KILLED BY A TORNADO A Furious Windstorm Sweeps Across Texas, THE CITY OF LAREDO IS IN RUINS. Enormous Property Damage, Accompanied ‘by Great Loss of Life, in Southern Texas— A Hundred or More Are Injured, but It Is Thooght They Will Recover— School and Hospital Wrecked. Laredo, Texas { Speci; i} persons were killed Lare do nado wh cities late turday night, } the New Lared mijured in by at places The property damay I I J The Seminary damage wr OGDEN SPECIAL TRAIN WRECKED. Prominent People Norrowly Escape Death Some Are lojured. ha +h y 2% , ' the three negroes could ne They breathed the flames and died. When he saw that the crash could not be averted Engineer Hunter, of the Ogden applied the brakes and jumped the baggage, said to be valued at 000 was destroyed. FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING - 1 i tent ram, $12, pt A Japan persists in its refusal to allow foreigners to secire any property, mines, mortgages or railways, In two years, at the outside, strength of the Japanese Navy will be represented by about 280,000 tons of dis- placement, Over one-fortieth of China's popula. tion of 400,000,000 is slaves, Every fam- iy of means keeps its girl slaves, it be- ing cheaper to buy them than to hire the NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading, Domestic, Mae Wood entered suit in Lin Neb., against Private Secretary b, former Postmaster General Wynne Miller Martin, a Secret Service em asking $33,000 damages for get. from her by trickery Senator Platt’s letters. The grand jury returned indictments against 11 members of the executive com- mittee of the Cleveland Retail Coal Deal rs’ Asso for violating the anti-trust law, A shortage of in the treasury of Athes fund was tampered wi Miss ation state of aldermen of Grand Rap being involved A number Mich, convicted of as, them The stock mark A came to namaker and 1.4 addresse toy co nearly Sates was ine colonies combined of all the British States mumister, and his successor, Mr The Antidueling League of Germany is endeavoring to strike at the causes of duels. Lord Grimthorpe died at St. Albans, England, at the age of Bo. King Edward arrived in Paris and was cordially received. The estate of Baron Rekki, near Mitau, Russia, was plundered by armed peasants and the Baron was assaulted and almost killed. Sanao, capital city of Yemen Province, Arabia, capitulated to the insurgents, who are now proceeding to besiege Manakhe, For the first time permission has been granted for publication in 8t. Petersburg of a Jewish paper in the Hebrew lan- guage. The international exhibition in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Bel. gian independence was opened at Liege. GEN. FITZ LEE DEAD Distinguished Soldier and Statesman a Victim of Apoplexy. HE WAS STRICKEN ON A TRAIN. Had Been to Boston to Tell of Jamestown Exposition His Brother, Danie! Lee, Was the Only Near Relative With Him When the End Came—His Notable Career Before and After the Civil War. (Special), — Brig.-Gen Lee, U President Was i nited States Army, re- of the Jamestown Company, is dead was stricken with apoplexy 2 o'clock train Friday morning while en route from shington and insisted « the urney He reached end of his jo was removed to Ie iy TWELVE KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION. Daggerous Oases ia Shaft Became Igeoi- ped from escaped. Jealous Man's Crime. Mass, (Special) ~Albert T Spargo shot and killed his wife, Eliza- | uiney he Ys own head, with fatal results, at his home in South Quincy. The tragedy is believed to have been caused by jealousy on the part of Spargo, who was a son of Councilman William T. Spargo, of this city, Spargo was 38 years old and his wife was 13. ——" Skulls Are of White Men. Victoria, British Columbia (By Cable). Advices from Quatsino report that an investigation of the cave discovered near there by prospectors, in which 35 skulls were found, tends to show that the bones are evidently those of white men-—not Indians. None of the skulls has the high cheek bones peculiar to Indians of that section of the coust. Settlers in the vicinity believe the skulls are probably those of a shipwrecked crew murdered by the Indians in the early days. MINISTER BOWEN CALLED HOME. Must Jusiily His Attack on Secretary Loomis ~His Successor. SeCre - "Rat : (* re vr ashington, D. ( SHeCia; ), from received instructions i1 Minister Bowen, AV 54) 1 i YY ARNE now wen, In GIFT $10,000,000 Fund For Professors. { UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS TRUSTEES. | AAI SSSA, RSA PRESIDENT CURTAILS TRIP. Win Washlogion 8 Week Ea-iler, Return to of Higher Education This lnportant Says Class of People 10 Be Providing for Them. "e , . New York, ( Spe 000,000 by Andrew IE Se tk’. | i YY dsj CONDITION OF Y. M. C A A Total Membership of 633000 in Forty LO 0 rics ad rates which trafh Department rece thwestern State irom facts Forsyth, OCtor, ohbers, The appeal of Cinef Naganab, of the Chippewa Indians, of Minnesota, in his case agamst Secretary of the Interior Hitchock was docketed in the Supreme Court. Rear Admiral Bradford's squadron, of the North Atlantic fleet, has been ordered to relieve Rear Admiral Sigsbee's divi- sion in Cuban and Dominican waters, Alles. at assault by American efforts Minister of the an 4 and the Secretary Taft will, if the Presilent assents, order Minister Bowen, at Caracas, to return immediately to Wash- ington and explain the charges against Secretary Loomis, James P. Dolliver, of Morgantown, W. Va. father of Senator John P. Dol. liver, of Iowa, died at the latter's resi- dence, on Massachusetts avende. He was 00 years old, The French govenrment has desig- nated M. Gueard as the French member of the Board of Consulting Engineers attached to the Isthmian Canal Com- mission. . apy Agents Hr judgment to thepiw L053 ary in most beneficial admimistran funds 1 hope this fund may do much for the cause of higher education and re- | move a source of deep and constant anx ety to the poorest pai and yet one of the highest professions, Gratefully yours, ANDREW CARNEGIE, SAAN Gas Wrecks Home, Newark, N. J. (Special). An ex- plosion of illuminating gas from a broken pipe wrecked the home of Charles Koch, a machinist, and set fire to the house causing the death of Koch and probably fataly injury to his wife. While sup- wed to be temporarily insane Koch yroke the pipe in his dining-room, and when Mrs. Koch entered the room with a lighted lamp an hour later there was an explosion which blew off the roof of the house to AT WORK ON THE CANAL. An Effective Organization Already Formed Many Men Employed. GIFTS TO SOUTHERN COLLEGES Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chicago, Distribuies Sum of $135.000. Ce GINR Shot Prisoner in Hiv Cell. { Special) ww with sledge 25 wen broke int Parish Jail at Homer, la. and shot “Dick” Craghead, inflicting wounds which will probably prove fatal. Craig. head was charged with the murder of Mra, Isaac McKee, wife of Craighead's half-brother, and her little son. FINANCIAL Amalgamated Copper directors de clared the usual quarterly dividend of 1 per cent. New York Central has fallen 16 points {rom ite recent high level when the talk was strongest about a merger with Union Pacific. Stockholders of National Lead voted down a resolution to the effect that if, ever the preferred stock is retired the price shall not be less than $40 af share,
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