charged with threshing Miss Ruth Russell, a 19-year-old girl pupil. The charge was made by Jud-son Jud-son Russell, father of the girl, and Kellar gave bail. It is believed in Austrian official circles cir-cles that in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Servia the powers of Europe will localize the field of conflict, leaving leav-ing the settlement of international questions to a later date. For her heroism in saving the lives of nine children during the burning of the General Slocum near New York in 1904, Mrs. Mary McCann was on March 18 presented by Speaker Cannon, on behalf of congress, witu a silver life-saving medal. A thumb-print alongside JTle names of two men written on the register may prove a clew to the identity of the murderer of Isidore Valanto, night clerk of a hotel in Whitehall street. New York, whose body was found In a small room adjoining the office. That he would exhaust all the powers of the state before he would permit the railroads to return to ithe 3-cent-a-mi!e passenger rate, was the declaration of Governor Hadley of Missouri following the action of the railroad conference in Chicago. Mrs. Margaret Teal, wife of Beu Teal, the stage manager, was last week taken to the penitentiary of Blackwell's islands to begin her sentence sen-tence of one year imposed upon her. following her conviction of attempted subordination of perjury in the Gould divorce case. The court of appeals has decided in effect that John John R. Hegeman. president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance In-surance company, must stand trial on the charge of perjury in connection with alleged misstatements made in his annual report of the Metropolitan Life in 1905. ' An order has been issued prohibiting prohibit-ing the sale of liquor by news "butchers" "but-chers" on trains of the National lines in Mexico.' Hereto beer, tequila and mescal has been sold indiscriminately on the trains by the news vendors, -and its sale at times has resulted in much trouble. Mexico's first attempt to fortify her harbors with modern rifles will be undertaken un-dertaken at Salina Cruz. A commission commis-sion has been named to draw plans ;for the installation of disappearing uns and the erection of proper fortifications. forti-fications. Otle seacoast towns will also be fortified. ' A national conference to consider the. subject of uniform state legislation legisla-tion upon important economical, industrial, in-dustrial, commercial and civil measures meas-ures has beeff decided upon by the committee recently appointed by the executive council of the National Civic Federation. The six hundred-foot tower which the government proposes to erect for wireless telegraph purposes, may be located at Annapolis. Md.. according to an official announcement. It will be capable of sending messages 3.00U miles and of receiving them from a distance of 1.000 miles. Queen Helena of Italy Is still suffering suf-fering from the effects of her accident at Messina, immediately following the earthquake. A rise In her majestv's temperature led to a careful investigation investiga-tion and It was found that one of her left ribs is broken, and she is obliged to carry her arm in a sling. |