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John Temple Grayes, speaking at banquet at Chattanooga in honor of W. J. Bryan, urged that Bryan nominate Roosevelt for president on the Democratic ticket. Secretary Taft declared that Cuba was to be turned over to the Cubans as soon as possible, made recommendations as to the holding of elections and sailed for Porto Rico. The Bank of Conception in Clyde, Mo., was ordered closed by the secretary of state. Fifteen persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed an apartment house in Lisbon, Portugal Congressman Longworth came out in favor of Taft for the presidential nomination. The New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, its proprietor, and its advertising manager were fined $31.000 for sending improper matter through the mails. Seven hundred members of the union organized at Bisbee, Ariz., by the Western Federation of Miners. employed by companies which refused recognition of the union, went on strike. A train bearing 340 political exiles left St. Petersburg for Siberia. This is the largest consignment of political prisoners sent to the far east for several months past. Commander Eva Booth of the Salva. tion army became seriously ill at Can, ton, O. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad and H. M. Pearce, acting freight agent, were found guil. ty of granting rebates by a jury at Minneapolis. Four trainmen were killed on the Southern Pacific in California by the explosion of two locomotives. Mrs. Mary Bechtel, aged 84 years, and her son Charles, aged 42 years, were burned to death in their home in Philadelphia. The Akron Printing and Paper company went into bankruptcy, with lia bilities amounting to $30,000 and as sets the same. The crew of naval barge No. 1 which went adrift in a storm, were rescued by the steamer Professor Woermann. Directors of the Provident Securities and Banking company of Boston are accused by the receivers of hav, ing squandered $200,000 of its money Annie Adair of Triumph, III., is dead from swallowing muriatic acid, which she mistook for a sleeping medicine. Richard Croker is in exceedingly poor health, according to John Fox, a Tammany leader, who has just re turned to New York from England. With a bullet in her brain Mabel Guy, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guy of Middleton, N. Y., walked a mile to Thrall hospital for treatment. She may recover. The United Engineers' society opened its new home in New York for the erection of which Andrew Carnegie gave $1,500,000. The Lincoln Savings and Trust company of Philadelphia was closed by the state commissioner of banking because its capital was impaired. It is said that the death of the late Congressman Galusha A. Grow was hastened by a gang of New York swindlers, who levied blackmail upon him, using a woman as their willing tool. One person was killed and about 15 injured in a wreck on the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad near Hardwick, Vt. Gen. Lawrence S. Baker, who was a well-known confederate commander. died at Suffolk, Va. Edgar Combe, son of the ex-premier of France, died of appendiitis. Following his indictment on the charge of using the mails to defraud returned by the federal grand jury, H H. Tucker, Jr., of Cherryvale, Kan secretary and promoter of the Uncle Sam Oil company, who was arrested in Kansas City, was arraigned in the United States district court at Topeka and held in $15,000 bail. Dunbar hall at Philips-Exeter aca demy, Exeter, N. H., was destroyed b: fire and a number of students had narrow escapes. According to a decision reached by the interstate commerce commission E. H. Harriman will be made to ap pear in a United States circuit court in the state of New York in answer to proceedings to be instituted to com pel him to reply to certain question which he refused to answer when he was on the stand at the recent hea ing by the commission in New York A sneak thief took $1,700 from th paying teller's cage in the State Na tional bank, St. Louis, and escaped. The plant of the Amsterdam (N Y.) Broom company, the largest Inde pendent brush and broom concern in the country, was completely des troyed by fire, causing a loss of $100 000. William Sullivan, fireman, wa: killed by a falling wall. The Memphis Jockey club was in dicted for permitting betting at It track. The freight steamer Sagamore, ply ing between Oyster Bay, L. I., and Port Chester, N. Y., went ashore 01 the rocks near the entrance of Port Chester harbor. The crew of ten was saved. Mrs. T. H. Ismay, widow of the founder of the White Star Steamshi line and mother of Joseph Bruce Is
