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Micheal Klueber, aged 50 years, was found dead in his room at Mansfleld. O. Investigation shovved that the man had been dead at least tliree days. He had taken poison. Klueber had been an officer in the Prussian army. Sickness caused the suicide. The Lafayette college faculty suspended Sophomores Hern and Brown ior hazing freshmen three weeks ago. The third annual conference of the International league of the NationaJ Building associations opened at Denver. The object is to discuss ths modes of conducting transactions in the most advantageous manner. The board of publication of war records has submitted its annual report to the secretary of war. This work has teen in progress for twenty-one years nd is about complete. The work has cost thus far $2,334,328. Ashley Barber. one of the richest farmers in Stephenson county, Hls., was crushed by a falling tree. The accident happened at his home near Freoport. The announcement is made by the Children's Aid society of New York that William Waldorf Astor had made it a gift of Ï50.000. Monsignor Martinelli, the Roman Catholic apostolic delégate, took part in his flrst publi'; function in Baltimore at the cathedral there. The occasion was the celebration of the feast day of the patrón of St. Mary's, the virgin Mary. The report of the board of visitors to the United States l-.lltary academy speaks highly of the character and discipline of the cadets. but recommends a change of the law ralsing the Standard for admisBion, in order to keep abreast of the progress of education at large. The one hundred and thirteenth anniversary of the evacuation of New York by the British was celebrated by the New York State Sons of the Revolution at Delmonico'sWednesday night. Jim Stone, a negro rapist wanted at Mayfield, Ky., was taken to Louisville Wednesday f rom Paducah anu lodgedin Jail for safe keeping. A mob was riter him. A commercial travelier tells the Washington Post that herecently saw Jn Mississippi a colored woman with hair eleven feet long. It is said that the subscriptions of the Spaniards in Brazil and Argentine toward the fund being raised to increase the strength of the Spanish navy now amounts to over 1,000,000 pesos. There are in the Butt- (Mont.) minIng district 4,000 patenteü claims, 3,000 of which are silver and 1,000 copper. Four hundred and fifty large caliber guns were built last year by the government. During the last twenty-flve years the import of wheat into Great Britain has increased 152 per cent., while the quantity of home grown wheat has diniinished by 45 per cent. It has been judicially decided in Missouri that the courts must recognize the eommon-law widower the same as a common-law wldow. On the Duke of Argyle's estáte on Loch Fyn-. is an avenue of trees, each of which was planted by some distinguished person. The rebellion in Madagascar is rampant, though the vlclnlty of Antananarivo is quieter. No colonists are arriving and trade is paralyzed. lt is said that Archbishop Temple is the first teetctaler who has occupied the see of Canterbury. President Hureaux of San Domingo was re-eleeted for four years at the election Nov. 1 and 2. Captain Jonathaa B. Norton of East Lee, Mass., enjoy? the distinction of being the oldgst voter in the United States. When he voted for McKinley Nov. 3 he was 100 years, 3 months and 3 days oíd. He has lived under every president. The sovernment of Portugal has authorized the importation of 138,000,000 kilos of wheat to supplement the deficiency in the national supply. The Earl of Warwick has agreed to accept the mayoralty of Warwick for the third time. The pólice raided a gambling den at Galesburg, Tlls., and captured thirtytwo gamblers, with money, chips, cards and dice. It was the biggest haul ever made there. The room was running wide open. Calais, Me., a city of over 7,000 inhabitants, is groaning over one mail a day, and, in order for that one to reach the town, it has to be carred over British soil. A virulent disease has broken out among the rahbits in the southwestern districts of Queensland, and they are dying by thousands. The Rev. Willaim Goal, an aged mini.ster of the Methodist Episcopal church, widely known throughout central and southern Illinois, died Sunday. South Dakota man has been granted a patent on a sleigh. It difters from ordinary ones only in being made entirely of sheet metal. The Connecticut Law and Order league has taken steps for a general revisión of the liquor laws of that state by the coming legislature. Nathan Lampson, the man who, during the Indian outbreak in Minnesota in 1862, killed Little Crow, the.famous Sioux ehieftain, died Monday on his farm in South Dakota, aged 96. Cards are out for the marriage of S. A. l'erkins of Cleveland, O., private secretary of Mark Banna, to Miss Ottie Walther, a well-known young lady of St. Paul. The wedding will take place late in December. The big plant of the Sanford, Me., Manufacturing company resumed operations after a long shut-down. About 500 people, or two-thirds of the full force, are at work. The Pemberton milis of Lawrence, Kan., started up after a shut-down of four months. The milis employ 800 hands but 300 were turned away without woik. The Hungarian carieaturist Janko, who died a few weeks ago, made more than 80,000 drawings in the 63 years of hls life. Right Rev. William Stevens Perry, of Davenport, Ia., historiographer of the Episcopal church in América, Is seriously ill in Philadelphia.