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THE WEEK'S NEWS Monday, Oct. 29. By the wrecking of a three-coach electric train on the West Jersey and Sea Shore railroad, at least 50 passengers perished and the list may reach a total of 75. While crossing a draw bridge spanning the waterway known as "The Thoroughfare," which sepaCity from the left the track and rates the train Atlantic mainland, plunged Into the water. corps has wireless telegraph station at Co The signal completed Camp a lumbia, Cuba. This puts General Bell's beadquarters in immediate com munication with Washington. William O. Robson, supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum, died at his home in Wellesley Hills, Mass., of pneumonia. after an illness of 0 days. Robson was elected supreme secretary in 1877 and has held the office ever since. The embalmed body of 6-months-old girl in a dress suit case was found at Express the Adams company's office at Philadelphia by inspectors who were going over unclaimed articles preparatory to having them sold. Thomas F. Dignam has been confirmed as temporary receiver of the Hartford Telegram company. The liabilities are $10,774.68 The will of Colonel Henry P. Martin, formerly commander of the Seventy-First New York in bequeaths $500,000 Church Brooklyn, American building regiment, fund to filed com- the mission of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States and $100,000 to the domestic and foreign missionary society of the Protestant Episcopal church. Sunday, Oct. 28. Frank Martin, 9 years old, and Albert Holland, 10, who were arrested for breaking into the summer home of C. B. Reed at Greenwich, Conn., and destroying property there, were committed to the state reform school until they shall reach the age of 21. The Merchants and Planters' bank of Indianola, Miss., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. G. H. Lewis, acting as solicitor for the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, says that no deed of separation between the duke and the duchess has been signed. Two breakers were blown down, hundreds of homes damaged, dozens of persons injured and scores of trees and telephone poles uprooted and blown a storm which down in swept through damThe the Lackawanna valley. age will be close to $500,000. The New England Insurance Exchange took the first step toward reduction of insurance rates, which were raised after the San Francisco disaster. The step was in the form of a repeal of the "emergency rate" which raised insurance 20 cents per hundred in the towns and cities of New England over which the exchange has jurisdiction. The first public utterance of President Roosevelt touching upon the camYork was to paign in New conveyed Republican mass meeting at Cooper Union in the form of an endorsement of the gubernatorial candidacy of Charles M. Hughes. Saturday, Oct. 27. Residents of the seacoast cities of Maine are interested in the report that a movement for the abolition of custom houses in many of the small ports will be pushed at the next session of congress on the ground of excessive cost. Mrs. Kaine, aged 65, was accidentally shot and killed by two boys who were out gunning in the village of Lansville, Mass. Murder and self-destruction by shooting ended the lives of a man and woman who were registered at a New York hotel as Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Burlington, Vt. John Hoag, assistant cashier of the Aetna Banking and Trust company of Washington, was arrested at Chicago as he was about to board a train for the northwest. A sentence of one year in jail was imposed upon' Henry L. Farrington, convicted of manslaughter for the shooting of Eugene Bryant in the Hartford, Me., lumber camp. President Roosevelt has directed Secretary Metcalf to proceed to San Francisco and make a thorough and complete inquiry into the situation af fecting the expulsion of Japanese children from the schools provided for white children. The American mission has decided 3 to remain in Fez until the Sultan of Morocco takes steps for the payment of e the indemnities demanded for outrages upon American citizens. Friday, Oct. 26. 3 Battleship Minnesota, a product of I the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock company, had a very successful four-hour endurance trial off coast, knots New Her average England speed of 18.86 maintaining an hour the an contract speed is,18 knots an hour of There is a wholesale dismissal Grand Trunk railway conductors under way.