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Ruunoo Three German military balloonists who landed near Warsaw were arrested by the Russian authorities. Count Zeppelin's monster dirigible balloon blew up and was ruined at Echterdingen, where it was being repaired after nearly completing a wonderful flight from Friedrichshafen to Mayence and return. About 12,000 mechanics of the Canadian Pacific railway went on strike, every shop in the system being closed. The hacked legs and mutilated torso of a boy were found in Chicago and the police believe the case one of atrocious murder. William F. Downing, a member of the old Stiles-Alvord band of outlaws who operated in southern Arizona, was killed in his saloon at Wilcox, by Arizona Ranger William Speed. The crack rifle team of the National Guard of Hawaii sailed on the steamer Alameda to participate in the national rifle competition at Camp Ferry, O. A farmer of North Mianus, Conn., tried to fly with paper wings and was nearly drowned. Fire in Midway, Ky., destroyed four great bonded whisky warehouses and damaged two others. The loss was $200,000. R. J. Hume, wife and child of Eau Claire, Wis., were drowned in Lake Nebagamon, Wis., while attempting to cross the lake in a duckboat. The suspension of the firm of Eastman & Co., stock brokers, was announced on the floor of the consolidated stock exchange in New York. Capt. A. H. Guthrie of the schooner Frank A. Williams of New York committed suicide by jumping overboard eight miles northwest of Cape Look"no Philadelphia aldermen defeated Milwaukee city fathers in a game of baseball for charity. Said Pasha, the grand vizier, and the newly-formed Turkish ministry resigned and the sultan invited Jemalledin Effendi, the Sheik-ul-Islam, and Kiamil Pasha to form a new cabinet. It was reported that the sultan was stabbed in the breast by a minor palace official, but that his vest of mail turned the point of the weapon. Charles W. Westerfeld, an assistant bookkeeper of the Produce Exchange bank of New York, committed suicide by shooting in the book room of the bank just as two worthless checks, bearing his signature, were presented at the paying teller's window. Several persons were killed and much damage done to property by a violent earthquake at Constantine, Algeria. Representatives of most of the leading Italian societies of New York, many of them Italian bankers and importers, met to organize a society for the suppression of violence, particularly by members of the Black Hand. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters rejected the overtures of the United Teamsters of America to amalgamate the two organizations. After 11 months of litigation, the insurance companies have been defeated in their attempts to resist payment of the insurance claims resulting from the damage caused by the fire of January 14, 1907, when Kingston, Jamaica, was visited by a severe earthquake. Ten thousand members of the uniform rank, Knights of Pythias, paradBoston up pe Archie and Bert McMaster and their wives, of Chicago, were drowned at Galena, Ill., while bathing. The steel fireboat Illinois was crushed and sunk by the falling wall of a burned elevator in Chicago. Lightning during a severe storm at Grand Rapids, Mich., caused a score of destructive fires. United States District Attorney Baker of Washington, his bride and several friends plunged over a 300foot precipice in an automobile near Liberty, N. Y., but escaped with their lives. The Bank of Austin, Nev., one of the oldest in that city, has closed its . doors. Later advices from the fire-swept region around Fernie, B. C., placed the probable number of deaths at 200 or more and the property losses at over $10,000,000. The refugees were reported in great need of food and relief trains started from many cities. Fire in Chicago destroyed Armour elevators, Burlington freight sheds and cars and other property, the loss being nearly $2,000,000. Many firemen were injured. One life was lost and much property destroyed in a cloudburst at Verdi, Nev. James Ryan, one of the most noted pickpockets of the country, was killed by a tram car at Pratt City, Ala. At least 100 lives were lost, the towns of Fernie, Coal Creek, Hosmer and Michel, B. C., wiped out, three other towns partially destroyed, and property loss of $10,000,000 sustained as the result of bush fires which raged in the Crow's Nest district of the