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/ STAR BALL PLAYER OF ; Smokeless Griddle. I A smokeless and odorless griddle I and broiler, which has been lately patented, has advantages which will be readily recognized at a glance of the accompanying cut. The front | plates of the stove being removed, the new griddle sets in and at the same time falls below the stove top. In ^ J J Odor Goes Up the Chimney. this manner the heating surface is brought nearer to the fire, and all smoke, vapors and odors are carried ap the chimney. The griddle is open at the top, but for the purposes of broiling it is desirable that a greater 'liaof oK amM Kn oqohpaH onrl thic ic -brought about by making a lid over the top. When the latter is lowered the meat being cooked gets the full benefit of the heat, but when it is raised every opportunity is offered for its examination.?Philadelphia Record. DESIGNS FOR CHILDZl* Immune. i ]T%\ Kindly Old Gentleman?"Don't all ihose papers make you tired, my fcoy?" kittle Boy?"No. I doesn't read 'em, sur."?Punch. There are forty-five medical so- j icieties in New York City. { THE AMERICAN LEAGUE. ;. v. /;-,v: nHgj^^HB 8 cq&B..., Pjr A New Use For the Queue. Chinese Pupil Drawing a Circle With I His Pig-Tail For a Radius. ?H. S. Elliott, in Leslie's Weekly. Paint the Lowest Step. Paint the lowest cellar step white if the cellar is dark. This plan may save a fall, and will do away with feeling for the last step when going downstairs. :VS FANCY* DRESSES. A Moving Appeal. He was a motherless boy and his father's only child, but some of the relatives had decided that he should be sent to a boy's scIujo), fifty miles from home, aad at last the father had agreed to the plan. Forty-eight hours after his boy's departure the father received a letter, which was, although not faultless as an example of spelling, so much to the point, and so in accord with his own feelings, that the plans for the future were speedily readjusted. "Dear father," wrote the exile, "it's all right here and I'm not homesick I beleave, but life is verry short, qnrl rlnn'f vnn think vnn'rf hptfpr us spend some more of it together? Your affectionate son, Thomas."? Youth's Companion. Puzzled the Tramp. "It's strange," remarked the tramp, examining the rents in his garments, "I never felt any liking for dogs whatever, yet they nearly all become strongly attached to me as soon as ihey see me." There are but 863 postottices in Chile. IPMOTIOliMlilSDEATH; t . s Paying Teller Muir Could Not Hide t Receiving Teller Muir's Thefts. I c In In ten-.lis of Handing Out Money t From Hiy Cage He Writes Con- ^ fession, Then Shoots Himself. v New York City.?After he had sue- ^ cessfully concealed a shortage in his ( accounts for five years, Charlp* T. ii Muir. paying teller of the Forty-sec- ^ ond street branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, went to the basement ^ of the bank and shot himself just as t covomi riennsitnrs lined ud in front of the receiving teller's window with books that would reveal his wrongdoing. Muir's neculations amounted E to $9098.42. They began when he s was the receiving teller of the bank, e and probably would not have been * discovered for months or years had he not been promoted to become the 1 paying teller on June 1. His promo- ? tlon made it impossible for him to t conceal the shortages when another s man was in his place at the receiving b window. y Muir died at Bellevue Hospital shortly before noon, from the single t wound which he made in his forehead t with the bank's revolver. His wife 1 , 1 i i. ~ 1 ? Istvvr r? i n nf oa G reacnea me nusjmai a icn iuiuuv^^ after he died of the self-inflicted s wound and was prostrated. ^ The story of Muir and his derelic- r tions appears to be that of the man on a small salary who handled thou- C sands. Muir had no bad habits, according 3 to the many friends who came to the rescue of his memory, and he lived happily with his wife and two children in a small and inexpensive flat a at No. 507 West 140th street. There r is not a single logical hint of another 1 woman in Muir's case.