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P. Bond, three miles west of Benton, III., wrecked the shaft, and as a result four shot firers were entombed and probably killed. Vice-President-elect Sherman forwarded to Albany for filing with the secretary of state, a statement of his expenses in the campaign just closed. It showed his expenditures to have been $2,800. The second squadron of the Amer ican battleship fleet left Amoy for the Philippines. The freight steamer B. M. Whitney of the Metropolitan Steamship line was sunk in the East river while on her way to Boston. The loss on vessel and cargo is about $800,000. The Union Telephone & Telegraph Company, having a telephone system in Rock Island and Moline, Ill., and Davenport, Ia., and capitalized at $550,000, went into the hands of a receiver on an application filed by the American Trust and Savings bank of Chicago. A small steamer carrying 600 passengers from Amoy to Tungan, China, sank and 200 of the passengers were drowned. Thrilling escapes and heroic work by a Costa Rican student, Rubena Herrera, marked a fire which burned to the ground the Bliss Electric school in North Takoma, a suburb of Washington. James T. Mulhall was sentenced to 15 months at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.; Edgar McConkey to one year and one day at Leavenworth, and Felix Nathanson to six months in the county by Judge Milton Purdy at Minneapolis for fraudulent operation of the Nicollet Creamery Company. Talk of the election of Theodore Roosevelt to the United States senate to succeed Senator Platt of New York was revived in Washington. The Japanese steamer Taish Maru sank in a storm and 150 persons were drowned. The general committee of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, at its session in St. Louis, began the work of itemizing the appropriations for the year 1909, after voting to appropriate a total of $1,060,578. John Cooper, a student at the University of North Carolina, and a member of the 'varsity football eleven, who was injured during the preliminary practice of the team in September, is dead. Two women and five children perished in a burning farmhouse near Swan Lake, Man. Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska resigned, to take effect January 1. The people of Plauen, Germany, were terrified by a violent earthquake shock. The Citizens' and Farmers' State bank of Arkansas City, Kan., closed its doors. The suit to oust the Western Trust and Savings bank of Chicago as trustee of the $10,000,000 bond issue of the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad Company was begun in Milwaukee by Alexander Beaubien, a bondholder. Boston's park system fund has been increased by more than $4,000,000 by the terms of George F. Parkman's will, made 30 years ago. Mount McCulloch, which last year thrust its head up from the center of Bogaslov island, 60 miles west of Unalaska, has disappeared in the throes of another volcanic change. Many mills and factories that have been running on half time have begun operating on full time. While attempting to arrest Jesse Rice, a negro, at Riverside, Pa., Constable George Brown shot him dead and was himself fatally shot in the abdomen by the negro. Phil Short, one of the best known newspaper men in North Dakota, was shot and killed by Clayton Yeakins while they were hunting deer in McKenzie county, N. D. John Hagen, a hotel keeper at Scranton, N. Y., killed his wife and son and attempted suicide. Nine laborers were killed by a premature blast on the Grand Trunk Pacific road near Dryden, Man. Prince Louis d'Orleans-Braganza and Princess Maria-Pia of BourbonSicily, were married at Cannes, France. Business property valued at $500,000 was destroyed by fire in Pembroke, Ont. Near Jefferson City, Tenn., Victor McMahon, a prominent farmer, probably fatally shot Mrs. John Wilkes, the wife of a tenant on his farm, while shooting at her husband. Wilkes then emptied the contents of a shotgun into McMahon's breast. Israel Janesson, former cashier of a bank in Lindersburg, Sweden, who was arrested by a detective at Yankee Bush, Pa., has, it is alleged, made a complete confession, admitting he abstracted 127,000 kroners of the bank's funds. Mrs. Catherine Louis Lynn of Chicago, while mentally deranged, killed her baby girl and cut her own throat. While 10,000 spectators were loudly cheering his successful flight with a glider, when 70 feet in the air, Lawrence J. Lesh, the 16-year-old areonaut, fell to the ground with terrific force
