Bank drafts with an estimated value
of $70,000 and a small amount of
money were in a mail pouch stolen
and rifled at Newton, la., after the
outbound mail left the post office.
TThree arrests were made.
The policy of nonsuspension of min
ing in any field after present agree
saents have expired, so long as there
fes bope of negotiating new contracts,
pras given strong support in the con
tention of the United Mine Workers
zcf America at Indianapolis* Ind.
Thirty-three defendants in the night
pfder trials at New Madrid, Mo., plead
1 ad guilty, thus bringing the trials to a
sadden end. All 33 were sentenced to
Six months' Imprisonment and then
Immediately paroled on good be
havior.
Sarnings of 151,232,788 for the three
__iths ending December 31 were re
ported by the United States Steel cor
poration at New York. This figure ex
-jceeds by $5,729,083 the largest amount
/ever earned by the corporation in any
^preceding quarter.
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*-uur persons were killed and f*ur
Injured in a mysterious explosion that
wrecked the plant of the Kelker Blow
er company at Buffalo, N. Y.
Three trainmen are dead and five
were injured in a head-on collision
between a Burlington passenger train
and an extra freight train near At
lanta, Neb.
Fire destroyed the Parsh?ll Me
morial theater at Lyons, N. Y., and
caused damage Istimated at $150,000.
Some of the largest mercantile estab
lishments there suffered severely.
The Tremont theater, Bostons most
famous playhouse, was destroyed by
fire with a loss estimated at $100,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Three men were killed and fifteen in
jured, some possibly fatally, when a
Lawrence avenue street car was
struck by a Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railway train at Chicago.
