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SUICIDE STARTS A RUN Cashier of a Columbus, Ohio, Savings Bank Shoots Himself. Columbus, O., Jan. 23.-Alarmed by the suicide today of Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, a run was started on the bank. The street is lined with men, women and children, demanding their money. The directors of the bank say it is solvent and that they will pay all depositors. The suicide of the cashier who shot himself is said to be due to business worry.
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RUN ON A BANK. Alarm Started by the Suicide of the Cashier. Columbus, O., Jan. 23.-Alarmed by the suicide of Chas. H Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings Bank, the depositors today started a run. The street is lined with men, women and children. The directors say the bank is solvent. The suicide of the cashier who shot himself. is said to have been due to business worry.
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SUICIDE (Scripps News Association.) COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 23.-Charles C. Housman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, committed suicide today because of business worry and a run on the bank. The directors say all will be paid.
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Ohio Bank Cashier Shot Himself. COLUMBUS, Ohio., January 23.-Charles H. Houseman. cashier of the East Side Savings Bank, shot himself today at his home. He was dead when his wife reached the room. The cause of the suicide is said to be business worry. When the news of the suicide became known the street in front of the bank was quickly filled with men, women and children demanding their money. The directors say the bank is solvent and will pay all depositors in full. The directors of the bank applied to common pleas court for a receiver and W. H. English was appoint, his bond being fixed at $40,000. The run had practically stopped when the doors of the bank were closed on orders of the court. The directors insist that the bank funds are all right and that the bank will pay dollar for dollar.
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Bank Cashier Kills Himself. Columbus, O., Jan. 23.-Charles H. Housman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, killed himself today. He was 40 years old and leaves a widow and three children, and the suicide is said to be due to business worry. A run has begun on the bank and the street is lined with men, women and children, demanding their money. The directors of the bank say it is solvent and that they will pay all depositors.
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RESULT OF CASHIER'S SUICIDE. Extensive Run Started on Savings Bank at Columbus, O. Columbus, O., Jan. 24.-Alarmed by the suicide of Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, depositors have instituted a run on the bank. The street is lined with men, women and children demanding their money. The suicide is said to have been caused by business worry, but the directors of the bank declare it is solvent. The directors of the bank applied to common pleas court for a receiver and W. H. English was appointed, his bond being fixed at $40,000. The run has practically stopped and the doors of the bank have been closed on orders of the court. The directors insist that the bank funds are all right and that they will pay dollar for dollar.
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BANK CASHIER KILLS HIMSELF, Business Worry Drove Houseman to the Deed. Columbus, O., Jan. 24.-Charies Houseman ,cashier of the East Side avings bank killed himself yesterday, He was forty years old and leaves a widow and three children and the suicide is said to be due to business worcy. A run has begun on the bank and the street is lined with men, women The directors of the bank say it is 801and children demanding their money. vent and that they will pav all depos itors The directors of the bany applied to be common pleas court for a receiver and W. H. English was appointed, his bond being fixed at $40,000. The run has practically stopped. The asets are given by an attorney at $250,000 Liabilities $423,799 of which $384.375 are individual deposits. Among the heavy depositors is Pas Keer, great keeper of wampuni of the Independent Order of Red Men of the state of Ohio. All the funds of the state lodge are on deposit with the in. stitution. The directors insist the cashier's books are all right.
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SUICIDE STARTS A RUN. Alarmed by Self-Destruction of Cashier, Depositors in Columbus, O., Bank Clamor for Money. Columbus, O., Jan. 23.-Alarmed by the suicide of Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, depositors have instituted a run on the bank. The street is lined with men, women and children, demanding their money. The suicide is said to have been caused by business worry, but the directors of the bank declare it is solvent. The directors of the bank applied to common pleas court for a receiver and W. H. English was appointed, his bond being fixed at $40,000.
