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GENERAL NEWS.
The Brazilian government offers $2,000,000 reward for a sure cure for tuberculosis.
Adolph Heiden, of Stockholm, is 94 years old and has been a member of the Swedish riksdag 72 years.
For the past three weeks 23 cases of yellow fever have developed daily at New Orleans, the death rate and the recoveries about offstting.
The Barry Exchange bank of Barry, Pike county, Illinois, has gone insolvent with $100,000 indebtedness. This bank had been doing business 47 years.
July 1, 1905, there was $1,259,598,278 cash in the treasury of the United States, an increase of $462,672,839 over the amount therein July 1, 1897, the last previous date of counting.
W. P. Appleyard, superintendent of the Pullman company construction department, went to the Illinois Central depot in Chicago, to meet his wife, and was run down and cut in pieces by the engine drawing the train which carried his wife.
Thomas Lewis, of San Francisco, drowned himself in Islais creek. Fearing that he might attempt his own rescue once in the water, he fastened his legs and arms so he could not use them in either swimming or in attempts to climb the bank.
The Panhandle railroad has been given a verdict for $100,000 damages against the city of Chicago for property destroyed during the strike riots of 1900. The courts hold the city responsible, on account of insufficient police protection against the violence of its own citizens.
The hard coal miners of Pennsylvania demand an 8-hour day without decrease of pay. The operators and owners are exjected to refuse the demand, though they will not take official and conclusive action earlier than December 14. Those best conversant with the situation predict a general strike.
W. A. Barfield was convicted in Lauderdale county, Tennessee, of manslaughter and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. He secured the commitment papers himself, bought a railroad ticket and went entirely unguarded to Nashville and gave himself up to the prison authorities, and is now serving time.
Springfield, O., is the center of the hardest fight between the Typographical union and the employing printers, and the Crowell Publishing company is the foci of the row. The company has imported 50 non-union printers, none of whom have succeeded in reaching the shops. An injunction has been granted to prevent picketing, and it is expected the strike will be broken by the employment of strike breakers.
