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' . The University of Copenhagen , the
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: " ' nize Dr. Frederick A. . Cook as the dis
coverer of the north pole , has solemn
ly declared that the explorer had fail-
- ed to establish the claim upon which
his high honors had been based.
The committee appointed by the
university to examine Cook's records
" recently presented its report to the
\ consistory of the university , which re
viewed the deductions of the experts
with the greatest care and discussed
the findings' from every standpoint.
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That both the committee and the con-
sistory were disappointed was soon
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When . the consistory met the other
day- a written report was adopted to
the effect that the alleged records ' 'sub
. . mitted for examination by Dr. Cook
failed to prove his claim that he had
- reached the north pole.
The * report of the committee , of
which Prof. Stromgren was chairman ,
.as presented to the consistory , states
i that Cook's papers are without any
value ; that his report to the univer
sity is practically the same as , that
published in the New York Herald
upon his return from his arctic expe
dition. The copies of his notebooks
submitted , says the committee , contain
no original calculations of observa-
tions , but only results thereof. Ac-
cordingly the committee concludes that
, he affords no proof of having reached
the pole.
The documents handed the commis
" sion of the University of Copenhagen
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1'1 for examination are : -
1. A typewritten report prepared by
Cook's secretary , Walter Lonsdale , and
covering sixty-one pages of foolscap.
, 2. A typewritten copy made by
Lonsdale from Cook's notebooks. This
occupies sixteen pages of foolscap and
I includes a description of the expedi-
tion during the period from March 18 ,
1908 , to June 13 , 1908 , during which ,
1. ' 4 according to the statement , Cook jour-
. neyed from Svartevog to the north
pole and returned to a point on the
" . polar ice not specifically indicated but
, west of the Axel H iberg land.
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a private letter from Cook , but Secre-
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' commission that the original notes
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f his copies were made- had been sent
to Europe by another route as a pre-
cautionary measure and would be de-
l livered to the university in the course
of a few days.
. In presenting the data Lonsdale said
explicitly and repeatedly that docu-
ment No. 2 was a complete and accu-
rate duplication of the information
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G- - contained in all of Cook's notebooks
that could be of any importance to
the university for the purpose of this
I examination ! ' . In spite of the explorer's
, promise and his secretary's assurance
that they would be forthcoming , the
commission is not yet in possession of
. the original notebooks and diaries.
' "He has fooled us all , from the king
. of Denmark down , " was the exclama-
tion of John R. Bradley , F. A. Cook's
New York backer in his arctic trip ,
. when apprised of the news from
Copenhagen "And he fooled me with
the rest. As a matter of fact , " con
. tinued the sportsman , "I long ago lost
all interest in Dr. Cook , the north pole
- and everything connected with it. Po
. lar bears and the wild life , of the arc-
tic in general is the only thing that
. has ever interested me much in that
- . connection anyway.
"Thre .months ago from the Labra-
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dor coast I sounded an explicit and
\ deliberately worded - warning to the
. world , based on complete and accurate
information in regard to the Cook
c _ claims In doing so , I accepted the
-L S responsibility devolving on me and
fulfilled my duty to myself and to the
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1 < ivorid.Vith these words Commander
; : k Ho : > ert K. 1 Peary expressed his senti-
, " ments regarding the failure of the
: ( . . . - University of Copenhagen to find any
: . : pj ro.f of ' "the discovery of the north
' 'i'- pole by Cook.
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suspension of the rules. The fran
chises provide for 3-cent fares and
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penny transfers. They expire auto
matically .Tune 1 , 1910. This action.
. taken two days after a blanket ordin-
. . . ance had been { passed granting twen-
ty - five-ear . renewal of the Cleveland
' R.1 h..ay Company' rights on all its
, lines at a maximum fare of 4 cents
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SENATOR M'LAURIN IS DEAD.
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End Comes to Mississippi , Leader at
Brandon Residence.
United States Senator Anselm J. Mc
Laurin , who had - been a leaderMn : Mis
sissippi Democracy for many years ,
died at his residence in Brandon : , Miss. ,
Wednesday night. Death was due to
an attack of heart failure , and came
without the slightest warning. When
the fatal stroke came upon him Sen-
ator McLaurin was seated in a rocking
chair in front of the fireplace in his
library. He suddenly fell forward ,
without speaking a word , and life was
extinct when members of his family
reached his side.
