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NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE Forty-two states and three territories will hold elections Nov. 6, twenty of them electing state officers and legislatures and two representatives in congress and legislatures. President Roosevelt was 4S years old Saturday. The largest consignment of gold ever shipped from South Africa-$5,700,000 -has just arrived in London. Bellamy Storer, ex-ambassador to Austria, whose sudden recall created a sensation, has arrived at New York from Europe. Charles E. Bross, chief clerk of the Wisconsin state senate from 1878 to 1890. is dead at Madison, Wis., aged 74 years. The known fatalities resulting from the fire that destroyed the Chamber of Commerce building in Kansas City, Kan., number twelve. Four persons are yet missing. It is announced that the construction of two battleships, each of over 20,000 tons, will shortly be begun in a Eussian yard. The Newfoundland colonial legislature will meet early in January for the purpose of considering the fisheries difficulty. The "Roosevelt" prize for the three mile run at Paris was won by Keyser, a French athlete. The signal corps has completed a wireless telegraph station at Camp Columbia, Cuba, and is exchanging messages with Key West promptly. The total receipts of the general land office for the year ended June 30 were $7,585,524, an increase over the preceding year of $567,713. William O. Robson, supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum, is dead of pneumonia at Wellesley Hills, Mass., aged 83 years. The Merchants' and Planters' bank, of Indianola. Miss., has been placed in the hands of a receiver.