- 3 He entered the service of the Corn a Exchange Bank shortly after the t great blizzard of 1888, and In twen- to ty years' service rose to a salary of 8 $1500 a year. r Seven years ago he was married, f and about the time his first child was ^ born the salary paid by the bank be- t came too small for his needs. Then ^ he began to steal, according to his * own confession, as found in a letter e addressed to Manager George H. * Frew, of the Forty-second street 1 branch. c This letter, which was opened by Coroner Acritelli, read as follows: $ "Mr. Frew?My accounts are short the total amount of the tickets in this j envelope. This has been going on for about five years, covering shortage by substituting new deposits for old. I wish to say that no one in or s out of the bank is to blame for this i but myself. CHARLES T. MUIR." 1 The banking history of New York I has more sensational tragedies than c that of Muir, but none that show in 1 such vivid detail the effect upon a c needy man of handling large sums of ? money on a small salary. ( SOUTH HONORS DAVIS. | \ Tmi Strifes fVlohrate Our Hundredth i Anniversary of His Birth. t New Orleans, La.?The one hundredth anniversary of the birth oE Jefferson Davis was celebrated throughout the Southern States. In 1 connection with the honors to the late Confederate President, the Southern Memorial Day was observed and the day was treated as a ! whole or partial holiday in Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, ' Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana and Virginia. \ In Louisiana the day is a legal hoi- J iday. It was made memorable in New Orleans this year by the dedica- . tion of the site here for the monu- \ ment which is to be erected to the L memory of President Davis by the people of the South. All of the schools, banks and exchanges of the city were closed. j i At Fairview, Ky., the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, elaborate and largely attended exercises were held. A dinner was served on the grounds and in c a memorial church on the site or tne | r log cabin in which Mr. Davi^ was j 1 born. 11 Confederate veterans were in line s at Lexington, Ky., marching to the I local cemetery, where the exercises i were held. The day was also appro- 3 MURDERED WOMAN'S EYES SI Photograph Taken by Coroner to Try Theory of Fii Impression Rotair.ed on Retina After Death St. Louis.?Acting on an idea that 1: has solved many murder mysteries in t fiction, Coroner Streeper caused a r photograph to be made of the eyes of r the unidentified woman whose body (3 was found in the Mississippi River near Hartford, 111. An autopsy per- i formed on the body showed clearly t that the* woman had been murdered, d She was killed by a broken neck and t her body was thrown into the water, b Not a clue that would lead to her i identity or to the person responsible t for her death was obtained by the r police. The Coroner thereupon de- t cided to test the theory that has been r advanced by many writers of fiction, s as well as by several scientists, that e the last glance of a person on the v face of his or her murderer may be so intense as to fix the picture of the f murderer permanently on the eyes of a me viciim. ? After the photographic plates of 1: the eyes of the woman whose body 1 was found in the Mississippi were t made, prints were struck off, and the a Coroner and the detectives saw what t they believed was the face of a man t with a hooked nose and wearing a r Louisiana Uninstructcd. S At Baton Rouge, La., W. J. Bryan was indorsed for the Presidency by the Democratic State Convention. It a was decided, however, to send the n Louisiana delegation to Denver unin- I strr.cted. c r President's Horse Fell. President Roosevelt had a narrow > escape from injury, a horse which he j] was riding rearing and falling, with j, the President, into a creek, at Wash- ^ ington, D. C. t Chelsea Fire Loss $5,179,400. The Chelsea (Mass.) Board of Assessors announced that $5,479,400 n worth of taxable property was destroyed In the conflagration of April j 12, and non-assessable property, in- D eluding churches and hospitals, to the value of $1,141,200, was destroyed. t Zola's Body Moved. Emile Zola's body was moved at a night from Montmartre to the Pan- ^ theon, in Paris; thousands of persons q outside the building cheered and c looted the arrival of the coffin, o / / t i . jrlately observed at L?0ui3.ville. At ilemphis. in addition to the regular H nemorial services at Elwootf Ceme- p| ery, the Confederate Historical Asociation arranged a celebration in he Goodwin Institute in the evening. 