Senator McLaurin , who was ' 61 years
old , began his first term in the United
States Senate in i894 , but was elected ,
Governor of Mississippi in 1895 and
served in that office four years. H $
was elected again to the Senate in
1900 and served one term. He was re
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turned for the term which "began on
March. 4 , 1907. His present term of
office would have expired on March 3 ,
1913. Senator McLaurin began the
study of law in 1868 , after he had
served through the civil war as a pri-
vate in the Confederate army. He was
born near Brandon and raised on a
farm. Seven children survive him.
In the Senate chamber he was known
as one of the strongest defenders of
the South. He believed in the South ,
its resources , and future. He did some
active work on the Senate committee
on the Mississippi river and tribu '
taries and was a member of other im- .
portant Senate committees , among
them those on civil service , commerce ,
immigration , ' interstate commerce , pub-
lic expenditures , and the joint commit-
tee on revision of the laws of the Unit-
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ed Estates.
. . . "LITTLE TIM" IS DEAD.
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Political Iviiis : : of Xew York Bowery
PassesAway. .
Timothy P. , ( "Little Tim" ) Sullivan ,
political king of the Bowery , and one
of New York City's picturesque figures ,
died in his home , 222 East 12th street
of acute Bright's disease and inflam
mation , of the lining of the heart. From
dawn until evening "Little Tim" was
passing slowly away. At 5:30 : p. m.
he emerged from a semi-comatose
state. He knew he was close to death ,
and said farewell to the immediate
members of his family : ; and a few close
friends. The news spread quickly , and
in many houses there was weeping.
Thousands he had befriended , standing
between them and actual want , were
inconsolable.
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Grand Duke : Nicholas Nicholaievitch
second cousin of the emperor , has been
designated to take full and direct
charge of affairs in Finland.
Twenty Japanese were killed and fif
teen were injured , several of them fa-
tally , in the recent wreck of a Great
Northern work train between Vancouv-
er and New Westminster , B. C.
The republic of Liberia has requested
the assistance of the United States
government in organizing a police force
with a view ' of controlling the many
tribes of the African hinterland.
Sensational charges have been made
by directors of the Dai Nippon Sugar
Company , involved in the sugar. scan-
dals of Japan , against cabinet minis :
ters and " elder statesmen , of sharing in ,
the graft of $3,000,000 secured by the
Formosa Sugar Company.
It is reported from London that a
cataract is rapidly forming on the re-
maining eye of Gen. Booth , head of the
Salvation Army. 'An operation Is in- ;
evitable. Meanwhile he is busy ad-
dressing meetings , controlling : the army
and dictating correspondence , \
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ALBERT TAKES OATH
AS KING OF BElGIUM
Hundreds of Thousands View State
1 Entry of Successor to Leo
pold II. Into Capital.
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FAVORS HUMANITY IN KONGO
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New. Ruler's ; Speech from Throne-
Gives Pledge for Mission of Civ-
ilization in Africa.
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Albert I. , King of the Belgians , with
his queen , Elizabeth , made a state en-
try into the capital from Laeken
Thursday. Cannon boomed forth a
royal salute , church bells rang out
and hundreds of thousands of people
lined the route of the regal march
crying "Long live Albert ! " and "Long
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live Elizabeth ! "
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When the procession arrived at the
chamber , where the oath of ascension
was to be taken , the successor to
Leopold II. was given a notable re-
ception by the assembled senators and
deputies. A feeble attempt of the So
cialists to make a republican demon -
stration failed miserably. . At every
discordant note a fresh outburst of
cheering drowned the voices of.the .
malcontents.
' King Albert's speech from the
throne was an eloquent tribute to
Leopold I. and to his uncle , Leopold
II. He declared that ' the latter had
performed a prodigious t worlin :
Africa , with the constant thought of
enriching the nation and increasing
the economic resources' of Belgium.
Turning to. the subject of Belgium's
future , King Albert said : "We must
continue our unshakable attachment
to constitutional liberty and the love
of independence , and thus hold sacred
our patrimony while advancing toward
the peaceful conquests in the field of I
labor and , science. In thp Kongo the
nation wishes a policy of humanity
and progress enforced. The mission
of colonization cannot be other than
a mission of high civilization. Bel-
gium always has kept her promises ,
and when she engages to apply in the
Kongo a policy worthy of her , none
has a right to doubt her word.
