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NEWS NOTES. E. G. Atkins, a drummer, is dead at his home in Columbia. The home of Postmaster W. B. King at Pineville was almost totally destroyed by fire. Fire in the department store of John H. Berry & Co. in Owensboro caused a loss of $35,000. Sam Darnell was perhaps fatally stabbed by his father-in-law, A. Mansfield, at Sewanee, Tenn. In a powder explosion at the "Quick Seven" zine mine at Neck City, Nev., two men were instantly killed. The 28th annual encampment of the Sons of Veterans adjourned at Washington to meet next year in Atlantic City. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Medina, Tenn., has closed its doors. Dull business and too heavy loans are given as the cause. Five lives were lost in the sinking of the Alaska Steamship Co.'s steamer, Ohio, off Steep Point, Alaska. There were 128 passengers on board. Eight persons were injured while fighting the fire which destroyed the whisky house of W. L. Weller & Son, Louisville. The loss is about $75,000. Eighteen power companies, with a total capitalization of $3,200,000, all paid in, have filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Michigan. Eight hundred persons drowned, 15,000 homeless and property damage to the extent of $12,000,000 is the result of a flood which struck Monterey, Mexico, Saturday night. Ed Duke, who was the starter at the Henderson racing meeting, was shot and killed at Henderson by Will K. Bell. The men are said to have quarreled over Duke's work as starter. S. H. Webb, an insurance agent of Louisville, was shot four times and fatally wounded at Fort Worth, Tex., by T. E. Baldwin, of Abilene, Tex., in the lobby of the Majestic Hotel. The owners of the new Indianapolis motor speedway are held responsible for the several deaths that occurred in accidents during the automobile races of Aug 19, 20 and 21, in the coroner's decision. In Federal Court at Maysville, Judge A. M. J. Cochran appointed R. M. Jackson. a banker and prominent coal operator, of London, receiver for the New Bell-Jellico Coal Company. The receiver is to qualify within ten days and his bond was fixed at $25,000. The city of Hopkinsville will receive a gift of land for two parks, $30,000 for landscape work thereon, and Grace Episcopal church $50,000 for the poor of that city, under the will of John C. Latham. The Latham family homestead in Hopkinsville is to be converted into "Virginia Park." Acting Gov. Cox granted a pardon to Frank Ward, of Laurel county, who has served four years of a 21-year sentence for manslaughter. Ward, with his brother, and a man named Littsell, were charged with killing a man named Golf in a fight at Pittsburg. The other men were acquitted. Elvert W. Shirk, president of the First National Bank, of Tipton, Ind., was arrested in Chicago and charged with misapplying $24,252 of the bank's funds. Mr. Shirk said his arrest was due to a clerical error made by Noah R. Marker, and that he merely withdrew money belonging to him. Ten men were killed and five seriously injured by an explosion on the Florida East Coast railway, near Key West, Fla. One of the workmen carelessly threw a lighted cigarette into a box of fuses which connected with a blast of 700 pounds of dynamite, which caused the dreadful accident. The jury in the case of Brecse and Dickerson. charged with conspiracy to defraud the defunct First National Bank of Asheville, N. C., returned a verdict of guilty against both defendants. They were sentenced to two years each in the Federal prison at Atlanta and to pay a fine of $2,500 each. President E. L. Davenport, of the National Tobacco Growers' Association, a branch of the American Society of