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Show NEWS SUMMARY The wealth of the Dnlted States today to-day is considerably mo-re than $khi,-000,000,000. $khi,-000,000,000. French exporters are greatly alarmed ai the possibility of a tarltl war with America. Baron Monsheur, the Belgian minister minis-ter to ihe United States, has been transferred to Constantinople. As the result of a coasting accident acci-dent at Alfred. N. Y.. six professors and students in Alfred university were injured. With both houses controlled by derided de-rided Republican majorities, the firth Hawaiian territorial legislature convened con-vened February 17. Believing that war with Austria is imminent, 300 Servians have left Pueblo, Colo., for their native land during the lasl month, Three passengers were killed and thirty-six injured when a passenger train was wrecked by running into a Lroken rail near Murphysboro, 111 Three persons are dead and five others in a serious condition at. Memphis, Mem-phis, Tenn., as a result of eating sausage sau-sage supposed lo have been poisoned. For fear that it might further strain the relations of the United States and Japan, the Kansas legislature1 killed a bill preventing the intermarriage of whites with Japanese. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, who sailed for Europe after he had been subpoenaed to serve as a juror in the supreme court, has ben fined $250 by Justice Guy, of New York. Pool selling at fairs in Kansas will be done away with entirely, if a bill, passed by the house committee of die whole, becomes a law. It makes betting and pool selling illegal at all times of the year. The news comes from London that one or more of the neutral powers will very shortly offer its good offices to Austria arid Servia in the hope of settling the differences between thes3 two countries. Mrs. Edward Wehn killed herself at Seward, Neb., by setting fire to her clothing and hanging herself. Firemen Fire-men found the woman's partly cremated cre-mated body. Sudden insanity is the explanation given. It is believed that the unknown man who took his life in a cigar store at Pueblo has been identified as Samuel Weil of Owensboro, Ky. Weil is said to have wealthy relatives in Owensboro and in Evansville, Ind. Patrick Kelly, mayor of Trout Creek, Mont., and prominent in western west-ern Montana affairs, died February 21, aged about. 70 years. He was a native na-tive of Ireland, and before coming to Montana was a sailor on Lake Erie. John McDonald, a farmer near Gayes Mills, Wis., shot and killed his sweetheart, Nancy Lenox, and her mother, Mrs. Oscar Lenox, at their home. The murder followed a love-ers' love-ers' quarrel. Both women were killed instantly. A man known as "Pap" Johnson, a notorious "jointist," or keeper or an illicit saloon, shot and killed Mrs. Frances Switzer at the woman's home :n Lawrence, Kans., and then commit- I ted suicide. No motive for the trag- edy is known. I Word has been received of the death in the Philippines of Captain Charles W. Mead, one of the most prominent of the National Guardsmen of Montana. Mon-tana. Captain Mead went to the Phfl-. Phfl-. Ippines with the First Montana at the outbreak of the Spanish war. j Members of the committee on for-; for-; eign relations of the senate have de- termined to press the treaties with Panama and Colombia for ratification at the present session and to let the Canadian boundary waterways treaty go over until the next session. Americans who have served two years consecutively in government service on the Panama canal zone will be presented with the Panama canal medals, to make which one thousand pounds of old French scrap has been shipped to the Philadelphia mint. That a strict interpretation will be put upon the court order allowing Charles W. Morse to leave the Tombs prison for the transaction of urgent I business was indicated last week when he was refused permission to take an automobile ride with his wife and sons. The charity of a gambler was highly high-ly emphasized at Reno, Nevada, when J. C. Miller, a roulette wheel turner in a local resort, won in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of $6,500 at faro, and then invited invit-ed every one in the place to have a "square meal." Over 520 people accepted. ac-cepted. Grant Haney, a ranchman, was fatally fa-tally stabbed at his ranch ten miles from Hugo, Colo., by Chas. and Wm. Banning. The trouble grew out of a long standing quarrel over the breaking break-ing of fences on the Haney branch. A posse has started after the Banning brothers. It developed at a conference last week between President-elect Taft, Senators Knox and Hale and Speaker Cannon that these congressional leaders lead-ers believe that the work of the special spe-cial session of congress to be called March 15 can be finished between June 1 and 15. A man who w-as arrested at San Jose, Cal., while following a young woman on the street Is believed by the police to be Pierie Lafon, who is accused of attempting to poison Mrs. Sarah B. Armstrong and Mrs Gertrude Coffman in San Francisco by placing arsenic in their tea. With the view of having congres? and the various state legislatures take action towards building highways from Maine to Florida, from New York, through the middle west to Seattle, Se-attle, and from Seattle down the coast to Los Angeles, a national highway association has been organized. - |