Three men were killed by the explo
sion of a car of gaholine at Reddick,
Illindis.
Ground was broken for the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
Washington.
Capital and labor are engaged in a
desperate struggle for supremacy at
San Francisco.
It is estimated that 40,000 persons
are idle in San Francisco as a result
of labor troubles.
Edna May, the American actress,
was married in London to Oscar Lew
issohn, of New York.
The anniversary of the birth of Jef
ferson Davis was generally observed
throughout the south.
A. A. Kincannon, of Columbus,
Miss., was elected chancellor of the
University of Mississippi.
It is probable that congress will
enact additional legislation for thereg
ulation of American railroads.
One man was killed and a score in
jured in a wreck on the Southern Pa
cific Railroad near Lozier, Texas.
The charter of the International
]rewery Workers' Union was revolted
by the American Federation of Labor.
Five persons were killed and eleven
injured in a wreck on the Cuban
Eastern Railroad near Guantanamo.
Four thousand persons were crushed
to death and a vast number of houses
destroyed by an earthquake at Hsing
Kiang, China.
A suit to enforce payment of leg
acies to natural sons of the late King
Alfonso will be tried in the Spanish
supreme court.
The trial of prisoners charged with
complicity in the attempted assassina
t6i of the king and queen of Spain
was begun at Madrid.
The Chinese insurrection is reported
to be spreading rapidly. Thus far
American interests have not been in
volved in the troubles.
The Tennessee anti. race track gam
ling bill has been declared unconstitu
tional because the caption contains
more than one subject.
