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GENERAL NEWS. Alfred Villa reached Tucson, Ariz., after driving forty miles with the dead body of his brother, who had been killed by lightning. The surviving boy was paralyzed and could use only one hand. The French mail steamship Salazic, which was reported in distress 32 miles off Jervis bay Monday, arrived at Sydney, N. S. W., in tow of the steamer Pacifique. Telegraph companies after August 18 will discontinue the frank system, complimentary business being at an end. Robert Treat Paine, president of the American Peace society and widely known as a philanthropist, died at his home in Waltham, Mass. He was a sufferer from paralysis. An excursion train from Bordeaux, with 1,200 passengers and running at a speed of 50 miles an nour, crashed into a freight train at Saujon, France. Thirty-two persons were killed and 100 injured. Many of the victims were school girls. A misplaced switch caused the accident. Rioting was resumed in Columbus, O., and one man was fatally shot and five others injured. So fierce was the violence of the crowds that all street car traffic was abandoned. After keeping his secret for two years, Thomas Mooney confided to a friend in Kansas City, Kan., that he had clubbed his stepfather to death in a quarrel. The friend repeated the confession, the police heard of it, and Mooney is in jail. Four persons were killed and three injured when a south-bound passenger train on the Chicago & Erie railroad struck an automobile at a crossing near Rochester, Ind. With every clue proving at fault, the police who have been investigating the mysterious killing of the wealthy attorney, William L. Rice, in Cleveland, have fallen back on the theory that the murder was the work of holdup men. Nearly 400 persons have perished and 500 are missing as a result of the flood that threatened to submerge all of Tyko. The damage to property is enormous. The body of a woman identified as Mrs. Henry Hall of Huntington, W. Va., was found in the Ohio river at Catlettsburg, Ky. It is believed the woman was robbed and murdered. Forter Charlton's extradition hearing for wife murder in Italy was set for September 20 at New York. Uhfan, 1:58%, king of harness horses, trotters or pacers, was the title hung up at the North Randall grand circuit meeting at Cleveland. The black son of Bingen trotted the mile track in 1:58% without a falter all the way and without the aid of a wind shield. The twenty-fourth annual session of the National Fraternal Congress was called to order by President Thomas H. Cannon in Detroit. After waiting fifty years, creditors of the defunct Cataract City bank at Paterson, N. J., are to receive the first dividend on their claims. Angered because his wife refused to live with him, W. J. Myer, forty years old, an expert with the revolver, shot and instantly killed his wife, Grace M. Myer, twenty-five years old; his son Ralph, aged seven, and his father-in-law, F. S. Bouton, aged fiftyfive, and then took his own life.
