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NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic, The North American Trust Company, the Trust Company of America and the City Trust Company, all of New York, are to be consolidated into one company, with a capital of $2,000,000. Rev. C. W. Smith was found guilty of indiscrimination by the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and suspended from his functions for one year. The bodies of the 35 unidentified victims of the explosion and fire in the R. B. Grover Company's shoe factory at Brocton, Mass., were buried in Melrose Cemetery. George Fordham, 30 years of age and single, from Passaic, N. J., leaped from a window in the fifth story of an infirmary at Hot, Springs, killing himself instantly. Arguments were concluded in New York in the petition to restrain the Equitable Life Assurance Association from putting into effect the mutualization plan. The grand jury in Elyria indicted the cashier, teller and bookkeeper of the closed Lorain Savings Bank on the charge of embezzlement. Mrs. James P. Hutchinson, eldest daughter of President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died in Philadelphia. Chaplain Bradford, of the Illinois legislature, prayed for the delivery of President Roosevelt from the wild beasts of the forest. Bloomfield J. Miller, actuary and vice president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, died at his home, in Newark, N.J. Steward Campion, manager of the Jed Strong plantation in Alabama, was assassinated. Two negroes were arrested. John D. Rockefeller has given another gift of $100,000 to the American Home Missionary Society. The homes of two nonunion miners in Blossburg, Ala., were dynamited and a little girl was killed. On acount of a dispute over the appointment of a check-weighman at the Slippery Rock Coal Mines, near Sharon, Pa., owned by the United States Steel Corporation, a strike has been declared. The coroner's jury in New York held the Interborough Rapid Transit Company responsible for the collision in the Subway in which two persons were killed and many injured. The United States cruiser Chattanooga arrived at Santo Domingo with Professor Hollander, who is to make an investigation and report on the financial condition of the island. Annie Sharpley, on being released from the Eastern Penitentiary, in Philadelphia, where she had finished a two-year term, was arrested on a New York warrant for forgery. William J. Cole, Jr., and Cyrus Barnholt, of the brokerage firm of S. H. Chapman & Co., of Philadelphia, were arrested on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. J. J. C. Howard, representative in the Louisville legislature from the Seventyfirst district, was shot and killed in a saloon in Clay county by Tilford Benge. The Rev. Herbert M. Gessner, of Saratoga, N. Y., has accepted a unanimous call to the First Presbyterian Church of Atlantic City, N. J. Eight big trunks supposed to contain Beef Trust secrets were taken from a safe deposit vault in Chicago and taken to the grand jury room. A. D. Pierson, a prominent merchant of Scranton, Pa., committed suicide to avoid trial on the charge of enticing girls into his store. John Abraham was shot and killed in Detroit, Mich., by his next-door neighbor, Sebastian Juen, who mistook him for a burglar. The French Chamber of Deputies discussed counter-proposals for the bill providing for separation of church and state. Commissioner of Corporations Garfield arrived in Topeka, Kan., to begin his investigation into Standard Oil methods. Senator Platt, of New York, and former Governor Black have formed an offensive and defensive alliance. Richard Starr, a sailor of -Admiral Goodrich's flagship, is to be tried for attempting to assault the Admiral. The shoe firm of R. B. Grover & Co., of Brocton, Mass., made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Augustus Uhlfelder, an agent for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, dropped dead in New York. Foreign. Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, the former deputy and president of the par-