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Bank Cashier Shot Himself. Columbus, O., Jan. 24.-Charles A. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, shot himself at his home. When the news of the suicide became known the street in front of the bank was quickly filled with men, women and children, demanding their money. The directors of the bank ap. plied to the common pleas court for a receiver and W. H. English was appointed, his bond being fixed at $40,000. The run had practically stopped when the doors of the bank were closed by order of the court. The directors insist that the bank funds are all right and that the bank will pay dollar for dollar.
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NEW a The Latest Happenings Condeased for Rapid Reading. Domestic. Prof. Lewis Boss, astronomer of N. the Y., Observatory, of Albany, been official notice that he the medal of the Society of suicide of Charles H. Coawarded Dudley tronomical received The England. Houseman, Royal has in AsEast Side Savings Bank bank, of the O., caused a run on the which was subsequently Athenian at B. C., bringing lumbus, The steamer closed. details arrived after of Vic- the she Japanese toria, cruiser Manchuria Arthur. struck the mine off Port teamsters for Nelson Morris Chicago, & The Armour & Co., of threaten Co. and to strike unless discharged teamsters are reinstated. Methodist ministers of New Attor- York The decided to oppose District saloons to have ney Jerome's bill to allow open on Sunday. Weish, Joseph Connors in Phila- and Henry Williams were arrested counterfeiting Sarah on the charge of Corr delphia hundred hands struck at Mass., Four Mills, at East Taunton, cent. Cotton against a reduction of 12 1/2 the per PennsylThe trainmen differences and between the company have Fall been vania satisfactorily adjusted. the Work cotton was mills resumed at a reduction at all of 12 1/2 per cent. court in Auburn, Mo., for of Charles F. for his River The Dunlap granted grand- and the the who petition appointment is now of a guardian in the Holy Ghost son, Us Colonly, directors at Shiloh. of the American $650,Former Twine Company paid back instituted Grass had been been 000 for ground which suit that dividends had foolish woman Theater. A at the checked New York, of the actors. illegally on the in the matinee declared. which mind Manhattan started was a panic by at the presence of York Madden, a of stairs night | I designer, fell and down was a found dead in bed urday Edward morning flight New steamer clothing Sat Oci Sunday The Old Dominion Line a pleasure sloop the racoke near Elizabeth collided City, with N. j. All on three sloop Four were railroad saved. men were seriously killed. injured at fatally and several between freight trains Shawnee, Sight has Tenn. been served restored as substitute to Martin, the who millionaire, to try all in Rouss, a collision John rem- near for F. edies for blindness. Tuxham, a farmer, living sons, to McPerson, Charies his Kan. property killed and his then two killed Rev. arrested himself. set fire Thomas Stanton. in a traveling Sharon. evangelist. was of being a from Pa., on suspicion customs collector fugitive justice. United States valuable ivories The in Cleveland Mrs. Chadwick and has found laces belonging lost to their lives in George a fire Four destroyed persons the residence North Wisconsin of drathat a farmer, in the New York Barnes, S. Metcalf. of Life, has been matic James critic and theaters editor in New York aleak schooner Volunteer The crew barred The from 47 the Gulf. sprang Key. was the and sank in landed at Sand of picked up Rachel and Peters, an inmate was burned Mrs. near York, years Pa., old to Several death. raids She was on were gambling 80 made by places the almshouse, in New dens. York shocks were Cuba. felt police and in Santiago, Three neighborhood W. Fleming, of one examined of the John inspectors, who who reported is the opium steamboat earthquake and who two her the on Slocum, and man General to be perfect, the charge of in New York taken on suddenly equipment slaughter, trial was American ill Steel in court. The cranemen Company's at the plant restoration at Sharon of Foundries demanded the received prior the Pa., wages have which reduction they Delegate Ratt- to with the At 10 of Indianapolis, per Wyoming, cent. Ind., having who charged sold from out Presi- the the dent miners, was of dall, Mitchell expelled America. former resUnited Ridgeway shot a himself New in i ident Jacob of Wilkesbarre, in the Hotel death Imperial, he said in a of shooting York. was an for the and estate 1. his room, application Before his accident. person appointment the in The commission Duke on was postponed ! of New Application Brodie York for has one been week. made to list to the Western $607,000 New York Stock Railroad Exchange Company's additional Maryland bonds. foreign
