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The News Domestic. A boiler on the coal barge Paterson, which usually plies between New York and Boston, exploded at Lang's Docks, in Hoboken, killing six men. After three weeks' rest on a farm under athletic treatment, the health of Secretary of State Root has been completely restored. Spreading rails caused a wreck on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in which 1 person was killed and 12 injured. John F. Gaynor. the contractor, convicted of complicity in the Savannah harbor frauds, is critically ill. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Raiiroad has been fined $20,000 for rebating. Evander McIver, a wealthy contractor, of Chicago, was found murdered in a basement. The American ship John Currier ran on an unchartered rock in the Pacific. Two persons were killed and three injured in a fight at a Kentucky fair. Congressman Theodore E. Burton, chairman of the Inland Waterways Commission, has announced the plans for the coming inspection of the organization. Secretary Taft declares the Solid South is a ghost of 40 years ago, and that the South should take a part in the councils of the nation. The forty-first annual conference of the Universal Peace Conference was begun at Mystic, Ct. The ministers of Coffeyville, Kan., have announced a union scale for conducting funerals. One man was killed and eight were injured in a railroad wreck at Hagerstown, Ind. Much damage has been done by forest fires in the Adirondacks. Severe frosts are reported throughout the Canadian Northwest. Dr. Eliphalet Wright died at Pittsfield, Mass. W. L. Seddon, director of works of the Jamestown Exposition, has resigned, to take effect at once. The direction of works will be turned over to W. M. Dixon, assistant to Director Barr. The suit to secure an accounting of the property of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, instituted by relatives of the leader of Christian Science, has been withdrawn by the plaintiffs. Ezra Meeker, who drove an OX team across the continent, has been told that he cannot drive through the streets of New York. Street railway officials were arrested and fined in Los Angeles for disobeying a city ordinance requiring fenders on street cars. The condition of Secretary Taft's mother is said to be hopeful. It is said that reports of her illness have been exaggerated. A crank who had a hundred telegrams addressed to President Roosevelt or King Edward was arrested in New York. A runaway trolley car plunged through the walls of a tenement in New York, creating a panic in the building. Burglars robbed the cottage of A. Howard Hinkel, of Cincinnati, of $5,000 worth of jewelry. The Portland Trust and Savings Bank of Portland, Ore., has closed its doors. Former Justice McLachlan, of Cranesville, N. Y., a recluse, was worth $100,000. The McKinley Monument at Canton, O., will be dedicated September 30.
