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THE NEWS. Domestic United States Commissioner Mark A. Foote, of Chicago, ordered the deportation of Bob Leong, of El Paso, Texas, convicted last summer before Judge Landis of smuggling Chinese from Mexico. Thomas Thorne, an actor, well known in Baltimore, committed suicide in Chicago where he was playing the poet-reporter in "The Fourth Estate." Cold weather and beavy snowfalls cheeked to a considerable extent building operations in the principal cities of the United States during February. The trolley strike in Trenton. N. J., was settled when the Trenton Street Railway Company granted the men the wages they asked-23 cents an hour. The Far Eastern Association Medical Conference accepts the theory that beri-beri has its origin in the polishing of rice. John J. Showalter a Pennsylvania oil producer. 60 years old. dropped dead in the lobby of a hotel at Long Beach. Cal. Peter Strikis, said to be a diccouraged lover. was arrested, charged with dynamiting the home of Mrs. John Shokus, a widow, of WilkesBarre. Pa. A tablet has been placed in the University of Pennsylvania, in honor of John Nixon. who first read the Declaration of Independence in pnblic. The body of Thomas Collier Platt was interred on the heights of Evergreen Cemetery, overlooking Oswego. the city of his birth. Rare Sevres ware, lent by the French government. will be exhibited at the French Hospital Bazar, to be held in New York. Women both in favor of and opposing votes for women, visited the General Assembly at Albany, N. Y. A. W Shirey, who was assassinated at Little Rock, Ark., bequeths $200, 000 to the Odd Fellows. Jefferson M. Andrews, secretary of the American Sunday School Union, died in Philadelphia. Charged with embezzling $100,000 of the funds of the First National Bank of Tipton, Ind., William H. Marker, formerly cashier of the bank, was placed on trial. Bloodhounds and detectives are searching for Miss Helen Bloodgood, who eluded her nurses and disappeared from Lakewood, N. J. Logan M. Bullitt, the civic reformer, who was arrested by order of Mayor Reyburn, of Philadelphia, was fined ten dollars. Mrs. Jack Cudahy, of Kansas City, whose husband attacked Banker Jere F. Lillis, has refused offers to go on the stage. Edward McGann. paymaster of the Dexter Coal Company, of Pittsburg, was held up by highwaymen and robbed of $4,000. Crossed electric wires caused a fire loss of $75,000 at the Westinghouse Machine Company's plant at Pittsburg. Robbers dynamited a safe in the bank at Edna, Kan., and escaped on a handcar with $4.000. Excited foreigners caused a run on the Society of Savings Bank, of Cleveland. O. Three persons were killed and 25 injured by the collapse of fire ruins in Pittsburg. The police force of Rutherford, N. II., has gone on a strike. P: tsburg plants have orders for 10,000 steel railroad cars.
