The judge lias issued a rule calling
on the jurymen to show cause why they
should not be punished for contempt of
court, because they drew straws for a
verdict in a civil case ut Springfield.
Fifteen dead anil !W injured people
wero taken from a wreck near Burgos,
struck by a fast train on the Pan Han
die at Centreville, Ind. Throe were in
stantiy killed and the other fatally injured.
Forest fires continue to do great
damage in Northern Minnesota and in
portions of Wisconsin. Near Pino City,
Minn., five farm laborers who weru fighting
the tiro were surrounded and burned
to death.
Hail it Vanhook, doing a general
merchandise business at Burnside and
Sloan'e Valley, made an assignment Friday.
Liabilities $1,500 or $1,000; assets
$1,800 or $2,000. Bad outstanding debts
was the cause.
The loss of life by the Hood at
in Spain, seems to have been terrible
beyond all recent precedent. The
sacrifice of 3,000 out of 7,000 inhabitants
is tragically suggestive of a disaster both
sudden and sweeping.
Eleven Italians were killed and .TO
wero injured by tho explosion of a
bomb at a display of fireworks in Newark,
N.J. An overcharge of powder is
the alleged cause of the accident, but it
is hinted that there was dynamite in the
bomb.
Col. Bradford Dunham, general superintendent
of the Alabama Midland,
formerly general manager of the L. A
N., shot and killed James
ham, a bay, at Montgomery,
because he made improper advances to
his wife.
Thirty republican county conven
tious have been held in Kansas so far,
and but one has indorsed prohibition.
At- This is really the most remarkable po
litical surprise of tho year in tho Sunflower
SUite. Can it be that the g. o. p.
