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has arrived at Gibraltar. After being entombed in a mine cave-in at Joplin, Mo., for seventy-two hours, Joseph Clary was released lit tle the worse for his experience. The coal famine continues all over Saskatchewan and Alberta. Even were the mines opened tomorrow the famine would not be dispelled by win. ter. Ninety per cent of the crop in one of the richest sections of the Niagara peninsula fruit belt in Canada was destroyed by a terrific hall storm Sun day. Fifty nations, including the United States, are represented at the first universal race congress, which was opened Thursday at the University of London. At least eight and perhaps ten lives are lost in a fire which partly destroyed one of the main buildings of the insane asylum at Hamilton, O. Tuesday. Colorado day, the thirty-Afth anniversary of the admission of the state of Colorado to the union, was observed Tuesday as a holiday through. out the state. , The fire which has been raging for a week on the San Bernardino mountains in California has assumed a size far greater than any other in the his tory of the range. A cablegram from Shanghai, China, indicates that the relief expected in the famine stricken districts of China from the spring crops have been minimized by another flood. The present drouth in Kentucky is the worst in years, according to reports from all over the state. In many counties, streams and cisterns are dry and drinking water is scarce. The government has taken the duty off coal imported into Canada at all ports between Soo, Ontario, and the Pacific coast to relieve the coal fam ine in the western provinces. A light run on its savings account department was experienced Monday by the Continental National bank of Salt Lake City. The regular deposits, it was stated, were not affected. Several hundred descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of Pilgrim fame, are gathered at Duxbury, Mass., for the eleventh annual reunion of the Alden Kindred of America. Two women were killed and a man probably fatally injured when an Erie passenger train running sixty miles an hour struck an automobile on a crossing at North Randall, near Cleveland, Ohio. Murdered, apparently by burglars, William Henry Jackson, a well known Wall street broker, seventy years old, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom at the Hotel Iroquois in New York city. Angry because the Chillicothe, Ohio. jail authorities had compelled him to take a bath, John Tarsons, a negro, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with the handle of a rusty tin cup. The voters of Missouri Tuesday authorized a bond issue of $3,500,000 for the rebuilding of the state capitol at Jefferson City. The building was destroyed by fire a little more than six months ago. Owing to the continued pressure brought to bear upon them by eandidates for re-election of the Ontario parliament the leaders of both parties decided to begin active campaigning early next week. Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, the labor leaders, have been allowed twenty days by Jus. tice Wright of the supreme court in which to answer the charges of contempt against them. The first step of the special session of the legislature towards stringent saloon regulation in Texas was taken when a senate committee reported favorably a resolution for the closing of the saloons from seven o'clock at night until six in the morning, a ten mile law and a quart law. As a result of the charges and counter charges between Democratic Leader Underwood and William J. Bryan, over Underwood's position on the iron and steel schedule, it is said to be possible that a revision of those schedules will be added to the democratic platform for this session. A daughter was born at the general hospital in Sault Ste. Marie to Mrs. Angelin Napolitina, the convicted slayer of her husband, who was Staltenced to bei hanged Wednesday next.
