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st sur USEM IF to be the third death from the plague meeks. OM7 uj there Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Kirwan of Springfield, Mass., were found by employes of a hotel in that city lying in their room critically wounded. The husband declared that he and his wife had tried to commit suicide by shcot"Sup Representatives of the principal steel producing companies, it is said, held a secret meeting in Pittsburg and projes. dn beep 01 lood billet B Jornad Heirs of George Washington are seeking to recover the value of lands on which the city of Cincinnati now rests. Experiments made with "lucidescent" light at the New York Skin and Cancer hospital are declared to have demonstrated that intense light is a powerful cure for pain. City Councilman G. C. Linde, of St. Louis, was indicted for malfeasance in office and confessed, implicating other members of the city's legislative bodies. Capt. Granville Fortescue. U. S. A., retired. accepted from Gov. Ma goon of Cuba a commission that carries with it the duties of special instructor to the Cuban forces Frank Crocker, cashier of the First National Savings bank. of Chariton. Ia., committed suicide after notifying the bank examiner that the bank was overloaned. The yacht Kingdon, with about 60 members of the Holy Ghost and Us colony at Shiloh, Me., on board and a crew of 20. sailed for the Holy Land. Notices posted about the Calumet & Hecla works at Houghton. Mich., announced a reduction of wages on December 1 of 12½ per cent., approximately equal to the increase granted early in the year. Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian who disappeared after being indicted for mistreating girls, was believed by some of his friends to have been JO Such B sq JO Riduaded blackmailers. Dr. Richard Mohr, general director of the Hahnemann hospital in Philadelphia and professor of materia medica and therapeutics, dropped dead on the street. E. G. McNair, convicted of wife murder at Beaumont, Tex., committed suicide by hanging himself to the bars of his cell in the county jail at Houston. As a result of the application of the Pendleton law by which cities of Tennessee can reincorporate without the saloon, over 100 saloons closed their doors in Knoxville. The supreme court of Massachusetts declared the use of voting machines unconstitutional. Etta L. McLean, a stenographer in the office of United States District Attorney Sims at Chicago. was arrested on a charge of stealing papers and records in the John R. Walsh case. The business part of Rockton, III., was destroyed by fire with a loss exceeding $50,000. The Imperial Tobacco company purchased for $1,500,000 the entire 1907 tobacco crop pledged to the American Society of Equity in Henderson, Onion, Webster, Hopkins and Crittenden counties in Kentucky. The West Texas Bank & Trust company of San Antonio closed its doors under a temporary suspension bustinss. JC Royal Fowler, of Dayton, who killed his sweetheart, Mary Hagerty, more than a year ago, was electrocuted in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus. Fire on State street, Chicago, did $500,000 damage to the N. B. Holden Shoe company. In a battle between United States troops and Indians in southern Utah three persons were killed and another wounded, all believed to have been Indians. Miss Josephine Hill, 30 years old, a teacher in the House of Mercy, a charitable institution conducted by the Sisters of St. Mary of the Protestant Episcopal church in New York, committed suicide by shooting. Hugh B. Ely, superintendent of the insurance department of the Pennsylvania Railroad company 25 years, died at his home in Beverly, N. J. Elmer H. Dearth, former Minneapolis insurance commissioner, who was indicted by the grand jury on a charge of accepting a bribe from W. F. Bechtel, former president of a Minneapolis life insurance company, was acquitted of the charge in the district court at Minneapolis. Mischievous small boys in West Duluth, Minn., attached a piece of wire to an electric light wire and strung it in front of an Austrian boarding house. Yova Mehis, the first man to approach, stepped on it and was instantly killed. John D. Rockefeller is reported to have cornered all available laborers in the Tarrytown district to work on his new home on Pocantico hill. Dr. William Polis of the German weather bureau, who attended the aeronautical congress in New York, says America is far ahead of Germany in weather forecasting. Robert M. Dubose, secretary of the University of the South, died at Sewanee, Tenn. Planning to duplicate his feat of 40 years ago, of walking to Chicago, a
