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Show NEWS SUMMARY Magji neral William It Shatter, U, m$ died at Bakersflcld, Cal., on thc,12th, from pneumonia. Herhbri Bradley, a wealthy flour exporter, ex-porter, waa killed by a pet doer on the preserves at his home near Mont-clairViOJ- , Four men were killed and a score Injured, several fatally, by tho explosion explo-sion of a boiler of a cotton gin nt Caulkavllle, Ark. The streets of Warsaw aro again In control of the cavalry in consequenco of threatened disorders because of the high pdeo of meat. ThiTnrst-class Japaneso battleship Batsuma, 19,000 tons, tho first battle-ahlpjtto battle-ahlpjtto be launched In Japaneso waters, wa-ters, waa launched on the 15th. A reactionary newspaper of Moscow domand tho expulsion of Count Wltto from Russia, nnd says ho will remain In Russia at the risk of his life. Representative Bourke Cockran and Miss Annie Ido, daughter of Henry 0. tde, formerly governor general of the Philippine", were married on tho 16th. Prince Albert of Flanders, the heir apparent to the Belgian throno and nephew of King Leopold, haa been sworn In as a member of tho Belgian Benatc. Although there exists no law to the contrary, the government of Peru haa refused to allow a local firm of bank-era bank-era to jdilp 12,000 silver sola (about 12,000 pounds) to London. V,C. 8wcatman, of Philadelphia, dropped dead while running to catch fi train. He was 85 jeara of age and was one of the heaviest dealers In malt In the United States. Mrs, Charles A. Strong, daughter of JohnD. Rockefeller, died at Cannes, France, on the 14th. Mrs. Strong had been 111 for some time and suffered a paralytic stroke on November 12. William R. Hearst, Independence league and Democratic candidate for governor of New York, has certified to the secretary of state that he spent $386,370 In promoting hl canvass. Mrs. Charles Mowry and her three children, Homer, aged 6 years; Louise, 3 years, and a baby of 6 months, wero burned to death In their home on a farm at Batavla atatlon, Michigan. Six men were killed and five seriously seri-ously injured when a bolter In the power house of tho Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, In Collln wood, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, blew up. Generals Rolan and Castellanps were severely -wounded noar Valencia, Spain, as n result of the explosion of a land mine during experiments which were being conducted, by the military engineers, Two persons were seriously Injured and a number of women and children bruised and otherwise slightly hurt In a panic caused by an Incipient, blaze from a moving picture machine at Evansvllle, Ind. Dr. W C. Phillips, aged 83years, former secretary of the state of Texas and brother of United Statei District Judgo John F. Phillips of Missouri committed suicide at Rocheport, Mo., by drinking poison. Three robbers escaped with the con tents of the safe of the Bank of Walk er, at Walker, Mo, The safe and front portion of the bank building were wrecked by tho explosion of a heavy harge of dynamite. President Roosevelt will be asked to deliver the address at the unveiling of the monument to General Lawton, being erected at Indianapolis by the peoplo of Indiana. The coremony will tako place next Memorial day. The American International Con gress on Tuberculosis was held in New York last week. Dr. F. E. Daniel of Austin, Texas, the president, declared the keynote of the convention In to be the prevention of tuberculosis by legislation. legis-lation. Robbers dynamited a safe In the Bank of Lohoraa, In Gofield county, Oklahoma, and escaped with $2,700 In cash. The bank had just received $1Q,000 to PaX farmers for their cotton, cot-ton, but the robbers overlooked this honey Bert Seoley, who was under suspicion sus-picion In connection with tho murder of Edwin Garwln, in West Haven, Mich., was found dead In his bed, and lying beside him was his young wife, a,l to dead. It Is thought that the couple cou-ple committed suicide. The United States grand jury at Pensacola, Fla., after four days' session, ses-sion, returned Indlctmento against twelve persons, charging peonage If connection with cases which originated origin-ated at the Jackson Lumber company's camp several months since. |