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"Jack Johnson,
Jack Johnson has been induced to take part in a boxing match to decide the heavy-weight obam pionship of the world. Article have been signed for him to fight. Jess Willard, who throughoutais career has only been beat on one one occasion, and tht was by Gunboat Smith. He he never appeared in England, Jut it is probable he will do so if the neNT fature. He stands of bin. bigh, and has a weight of early 17at.
Gunpowder Explosön in Tokyo.
A gunpowder Axplosion took place in the Military Powder Factory at Megoro, Tukyo, on the 28th,altimo. Nine men at work were severely injured, and were conveyed to the Red Cross Hos pital. The scene of the explosion was the powder weighing room. where for several years powder has been stored. As the room was to be employed for weighing purposes it was determined to havo the ground dug up, as it was impregnated with the powder from the storage, and asphaltlaid down in place of wood. While this was being done, a spark from one of the picks used by the workmen, oaused by striking on a stone, ignited the powder with which the earth was impregnated, with the result that a serious explosion resulted. It is stated that the workmen did, not damp the ground thoroughly before beginning the work.
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hot tell us what are the actual other. He first met the woman its charge of high explosives, capabilities of this little bowitzer in 1895, when he was doing en-close upon 2001£6.
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navál The British and Russiac Govern Anglo- French Russian in Assim. Like nearly all Indians, accommodate such a huge shell have yet to learn. Bat we are she was in the habit of taking an adapter has to be used, aware that trench-to-trench fight- druge opium or cocaine. Ho and The long stem fits into the ing with rifles and hand-grenades mente, telegraphs the Petrograd convention was concluded, in the woman went to Singapore, bore of the "minenwurfer," and has now an added terror in the correspondent of the Times, have accordance with which the chief form of this new and curious kind agreed upon a mutually advant-command of the Russian Baltio and after some time in Sumatra a shorter stem, culminating in a
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