3anlcs and public buildings were losed. A notable celebration took place at ? )xford, Miss., where an address on Di he life, character and public services if the Confederate chieftain was delirafod lw Pichnn <~!hnr1pci TV Gallo yay. At Beauvoir. the-historic home of Qj lr. Davis, a celebration was held unler the joint auspices of the Gulf Confederate Organization. Beauvoir s now used as a home for former ' Confederate veterans. l-RAY expert loses an eye. >r. Bactjer, of Baltimore, First Attacked With Shriveling of Arm. w* . . _ ca Baltimore, Md.?Dr. FredericK i-\ i laetjer, one of the best known phv- "e iclans of thiy city, had one of his Th yes removed at the Johns Hopkins w? lospital. Ijy Dr. Batejer Is known as an authorty on radio-activity and the Roent- tbl en rays. He began his studies on W he physiological effect of those rays Se hortly after they were discovered an y Professor Roentgen ten or twelve ears ago. tll( Some tinje ago Dr. Baetjer was at- on acked with a peculiar shriveling of all he arm and hand. It was attributed bl< o the X-rays. Trouble with the Pi"1 yes in connection with the X-ray an eems to be unusual, although if; is :nown that the eye is sensitive to the m* ays. 19 - wi CONTROL OF BRITISH MARKET. | I l> Q1 lay Appoint Commission to Deal With American Competitors. co) London.?The American Beef Trust lea nd its alleged control of the British sla neat market came up again in the ag louse of Commons for a brief discus- in ion. Charles W. Bowerman drew ev< .ttention to the recent increases in vo he price of meat, saying they had ieen engineered by the Trust. He bu sked Winston Spencer Churchill, du resident of the Board of Trade, to ollow the example of the American coi Congress and appoint a commission Mi o inquire into the operations of the Pr< ?rust in this country and relieve the sta Jritish consumer of its increasing Y& tactions. Mr. Churchill promised l'e* hat he would consider the oppoint- 'n nent of a commission to s?e what mf ould be done. P? - oc >EES PROSPERITY HERE NOW. ^ National Grocers' Convention Ap- on plauds Sentiment of Its President. shi Atlantic City, N. J.?Not a dis- ~ ;enting voics was raised when Will- flr. am Judson, President of the National ?Vholesale Grocers' Association of the ^ Jnited States,declared that the finan:ial panic was only a memory; that .g )rosperity pervaded all parts of the ; :ountry, and that times, now good, pj ire steadily growing better. Mr. Judson told of prosperity's be )nward march during his report at he opening session of the Wholesale pi, grocers' Convention. His remarks vere echoed by the members, an-1 vhen he finished tne convention 20 >roke into wild applause. f0I LESS MONEY IN CIRCULATION. S3 pre falling Off in May Puts the Average Ph Per Capita at $34.75. Washington, D. C.?The total me imount of money incirculation in the Pi: Jnited States decreased in the month sai )f May from $3,086,294,101 to $3,- bei )36,182,289. The whole stock of thi noney in the country is now put at W< 53,372,932,711. as against $3,396,- so >53,082 on May 1. lat The per capita circulation, estimat- Wi ng the population of the country at th< 17,377,000, is now $34.75. toi pa FROST IN THE ADIRONDACKS. f"; ??? ' Mr ce Formed on Small Pools and Early Vegetables Destroyed. Malone, N. Y.?A heavy frost did :onsiderable damage among the lorthern foothills of the Adirondack. it Kempton ice formed on small tools, and in some instances frost deitroyed early vegetables. At Saranac pj, ?ake, Paul Smith's and McCulloms t was particularly sereve. North of trj Malone no damage was done. tjj( 10W SLAYER WORE BEARD. "e de :tion Writors?Hooked Nose Also Appears? co Never Used Before in Detective Work. fo1 in j >eard. Acting on this clue, the de* wj ectives set out to find the man who th esembles what appears to be a hu- ov nan face on the retina of the mur- (ja lerea woman s eye. There is much difference of opinion SOi n regard to the possibility of the re- i0i ina retaining an impression after 0f ieath. Many books have been writ- pa en in support of the theory, but these looks have been ridiculed by promnent scientists. Although imagina- ^ ive writers have unraveled many nysteries by using the eye as a sensiive photographic plate, no murder nystery in real life ever has been olved in this way. Coroner Streepir's experiment therefore is being ch matched with interest. th The dead