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prominent in business and philan thropy, died in Denver, aged 87 years. one man was killed and five injured in Los Angeles, Cal., when a train struck a, street car. Rescued from their vessel after she had become disabled in midocean, carried to Genoa and thence to London, Capt. Kelly and the five members of the crew of the brigantine Aquila arrived at Halifax, N. S., on the Allan line steamer Sardinian. That no necessity exists for a reduction in the prices of iron and steel and that none will be made was the general understanding arrived at by representative manufacturers of pig iron, iron and steel at a meeting held in New York. Dr. Leander Starr Jameson, premier and secretary for native affairs of Cape Colony, has resigned. He assumed these offices in February, 1904. Fire wiped out the village of Twin Lakes. Minn., over 200 persons being made homeless. After a struggle of five hours against cold and a turbulent sea, the life savers of the Coslata station, near Nantucket, rescued the crew of the Newport brigantine Fredericka Schepp, which was wrecked on the north side of Coatue beach. The flag of the American man-ofwar Chesapeake and the "Balaclava bugle," two of the most valuable war relics of a collection of antiquities that belonged to the late T. G. Middlebrook, were secured at the auction sale of the collection in London for American buyers. A proposal for state-wide liquor prohibition was rejected in the Michigan constitutional convention by a vote of 55 to 39. In a dispute over a horse, Philip Kastner. aged 62, shot and fatally wounded his son George, aged 32, at Jasper, Ind. The office of the superintendent of poor at West Seneca, N. Y., was besieged by 500 men begging for food. Four men were taken to the county hospital suffering from starvation. The lower house of the Oklahoma legislature passed a measure prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes in the state. William S. Wood of the firm of Lloyd & Wood, one of the best-known lawyers on the Pacific coast, died at his home in San Francisco. Nine miners were killed by an explosion in the New Rivery colliery near Hawk's Nest, W. Va. Because he was angry with his wife, William Meutsch of Chicago killed one of his children and fatally shot the two others. Col. Burr Robbins, the old-time circus man, died in Chicago. King's court, one of the show places of Lakewood, N. J., a residence built some years ago by George Gould for his son, Kingdon, was destroyed by fire. The building was valued at $500,000. Liquidation of the State National bank of New Orleans was decided upon by a vote of the stockholders. This bank is nearly 100 years old. The superior court at Paris refused to grant an absolute divorce to Maud Gonne from her husband, Maj. McBride. The schooner Helen E. Taft of Thomaston, Me., was run down and sunk by an unknown steamer 16 miles southwest of Cape Lookout lightship off the coast of North Carolina. Pearl Harper was acquitted at Cadillac, Mich., on the charge of murdering her stepfather. Arthur W. Fergusson, secretary of the Philippine commission, died suddenly of heart disease in Manila. The Diamond Window Glass factory at Gas City, Ind., was destroyed by fire, resulting in a loss estimated at $100,000. The American torpedo boat flotilla sailed from Buenos Ayres for Punta Arenas. Dr. J. C. Brigham perished in a fire that destroyed eight stores and residences in Girard, Ga. E. G. Anderson, alderman. coal dealer and prominent citizen of Aberdeen, S. D., was arrested charged with being a receiver of stolen coal. Two financial institutions of New York city, one a national and the other a state bank, closed their doors The New Amsterdam National bank, capital $1,000,000, was taken in charge by the representative of the comptroller of the currency, and the Mechanics' and Traders' bank, a state institution, capital $2,000,000, announced the decision of the directors not to open. Both banks announced their ability to pay all depositors. The $100,000 estate of Capt. Hooker of Rochester, N. Y., who left a will bequeathing his property to Galesburg, III., will be distributed, the surrogate having denied probate to the will on the ground that Capt. Hooker was mentally incompetent. Peter F. Clark of Girard, III., pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering Mrs. Ollie Gibson on a trolley car near Virden March 25, 1907, and was sentenced to serve 40 years in the penitentiary. In Lublin, Russian Poland, the police unearthed a band of robbers composed entirely of women and the leaders have been taken into custody. The Coburn warehouses in Indianap olis were burned, the loss being
