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DOMESTIC. National Audubon society urged war on cats to save birds. President Stickney of the Great Western railway declared be wished Roosevelt could be permanent president. Seventeen children at Burlington (Vt.) asylum found poison and ate It. Three died. Gomez denied the report he was in America to buy arms for revolutionary movement. New York's subway carried 106,000,000 passengers since it was opened a year ago, George Bernard Shaw declared he is proud of Mrs. Warren's Profession, despite its suppression. James N. Abeel, who wooed a young woman as J. Ogden Goelet, was sent to a New York reformatory. President Roosevelt fired a boiler and made a speech to the crew before leaving the West Virginia. Seventeen Galesburg, III., grocers have been arrested on a charge or violating the pure food law. The New York court of appeals denied the appeal in case of Lawyer Patrick, sentenced to death. The population of greater New York, as counted by the state bureau June 1, is 4,014,304; 3,437,202 in 1900. Stewart L. Pierson, a freshman at Kenyon college, was killed by a train while awaiting initiation into a Greek letter fraternity. An emigrant woman bound for Kenosha, held a dead babe forty hours so the conductor would not put her off the train. George Durkis, a woodworker charged with murdering his wife SO as to marry another, has been arrested in South Bend, III. Thirteen persons were killed and thirty injured in the wreck of the California express on the Santa Fe railroad near Kansas City. At Galesburg, Ill., on behalf or Effie Taylor, who was mangled by a lion, a suit for $5,000 Jamages was bro ght against Colonel Mundy. Five mine officials were killed by explosion at Hazel Kirk, Pa., in undertaking dangerous task which they refused to saddle on foreign helpers. The cashier of the First National bank of Mansfield, III., was discovered to be short of about $30,000 in his accounts. and the news causes a run on the institution. Mrs. Amanda Mackall, who, with her brother, Winfield Scott Hancock, was arrested at Baltimore as accessory to the murder of Miss Smallwood was released on bail. The bodies of Allan Fagley, aged 10, and Philip Dodson, aged 19, sons of well-known St. Paul families, who were drowned while out in a canoe on Lake Elmo, were recovered. The reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba will not be renewed by the former if the commercial treaty concluded between the island and England is ratified. Mayor Weaver's special committee reported that Philadelphia has been robbed of $6,300,000 by contract jobbery in connection with the build ing of the city filtration plant. A doctor involved in the Boston suit case crime is located by the police. Nathan was taken back from Pittsburg. The victim was ac horus girl whom Nathan got into trouble. A steamship collided with the tender conveying Roosevelt down the Missisippi. The president's ship was beached to prevent its sinking. The party waited several hours for relief. The next state assembly, profiting by Dougherty defalcation at Peoria, is likely to revoke all special school charters in Illinois and compel the universal adoption of the general school law. At Indianapolls, declaring that he was living too long, James G. Wright, aged 85, at one time a river steamboat captain and later a banker and