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# OVERFLOW FROM THE WIRES.
Navigation between Cleveland and Detroit opened auspiciously.
A tornado did considerable damage at Chanute, Kan. No one was hurt.
Gen. Kuroki will represent the Japanese army at the Jamestown celebration in April.
Fire at Savannah, Mo., destroyed two stores and damaged a lumber yard. Loss, $60,000.
A train was wrecked near Yazoo City, Miss., and the engineer was killed and three negro passengers were injured.
A locomotive exploded at Lockwood, Ohio. The engineer cannot be found and it is supposed that he was blown to pieces.
Provision for legislation through initiative by petition and an optional referendum stands at the head of the list of important bills passed by the Maine legislature which has just adjourned.
A run started on the Licking county bank at Newark, Ohio, from no known cause, and continued in spite of the announcement of the directors that the bank could pay all deposits. Business men came to the rescue.
An indictment charging Mrs. Michael McDonald with the murder of Webster M. Guerin has been returned by the grand jury in Chicago. Mrs. McDonald shot Guerin after a quarrel in his office on Feb. 21.
Hamlin F. Lee, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars and a nephew of Gen. R. E. Lee, died at Colorado Springs, Colo., of heart failure, aged eighty-seven years. Although closely related to the Southern general and a Virginian by birth, Mr. Lee fought with the Union army.
There are now nearly 8,000,000 more people in continental United States than there were six years ago, according to figures compiled by the census bureau.
William A. Proctor, president of the Proctor & Gamble company, and son of one of the firm's founders, died from a bullet wound, self-inflicted, at his home in Cincinnati.
Eight residents of Helena, Mont., have been arrested charged with unlawful practices during the recent Republican primaries. It is alleged that they attempted unduly to influence voters.