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jury, and will resist any effort to make further changes. Dt has been decided by the navy department that $1,000,000 of the repair fund will be used to completely modernize the battleship Oregon, now at Puget sound, naval station on the Pacific coast. Four discharged negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry left E1 Reno, Okla., yesterday for Washington to testify before the senate committee that is investigating the Brownsville riot. Much interest is being shown in Lexington in the identity of those indicted for alleged fraudulent registration, and political leaders are trying in vain to find out the names of those indicted. Frank D. Gillman, former president of the Home Bank at Goodland, Ind., which suspended business on June 11, 1904, was found guilty yesterday of embezzling the funds of the bank. Eduardo Arneld, mayor of Cananea, Mexico, his brother and forty Americans have been placed in jail by the perfect of Hermosillo for gambling and permitting gambling. Threats against witnesses who testiffed against him were made by John Mallory, a negro, as he received sentence in the circuit court at Frankfort on conviction of robbery. Secretary Taft will visit the isthmus of Panama accompanied by a number of army engineers late in March and is scheduled to go to the Philippines in August or September. William J. Oliver, of Knoxville, the lowest bidder for the Panama canal, has gotten together as his associates some of the largest contractors in the United States. The senate investigation into the Brownsville affair will be begun by the committee on military affairs. Inquiry at the home of Thomas A. Edison in Orange, N. J., elicited a denial of reports in circulation that Mr. Edison is in bad health. One man was killed and six were injured near Linton, Ind., as a result of a ton of powder and a thousand pounds of dynamite exploding. Congressman William H. Flack, representing the Twenty-sixth district of New York, died at his home at Malone, after a long illness. The bill increasing the salaries of teachers and raising the standard for examinations was reported favorably in the Indiana senate. Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, made an attack in the house on the Chicago, to the gulf deep waterways project. Bids for about 75,000 steel shells for use of the big guns on the warships have been awarded by the navy department, The King and Queen of England are visiting in Paris incognito, as the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster. The site for the new Danville public building has been determined upon by the treasury officials. Gen. Isaac W. Starbird, who was prominent in the civil war, died in Boston.