ESTRADA , VICTOR IN BATTLE.
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Zelnyan Forces Conlpletely Van-
quished by Nicaraguan Rebels.
Gen. Estrada's victory at Rama , Nic
aragua is complete. The _ Zelayan
forces have been practically annihi-
lated. Those not -killed , wounded or
captured are cut off from retreat. Six
hundred are dead on both sides , j he
government loss being by far the
heaviest. In addition , Estrada has
captured more than 2,000 men , 1,500
rifles and a million rounds of ammuni-
tion. Fourteen surgeons and * assist-
ants have been landed from the Unit-
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ed States cruisers Tacoma and Des
Moines at the order of Commander
Shipley and are caring : for the wound-
ed in improvised hos itals in Blue-
fialds.
FARMERS PURCHASE AUTOS.
J C. Coe of Moose Jnv , Saskatche
wan , Curries Orders of Kelgrliborsi
Moose : Jaw , Saskatchewan , is the
postoffice address of J. C. Coe , a farm- ;
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er , who spent a day in Detroit on his
way to New York. 'Farmer Coe's main
reason in visiting Detroit was to buy
an automobile. From his farmer
neighbors he had orders and bank
Irafts for twenty-nine more "whiz ,
vagons. " Coe's automobile cost $4,5.00 ,
ind the rest of the cars , were all of I
iiigh grades , several in the $5,000 I
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Head of National Cabinet Fatally
Wounded While in Seoul.
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Premier Yi , the head of the Corean
Cabinet. was stabbed and fatally
wounded the other day by a Corean ,
Yie Chamm Yong. . Premier Yi was
formerly Minister of Education in the
Corean Cabinet. He became Prime
Minister in May , 1907 , when a recon-
struction of the Cabinet followed a five
hour audience that Marquis : Ito , the
Japanese resident , had with the Em-
peror. Yi was regarded as a firm and
competent officer , but his efforts to
carry out the policy of the new admin-
istration met with determined opposi-
tion from his political adversaries. The
attack occurred at 10 o'clock in the
morning. The assailant was a Chris
tian who was for many years a resi
dent of the United States. , The Pre-
mier was riding 'in his jinricksha when
the assassin came up with a long knife
in his hand. He drove this twice into
the abdomen of .the Premier and once
into the latter's lung. , The assassin
then turned on the Premier's jinrjck-
sha man , whom he stabbed and instant-
ly killed. The assassin was immediate-
ly arrested. He is a youth of about 20
years : anl is believed to be a member
of a political secret society.
TRAGEDY IN A PAWNSHOP. ,
Man 'Opens Fire AVIien lie Is Ar-
rested at Kansas : City.
In a "pistol battle in which County
Marshal Joel B. Mayes'Policeman Earl
C. Logan , and an unknown negro were
the participants , the negro was killed
and the marshal was shot in the head
and severely wounded in the Star
Loan store , a pawnshop , at 210 Inde-
pendence avenue in Kansas City. The
officers had been notified that the
negro Nwas in the pawnshop trying to
borrow money on some stolen jewelry.
Policeman Logan entered the store
with the marshal and arrested the
negro. Suddenly the latter shot Mayes :
in the head. Mayes : steadied himself
and shot and killed the negro. Valu-
able rings and other stolen jewelry
were found in the pockets of the
negro.
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Trustees of the Carnegie College re-
tirement fund have modified the rules
of the trust , so that the retirement
age for instructors will be 65 , or after
twenty-five 'years.
Frank White has been appointed di-
rector of education for the Philippine
islands , to succeed Dr. Barrows , re-
signed. Mr. White has been assistant
director of education at Manila for
several years. He was reared in Ne-
braska and is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of. Chicago.
Louisiana will follow the methods of
Minnesota , Wisconsin and the Dako-
tas and teach to every one of the pu-
pils who enter the agricultural high
schools the same curriculum that is
taught in the four Northwestern
States. This is the first yearthat , ag
riculture has been taught with system
and practical work in the high schools
of Louisiana.
