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NEWS OF THE DAY. Fatal injury of two firemen, slight hurts to four park employes, and a loss estimated at $250,000 were the results of a fire which started in the kitchen of the clubhouse at Chester Park, an amusement resort at Cincinnati, last night. Joseph B. Harris was killed in his home near Picken, Randolph county, W. Va., Sunday night by his 14-yearold son. Harris, it is said, came home from town in an intoxicated condition and commenced to abuse the children. The boy interfered and his father. becoming enraged, began to maltreat the boy and his mother. Young Harris then seized an axe and split his father's head wide open, death following immediately. The boy has not been ar rested by the authorities, who do not think such a course is justifiable. He is regarded in the light of a hero than as a murderer. By a vote of 241 to 128 the British House of Commons yesterday passed a resolution appropriating $1,260,000 for the payment of members' salaries for the coming year. The action was taken pursuant to the resolution passed August 10 providing for an annual salary of $2 000 for each member. This is a radical departure from the principle of gratuitous public service which bitherto prevailed. E. L. Hendri, president of the Night and Day Bank of Memphis, formerly connected with a banking institution in Oklahoma City, is being sought on a warrant charging that he is a fugitive from Oklahoma. Publication of the fact caused a run on the bank and early last night the doors were closed with the announcement that the bank would reopen today. By flying the 286 miles from St Louis to Chicago with only two intermediate stops and in an actual flying time of 5 hours and 43 minutes yesterday, Harry N. Atwood, of Boston, believes he has set a pace which will result in his establishing a new record on his flight by aeroplane from St. Louis to New York and Boston.