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HAPPENINGS IN OHIO INTERESTING ITEMS GATH. ERED IN THE STATE OF OHIO. BANK CASHIER SUICIDED. Official of a Columbus Institution Shot Hihself-The Bank Goes Into the Hands of a Receiver. Columbus, O., Jan. 24.-Charles H.. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank, shot himself yesterday at his home. He was dead when his wife reached the room. The cause of the suicide is said to be business worry. When the news of the suicide gecame known the street in front of the bank was quickly filled with men, women and children demanding their money. The directors of the bank applied to common pleas court for a re+ ceiver and W. H. English was appointed, his bond being fixed at $40,000. The assets are given by Attorney Howard at $250,000. Liabilities $423,799, of which $384,375 are individual deposits. Among the heavy depositors is: James Kerr, great keeper of wampum of the Independent Order of Red Men of the state of Ohio.
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed Throughout the World. The difference between the Pennsylvania trainmen and the company have been satisfactorily adjusted. Henry Welch Joseph Connors and Sarah Williams were arrested in Philadelphia Tuesday on the charge of counterfeiting. Four hundred hands have sruck at Corr Cotton mills at East Taunton Mass against a reducton of I2 I-2 per cent. The Methodits ministers of New York have decided to oppose District Attorney Jerome's bill to allow saloons to open on Sunday. The teamsters for Nelson Morris & Co. and Armour & Co. of Chicago threaten to strike unless discharged teamsters are reinstated. The steamer Athenian has arrived at Victoria B. C. bringing details of the Japanese cruiser Manchuria after she struck the mine off Port Arthur. The suicide of Charles H. Houseman of the East Side Savings Bank in Columbus O. caused a run this week on the bank which was subsequently closed. General Kuropatkin reports that General Mistchenko's losses in his recent raids near Yinkow were 7 officers and 73 men killed and 32 officers and 257 men wounded. Prof. Lewis Boss, astronomer of the Dudley Observatory of Albany, N. Y. has received official notice that he has been awarded the Royal Astronomilcal Society of England. George Thomas, a negro wanted in South Carolina for murder, was arrested in Savannah a few days ago. The Savannah authorities, knowing where the negro was wanted, wired to the chief of police at Columbia, and the matter was turned over to the sheriff of Richland county, who has gone for the prisoner. During the recent automobile races on the Florida beach between Ormone and Dayton an Englishman Arthur E. McDonald broke the world's record for a five mile run making the distance in three minutes and 17 secends flat. The record had been previously held by W. K. Vanderbilt. Other races were run and nothing has occured since the first tragedy to mar the races. Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict rendered on Tuesday night against Charles Tucker of Auburndale Mass. on trail for stabbing Miss Mabel Page to death in her father's house last March. Death in the electric chair in the state prison at Charlestown is the penalty The prisoner collapsed completely when the verdic was read. The man protested his innocence to the last, stating that he was at his own home when the young lady met her death.