woman was about thirty- $2 ive years old, of refined appearance, pa ,nd weighed about 140 pounds. She te ;as five feet four inches in height and fo tad dark brown hair and blue eyes, ^he physician who performed the au- ni opsy on tho body said that the worn- eft in had been struck on the nose, and eo hat the blow had thrown her head Ne iack with such force as to break her th; leek. itrangc Ruins 0/ Pyramids Arc Found in Mexico. City of Mexico.?An important rchaeological discovery has just been a nade in the district of San Ignaclo luatusco, State of Vera Cruz. Ruins jr 11 ancient pyramids and a number of an irehlstoric buildings were found in jm he deep recesses of tropical- forests. As Manuel Torres, representing tho th rational Museum, has :Iust returned th iere from a preliminary visit of ex- I loration to the ruins. He found su nany interesting relics in the in- . la crior compartments of the pyramids. th Women in the Day's News. 1 Hetty Green, at seventy-odd, has ? ever used a telephone. The Woman's Self-Supporting -eague opened headquarters and lanned a suffrage campaign. Mme. Anna Gould is credited with Wi aying that "the French aristocracy is lie last storehoase of French refine- fri aent." in Miss Clara Brett Martin, who has lrpariv nohieved the distinction of w eing the first woman admitted to the cU Canadian bar, is now desirous of be- a oming Canada's first female Member H f Parliament. m / - .> z. rice plfltt pi to escape mm Ll A? I !-Ll I ^..!1 - Z 0..._ ougni no Ligni uy oun ur uuum se! For Senator's Wife. WE HER $25,000 IN CASF Home at Highland Mills and $10, 000 a Year For Five Years?Hei Lawyers Also Want $2171 Un paid Bills. New York City.?The terms undei lich Mrs. Lilian Janeway Piatt lied off her suit for divorce agains r husband, United States Senatoi lomas C. Piatt, in the fall of 190G sre made public in a suit broughi Edgar Joseph, managing clerk foi e law firm of Marsh, Winslow <S pver nf in Rroadwav. asainst nator Piatt to recover $2471, th< lount alleged to have been paid bj e law firm, Mrs. Piatt's attorneys her behalf, and for which, it was eged. Senator Piatt was responsi;. The case was heard before Su eme Court Justice Ford and a jurj d a sealed verdict was ordered. According to the separation agreejnt, which is dated November 14 06, Senator Piatt agreed, if his fe would drop her action for di rce. to give her S25.000 down 0;000 a year Zor five years, and rtain valuable property, includin? 3ga Lodge, at Highland Mills. Ir nsideration of this Mrs. Piatt re ised her husband from any furtbei iim on him or his estate, beside: reeing not to sue him at any time this State for a divorce. She, hower, reserved the right to begin di rce proceedings against him at anj ae she chose in any other State t not on the grounds of his miscon ct. nanioi no Wolf Wevf?r. of her unsel, was appointed trustee foi s. Piatt under the agreement. The Bsent suit arises out of a misunder inding between Mrs. Piatt's law rs and ex-Justice Hatch, who was :ained on behalf of Senator Platl September, 1906, when the settle ;nt was arrived at. For the purses of this action Marsh, Winslow Wever assigned their claim againsi nator Piatt to Joseph, their managz clerk, and he brought the action Senator and Mrs. Piatt separatee! September 20, 190fi. Soon aftei b began her suit for divorce againsi n through Marsh, Winslow & Bver. Frank H. Piatt, of the la^\ m of Boardman, O'Brien, Piatt <S :tleton, took charge of the case foi i father. He retained Justice itch. Bills amounting to bstweer 000 and $7000 for various things luding diamonds purchased by Mrs att, were discussed. Mrs. Platl .nted her husband to settle all these fore she would agree to any settle >nt of their marital differences. Mr itt expressed his willingness to paj ; bills for any necessaries up to th! te of their separation, Septsmbei , 1906, but would not agree to paj luxuries. The necessaries amounted to aboul 500. After this.