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Show NEWS SUMMARY. Five thousand bookbinders at Leipsit re locked out According to board of trade statistics statis-tics the damaged grain elevators at Galveston contained 3,223,000 bushels of wheat. An imperial decree issued in Austria admits women to practice as physl-clans physl-clans and chemists on the same conditions condi-tions as men. The troubles in China are- badlj effecting German manufacturers o machinery for rice mills and other machinery ma-chinery used in the east. The southwest Louisiana rice ero has suffered heavy loss from the storm. Bice men estimate the damage at 10 to 15 per cent of the crop as a whole. The United Mine Workers have only $71,000 In their treasury to sustain a strike, and this sum will not keep the strikers and their families for a week. One was instantly killed, four others are at the point of death and four more are seriously burned as the result of the explosion of a steam pipe in Baldwin's locomotive works, Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. The Russian government adheres firmly to its proposal to evacuate Peking Pe-king and continues to cherish the bope that Germany will end by agreeing, to it, and thus induce Great Britain to follow. Head-hunting in Formosa by the aborigines still continues. On Augest 21st three hundred aborigines at Tai-kakan Tai-kakan went out on a head-hunting expedition, ex-pedition, killing a number of Japanese officials. ' The railroads of Texas will suffer the loss of millions of dollars on actual damage to say nothing of the loss from stoppage of business. At Galveston their wharves, warehouses, depots and tracks are ruined. As a result of a spill at Coliseum board track. New Haven, Miller, the six-day champion of the world, it ii feared sustained concussion of the brain, and Archie McEachern of Canada Cana-da was also badly injured. Street railway employees' unions are likely to be assessed for raising a fund with which to purchase automobiles for use by the street railway men In cities where the street railway men strikes are in progress. Earl Li has applied through the Chinese Embassadors at the various capitals for a guarantee from the powers pow-ers for a safe conduct at sea and on land on his way to Peking for the beginning be-ginning of peace negotiations. Claims . aggregating $3,800,000 or more have arisen in connection with the efforts made, principally in Hawaii, Ha-waii, to prevent the bubonie plague from securing a foothold in this country coun-try and its outlying possessions. Tom Ketchum, better known as "Black Jack," the leader of a gang of outlaws that terrorized the Southwest for several years, was convicted of train robbery at Clayton, N. M., the penalty for which in New Mexico is death. The French Minister of the Colonies, M. de Crais, has received a dispatch annonncing the defeat of the last rem naat of the forces of Abdah, the famous Arab chief, who was long a thorn in the side of the French in southern Sahara. The destruction of shipping at Hal. veston may reduce the volume of early cotton deliveries, thus affecting Lancashire, Lan-cashire, England. Reports from Lancashire Lan-cashire show that 20,000 looms, bave' stopped, and that 24,000 operators are idle. LI Hnng Chang is credited by Joaquin Joa-quin Miller, in an interview- in the Japan Times, with saying that if ithad been known that there was not much loot in Peki the allied forces would not have been in such a hurry to get there. ' , The total number of anthracite miners employed in the entire Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Pa., district is 142,420, and the average amount of wages paid them per month, at 820 per man, including breaker boys and all hands, is $2,848,-000. $2,848,-000. It is asserted in Paris that should Prince Ching arrive in Peking properly accredited France will readily accept him and begin peace negotiations. Ching is regarded as being a capable man and well fitted to act as a peacs commissioner. Nine of the dozen members of the Wells expedition, which left Guaymas, Mexico, last June to explore Tortugas, have been slain by cannibals on thai island. Three men who escaped dldse only after a fierce fight to reach on oi their boats. |