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THE WORLD AT LARGE. A REVIEW OF THE WEEKS DOINGS. A request was received at Vinieta, I. T., for officers at Wagoner, where the Dalton gang was said to be. Clifford M. Claverty, tight-rope performer. fell ninety feet at the interstate fair, Trenton, N. J., and was fatally hurt. A dozen persons have lost their lives in prairie fires in the last few days in the western part of the Cherokee strip An attachment for $30,000 has been placed on the property of the New England Printing Telegraph,at Providence, R. I. Williams McCoombs killed himself in a hotel at Wheeling, W. Va. He had been drinking. No other cause is known. David F. Williams of San Francisco was found dead in his room at the Coolidge house, Boston. Probable suicide. Robert Louis Stevenson, who has just arrived in San Francis O from Samoa. says affairs in Samoa are still unsettled and in a precarious state. T City Clerk E. A. Cook of McComb, Ohio. was arrested by the postal authorities charged with advertising to sell Columbian postage stamps for steel engravings. The final hearing of the Iron Hall cas was set yesterday at Indianapolis for Nov. 6. Receiver Failey filed his first report giving a financial accounting. Walter Harwood, a real estate and loan agent in Kansas City, Mo., ed at the Grand Mis-ouri hotel of pneumonia. He was an Englishman by birth and a widower. Billy Deutsche. the sporting man who is known all over the world. is dying in St. Luke's hospital, Denver. He believes he cannot live more than a few days and has destroyed all evidence of obligations of former friends to him. 5County Clerk Holt of Pendleton county, Kentucky. is short in his acconnts more than $4,000. Dr. L. M. Steed. a physician of Sand Flat. Texas, was killed by James Matthews, a farmer, who claims Steed insult his wife. Eight desperate prisoners escaped from the branch prison at Big Mountain, Tenn. It is thought they were assisted either by trusties or civilians. The Wolfley canal dam site in Arizona and franchises were sold by the sheriff to satisfy a judg nent. Goldman & Co. bought them for the Peoria Construction company of Illinois, for $17,534.80. Sandy Donohue, the famous fighting sheriff of Coconino county, Ari, shot R. G. Harris and Bob Dunlap, noted horse thieves. after a hard buttle. Dunlap had killed seven men. The German bark Carl Burchard coal lade was wrecked at Port Angel. on the Mexican coast, July 30 The cr. were assisted to return to Germany by the German consul. The Fi st Nat onal bank of Ashland. Wi which closed its doors July 31, has op ned for bu iness. The hittenton mills at Taunton. Mass.. started all its departments on full time. giving employment to more than 1.0 persons. Comptroller Eckels has authorized the First National bank of Hawarden. Iowa, which recently suspended, to resume business. John Huton, a Little Miami brakeman. was killed under the wheels at Morrow, Ohio. Five cars passed over him. Thomas Brown, a well known resident of Wabash, Ind., and a prominent Oddfellow, 45 years old, died o: tyhoid fever. G. D. Root, United States vice-consul at Guaymas, Mexico, is said to have shot himself through the head. He was 50 years of age. No cause is assigned. The Canadian Pacific earnings for the week ending Sept. 21 we e $429,000 for the same period last year, showing an increase of $3,000. The Four Seasons hotel, built at Middlesborough, Ky., by the Cumberland Gap Park company at a cost of $1,000,000, has closed itsdoors. It went into the hands of a receiver some months ago. Patrick Moran. a gardener residing in the Coal Hill district n ar Stubenville, Ohio, was murdered Monday by three men at a coal shaft near his home, his brains being da hed out with a pick. Col. P. F. Faison, the special agent of the United States government sent to investigate the troubles in the Choctaw nation, has made his final report and left that country. He says United States troops sent there last April are no longer needed. A trunk has been washed asnore at West Berkeley, Cal., supposed to be the one in which Dr. West carried the mutilated remains of Miss Gilmour to the bay. It is expected Dr. West will wa ve the preliminary examination. having.