The first published report to the ef-
fect that the famous elective system
at Harvard had been abolished proves
to have been incorrect. It appears to
have been 'true , however , that under
the Lowell administration plans for
improving that system are receiving
attention. One change contemplate is
to require students to complete the
prescribed course in any study that
they elect.
At a meeting of the Graduates' Club
at New York the subject for discus
sion was "Do our systems of public
education prepare children and youth
to enter life with principles .of honor ? "
A number of prominent educators ex-
pressed the fear that they do not , and
Prof. John Dewey thought there was
a [ much higher standard of morality
in our colleges than there used to be. /
The introduction of the professional
element In college athletics was de-
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NEGRO IS HERO AT FIRE.
Saves Physicians and Students When
Kansas City Building Is Razed.
Heroic work on / the part of Wash
ington Johnson , a negro janitor , saved
the lives of a score of persons in the
Rialto building , a five-story office
structure at 9th street and Grand ave-
nue , Kansas City , which was destroy-
ed by a fire caused by a gas explosion.
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The loss is estimated at $300,000.
Johnson discovered the fire and ,
realizing that a number of physicians
and medical students were sleeping on
the . upper floors , he rushed through the
halls shouting an alarm. When he be-
lieved every one had escaped he made
his way to the street. There he learn-
ed that Charles R. Mauley , a student
who slept on , the fifth floor , was miss-
ing. Without a moment's hesitation
"Johnson rushed up the stairs to tHe
top of the building. , As he started
through the hall on the fifth floor he
met Manley , dazed and half-choked ,
groping about. Taking the mall _ by
the arm , the negro guided him
through the smoke and flames and the
two men reached the street just as a
second explosion shook the building.
WARRINER GETS 6-YEAR TERM.
Big Four Embezzler , Guilty and Asks ,
Quick Sentence.
With a hysterical plea that sentence
be pronounced' ) ' immediately , Charles L.
Warriner , the defaulting local treas-
urer of the Big Four Railroad , plead-
ed gifclty to embezzlement in Cincin-
nati and was sentenced to six years
at hard : labor in the State penitentiary.
The plea or guilty was made by pre-
arrangement between the county pros-
ecutor and the attorneys for the man
who is alleged to have stolen at least
5643,000 from his employers. Mrs. :
Jeanette Stewart-Ford , the woman in
the , Warriner case , will brought to
trial on a charge of blackmail , and the
principal witness against her will be
Warriner , whom she is alleged to have
driven from crime to crime for ten
years. When Warriner's lawyers en- .
tered a plea of guilty their client made
a wild , passionate declaration of the
agpnies he had suffered during the
years that he had been engaged in
systematic thefts. He concluded with
an appeal for an immediate sentence.
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MONSTER WARSHIP LAUNCHED.
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Utah , Greatest of Battle Craft ,
Leaves Ways Into the Delaware.
Declared without an equal afloat ,
the U.tah , the greatest battle ship evSi
built in the United States , was launch-
ed from the yard of the New York
Shipbuilding Company at Camden , N.
J. , in the presence of several thousand
persons , who crowded the piers and
every other vantage point. , As the
hull started to leave the ways , Miss :
Mary : Alice Spry , of Salt Lake City ,
daughter of the Governor of Utah ,
broke a bottle of champagne against
the keel of the ship. Launchings ol
warships on the Delaware have be-
come a common sight , but the latest
addition to the American navy aroused
the enthusiasm of the crowd , whose
cheers , as well as the din made by the
whistles of river craft , continued sev
eral minutes.
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BIG CINCINNATI BANKS : MERGED
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First National Absorbs Merchants'
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Combined Deposits $ 26OOOOOO.
By action of their boards of direct
ors the Merchants' : National Bank is
absorbed by the First National in Cin
cinnati. To accomplish the merger the
First National increased its capital
stock from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 , and
it now hasa surplus and undivided
profits of $2,100,000 and deposits of
26000000. The First National be
comes the largest bank in the Ohio
valley. W. S. Rowe , ' 'president of the "
First National , continues" that of ,
fice. M. E. Ingalls , president of the
Merchants' National , retires
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If AN ILLINOIS MINE
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OPEN LAMPS CAUSE DISASTER"
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Prompt and Gallant Rescue Measures
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ment and Others.