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS Texas has re-elected Senator Charles A Culberson. Senator John Kean has been reelected in New Jersey. The Cleveland Electric Railway Company has inaugurated a test of 3cent fares within a limited zone. Recent earthquakes in Greece destroyed a village in Thessaly and floods did a great deal of damage in Sparta. King Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree conferring the Grand Cordon of the Crown of Italy on Whitelaw Reid of New York. Three distinct shocks of earthquake at Santiago, Cuba, January 22d, caused much excitement, though no serious damage was done. The Russian government has ordered the Ludwig Loewe arms factory in Germany to supply, as soon as possible, 500 machine guns. S. R. Beckwith, who was President Garfield's family physician at the time of his assassination, died a few days ago at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Thomas A. Edison is recovering from an operation performed for a mastoid abscess behind his left ear. He had a similar trouble a few years ago. John Randolph Bull, who died January 20th at Bayonne, New Jersey, was veteran of two wars and an intimate a friend of General Lafayette and Henry Clay. A few cases of yellow fever are reported to exist in the Panama canal zone and there is some fear expressed that a panic may result in an exodus of the canal builders. A Greek band January 31st defeated eighty Bulgarians near Chesgeli, killing or wounding thirty. Bulgarian villagers of the same district are fleeing to the mountains in fear of the Greeks. The national House of Representatives has appointed Friday, February 17th next, as the date for holding appropriate exercises in statuary hall, Wil- accepting the statu of Frances E. lard. The main building, which includes the dormitory, of the Roger Williams University for Negroes at Nashville, Tennessee, was destroyed by fire on the night of January 24th. Loss, $60,000. The national convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis to-day adopted a resolu tion forbidding membership to all saloonkeepers, owners of saloons or barkeepers. On the night of January 21st Charles Tuxhorn, a farmer living near Mc"Pherson, Kansas, killed his two sons, young boys aged six and ten years. burned his house and barn with all and of their contents, and then shot killed himself. It has been decided by the executive committee of the National Amateur Skating Association that all skaters who enter events under the rules or direction of the association must be of registered the same as in the ranks the Amateur Athletic Union. The suicide of Charles H+ Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings Bank at Columbus, Ohio, precipitated run on the bank and a receiver was a appointed. The assets are given at $250,000; liabilities $423,800. of which $384,400 are individual deposits. Dr. Livingston Farrand, professor of : anthropology at Columbia University, Nahas been named as head of the tional Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, organized of less than a year ago at a meeting the National Medical Association. Campbell Russell, one of the best known stockmen of the Southwest, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His lia- asbilities are placed at $113,166 and sets at $89,747. He is a leading breeder the of Hereford cattle and founded town of Russell, Indian Territory. At the Santa Fe meeting in Topeka practically no opposition was manifested by the stockholders to the proposition of increasing the common stock of the company and issuing $50.; 000,000 convertible bonds. The common stock is increased from $102,000,000 to $152,000,000. George Foster Peabody. banker and treasurer of the Democratic national committee, is reported to have broken down physically and is now at his He farm home in northern New York. , is not seriously ill. but the physicians have ordered him to take a long rest and a change of scene. Henry Phipps, business associate of Andrew Carnegie and one of the directors of the United States Steel Corporation, has decided to make his ) "model tenement house" philanthropy a triangular enterprise by including in it the cities of Philadelphia and Allegheney, as well as New York. At a meeting of the paper and wood pulp manufacturers of Canada, it was unanimously resolved that, in the in). terests of the Dominion, and especially of the province of Quebec, evshould be made to secure of ery the enactment effort legislation and to pulp prohibit the export of logs wood. The trustees of the Peabody education fund, at their meeting in Washington January 24th, voted to dissolve , their trust. A vote also was taken on the proposition to appropriate $1,000,- for for the George Peabody School at Nashville, for that purpose appropriation 000 Teachers Tennessee, being the made unanimously.
