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Minor Telegrams

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
October
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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One Body in Ruins. - The Tepee hotel at Fairview, B. C, was destroyed by fire Wednesday. One body was taken from the ruins and seven other persons were fatally injured.

Trouble Among the Lawmakers. - A free fight between Czechs and Germans in the Austrian reichsrath Wednesday was only averted by the president suspending the session.

To Remove Bible From Schools. - J. B. Billard of Topeka, Kan., brought suit against the board of education to compel the removal of the Bible reading from the public schools. The case is causing much interest in legal circles.

Two Georgians Honored. - The commission appointed by Governor Candler of Georgia to designate two of Georgia's prominent citizens, whose statues shall be placed in the statuary hall in the national capitol at Washington, have agreed upon Alexander H. Stephens and Dr. Crawford H. Long, the discoverer of anaesthetics.

Italians Wouldn't Like It.- In a dispatch from Rome the correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle says the Italian government has been informed that the American senate is disposed to pass a bill excluding illiterate immigrants from the United States. This news has created much feeling, says the correspondent, as such a bill would exclude three-fourths of the Italian immigrants to America.