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With their throats cut, the bodies of Jacob Lutz. seventy-five years old, and his wife were found in their home at Gallant. Ala. The supposition is they were murdered by thieves. Mayor Edward H. Crump of Memphis, Tenn., was re-elected in the municipal election by a majority of approximately 2,500 votes over Former Mayor Joseph J Williams. . The litigation which the federal government began four and a half years. ago to break up the American Tobacco company as a monopoly in restraint of trade approached completion by judicial acceptance by the federal circuit court at New York, with a few modifications, of the plan which the tobacco company drew up for dissolution, in accordance with a mandate of the United States Supreme court. Solicitor General Lehmann has requested the Supreme court of the United States to rule that the "running of a corner" on the New York stock exchange was in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Banking Commissioner Doyle has closed the First Commercial and Savings bank of Durand (Mich.) on account of irregularities. Two American born Chinese women were registered as voters at Oakland, Cal. One wore Chinese garb and the other American raiment. The steamship Victoria, the last passenger liner to leave Bering sea this year, has arrived at Seattle from Nome, Alaska, with $1,000,000 in treasure and 370 passengers. Rev. Joseph Lambert, the Providence (R. I.) minister who performed the Astor-Force marriage ceremony. has resigned his pastorate because of criticism of his act and will enter business. Father William Murphy, Catholic priest at the town of Beaver Crossing. Neb., is dead as the result of an automobile accident. He gained prominence by reason of his long continued controversy with the late Bishop Bonacum, who excommunicated him. Kentucky, for years considered in the balance between the Democrats and Republicans, went back into the ranks of the Democracy in a landsline. Returns indicate that James B. McCreary, Democrat, has been elected governor by from 20,000 to 40,000 majority An important clause in the system of examinations is to go into effect at the Naval academy soon, the exemption of midshipmen obtaining a certain percentage being abolished. Cleveland, which two years ago went Republican, returned to the Democratic fold, electing Newton D. Baker mayor over Frank G. Hogan, Republican, by about 18,000 majority. The entire Democratic city ticket was elected with the exception of five councilmen. Massachusetts closed the most bitter campaign in its recent history with the closest election in years by reelecting Governor Eugene N. Foss by a plurality of 7,000. The election in New York was decidedly a Republican victory. In the state the Republicans recovered contral of the assembly from the Democrats, more than reversing the positions of the parties in that body, and in New York city they greatly reduced the Tammany pluralities. Three sworn jurors and a talesman passed for cause was the showing in the McNamara murder trial in Los Angeles, Cal., at the end of five weeks of court. Counsel hope for a full jury box by Christmas Immanuel Baptist Church of Cambridge, Mass., decided, after several women had wept and prayed at its meeting, not to accept the resignation of Pastor C. V. T. Richeson, in jail on a murder charge. William Clark Russell, the writer of stories of the sea, died in London. He had been bedriden since April last. Mr. Russell was born in New York in 1844. Foreign Rapine and butchery, fire and general desolation, hold sway in Nanking, China. Twelve thousand Manchu soldiers, backed by an order authorizing a general massacre of Chinese, are murdering helpless men, women and children throughout the native city As fast as they have looted a given section and slain every living thing in their path the Manchus are applying the torch. Mme. Marie Sklodowaka Curie of the University of Paris has been awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry for her discovery of radium. Prof Wilhelm Wion of Wuerzburg university was awarded the prize in physics