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Bank Closed, Cashier Suicides. Columbus, O., Jan. 24.-Charles M. Houseman. cashier of the East Side savings bank. shot himself Monday in his room. The suicide is said to be due to business worry. A run was started on the bank when the bank was closed by orders of the court.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS Texas has re-elected Senator Charles A. Culberson. Senator John Kean has been reelected in New Jersey. The Cleveland Electric Railway Company has inaugurated a test of 3cent fares within a limited zone. Recent earthquakes in Greece destroyed a village in Thessaly and floods did a great deal of damage in Sparta. King Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree conferring the Grand Cordon of the Crown of Italy on Whitelaw Reid of New York. Three distinct shocks of earthquake at Santiago, Cuba, January 22d, caused much excitement, though no serious damage was done. The Russian government has ordered the Ludwig Loewe arms factory in Germany to supply, as soon as possible, 500 machine guns. S. R. Beckwith. who was President Garfield's family physician at the time of his assassination, died a few days ago at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Thomas A. Edison is recovering from an operation performed for a mastoid abscess behind his left ear. He had a similar trouble a few years ago. John Randolph Bull, who died January 20th at Bayonne, New Jersey, was a veteran of two wars and an intimate friend of General Lafayette and Henry Clay. A few cases of yellow fever are reported to exist in the Panama canal zone and there is some fear expressed that a panic may result in an exodus of the canal builders. A Greek band January 31st defeated eighty Bulgarians near Chesgeli, killing or wounding thirty. Bulgarian villagers of the same district are fleeing to the mountains in fear of the Greeks. The national House of Representatives has appointed Friday, February 17th next, as the date for holding appropriate exercises in statuary hall, accepting the statue of Frances E. Willard. The main building, which includes the dormitory, of the Roger Williams University for Negroes at Nashville, Tennessee, was destroyed by fire on the night of January 24th. Loss, $60,000. The national convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis to-day adopted a resolution forbidding membership to all saloonkeepers, owners of saloons or barkeepers. On the night of January 21st Charles Tuxhorn, a farmer living near McPherson, Kansas, killed his two sons, young boys aged six and ten years, burned his house and barn with all of their contents, and then shot and killed himself. It has been decided by the executive committee of the National Amateur Skating Association that all skaters who enter events under the rules or direction of the association must be registered the same as in the ranks of the Amateur Athletic Union. The suicide of Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings Bank at Columbus, Ohio, precipitated d a run on the bank and a receiver was d appointed. The assets are given at $250,000; liabilities $423,800, of which $384,400 are individual deposits. Dr. Livingston Farrand, professor of anthropology at Columbia University, has been named as head of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, organized less than a year ago at a meeting of n the National Medical Association. Campbell Russell, one of the best known stockmen of the Southwest, has n filed a petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities are placed at $113,166 and assets at $89,747. He is a leading breeder of Hereford cattle and founded the town of Russell, Indian Territory. d At the Santa Fe meeting in Topeka practically no opposition was manifested by the stockholders to the proposition of increasing the common stock of the company and issuing $50,000,000 convertible bonds. The common stock is increased from $102,000,000 to $152,000,000. George Foster Peabody, banker and treasurer of the Democratic national d committee, is reported to have broken down physically and is now at his farm home in northern New York. He is not seriously ill, but the physicians have ordered him to take a long y rest and a change of scene. Henry Phipps, business associate of Andrew Carnegie and one of the directors of the United States Steel Corporation, has decided to make his "model tenement house" philanthropy a triangular enterprise by including in
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BANK CASHIER SLAYS HIMSELF. News of Suicide Causes Run on Bank at Columbus, Ohio Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings Bank in Columbus, Ohio, shot himself in his room just as his wife was calling him to catch a car. He was dead when she reached the room, the bullet having penetrated the left temple. The suicide is said to be due to business worry. A run was started on the bank and the street was soon lined with men and women and children demanding their money. The directors of the bank say it is solvent and that it will pay all depositors who demand it.
