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Forty-one persons aboard the Old Dominion liner Monroe perished when that vessel collided with the steamer Nantucket during a dense fog off Norfolk, Va. Ninety-nine person were rescued by the crew of the Nantucket.
The final session of the convention of the United Mine Workers of America at Indianapolis, Ind., was marked by disorder. Duncan McDonald of Illinois declared that Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was "gloriously drunk" at the Seattle convention of that organization. These remarks were interrupted by cries of "Liar," "Slanderer" and "Libelous" from Mr. Gompers.
Yeggmen dynamited the vault of the bank of Lyerly at Lyerly, Ga., after engaging in a fusillade with citizens, and made a successful escape with $4,000.
Elaborate receptions were held in honor of the party of 100 Nobles of the Mystic Shrine who have arrived at Manila from Seattle.
A counterfeiters' den in the state prison at Joliet, Ill., was discovered. Five convicts who have been making counterfeit five-cent pieces in the machine shop were detected. The nickels were passed in the prison store.
Millions of dollars of the resources of city financial institutions were offered to the Bank for Savings of New York when depositors began a run for which the bank's officers could not account except that it might have resulted from malicious rumors circulated by enemies.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt's yacht Warrior was wrecked off the northwest coast of Colombia, between Savanilla and Santa Marta. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt and their guests, the duke and duchess of Manchester, were taken off the yacht by the United Fruit steamer Almirante.
After two days of conferences with political leaders Thomas Taggart, Indiana's member of the Democratic national committee, issued a formal statement that he would not be a candidate for the United States senate.
Rev. G. E. Tidwell, pastor of a Baptist church at Macon, Ga., was killed at his home in East Macon when a pistol dropped from his pocket and exploded as he was leaning down to kiss his two-year-old baby good-by.
The temperature at Pittsburgh January 29 reached 72 degrees. Sanford H. Ferree, aged seventy-nine, of Coraopolis, Civil war veteran, was overcome by the heat and died of exhaustion.
More than 1,000 unemployed men and women in the Ghetto district of Chicago fought policemen, who, with revolvers drawn, sought to force them to leave mass meetings being held in the streets. Two I. W. W. men, alleged leaders in the rioting, were arrested. Policemen were fired upon by gunmen.
The scout cruiser Birmingham was badly damaged by fire at Philadelphia. Fifteen hundred bluejackets fought heroically, and it was by their efforts that the entire reserve fleet was saved from destruction.
Donald Patridge, aged eleven, was killed, another boy was fatally hurt and several other boys and two girls were injured when a "bob sled" crashed into a telephone pole at Honesdale, Pa.
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