- the separation jposal was discussed. When Franl itt paid his father's wife 523,00C did so under the impression thai is amount was to include the nay snt of the bills contracted by Mrs itt for necessaries. Eut Mr. Wevei d no such arrangement was made tween him and Justice Hatch, anc it the latter agreed that if Mr sver's.firm paid^the bills the monej paid "would be refunded to then er. Acting ou this impression Mr aver said he paid out $2471, bui jn stopped as he learned that Sena Piatt had repudiated the verba rt of the agreement. The preseni it was then begun to enforce th< payment of the sums paid out bj Wever. FIT.IP NOT GUILTY OF .MURDER pallhy Washing(o::ian Who Killed : Cabman Goes Free. Washington. D. C.?Gaston P ilip was acquitted of the murdei Frank B. Macaboy, a cabman. Th< al had continued for eight days anc i verdict of the jury was not unex cted. Philip took the stand in his owi fense and told the story of the en unter in the hotel and his reason: r having armed himsslf before com ? out of his room to meet Macaboy 10 was seeking him. When he fire( e shot he said that he was belni erpowered and that his life was ii nger. Philip is a wealthy young man o cial prominence. The killing fol ved a night of revelry in compan: Macaboy and other roystering com nions. HLL RETURN RYAN'S MONEY. He Contributed to Election Func Bryan Says He'll Get It Buck. Lincoln, Neb.?Commenting on tin arge made in the New York Worli at Thomas F. Ryan contribute! 0,000 to Bryan's; Nebraska cam ign for Senator in 1004, Mr. Bryai legraphed from Ainsworth, Nob., a llows: "Shall reach home Wednesda; ght. Will then see text of World' arge and make full reply. If Ryai ntributed directly or indirectly t< ibraska campaign fund, I will se< at every dollar is returned to him " W. J. BRYAN." IV. W. ASTOR, JR., SEMI-DRY. csides at Meeting in New Temper nee Movement and Makes a Joke. London.?William Waldorf Astor ., has adopted the role of a temper ice reformer. He presided at i eeting of the Semi-Teetotal Plpdgi ssociation, whose members bim emselves to dring alcohol only a eir midday and evening mpals. He made the audience titter u. ggesting that men needed a stimu nt to help their conversation mor an women needed ir.. 'R1XCE K A LA XIA X AO LIS DEAD. phcAV of Queen Liliuokalnni of Ha waii Expires in San Francisco. San Francisco, Cal.?Prince Davi< alanianaole, of Hawaii, brother o 'rince Cupid'' Lalanianaole, Ha liian Congressional Delegate an* i?hew of Queen Liliuokalani, die; om pneumonia at the Hotel Stewart this city. Prince David, accompanied by hi ife. Princess Abbie, who is th lughter of the late James Campbell Hawaiian millionaire, arrived fror onolulu on May 22 for rest uu edical treatment. '[nMFB ?, i HE DEES AT SISTER'S WISH. . 1 Trenton, N. J.?Ellis Harris, o] relied over the division of $500 left cently at the age of 100 years. T1 you would drop dead! " Greatly ex< conscious and expired In an ambuli I hospital. Heart failure superlndu* 1 as the cause of his death. Crowninshield Dead. ] Philadelphia.?Rear-Admiral A. S. P Crowninshield, U. S. N., retired, died i In the Fn<?copal Hospital. His wife c was at his bedc'de when he died. Admiral Crowninshield, who was seven- ty-two years old, had been in poor p health for a year. i t ? * ' ? |. Received as Catholics. c p Philadelphia. ? Seven Episcopal ministers who left the church follow- 1 ing the adoption of the "open pulpit" t ! canon were received into the Catholic Church here'by Archbishop Ryan. : To Raise $500,000 For Missions. Pittsburg.?At the closing session of the Men's Jubilee Congress of the r United Presbyterian Church foreign missionary work was considered, and it was decided to raise during the year $500,000 for foreign missions. ! No Clinton Autopsy. Washington, D. C.?The published reports that there was an autopsy on General Clinton's body before it left ! here and that his brain was found intact are untrue. General O'Reilly says that there was no autopsy. Some [ measurements of the bones were , taken, and that was all. ' Bishop Washington Dies. Woodstock, Ont.?The Rev. Charles . A. Washington, of Windsor (colored), , Bishop of-the British Methodist Epis! copal 'Church in Canada and Buffalo, . died here. The Bishop was born in r Pennsylvania sixty-one years-ago. | Dry Convention Hall at Denver. | Denver, Col.?There shall be no | liquor sold in the convention building in Denver during the National Demo. cratic Convention, the Committee on . Arrangements decided. The nearest . saloon is one block away. [ No "Merry Widows" in Yale Stands. New Haven, Conn.?A petition will . be made to Yale's baseball managers ment to keep Merry Widow hats out t of the stands in the championship games. I Liberian Envoys at Tuskegee. Tuskegee, Ala.?Envoys of the Ret public of Liberia, who came to