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A WEEK'S RECORD All the News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happenings at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD DOMESTIC. Three personslo their lives and a half dozen others were injured as the result of the explosion of a small bundle of fireworks in the storeroom of the Diamond Fireworks company, in Philadelphia. Harry Jacobs, Harry Brooker and John Bloom were drowned by the accidental capsizing of a boat in which they were making a fishing trip on the Illinois river, near Morris, III. The First national bank of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., was closed by direction of the comptroller of the currency. A run on the institution caused the failure. New York Central locomotive, No. 999. made famous as the first engine to run the Empire State express, and which was exhibited at the Chicago world's fair, is hauling a milk train in New York. John B. Stewart, 53 years of age, was shot and almost instantly killed by the husband of his step-daughter, Samuel Peck, 24 years of age, at their home in Collinwood, O., as the result of a family row. A small blaze which started in a jewelry store resulted in a general conflagration which destroyed the main portion of the town of Sisson, Cal. Loss, $300,000. George Rice, of Ohio, who for 30 years has been fighting the Standard Oil company, filed a suit in the New Jersey court under the federal anti-trust laws, seeking the dissolution of the combine as an illegal corporation. The decision of the supreme court in the Northern Securities case is relied upon in the prosecution. Railroads are preparing to make a campaign for a law legalizing pooling of traffic. Western roads are seeking a remedy for the alarming number of claims made for losses and damage on account of overs, shorts and bad orders in freight. Frank L. Stewart is held in New York on the charge of stealing $600 worth of jewelry from Henry B. Kingsley, of Rutland. Vt., who disappeared from that city last November. Customs officers in New York discovered a false bulkhead on the steamer Indrawadi, behind which was hidden $8,000 worth of smuggled goods. The coroner's jury, after investigation of the General Slocum disaster, returned a verdict declaring the immense loss of life due to misconduct on the part of the directing owners of the vessel, charging the captain and chief equipment officer with criminal responsibility, accusing the mate of cowardly conduct and censuring Government Inspector Lundberg. Warrants for the accused men were issued and several arrests made. Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind young woman, received the degree of bachelor of arts, with high honors, at Radcliffe college. Rumor of finding the body of Assistant Secretary of State Loomis' brother near Cherbourg, France, is declared false, and a witness reiterates he saw Loomis land at Plymouth. Syracuse university won the eightoared race in the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie, with Cornell in second place. Wisconsin finished sixth and last. Charles A. Gutke, member of St. Louis house of delegates' combine, confessed details of boodle transactions. Casualties in various parts of the country cost 18 lives. A 14-year-old colored boy at Lexington, Ky., received 50 lashes in the public square by order of a police judge. Thousands rushed to enter homesteads on a 9,000,000 acre tract of government land in Nebraska. The National Educational association convened in St. Louis, with 30,000 in attendance. Shippers' associations have been organized to fight the "uniform bill of lading" and other disputes with railroads. The weather bureau has issued a report that the corn crop is practically made in many sections. As the result of a rowboat capsizing in the Allegheny river at Pittsburg, Henry Hillston and Earnest Halbey were drowned, and two companions had a narrow escape from a similar fate. Benjamin Rhodes and Wilson Reed, contractors of Springfield, III., were killed Tuesday while engaged in sinking a new shaft. The hook on the bucket in which they were being lowered into the shaft broke, letting them fall 90 feet. A heavy wind and hall storm at La Cross, Wis., wrecked a building at the interstate fair grounds and huge trees were uprooted. The damage to crops was heavy. An attempt was made to lynch Charles L Allison, a well-known citizen and Sunday school worker of South Haven, Mich, who was arrested on the charge of criminally assaulting four-year-old Mdith Secor.
