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General Thirty-eight persons were killed and 25 injured in a head-on collision between north-bound passenger train No. 2 on the Kansas City Southern Railway and a Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad gasoline motor car, running on the Kansas City Southern tracks near Tipton Ford, Mo. The Hyde Park Bank of Chicago was ordered closed. Deposits total $150,000. Freight traffic through the Soo canals for July decreased more than 3,000,000 tons from the same month last year. Aged Mrs. Mary Mahon, of Orange, N. J., who frequently asked neighbors for scraps and received charities from several women, died of hunger and exposure. She had $8,000 deposited in banks. Maurice J. Sander, 30 years old, a druggist of New York, was sentenced to one year in prison on a charge of selling heroin. Severe forest fires have broken out near Essex, Mont. Miltiamen from Kalispell were sent to give aid. William B. Strong, former president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, died at Los Angeles, aged 7. years. Forest fires are raging in the northern part of New York State. James Moran, said to be the oldest man in Illinois, celebrated his 111th birthday near Bloomington. Harold Witherspoon walked from Whiting, Ind., to Chicago, a distance of 23 miles, to enlist in the army. It is estimated that 20,000 longshoremen are idle on both sides of the North River in New York harbor. Thomas G. Plant, a retired shoe manufacturer of Wolfboro, N. H., was fined one cent and costs for beating a reporter who tried to take pictures of his estate.