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dreds or buildings and leaving thousands homeless. Ten persons were killed. The property loss is estimated at $500,000. The Philippine typhoon destroyed United States army posts, damaged a naval station and sunk a small gunboat. The confederate organizations of Mississippi have joined in a request for the return of two Mississippi battleflags now stored in the Colorado capitol building at Denver. Jacob Litt, the well-known theatrical manager and owner of theaters in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, died in Yonkers, N.Y. Wheeler H. Peckham, the noted lawyer, died suddenly in his office on Broadway, N. Y. Apoplexy is thought to have caused his death. In a rear-end collision near Glenwood, Ind., passenger train No. 41, on the C., H. & D. R. R. crashed into a freight train. Five persons were injured, one fatally. The First national bank, Orrville, O., closed its doors by order of the comptroller of the currency, on account of a continuous run upon the bank. Fire at Roff, in the Chickasaw Nation, I. destroyed a business block in Main street. Loss estimated at more than $75,000. Announcement made that Rev. Dr. William Bayard Hale, of Richmond, Ind., has been decorated by the king of the Belgians, being a knight of the Order of Leopold. The eighth annual convention of the National Association of Postmasters opened in Dayton, O. The Subway tavern, the saloon which was opened in New York with prayer by Bishop Potter a year ago, has been closed. The owner locked up its doors, saying that the temperance salcon had not been a paying investment. A recent order of Gen. Linevitch to his army leads to the conclusion that they will spend the winter in Manchuria. Cleveland friends of John D. Rockefeller celebrated the anniversary of his advent into business life 52 years ago. The New Anglo-Japanese treaty, made public in London, shows that the alliance is very strong. The aim of the contract is declared to be the furtherance of peace in the far east, and each nation binds itself to defend the other's possessions. W. J. Bryan, in an open letter, urged President Roosevelt to "stand by his guns" in his battle for railroad rate legislation. He offered democratic help. Baron Komura, on the eve of his departure for home, said Japan's foreign policy would undergo no change. Washington plans to make the homecoming of President Roosevelt the occasion of an enthusiastic demonstration, in which men of all parties will join. The zemstvo congress in Moscow adopted a political programme demanding the broadest kind of liberty and equality for all men in Russia, and the formation of a douma which shall control government. A Cleveland grand jury indicted on a blackmail charge Mrs. Minnie Lee, of Chicago, who made charges against Gov. Herrick, of Ohio. Bruno H. Goll, one of the oldest druggists in Chicago, shot and killed himself at the Auditorium hotel. The political trouble in Cuba puts in peril $100,000,000 of American capital invested in the island. Senator Foraker denies he is fighting President Roosevelt's rate policy. Secretary Wilson returned from the west and says the reports of the enormous crop yield are not overestimated. A complete reinspection of passenger steamboats in the United States from Maine to California is planned by the secretary of commerce. John V. Streed, of Cambridge, III., prominent among Illinois SwedishAmericans, is dead of a bullet wound. and it cannot be determined how. he was slain. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw will leave the cabinet February 1, 1906. He makes the definite announcement in a letter to the Polk County (Iowa) Republican club. An order for 180,000 barrels of flour, to be delivered immediately, has been placed with a Seattle, Wash., flour mill by Vladivostok flour merchants. This is the largest single order ever placed on the Pacific coast. By the will of Charles Parsons, late president of a St. Louis bank, $80,000 is given for the endowment of a Martha Parsons professorship at Parsons college at Fairfield, Ia. The total estate is valued at more than $1,000,000. Five Omaha councilmen were sentenced to 30 days each in jail for contempt in trying to pass a gas franchise extension ordinance in deflance of a court order. Ex-Gov. Joseph W. Fifer, of Illinois, has announced that he will retire as interstate commerce commissioner as soon as certain important matters before the commission are settled, probably about January 1, 1906. Hog cholera and hog plague have become epidemic in the vicinity of Carthage, III., over 1,000 hogs dying in the past two weeks. Farmers are taking scientific measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Democrats and republicans opened the Ohio campaign at Newark and Bellefontaine. Foraker declared against federal regulation of railway rates. Pattison declared