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Mrs. Alice Webb-Duke was arrested ривлу Thexs 8 uo 101 MON up ")ueth The interstate commerce commission is to investigate "private railroads." United States warships in the Carlbbean sea have been ordered to Santo Domingo. Edward Payne Cone, prominently identified with many patriotic and other organizations, died suddenly, in New York from an apoplectic shock. Mr. Cone was born in Connecticut 70 years 'ose While Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi, -SIN -> Yazoo u uo home returning SUM sissippi Valley train he arrested Jim Hannah (colored), charged with killing Hollaws up used OMT Sarah Burley (colored), 13 years old, was convicted of manslaughter by a jury in the criminal court at Baltimore for the killing of James Edwards (also colored), nine years of age. The girl confessed having stabbed Edwards, and pan pey ou because os PPP ous pies about her. Gov. Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin, was nominated for United States senator to succeed J. V. Quarles. He will be elected. as the republicans have a majority in both houses. Charles M. Houseman, cashier of the East Side savings bank, of Columbus, O., shot himself in his room. The suicide is said to be due to business worry. A run was started on the bank when the bank was closed by orders of the court. The creditors of the Strauss-Green company. owners of the Fair store at Toledo, O., have filed a petition in involuntary bankruptcy against the firm. The liabilities will amount to $115,000, and assets about $100,000. Mrs. E. S. Terry, formerly Miss Florence Grooves, of Chicago, was found dead in a Milwaukee hotel, having left notes indicating that she and her husband had agreed to die together. The village of Brookfield, about 12 miles west of Milwaukee, was nearly wiped out by fire. The loss is estimated at $30,000. The plant of the Menominee (Mich.) Electric Manufacturing company was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $40,000. Incendiarism is suspected. The republicans of Missouri, in a mass meeting at Jefferson City, urged the election of T. K. Niedringhaus to the United States senate. A Russian admiral. a prisoner at Tokio, says Stoessel was incapable and characterized Port Arthur' surrender as dissrace e Admiral Kamimura has left Tokio to rejoin his fleet, and the Japanese navy department is making every preparation for the next stage of the war. Dr. A. R. Cushny, professor of materia medica at Michigan university, reUniversity the 01 of 01 chalr siy signad of London, England. Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, refused before the senate committee, to reveal endowment ceremony secrets. W. C. De Baugh, of Chicago, well known as a band leader, died from the effects of an operation in a New Orleans hospital. Andrew Yates, who was arrested in Chicago for robbery, confessed to holding up hotel guests in San Francisco and stealing $2,500 worth of diamonds. William J. Bryan, at a banquet in New Haven, Conn., appealed to all democrats to aid President Roosevelt in his worthy reforms. He declared the most corrupt state is Indiana, with Connecticut a close second. Rouvier has picked his colleagues in the French cabinet. which shows that Combes' policies will remain. Minority members of the house have agreed to support the Davey bill, giving the interstate commerce commission power over freight rates. A new interstate commerce commission, with power to fix rates, and a court of commerce, to which appeals in traffic cases may be made, are the main features of the Hepburn bill for the solution of the railroad problem. A head-on collision between two freight trains, one a double-header, on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, at Shawnee, Tenn., resulted in the death of four railroad men and the injury of six others, two of whom may die. Reports from all parts of the world, :sou the SEM 1904 year the that Mous progressive the Christian Endeavor movement has known. More than 45,the up are societes 000'99 the Jo 000 United States and Canada. An engine attached to a Baltimore & Ohio freight train, exploded near Mountain Lake Park, Ind., Sunday. Several cars were derailed and Brakeman F. Johnson and Fireman J. L. Simpson were killed. About to be placed on trial for mistreating his family, Charles Tuxhorn, a farmer living near McPherson, Kan., killed his two sons, young boys aged six and ten years, burned his house and barn with all of the contents, and shot and killed himself. Four Americans and one Mexican were ambushed and slain in Mexico by the Yaqui Indians. Great Britain encourages Russian revolutionists and fears she may be drawn into war. The strike at the Corr cotton mills in East Taunton, Mass., is ended. The weavers voted to return to work under the reduction of 121/2 per cent.. in wages. Reed Smoot, United States senator from Utah, on the witness stand declared his belief in revelations from God, and said he would obey them, but in case