the : United States on a diplomatic and ' special mission, reached Tuskegee. : The envoys are spending their time in making notes, preparatory to in5 troducing practical methods of edu1 cation into Liberia. I More Gunness Bones Found. t Laporte, Ind.?Several hogs wal5 i lowing in the pond at the edge of a " I lot on the Gunne3s farm, near here, | brought up the bone of a human arm. ' i The finding of tne none nas convinced | Sheriff Smutzer that other bodies ] ! have been buried beneath the mud at ' the bottom of the pond. The entire 1 shore will be gone over with long i - rakes. } i ![nIWS p,\ [ CHURCH TREASURES STOLEN. London.?Valuable eccleslasti< r have been stolen from the Cathedn i similar to the notorious thefts attril The booty is roughtly estimated to t the historic value of the articles ta] famous Limoges enamel of the fifti I and several chalices. t } Shipbuilding Strike Ends. ' r London.?A ballot of the men inI volved in the shipbuilding strike was ] held, and resulted in favor of accept- I ing the terms offered by the employ- i ers. 1 ( i i 1COO Metros in an Aeroplane. Ghent, Belgium.?Henry Farman, ] the British aeronaut, made two flights - c "l^AA I v? ; n oo^Anlono HPh ia UL ?V\J\J lUCUCd xu. axo agivyiuut, . [ is the greatest distance yet accom- < f plished in a straight line. 1 i 1 " Sunstroke Kills Three Soldiers. ! Koenigsberg, Germany.?Three ar- i tillerymen died here from the effects < " of sunstroke sustained while their J battery was on a practice march ' through the country. | Spy Executed by Revolutionaries. 1 Geneva. Switzerland. ? The police 1 are investigating what appears to be < f the execution by the Russian revolu- 1 tionary committee of a man named 1 j Naidoff, thought to have been a Rus- ( ^ I sian Government syp. Naidoti was shot to death by a compatriot. I Salvador Fears the Plague. i San Salvador, Republic of Salvador. 1 ?The Government has issued a decree ' , that steamers from the south will not < be allowed to enter port on account of ] the prevalence of bubonic plague in a various southern ports. I J ( j Eighty-five Suicides a Month. St. Petersburg.?Therehas been an j i epidemic of suicides in St. Petersburg i 0 that has lasted for three months. The < average number of deaths has been * y eighty-five a month, and the high rec- t s ord for a single day was reached this < 1 week, when no fewer than eighteen 1 3 uersons killed themselves. Many of < 5 the cases are due to destitution, but < . despondency has been the prevailing t cause. j 1 Oppose Anti-Anarchist Law. ; 1 Madrid.?Senor Moret y Prender- j 4 gart, who was iormeriy rremier, auu ? other liberal and republican leaders ( addressed a mass meeting, which was f held in the Princess Theatre, for the i purpose of protestingagainst the Gov- I 3 ernment bill for the repression of ter- 1 e vorisni. j I Peru Elccts a President. c Lima, Peru.?Augusto B. Legnia 1 y has been elected President of the Re-t I ,. public in succession of S.?nnr Jose j s e Pardo. whose term expires September' i 24 next. i 1 Prison For Druce Witness. I I London. ? Mrs. Margaret Haniil ton, who was one of the principal wit- c nesses to the alleged identity of the r ) Duke or Portland with T. C. Druce, a I was sentenced to eighteen months' t penal sprvitiwle for perjury, her ap- c j peal having been disallowed. I i I Revolt in Samos. i Constantinople. ? The inhabitants , of the Island of Samos, a Greek isl- 1 j and off the west coast or Asia Minor, I are if revolt against the Prince of Sa- t i* ntof, who is the Governor of the isl- t Li and. Fighting has been going on at i - Vathy, tie capital. ! I I "!H.i 1 ** Y ^ IRE, 1 E Trenton, and his sister quart by their mother, who died retie sister finally declared, "I wish ;ited, Harris fell to the floor unince called to remove him to a :ed by the quarrel was reported . / J, Burned to Deatli. Colchester, Conn.?F. H. T?.lcott was burned to death in a fire which IfipfnAtfArl li)c liworv cfflhlo At/iJH UJ 6U U10 ? VI ^ J Tornado Kills Family. Wichita, Kan.?Peter Rudy, his vife and two children were killed by; i tornado which passed two miles east )f Alva, Okla. / browned in Undergronnd Stream. Joplin, Mo.?George P. Andrews, general manager of the Hero Mining Company, was drowned in an underground stream when a scow carrying ? . state Representative James Roach ind Cyrus W. Wyckoff, ground forenan of