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# TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Judge Waddell, of the United States Circuit Court at Norfolk, Va., has authorized Receivers Kerr and Walcott, of the Norfolk and Southern Railway to issue $456,000 worth of certificates for the purchase of 500 box and 200 flat cars. Marie Acosta was burned to death and Miguel Gomez made a prisoner in Tampa, Fla. She accused him of breaking into her home, with two confederates, saturating her clothing with gasoline and then applying lighted matches because she refused to marry him. When an auto struck a street car squarely in the side in Portland, Ore., Mrs. A. J. Olds, of Weiser, Idaho, had her skull fractured. She is not expected to live. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, the settlement worker, has promised to aid the striking shirt-waist makers in New York. She says the girls were paid "miserable wages." Ernst Roberts and Burton E. Southard, former cashiers of the failed Dorr Street Savings Bank of Toledo, Ohio, were arrested on the charge of perjury. They are charged with having made false reports to the State Auditor of the condition of the bank.