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Show NEWS SUMMARY Serious forest fires aro rnglnft west of Marquette, Mich. 'William Loo, colored, was hanged at Crtsfleid, Md.( for assaulting two white women. Tho striking freight handlers of tho Southern Pacific company at Oakland have resumed uroik. Tho gas workers at Luhlln, Russian Poland, have gone out on strike and tho city streets aro In daikncss Sovcro crop damage Is reported from several points In Minnesota, North Da kota and Iowa, rosultlng from hall, rain and windstorms. Despondent over Ill-health, Jamoa Major, cashier of the Carlton, Kan, fltato bank, shot and killed himself iu a room of the bank. H. C. Holmes, a merchant, while lnsono, opened Are on Policeman Ros alter In Cincinnati Tho officer ro-turned ro-turned tho flro, killing Holmes. Ttlchard OgEondim, rocontly arrived from'UwUzerlahd, wits killed ut On tarlo, Cal., by ths accldontal dlschnga of n shotgun while limiting rabbits. American da'ry and stock farms are needod In th Panama, rwnil on X i i HMIMMMBWWIWWWWWWMMWWWWCilitliiiBMiWlMPItftlMIWiWMIjfill . r-.- . r - eorttlng to ft rpoit Horn (maul J. C. J Kdllogc to '" bureau of manuiae Hire. i Tho flrrt Heath fivm smallpox at Colon was repor.el to the Washing?, ton offlce of the Isthmlaa canal com-mission com-mission last week by Governor Ma-goon. Ma-goon. At Kingston, in Williamson county, Tennessee, a ingress gavo birth to six chlldron. Th children nre ell formed nnd u'l were nllvo nt last no-counts. no-counts. Thrco men were killed In the yrtrda of tbo Erlo railroad at Jersey City, when a spreading rail Hent a fast freight train plunging down an embankment. em-bankment. Iu consequence of reolutlonay terrorism, ter-rorism, tho administration of the vlco-royalty vlco-royalty of tho Caucasus has boon completely com-pletely paralyzed and officials aro resigning re-signing In largo numbers. Captain Cnstolo of tho artillery, n son of General Castolo, was danger ously and probably moi tally wouildfed In a duel with swords, fought with Senor Arroyo at Madrid. The Democratic executive committee commit-tee of tho Eighth district of Mississippi Missis-sippi has formally doclarcd John Sharp Williams tho party candidato' for congress from that dlBltict. On account of tho long continued drought tho water supply of tho Khanato of Bokhara, Central Asia, la practically exhausted. Tho peoplo aro drinking from thick, stagnant pools. A baby boy was born to Mrs Stella Drennan In the state prison at Stillwater, Still-water, Minn. Mrs. Bronnun Is serving a llfo sentence for the murder of hor step-children In Minneapolis about n yoar ago. During the fiscal ear ondlng Juno 30, 1900, tho United States sold to tho people of other countries products of the value of Jl,743,703,612 and bought from them goods In the totnl sum of $1,220,615,379. Charles P. Muiphy, louder of Tammany Tam-many hall, says that It is possible that Tammany hall will support Will lam II. Hearst for tho DainocrnfJo nomination for governor In the next state convention Tho demand for labor In Callfornlr promises to exceed the supply for many months to come. Altogether. California offers employment fo not less thin 40,000 men nt Uifc',hlgliuet. wages on record , A whitehead torpedo firod from the dock at the torpedo station durlug the practice at Newport. It. 1., struuk and sank a boat In which four Sao-4 men gunners frere seatod. A llfo-boii rescued the seamen. Three of a party of slfptraeua h-wero h-wero boating on Lake Hopatklng, N J., were drowned when tholr crafi japslrod through tho apparent lnex perlenco of the man who had uudor taken to handle the boat. |