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OFTHEWj /vt \ <>ther over a two i X y,tv MS _ v < /' •' •• of Company Q, writing from Hie ^ • WU1 Smart and ll»i!Mfc®any G boys finding an iron box Contaln- In Spanish gold coin. laborers, Daniel, Callahan, Mi- Mil Pevarich and Andrew Polosky, me buried under 5,000 tons of d>y, tt dly pits of the Buckeye Sew^Spi at Akron, Ohio, and kilted, i idivda occurred without warning. Fifty * ;»en worked three hours to reach the twdies. "^ter^was phot and killed In fn. ̂ Manchester, Tenn., by ; 5tliree shots were fired ttQ of Which took effect in Dr. bodjr, 6ne in the mouth and the iiht heart The difficulty arose >r some males which the iating. . of young Poles who §jT Kansas City, Kan,,' Jv^lihood by working as in. ,J,H'e packing houses have Irtarts^* tg^retorn to'the fatherland in re- IponM to letters received from Poland. Sfhey have told their Mends that they' ,1were goinj? "hick to join the army. ajifrouuds the fatal G. Clark, a proml- oii at Hopkinsville, ty in ft buggy. An ise wandered back to rk's body in the bug- having blown off part eavji&g, the brain exposed. / The tioan| of naval chiefs at Washing- V loa has decided to give thirty months for Irailding |he sis, J^w. protected cruisers, | Instead of twenty-roVr months, as was contemplated. ' This is due to the ;-|W«h of private work at all the shipyards, made the yards indisposed to bid |>n the vessels unless more time was giv- , Jen. The extension, it is said, insures ac- jive competition and lower figures. > A combination freight and passenger train on the Chesapeake and Nashville road went through a trestle near West- * -tnoreland, Tenn., and was consumed by % fire. A man named Simmons, advance Agent for Cooper & Co.'s circus, was ' fenrnedto death. Among th$ injnredare Jelui fe Dateon, l^^luaiif^frson , Buck,*oiui**i»n* ill; all. W the. trainmen. The accident was due a washout. . t f . H e S t a n d i n g o f t h e c l u b s I n t W N a * t̂lonal Leagoe race is as follows: L. W. L. S&Ciacinnati ...40 40 abSHttsburg ... 38 42 31 New York...35 44 SSLoulsville ...33 46 33Washington. 31 54 34Cleveland ...15 68 hia. 48 i'-S® r-̂ Following is the standing of the dubs the Western League: '4 v v W. L. ' * W. t. Indianapolis. 44 30 St. Paul.... .38 39 ^Jp^eapolis. 44 33 Milwaukee . .34 42 wtipoit 41 36Kansas City..34 45 ;jOknd Rap. .39 37 Buffalo 32 44 Dun & Co. in their weekly re- fksr of trade say. "The general evi- dsngfts of prosperity continue convincing. 'ISQOifs are the smallest ever known for "ttie neason, railroad earnings the largest, solvent jjaytBents through clearing in Julyhave been 18.6 per cent jrear and 62.3 per cent than in 1882, the best of previous returns of the most won- year in the nation's commerce v |i decrease of $85,900,000 in value thegreat stagles exported, largely ow- f lag to pi'MteS, but an increase of about - *•" • 980,000,000 in other exports, mostly man- * vfaetwefc. Failures for the week have been 145 in the United States, against SOT last year, and 23 in Canada, against :^i{ l|Mpt#year." I'"" HEWS NUOO*T8...i ;> ' Horace K. Thnrber, for many years L' ',1 , - prominent in New York as a business man, died at Hailey, Idaho. '»{•<£. i. Pats! .Bear t~rl; 1C vc."*.. o" itiUuL 'V ' by lightning and instantly killed while .%sgii •' " Khi^Bg baseball in Jersey City. I^bont 2,500 New York clothing workers for higher wages, and it is said JES^OO nay be on strike within two business part of Phoenix City, was destroyed by fire. The loss is Three negroes have been arrest- on suspicion of having started the fire, 0"- <"${• An open summer car on the Euclid ave- "V r nae Bne in Cleveland was blown to pieces If *n explosion of nitroglycerin or gun " CQttW, and six passengers injured, one of ( i" ^ them fatally. •!¥ M?:'** Two sharp earthquake-shocks were felt * '£$?, , in the southern part of California. The 'v,' •, first shock lasted several seconds and was • ;r most severe. The vibrations were from l^:S'|l;J;^east to west.- _ ' The United States transport Indiana arrived at San Francisco from Manila, " , after a voyage of thirty-two days, with > > . 358 sick soldiers and a number of Bed , Cross nurses. S 1 * Three bathers were drowned in Imke ; Michigan, off Chicago, the other day. One f* . '• gave up his life in an attempt to save a £0 \ lad who had ventured out beyond his depth, both going down. In a boiler explosion at a sawmill In- Wayne township, Pa., Eli Whitehill, a son of the proprietor, was blown Over 200 yards and killed, and his father, Zadock Whitehill, is reported fatally hurt. The strike of the electrical workers of Washington, which has been in progress for the past? few weeks, has ended in a compromise, providing for an eight-hoar day and time and a half for overtime. Formal announcement of Elihu Root's appointment as Secretary of War has been made at Washington. He has noti­ fied the President of his acceptance. The Western Electric Cable Company's establishment at Woolwich, England' burned. The loss is $1,250,000. An r D§>.. \ • • & hJS'AM \ ican plant recently fitted up at the was destroyed. coal miners working