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# Brief Telegrams The strike situation on the Pennsylvania railroad has been amicably settled. Governor La Follette of Wisconsin has been elected to the United States senate. Eighteen miles of the Tonto railroad between Phoenix and Tonto Dam in Arizona has been washed out by the floods. Among the recent Austrians to leave for America is the elegant young Baron Roger Morpurgo, who left debts amounting to 500,000 crowns behind him. The czar sometimes wishes privacy. In his palace at Peterhof there is a summer dining house so arranged that there need not be any servants present during the meal. The state department is in receipt of a cablegram of several hundred words from Ambassador McCormick at St. Petersburg, summarizing the conditions in that city. Elizabeth Duse, daughter and only child of Mme. Eleonora Duse, the Italian tragedienne, has entered an English college devoted to the study of farming and horticulture. Signorina Duse is only 17 years old. Alarmed by the suicide of Charles H. Houseman, cashier of the East Side Savings bank at Columbus, Ohio, a run was started on the bank. The street was lined with men, women and children demanding their money. Charles Luxhorn, a farmer living fourteen miles southwest of McPherson, Kansas, killed his two sons, young boys aged 6 and 10 years, burned his house and barn with all their contents, and then shot and killed himself. A special from El Paso, Tex., says that Antonio Astizarian, a member of a prominent Mexican family, with two servants, has been murdered by the Yaqui Indians in the same vicinity where five Americans were slain last Thursday. Judge Moses Hallett, in the United States district court, issued a warrant for the arrest of C. A. Morning, United States commissioner of Routt county, Colorado, on a charge of accepting illegal fees in connection with land filings. The house committee on military affairs authorized a favorable report on the substitute for the senate bill repealing the law which prohibits the president from granting brevets except in time of war. The two houses of the New Jersey legislature voted separately for United States senator John Kean, who was the choice of the republican joint caucus to succeed himself, received a majority of the votes. A package containing $5,650 in currency, shipped by the Adams Express company from the United States treasury at Washington to the First National bank at Newcastle, Pa., was mysteriously rifled en route. Sir Casper Purdon Clarke, for many years art director of the South Kensington museum in London, was unanimously elected by the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York as a director of the museum. Mrs. Mary Rogers of Windsor, Vt., condemned to be hanged on February 3, was removed to the death call. Arrangements for the execution have been completed and there is nothing to indicate that Governor Beil will interfere. Theodore Sandford has been a justice of the peace in Bellevue, N. J., for fifty-two years and now at the age of 86 is still in the harness. His ancestors have been connected with the industries and public affairs of New Jersey since 1668. Mrs. Louia Cody's answer to the divorce suit of Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), was filed in court at Cheyenne. She denies that she ever attempted to poison Colonel Cody or was guilty of any indignities to him and discourtesy to his guests as alleged in his bill, and makes a counter-charge of infidelity. A sensation has been created by the mysterious disappearance of Carl Phelps, secretary of the federal grand jury, which is investigating the land fraud cases at Portland, Oregon. Phelps asked to be excused from the jury room for a few minutes on Friday afternoon. He has not been seen since by the members of the jury or by the agents of the government. William J. Bryan was the guest of honor at a dollar banquet given at New Haven, Conn., in Warner hall. Mr. Bryan made it an occasion for indicating the reason why the democratic party was so overwhelmingly defeated in the last campaign and also stated what seemed to him signs of promise for a democratic victory in the next presidential campaign. In a recurrence of earthquakes in Thessaly a village was destroyed and several persons killed or injured. Representative Burke introduced a bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river between Lyman and Brule counties, South Dakota. Investigation has thus far failed to locate William Chapman Potter son.
