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Show BRIEF AND PITHY SPARKS FROM THE WIRES Kansas City, Nov. John Chandler, a farmer living a few miles southwest of here, has lost all faith in a barn as a place of refuge during windstorms. Mr. Chandler became frightened at a high wind yesterday and sought safety in his barn. While congratulating himself upon his wisdom the wind picked up the barn and carried it away. The barn had a dirt floor, thus the structure was lifted up over his head, leaving him un injured. New York, Nov. According to the treasury department cats are not tools of trade, and therefore Mrs. Alice Thiemann Thie-mann will be compelled to pay 20 per cent duty on the 100 performing cats which she recently brought to this country coun-try for exhibition purposes. Mrs. Thiemann Thie-mann entered the animals as tools of her trade, which would entitled them to free entry. Liverpool. Nov. The Cunard steamen Lucania. which has been in the trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic service for seventeen years, has sailed on her last voyage. Her port is Swansea, where she will be broken up. The steamer was badly damaged by a fire while she was lying at Liverpool on Aug. 14. last. Recently she was sold to a firm of ship brokers for $150,000. Los Angeles. Nov. Andres'Medrano, a Mexican, who died at the age of 109 years, was buried here yesterday. He was born at San Irido de Las Guevas, j Mexico, and had lived in "Los Angeles seven years. During the Mexican war I ( he served as a private soldier in the army of the republic. . - Chicago, Nov. John Sroythe, one "of the oldest and best , known of Chicago merchants, is seriously m at his home here, and It is feared he may not recover. re-cover. His illness is said to be due to overwork. New York, Nov. A nation wide propaganda prop-aganda for lessening infantile mortality will begin with a two days' conference at Yale university Nov. 11-12. This conference will be attended by many of the leading physicians, scientists and philanthropic laymen in the United States and from it is expected some definite defi-nite plan whereby a successful war may be waged on the principal causes of death among small children. Steubenville, O., Nov. While escorting escort-ing strike-breakers from a hotel to the LaSalle iron works, where a strike of sheet tin mill workers has been going on for three weeks, detectives fired into a menacingr crowd surrounding the plant last night, seriously wounding four. . Cedar Rapids, la., Nov. Ada Mc-Leod, Mc-Leod, 7 years old, was instantly killed yesterday by the overturning of an automobile au-tomobile in which she was riding. Mrs. D. C. McLeod, her mother, and Miss Cauly of Atkins. Ia., were seriously injured. in-jured. D. C. McLeod and Alexander Gregor were slightly hurt. - The accident was caused by a defective tire. Siloam Springs, Ark., Nov. Mrs. E. M. Fowler was killed and her two children chil-dren were seriously injured when their home was destroyed by a tornado Sunday. Sun-day. It was feared the storm did much other damage, although no other definite information has been received. Prades, France, Nov. Six persons were killed and twelve Injured in the wreck of an electric train which was undergoing a speed test on the hew railroad rail-road from Villefranche to Bourg-Ma-dame. The train ran away and plunged I Into a deep ravine. 1 San Francisco, Nov. George B. Cha- I ney, who pleaded guilty to a charge of i having used the United States mails for fraudulent purposes, was sentenced -today by Judge De Haven of the United States district court to a term of fifteen months in San Quentin prison and. the payment of a fine of $500. Chaney was vice president of the Standard Oil Investment In-vestment & Promotion company and, with other officials of the concern, was indicted six years ago. He succeeded in eluding the postal officials until a few weeks ago, when he was arrested in Philadelphia. College Park, Md., Nov. Breaking all endurance records on the government aviation field, Lieutenant Lahm in the army aeroplane remained in the air during dur-ing a single flight today fifty-eight and one-half minutes. " - Stanford University, Cal., Nov. While inspecting some construction work today to-day on the Dumbarton bridge near Palo Alto, Charles W. Anthony, a freshman of the university, fell from a bicycle into the bay and was drwned. Anthony An-thony was registered in the university from Los Angeles, but his parents live in Sterling, 111. His father, js on his way g here, having intended to visit the boy, 1 and is due to arrive today. . I 1 Washington, Nov. Royalties exceed- I ing by $2,563,981 the $7,200,000 paid to 9 Russia in 1867 for the entire district of I Alaska, have been received by the Unit- I ed States government since that ces- i sion for seal skins taken off the islands of St. Paul and St. George in the Bering g sea. The United States has been nego- tiating with Great Britain, Russia and I Japan since 1890 for an agreement to i abolish the practice of. killing these seals iu the sea, and the negotiations now 1 promise a favorable settlement. g Johnstown, Pa., Nov. Twelve ,ien 1 were killed in the Cambria Steel com- pany's coal mine, two miles from here, U last night, as a result of what is sup- 1 posed to have been a dynamite explo- a sion. All the dead are foreigners. Three men escaped by a perilous climb on life ,j ladders through poisonous mine gas and falling slate, up the steep walls of the main shaft Only fifteen workmen were in the mine. A force of men at once 8 began clearing the debris and fallen slate in the lower levels. When the nnai Darner was passed, the party found the twelve bodies. . Reno, New, Nov. While alighting from passenger train No. 3 last Monday. Mon-day. Father Meehan, priest of the Win-nemucca Win-nemucca Catholic church, was drawn beneath the wheels of. his car. The front trucks of the heavy passenger train passed over the priest's right foot, mangling it in a horrible manner. The accident occurred at Imlay, and Father Meehan was brought to Reno. His right foot will be amputated. Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. Prompt action on the part of the citizens and volunteers from Colorado college saved a threatened fire in the Pike's Peak forest for-est reserve yesterday afternoon. The flames were started by a locomotive. New York, Nov. In a letter to the National League for the Civic Education Educa-tion of Women, an anti-suffrage organization, or-ganization, made public today, Cardinal Gibbons says: "Although my many duties will not allow me to be present at your meeting, I beg to assure you I arn most heartily in sympathy with the aim of your league, and I approve most strongly the stand it has taken in opposition to woman's suffrage, which if realized, would be the death blow of domestic life and happiness." Senator Elihu Root also wrote a letter let-ter expressing his sympathy with the cause. New York, Nov. Complete returns on the vote for mayor show the following: fol-lowing: Gaynor, 250,678: Bannard, 177,662; Hearst, 153,843; Gaynor's plurality, 73,-016. Des Moines, la., Nov. After having searched alone all night for two burglars bur-glars who entered a house at Carroll, and arresting them. Pat Hatton, city marshal of Carroll, la., was today shot and killed by one of the robbers. Hatton has followed the men from Carroll and after arresting them, and while covering them with a revolver, turned toward his team. Instantly one of the men shot him in the bacy. A posse formed an hour later and can. tured the roDbers in a cornfield. A mob was reported forming at Carroll Car-roll to await the arrival of the robbers. Officers have the situation well in hand, and although the crowds on th streets have-made threats of lynching, it is believed the officers can defeat such an effort. Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. Fire which started yesterday on the mountains moun-tains south of Colorado City has spread to the Pike's Peak forest reserve and threatens serious damage. The forestry class of Colorado college was ordered out to assist the government officials in fighting the fire. The fire is half a mile land and has been fanned by a stiff wind. . Denver, Nov. Denver police are working on a mysterious robbery which occurred several nights ago, when mining min-ing stocks and other valuable securities securi-ties to the value of $15,000 were stolen from the home of Henry Jagels. a mining min-ing man. The theft was committed by-two by-two men and a woman, and one theory Is that the trio followed Jagels here 'from Nevada. Jagels will not discuss the robbery further than to say the papers pa-pers stolen Were valuable. Nelson, B. C Nov. On the Phoenix branch of the Canadian Pacific railroad rail-road a light, engine left the track and went off an embankment 130 feet high. Engineer McAstocker and Fireman George Beatty were fatally injured. San Diego, Cal., Nov. At a meeting of the Panama-California exposition directors last night it was decided to raise $1,000,000 as a nucleus of the fund that will be required for holding tne exposition ex-position to celebrate opening of the canal in 1915. Stock subscription to that amount will be solicited. Washington, Naw Surpassing the most sanguine expectations of the treasury officials the internal revenue receiots are bounding upward. For, October Oc-tober the figures show $23,6M,404, an increase of $1,616,733 over the corresponding corre-sponding month last year, and that there will be some additions to the receipts re-ceipts credited to last months' accounts. ac-counts. So far this fiscal year up to Oct. 30. the internal revenue receipts have , run $4,575,999 ahead of the same period last year, the total since July 1 being $89,783,037. Montreal, Nov. Last Monday marked the centennial of steam navigation on the St. Lawrence river. s Washington, Nov. The district couvt of appeals on Tuesday affirmed the decision de-cision of the supreme court of the District Dis-trict of Columbia, adjudging President Samuel Gompers, Secretary Frank' Morrison and Vice President John Mitchell of the American Federation of Labor guilty of .contempt of court in trie Buck stove and range case. Ogden, Nov. The Republican party of Ogden City won a sweeping victory at Tuesday's battle of ballots. But one man on the entire Democratic ticket was elected. This was Chris Flygaro of the Fourth ward, who was re-elected to the city council from that ward over Parley T. Moyes, the Republican candidate, by a majority of ten votes. San Francisco. Nov. The election of P. H. McCarthy, the Union Labor candidate can-didate for mayor, by a plurality of about 7,000. is conceded and the majority ma-jority of Charles M.' Fickert, for district dis-trict attorney over Francis J. Heney may reach 15,000. -. . So far as . countedthe returns show the election of a mixed board of supervisors super-visors with o. majority of Union Labor members. The other municipal officers elected are divided among the Republicans, Repub-licans, Democratic and Union Labor parties. |