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Show NEWS SUMMARY A tornado struck a funeral proces. sion near Hamilton, Ohio, twenty persons per-sons being injured. Leilehua has been selected as a site for the new army post which the war department is to erect in Hawaii. Spain has begun measures against the Moors for the recent murder ol four Spanish workmen in Morocco. The Washington wheat crop foi 1909 will be 10.000 bushels greater than that of 1908, and within 7.000.000 bushels of the bumper crop of 1907. The monument erected at Nimes. France, to Bernard lazare, the first defender of Alfred Dreyfus, was demolished de-molished with a hammer one night last week. The old Anacostia bridge, over which John Wilkes Booth sped his horse to escape from an infuriated city the night he shot Lincoln, soon will be torn down. J. S. Phillipps, president of the Pittsburg-Quincy ' mine at Masonic, near Bridgeport, Cab, was instantly killed when he lost his footing and fell down an incline upraise. It is officially reported that 174 deaths from the bubonic plague and thirty-six deaths from cholera occurred oc-curred at Amoy, China, during the two weeks ended July 1-0. The National Council of Women, in session at Seattle, elected Mrs. Lillian M. Hoilister of Detroit, president, and Jrs. Kate Waller Barch Barrett of Washington, D. C., vice-president. Protesting his innocence to the last, Garry R. Barrett, who killed Deputy Warden Stednmn In the Alberta Al-berta penitentiary, - April 15, was hanged, July 14, in the Edmonton prison. Christian Johnson, believed to be the notorious bigamist, "Madson," Was sentenced by Judge Welch in the superior court at San Jose, Cal., to serve seven years in the state's prison ' at San Quentin. A -tornado struck Fithian, Ills., wrecking a number of stores and damaging dam-aging a large elevator there, and also the sub-power station of the Illinois Traction system. So far as known few persons were hurt. Clarence A. Ruggles, a school teacher of Denver, died in the county" hospital in Chicago last week, supposedly sup-posedly from the effects of poisoning. Ruggles was found unconscious in a room in a downtown hotel. Baron Oskar Rothschild, the youngest young-est son of Albert Rothschild, head of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild house, committed suicide in Vienna, July 13, because of an unfortunate love affair. Baron Oskar was 21 years of age. Prince von Buelow, chancellor of the German empire, retired from office on July 14, and was succeeded by Dr. von Betbman Hollweig. The latter was succeeded by Herr Delbrueck as minister min-ister of the interior and vice chancellor. chan-cellor. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her three children were met at Genoa, Italjy, July 12, by Miss Carew, Mrs. Roosevelt's sister. The party then left for Miss Carew's villa, where the Roosevelts will remain for two weeks. Six wounded, two fatally, an'd fif- teen seriously injured by flying bricks, iron slag and clubs, sums up the result re-sult of the first day's "surprise strike" by the men employed in the Pressed Steel Car company's plant at McKees Rocks, Pa The sensational price of ?80,00Q was paid last week at Tattersalls, Newmarket, England, for the brood mare Flaire, the property of the late Sir Daniel Cooper. The previous record rec-ord price for brood mares was $62,500 paid for La Fleche. One dead and nine badly burned is the result of an automobile accident, acci-dent, which occurred about five miles from Sylvania, Ga. While cros.sing a bridge the gasoline tank was pierced and the fluid, which fell on the occupants of the car, took fire. Mrs. William Olyphant, living near West Bratch, la., while despondent over family troubles, gave her four small children strychnine and then swallowed strychnine and carbolic acid. One child died, but it is probable prob-able the other three and the mother will recover. The destruction of two imposing mountain peaks, the translormatlon of a bay into a lake, and the creation of two brand-new islands, are the astonishing aston-ishing feats of nature discovered in Bering sea by a government party and reported to the treasury department depart-ment last week. A man named Rosenberg, from Cleveland, was found murdered forty miles from Detroit, at a summer resort re-sort on the St. Clair flats. Rosenberg arrived there with two friends. It is reported that one of Rosenberg's friends committed suicide after being placed under arrest. The Nationalist quarter of Belfast. Ireland, has been the scene of serious rioting, owing to the disturbed state of the district since the conflicts between be-tween the Nationalists and Orangemen on July 12. Already several encounters encount-ers have taken place between the police and the mob. Crowds along Broadway, New York City, were interested spectators on July 12 of a flight by Frank W. Good-ale Good-ale a young aeronaut, who drove his dirigible balloon high above that thoroughfare. thor-oughfare. He rose 3,000 feet, then swooped downward until he was about 500 feet over Broadway. A "shake-up" in the personnel of the department of commerce and labor took place last week, when approximately approxi-mately 100 employees were reduced and the resignation of about ten others oth-ers accepted. The reductions were made, it is stated, because the employees em-ployees loafed on the job |