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Domestic. A Southern Pacific passenger train was wrecked near Forest Grove, Or. Three passengers were killed and eighteen injured. Two men were fatally burned and five or six others injured in two explosions at the Monongahela furnace at McKeesport, Pa. While at play, knocking icicles from the eaves, Willie Evans, aged seven, of Waterloo, Iowa, failed to dodge a heavy one, which penetrated his right eyeball. Surgeons removed his eye and hope to save his life. The Jefferson county, Ky., board of tax supervision has raised the assessment of the Southern Pacific company from $500,000 to $10,000,000. The Southern Pacific company, which is incorporated in Kentucky, has an office at Beechmont, a suburb of Louisville. Caruso is vindicated. Mrs. Hannah Stanhope, who caused the arrest of Enrico Caruso, the Metropolitan opera house tenor. on charge of annoying her in the Central Park monkey house in New York last year, last week was fined 1 cent for intoxication and disorderly conduct. B. S. McCullic, cashier of the de!unct Princeton (lowa) Savings bank. was arrested on the charge of making false entries in the bank's books. The bank was closed recently on order of the state auditor and a receiver placed in charge. A shortage of about $10,000 has been discovered. Four men blew open the vault of the Bank of Sulphur Springs at Sulphur Springs, Ark., and secured over $1,300 in cash, besides notes and other valuables. Officers reached the scene just in time to see four men mount their horses and ride westward. It is berieved they have made good their escape. Vice President Murphy stated that the managements of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific railway and Alabama Great Southern railroad have determined to put into effect on March 1, 1908, a reduction of 10 per cent in the pay of the president, vice presidents and other general officials and employes receiving monthly salaries of $250 and over. M. W. Brest, night watchman at a paper mill at Kalamazoo, Mich., found a $500 diamond in the refuse from the rag cleaning room of the mill. Two diamonds had already been found in the paper mills within two months. Locked up in a freight car for two weeks, without food, a little fox terrier was rescued near Sterling, Iowa, by trainmen who chanced to enter the car. The dog's ribs nearly protruded from its little body and it was too feeble to rise. The car in which the animal was imprisoned came from the steel mills of Pennsylyania,