the Hero mine, capsized. Gannon Going Home by Automobile. . Washington, D. C.?Speaker Canion is planning to return to his home n Illinois as sooa as Congress adjourns, by automobile. i , % ft est Virginia Favors Bryan. Wheeling, W. Va.?West Virginia Democrats held district conventions ;o select delegates to the convention it Denver. At all the conventions iVilliam'J. Bryan was Indorsed. tVants 21,140 Harvesters. Topeka, Kan.?T. B. Gerow, direc;or of the State Free Employment 3ureau, estimated that 21,140 m6n 'rom other States and 1975 teams vill be necessary to harvest the crop n the wheat belt. / '' To Leave All Troops in Cuba. Washington. D. C.?The announcenent was made at the War Departnent that a decision had been reached lot to withdraw any of the American roops from Cuba at the present tlae. Contests in Chicago Convention. Chicago.?A tabulation of contests >ver credentials of delegates to the! leDublican National Convention made )y Secretary Elmer Dover showed sixty-seven district contests, six State :ontests and a contest in Alaska. )pinm Popular With Smart Set. San Francisco, Cal.?According to Charles B. Whilden, secretary of the state Board of Pharmacy, opium', smoking is increasing in this city and'' roung men and women of the smart set form a not inconsiderable part of he growing army of smokers. rhomas F. Ryan a Delegate. Richmond, Va.?Thomas F. Hyan, )f New York, who retains a legal resilence in tbls State, was chosen by the leople of'Nelson County as one of the' lelegates to the State Democratic Convention. .71 David Henderson Dead. Chicago.?David Henderson, who ' ?. juilt the Chicago Opera House andi vas the father of extravaganza in tha West, died here, aged fifty-eight. ~r able.) | cal plate and other treasures il of St. Etienne. The robbery is buted to the Thomas brothers. be worth $25,000, apart from ken. It includes eleven pieces of senth and seventeenth centuries . * . ;-.4 rhe Mohmands Beaten. London.?The outbreak among the Mohmand tribesmen in India is collapsing. General Willcocks has inflicted several sharp defeats upon them and they are submitting unconiitionally. Five Republics' Court. Cartago, Costa Rica.?The Central American Court of Justice held its opening session in this city. The day tvas observed as a national holiday throughout Costa Rica, Nicaragua. Salvador and Honduras. This court Is an outcome of the Central American Peace Conference, held in Washington last year. France and Germany Agree. Berlin.?A full understanding, between France and Germany relative to Morocco was reached at a recent conference between the French Ambassador to Germany and the Carman n : ?? ? ureigu lkiiuidLci. Scotch Home Itnle. London.?Another of the pledges ?iven by Winston Spencer Churchill in his recent electoral campaign in Dundee has borne quick fruit, and a !iome-rule-for-Scot!and bill was introluced in the House of Commons by Duncan Vernon Pirie, member for S'orth Aberdeen. Cholera in Philippines. Manila. ? Cholera has apparently :aken a serious foothold in the provnce of Pangasinan. Four cities, including Dagupan, are infected, and :he Eureau of Health is sending addi:ional inspectors, planning to stamp >ut the disease. Tne larnuy 01 ightkeepei* at Dagupan was infected, ind five of its members died. Their :ondition was discovered through heir inability to extinguish the light n the day time. 'rrigation For Cuba. Havana. ? Governor Magooa has tddressed a letter to the Advisory Commission Instructing that body to rame an irrigation law. irrigation beng one of the greatest needs of Cu>an agriculture. :Vant Opium Excluded From Hawaii. Honolulu.?The Chinese United Society and the Chinese Anti-Opium league have cabled Senator Joseph' 3. Foraker. of Ohio, urging the pas-| age by Congress of the bill prohibiting the importation of opium tc the lawaiian Islands. "our Killed, Sixty Hurt. Buenos Ayres. ? A collision ocurred between a train of the rural ailway of the Lacroze Company and; ij tramcar of the same company in: he outskirts of this city. The tram:ar, in which were more than 100' jassengers, was completely destroyed; rour persons were killed and sixty; njured, several, it is feared, mortally. Battleship's Bow Piorcod. St. Petersburg.?The Russian batloshin Peter the Great, which ran on he rocks in the Gulf of Finland, was efloated without assistance, although ;er bow was pierced. -