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# WORLD'S NEWS
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Prince hall, a Masonic home built at Rock Island, Ill., for widows and orphans of colored Masons, was dedicated Tuesday.
F. B. Gray, cashier of the Commercial National bank of Houston, Texas, shot himself, dying almost instantly. He ranked Ligh in Texas banking circles.
Luther Billings, a negro, was hanged by a mob at Brunswick, Tenn. He had attempted to assault a white woman. Billings was forcibly taken from the officers.
The twenty-second great sun session of the great council of Iowa Improved Order of Red Men is meeting at Marshalltown, Iowa.
The second annual joint conference of the embalmers' examining boards and the representatives of state boards of health closed a session at Niagara Falls. The association will meet in Chicago next year.
A delegation of business men of St. Paul was entertained by the Commercial club of Omaha. Following a breakfast the delegation was taken to the Auditorium, where they gained ideas for a similar building in St. Paul.
Attorney Fitts of Vermont entered a motion in the supreme court of the United States for the advancement on the docket of the case of Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, under conviction by the Vermont courts on the charge of killing her husband at Bennington in 1902, and sentenced to be hanged by the state courts.
Gebbard Wilrich of Wisconsin has been appointed American consul at St. John, N. B.
Judge W. J. Calhoun of Illinois, special commissioner to Venezuela, discussed Venezuelan affairs with the President and Secretary Root at the Wnite House. The judge will go to Chicago to prepare a report of his investigations.
The thirty-first convention of the Mississippi Valley Medical association opened at Indianapolis. Dr. Bronsford Lewis of St. Louis is president. The convention will be addressed by Dr. Arthur R. Edwards of Chicago and Dr. W. D. Haggard of Nashville, Tenn.
John Hill, an aged white man, was hanged at Covington, Tenn., for wife murder.
Vice President Frank P. Jones of the failed Denver Savings bank has turned state's evidence against former President C. W. Wifley and accused him of embezzling between $73,000 and $100,000.
A gift of $50,000 for the Creek Seminole Industrial college at Boley, 1. T., was asked of John D. Rockefeller at Cleveland by J. C. Leftwich, a negro, president of the college. Mr. Rockefeller said he would consider the matter.
An order was issued at the war department relieving Major General Weston from the office of commissary general. It is expected that he will be ordered to command the northern division, with headquarters at St. Louis.
The dead body of an unknown infant was found on Edwards creek, between Kewanee and Cambridge, III.
Philip Koltinsky, aged 47, a business man, was killed and his wife severely injured in a runaway at Vincennes, Ind.
August Moritz, a fruit dealer and restaurateur, despondent over ill health, shot himself in the head in Swiney park, Fort Wayne, Ind.
In an explosion in a coal mine near Gratiot, O., Charles Smith was killed. Lyman Chapin fatally injured and Fred Headley badly hurt.
Ruth, the 3-year-old daughter of Jacob Hesh, walked backward into a bucket of scalding water and received injuries from which she died at Macomb, 111.
N. G. Little, a telephone lineman, fell forty feet at Terre Haute, Ind., after touching a live wire, the third death from the same cause in the same gang in three days.
Charles Ashmore at Mansfield, III., committed suicide by driving a large butcher knife through his brain from temple to temple. He was insane over loss of property by fire.
Brigadier General Constant Williams, commanding the department of Columbia, in his annual report, declared that the W. C. T. U. and the saloon interests are working hand in hand against the best interests of the soldier in their opposition to the army canteen
Judge W. J. Calhoun, who went to Venezuela several months ago as a special commissioner representing the United States government, returned to New York.
The civil service commission at Washington is preparing a circular letter warning government employes against making campaign contributions as in violation of law.
Carl Evans and Charles Fall were seriously injured in a fiercely contested football game at Michigan City, Ind.
After making a spectacular run of fifty yards in a game of football at