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS Texas has re-elected Senator Charles A. Culberson. Senator John Kean has been re b elected in New Jersey. The Cleveland Electric Railway Company has inaugurated a test of 3cent fares within a limited zone. Recent earthquakes in Greece destroyed a village in Thessaly and in floods did a great deal of damage Sparta. King Victor Emmanuel has signed a decree conferring the Grand Cordon of the Crown of Italy on Whitelaw Reid of New York. Three distinct shocks of earthquake at Santiago, Cuba, January 22d, serious caused much excitement, though no damage was done. The Russian government has or. dered the Ludwig Loewe arms factory in Germany to 'supply, as soon as possible, 500 machine guns. S. R. Beckwith, who was President Garfield's family physician at the time days of his assassination, died a few ago at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Thomas A. Edison is recovering from an operation performed for a mastoid abscess behind his left ear. He had a similar trouble a few years ago. John Randolph Bull, who died January 20th at Bayonne, New Jersey, was a veteran of two wars and an intimate friend of General Lafayette and Henry Clay. A few cases of yellow fever are reported to exist in the Panama canal zone and there is some fear expressed that a panic may result in an exodus of the canal builders. A Greek band January 31st defeated killeighty Bulgarians near Chesgell, ing or wounding thirty. Bulgarian fleeing villagers of the same district are to the mountains in fear of the Greeks. The national House of kepresentatives has appointed Friday. February 17th next, as the date for holding appropriate exercises in statuary hall, Wil- ac. cepting the statue of Frances E. lard. The main building, which includes the dormitory, of the Roger Williams University for Negroes at Nashville, Tennessee, was destroyed by fire on the night of January 24th. Loss, $00,000. The national convention of th. United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis to-day adopted a resolu sation forbidding membership to all barloonkeepers, owners of saloons or keepers. On the night of January 21st Charles Tuxhorn, a farmer living near McPherson, Kansas, killed his two sons, young boys aged six and ten years, burned his house and barn with all and their contents, and then shot killed himself. It has been decided by the executive committee of the National Amateur Skating Association that all skaters who enter events under the rules or direction of the association must be registered the same as in the ranks of the Amateur Athletic Union. The suicide of Charles H. House cashier of the East Side Savings man, Bank at Columbus, Ohio, precipitated was run on the bank and a receiver a The assets are given at appointed $250,000; liabilities $423,800. of which $384,400 are individual deposits. Dr. Livingston Farrand, professor of anthropology at Columbia University, has been named as head of the and Na tional Association for the Study Prevention of Tuberculosis, organized of less than a year ago at a meeting the National Medical Association. Campbell Russell, one of the best known stockmen of the Southwest, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His lia- as bilities are placed at $113,166 and gets at $89,747. He is a leading breeder the of Hereford cattle and founded town of Russell, Indian Territory. At the Santa Fe meeting in Topeka manipractically no opposition was fested by the stockholders to the proposition of increasing the common $50. stock of the company and issuing 000,000 convertible bonds. The com mon stock is increased from $102,000, 000 to $152,000,000. George Foster Peabody, banker and tréasurer of the Democratic national committee, is reported to have broken his physically and is now at He farm down home in northern New York. is not seriously ill, but the physicians have ordered him to take a long rest and a change of scene. Henry Phipps, business associate Andrew Carnegie and one of the rectors of the United States Steel Corporation, has decided to make tenement house' philanthropy "model triangular enterprise by including in a it the cities of Philadelphia and Alle gheney, as well as New York. At a meeting of the paper and wood manufacturers of Canada, the it was in pulp unanimously resolved that, in of the Dominion, and especially terests of the province of Quebec, evffort should be made to secure ery enactment of legislation to pro hibit the the export of logs and pulp wood. The trustees of the Peabody educafund, at their meeting in Washington tion January 24th, voted to dissolve trust. A vote also was taken on the their proposition to appropriate $1,000.- for for the George Peabody School the 000 Teachers at Nashville, Tennessee, appropriation for that purpose being made ade unanimously. Pope Plus X. has received the stu denta of the American College at Rome Ken who were presented by Rector his vis nedy. The Pope congratulated their itors upon the splendid results of examinations, saying that Americans of took the palms among the colleges Rome and are an honor to their coun-