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AND ABROAD. NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News Items, Domestic and Foreign. MISCELLANEOUS. Three cars of an electric train on the West Jersey & Seashore railroad jumped the track on the bridge over the Thoroughfare, at Atlantic City, N. J., going off into the water. Two of the cars were submerged with their living freight. but the third car was not submerged until the people were able to get ou or were rescued. The dead was variously estimated at from 55 to 75. Many of the injured were perhaps fatally hurt. The San Francisco school board states that it was simply obeying the laws of California when it established separate schools for Japanese and other orientals. Many of the so-called Japanese pupils are grown men, and are not fit associates for little girls and boys in white schools The super intendent says: "We do not deny the Japanese any educational right, but there are separate schools for them, and those they must attend Says a Tokio dispatch Among the 266 coral fishing vessels which were caught in the hurricane off Goto island, only 38 of them lived through the storm. Of 1,210 men on board, 822 were drowned and 100 injured." Three persons were killed and a number injured by an explosion of natural gas at Coffeyville, Kas., which wrecked five two-story business buildings. Fire partially destroyed Trowbridge ball. the young ladies' dormitory of Deflance (Ohio) college. and 56 girls had a narrow escape. William O. Robeson for the past 29 years supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum. died of pneumonia at his home in Wellesley Hills, Mass. after an illness of two days. He was born at Loyal Oak. Md., in 1823 President Felton of the Chicago & Alton positively forbids the employ ment of relatives in any capacity. and heads of departments have all been notified Paderewski has canceled his engagement to appear in this country in January At Sart'oga, N.Y., Italians started a run on the Adirondack Trust Co., of which State Senator Brackett is presi dent. The Italians are said to have become alarmed because Bracket was not renominated for senator E. H. Harriman has 10,000 laborers at work on a railroad he is building on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The road is 1.500 miles long, and will be completed. i is said. in eighteen months. Robert M. Snyder, a Kansas City Mo. millionaire, was fatally injured In an automobile accident, during which a boy was struck and fatally hurt. Both died at the same hospital a short time afterward. Snyder was under indictment at St. Louis on the charge of bribery. Not long ago Carey Snyder, a son. was found murdered in Oregon. The months statement of the collect tions of internal revenue shows that for the month of September, 1906, the total receipts were $21,362,639. which is an increase as compared with Sep tember 1905, of $138,151 increased shipments of wheat from Argentina has had weakening effect on the wheat market. Weather there was said to be favorable for the growing erop. The first test of the federal eight hour day law ended in a victory fo. the government at Cincinnati. After being out only 15 minutes. the jury in the United States court found the Sheridan-Kirk Contracting Co. guilty of violating the law in the construction of the big Ohio river dam at Fernbank, nine miles below Cincinnati. A drastic measure against the rebel lious clergy according to well-informed persons, has be n decided upon by the French cabinet which intends to deal with them as foreign officials Mes. Robert E. Peary, wife of the ex plorer, is quoted as saying: 'I feel just as sure as am living at this moment that my husband has found the nort's pole, and that he will soon be home to tell us about it." President Rcosevelt has directed Victor H. Meteali, S cretary of the de partment of commerce and labor, to proceed to San Francisco, and make a thorough and complete inquiry into the situation affecting the exclusion of Japancse children from the schools provided for white children and the determination to place Japanese pupils in separate schools. Reports of lioor scarcity are still well night universal says Bradstreet, and the movement of the cotton crop. the shipments of limber, the outputs of coal and the deliveries of various mills are still estricted from this cause. or by reason of inadequate car supply Fear is expressed in some quarters in Washington that persistence in the enti-Japanese agitation on the Pa cific coast will result in anti-American boycotting in Japan that will dwarf in magnitude the injury inflicted on American trade in the orient by the boycotting in China. The president has issued a proclamation naming Thursday. November 29. as a day of thanksgiving The wife of the Siamese charge d'affaires at Washington having died, the remains will be cremated, according to Siamese custom. and the asher sent to Slam.