| Show shot in the head st louis nov 10 A special to the post dispatch from columbus mo says thomas hagens fifty years aldand old nd a welt well known and eccentric character who lived about seven miles west of here alone in a small cottage was found dead at noon today by lafayette who called at the house to see him on business after repeated knocks he be entered and found hagens seated at the table dead with a bullet wound in the back of the head it Is supposed he was murdered no clue has yet been found san francisco cal nov II 11 the th thirty arty farst death in the iowa regiment has occurred nt at the division hospital that of private clifford Stilling erp com nany D 13 from typhoid fever earl al M camet company M of the same regi trient Is near to death from typhoid recruits for the infantry 24 it in nl number imber have hare arrived here from little littie rock arkansas and chicago and are quartered at the presidio one of the london special writers claims that russia is plan planning ing a shin canal across the empire which shall connect the baltic sea with the diack black sea so go that the largest battleships can pass through it at reasonable speed great az as the plan Is it Is so simple in its engineering aspects and also from a financial viewpoint that the onla wonder Is that the work has not beer done long ago though the waterway will be ten times as long as the suez canal the territorial conditions are so favorable favorable and the existing waterways are eo so large and deep and convenient in their natural direction that only about miles of the 1000 mile will need to be due duer and comparatively little dredging will be required to complete the availability of the natural waterways |
