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WESTERN. Fire damaged the plant of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company at Huntington, Ark., to the extent of $60,000. During a severe electrical storm at Texarkana, Ark., lightning struck an umSEM очм soq U pus breath ing it. Forest fires are doing great damage on the timber belt along the Columbia River on both the Washington and Oregon shores. A Santa Fe freight train was wrecked by a broken axle at Cedar Point, Kan. Brakeman L. E. Ziegler, of Emporia, SEM The stage running to Mendocino was held up ten miles from Ukiah, Cal. The express box was taken and two passengers and the driver robbed. Mrs. Louise Sheridan, widow of the actor and formerly well known under the stage name of Louise Davenport, died in poverty in a San Francisco hovel. George Anspaugh, while drunk. at Lima, Ohio, assaulted his wife. knocked her down and poured red pepper sauce into her eyes, blinding her for life, it is feared. At Reallsville, Ohio, William Montgomery, a well-to-do farmer, while intoxicated, fatally shot his wife and then turned the revolver on himself, committing suicide. A conservative estimate would place the population of the city of Cleveland to-day at 402,428. These figures disclose a remarkable growth for the city during the past year. Nearly forty suits for damages have been entered at Seattle against the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company in connection with the wreck of the steamer Islander recently. Nicholas Rieblinger, of Chicago, killed his aged wife with a razor because she refused to return to him and then committed suicide in the presence of his two little grandchildren. The Santa Fe Railroad Company has secured a charter to build fourteen separate lines of railroad, with a total length of 815 miles, to be operated as the Eastern Oklahoma lines. The bank of New Metamoras, a private concern, has closed its doors. The bank had deposited $50,000 with the Superior Street Savings and Banking Company of Cleveland. which went to the wall. Lloyd Booth, a pioneer iron manufacturer and president of the Lloyd Booth plant of the Union Engineering and Foundry Company of Youngstown, Ohio, "ase JO Fears 89 about SEM H pued s! Mrs. Johanna M. Lovelace of Turner. Kan., has made an offer to the Kansas City, Kan., Baptist Theological Seminary of a free gift of ninety acres of land. valued at $50,000, lying just outside the limits of that city. John Andrews was instantly killed by John Romers, who mistook him for a bear and sent a bullet through his heart at short range. The men were with a party enjoying an outing at the Lewis ranch near Red Lodge, Mont. Orlean Emerson shot and killed Dick Burrell at Brownstown, Ind. The murder occurred in Emerson's drug store. Burrell was always a dangerous man when drinking and had killed two men in his time and had served a term in prison. A cablegram received by Miss Clara Harley of Cleveland announced the death at Margate, England, of her brother, Or lando Harley, the famous tenor singer. Mr. Harley was one of the few Americans who reached fame on the operatic stage. One of the greatest gas wells ever discovered in the gas belt was struck a mile east of Parker City, Ind., by the Farm Land Oil Company. which was boring for oil in the new oil territory. The well is estimated to be flowing 3,000,000 cuble feet a day. B. F. Jossy, an immigration commissioner stationed at Tueson, Ariz., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was charged with smuggling Chinese across the border from Mexico and implicated with him was Collector of Customs Hoey Nogalas JO. Robert G. Evans, United States District Attorney for Minnesota, who last winter was a prominent candidate before the legislature to succeed Senator Cushman K. Davis in the United States Senate, died suddenly in Minneapolis from heart disease. At Ash Hill, Mo., Luther Baggett, 19 years old, shot and killed Mary Keith, 15 years old. He confessed the crime was committed at the instigation of Mrs. James Gilpin. The latter, her husband and young son, have been arrested for complicity in the crime. The Grant cooperage, one of the largest industries of Ashtabula, Ohio, has entered into a combine with the Tomlinson Barrel and Machine Company, of Chicago, and the Veneer Barrel and Package Company, of Cleveland. The new corporation's capital stock is $500,'000 In the collapse of a crowded sidewalk six spectators at a big fire in Chicago were painfully injured. A score of others were bruised and a panic ensued. The fire broke out in the warehouse of Sauer, Dwyer & Co., manufacturers of furniture. The loss amounted to nearly $70.000