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Eight men were killed and the lives -
of 400 others were imperiled by an
explosion of gas In mine "A" of the-
Chicago and Carterville Coal Com-
pany , near Herrin , Ill. Open lamp
carried by the mine's engineer and his
assistants caused the disaster. There
were three men and a boy in this
party and all lost their lives. Prompt
action by the management of the mine
resulted in the safe exit of the hun-
dreds of men who were at work be-
low ground. Within five minutes of
the first .reports of the explosion the
miners in the immediate vicinity of
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the accident were 'started toward the
surface and on the return trips of the
cages rescuers were lowered to entries ,
Nos. 7 and S west , where the catastro-
phe took place.
The dead are : Eugene Barrett , as-
sistant engineer ; Salvatore Greeco .
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Thomas Plarber , miners ; W. T. Pierce ,
mine engineer ; Pietro Romeo , labor-
er ; George Snyder. miner ; Thomas.
Williams , assistant manager ; uniden-
tified boy , about 16 years old.
James Guinney superintendent of' * \
the mine , and Robert Hueston , mana
ger , headed the first relay of rescuers.
Despite the black damp which flowed
into the chambers adjoining those in
which Pierce and his party were kill
ed , these men plunged into the work-
ings. Three bodies blocked their path.
Hasty examination showed that the-
men were alive , and they were rushed ,
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to the surface. One of them was A. J. *
Hueston , a brother of the manager.
The others were Charles -Klein and
Albert Shelton. All were revived and
are expected to recover from the ef-
fects of the gas. " I
The rescuers next found the bodies-
of Snyder , Greeco and Romeo. None-
of these men had been burned , the-
condition of the bodies testifying ,
mutely to the force of the concussion.
Harber's bjody was badly burned , the.
features being scorched almost be-
yond recognition. The valiant efforts
of the rescuers to penetrate m re- ,
deeply into the workings were re
pulsed by increasing banks of after .
damp. The ventilating aparatus of"
the mine had not been damaged , but it
could not cope with the gases and-
Guinney and Hueston and their help-
ers were forced to retreat , leaving the
bodies of Pierce and his'companions
Fire also began to gain headway.
Later all efforts were directed to-
wards fighting the flames. Conditions
are such that it is hoped they will be-
confined to the two entries affected by
the explosion.
The mine is under the active man-
manI
agement of J. B. Peters of Carbon-
dale , who is vice president of the Chi-
cago and Carterville Coal Company.
The president of the concern is James
Pease , of Chicago , former sheriff 0-
Cook County.
EX-SENATOR HARRIS DEAD.
Prominent Kaiisuii Is Suddenly-
SirieUen in Daughter's Home.
Former United States Senator Will-
iam A. Harris , of Kansas , who two
years ; ago was Democratic candidate-
for Governor of that State , died sud-
denly of heart disease at the home of
Mrs. Lydia1. : : ilackey1 : , in Chicago.
He was a member of Congress from
1S93 to 1S95. and was United States
Senator from 1897 to 1903. He r/as
prominently connected with the . Amer-
ican Short Horn Breeders' Associa-
tion and the International Live Stock ,
Exposition.
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FORTY HURT IN TRAIN WRECET
Mail Clerks Barely Escape from ,
Burning Car Xear 3Inukato : : , Minn. : ,
St. Paul passenger train No. 43 , run-
ning north at thirty-five miles an hour ,
spread the rails one-half mile east of .
Good Thunder , Mirin. , and plunged into
the ditch. Forty passengers were hurt ,
none fatally , - it is believed. The mail
car rolled down a thirty-foot . embank-
ment and caught fire. The mail clerks.
"aad a narrow escape.
Slays Wife , Children and Self.
George C. Cheuvrent , a prominent
resident of Fresno Cal. , killed his wife
with . . a hatchet and then perhaps fa
tally injured his children , a'boy of 14
and a girl of 10 years. Following
this , Cheuvrenf rushed to the Southern
Pacific tracks , threw himself under a.
passing train and was killed. It la-
thought he s suddenly came insane.
He was a rancher.
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Three Children Burned to Death
Three children lost their lives in a
are which destroyed the residence of
Jasper Williamson , of Sunbury , Ohio ,
while the parents were working in a
-barn 200 feet from the house. It is * _
believed that one of the children Wa ! ! ! .
playing with matches in a bed , as th . . .
ire started in a bedroom.
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