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Curious Accident in the
Philippines.
The explosion of an old two- inch shell, believed to have been fred in the early days by an American gunboat, killed two "Filipino boys and wounded a girl at Norte, on February 9. The shell was found by one Calapini in the Burgos river and taken by him to his house as a curio. According to the Gablenews American, the two boys, Antero Acosta and Epilazio Calapini, accompanied by Juana Calapini, took the old dusty shell into the yard on Febiuszy 9 and began throwing rocks at it. The shell suddenly exploded, killing the boys and injuring the girl, whọ was standing at some distance. Mra. Rockafeller's Falling Health.
New York, January 20.-luthe castle at Pocautico-monument so much to bar splendid woman- hood as to her husband's business gonina-Mr.John D. Rockefeller, attended by kindred and physi-
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