for the J. Coal Company at Weir City, j went on strikg because it was y§$at Durkee was selling coal to ^striking coal companies to fill ets, have returned to work. •p.'K'*(5 */. • •«] -- hrjfrM" i' ; „ KASTERJl, luie "principal business Wociw lMt' fin* N, Y., was destroyed by an incen­ diary fire, with a loss of $50,000. A fir* whose origin is unknown ,de- atroyeA pK>l̂ rty valued at $250,000 on the wuir front at Brooklyn, N. Y. Horatio Alger, the writer of" boys' stories, died at the home of his sister. Veto. Cheney, at Natiek, Mass. of the Metropolitan electric •treet railway system in New York have Joined the Brooklyn trolley men In their big strike. * ' Prank Ammdnd and Ouirlcs D. Vna Sf" ",f $ |v ^ ^ f , '• n, nl amafTtedat' •" B. " bgr the faaadly aa parents had feft h»T of |Sj^00,O00 in tr^-yfti " of age. Dracel & Co., bankers, have purchawd tfeti;|phuit of the Jessop "# Moore Pfper of PldladflplMa«^i* DMMi bat |he operation of the plant will con­ tinue in practically the same hands as at prmat. Jnatioe Green, in th ̂ltapreme Court at PhiUMMphia, has dedded that the com­ mander of the Erie Soldiers' Homf was justified in insisting that an inmate of dee home should turn over for his main­ tenance a portion of his pension money. This is-a matter in controversy at sev­ eral of the soldiers' homes. George M.' Valentine, cashier of the suspended Middlesex County Bank at Perth Am boy, N. J„ has been sentenced in Middlesex County Court to six years in the penitentiary at Trenton. Valentine pleaded not guilty to the charge of lar­ ceny in connection with his misappropria­ tion of about $130,000 from the bank. "western. William Wissinger was drowned' at Riverside','tftifo, while at apRlfd^"4' At Cleveland, William Connors of May- field, 111., was bound over on a charge of burglary. Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler has ac­ cepted the presidency of the University of California. The German!* Bank at St. Paul, capi­ talized at $200,000, was closed by State Examiner Pope. Minneapolis' new directory contains 97,800 names, on which the city claims 230,000 population. : Ephriim McKinley, an nncle of the President of the United States, died at Ogden, 111., at the age qt 85. At Windsor, Ohio, the clothing of Mra* Norman Barnard, aged 82 years, caught fire and she burned to death. The casting plant of the Addystott Pipe and Steel Foundry at Cincinnati was gut­ ted by fire, causing a loss of $400,000. The Detroit City Council has indefi­ nitely postponed action on the street rail­ way forty-eight-year franchise question. William C. Penmock, master mechanic of the Panhandle Railway shops at Lo- gansport, was drowned at Hudson Lake, Ind., while sailing. C. M. Foote, grand exalted leading knight of the grand lodge, Order of Elks, died at Minneapolis^* front heart failure. He was 50 years old. At Columbus, Ohio, the City Couneil, by a vote of 15 to 3, impeached and re­ moved from office Joseph W. Dusenbury, director of public safety. The car barns of the Twin City Elec­ tric Railway at St Paul were burned. Sixty electric cars were destroyed. The loss is'estiibated at $125,000. . One man was killed, one fatally injured aad several others badly hurt by the wrecking of the south-bound flyer on the Illinois Central at Lenzberg, 111. At Salt Lake City, through his attor­ neys, Angus M. Cannon, president of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion, has entered a formal plea to the charge of polygamy. At San Francisco, two masked men at­ tempted to hold up David Lavani in his grocery and saloon. He resisted and was mortally woundbd. The highwaymen es­ caped. George Geddes, managing editor of the Republican of Springfield, Mo., has been poisoned by eating .crawfish. Several others who ate the fish at the same time were made sick. In the burning of the Grace Hotel, a four-story brick structure at Milwaukee, tile roof caved in and twenty firemen fell to the baseiiieat, one being kiiied and several fatally injured. Rain and hail fell in a cloudburst at Campbellsport, Wis., destroying hundreds & Sons' large coal elevator, newly built, was completely wrecked. The large plant of Sommers "Bros., manufacturers of horse collars and leg­ gings, in St. Louis, was totally destroyed by fire>. The damage is estimated at $75,- 000 and covered by insurance. • A company has been organized to place automobiles in competition with St. Louis street railways. It is incorporated for $500,000 and expects to place the vehicles in operation on'or before Oct. 1. The Supreme Coprt has affirmed the validity of the law establishing the new county of Teller, formed from portions of El Paso and Fremont counties, which embraces the Cripple Creek district. Mrs. Louis W. Holladay, who killed her husband, the son of a wealthy Chi cago real estate man. was exonerated at St. Louis by a coroner's jury. The ver diet at the inquest was "justifiable homi­ cide." A three-story business block on Main street, Circleville, Ohio, belonging to J. G. Maag, collapsed. Fred Mink, an ice­ man, was caught in the building and in­ stantly killed. Many people were more or less injured. The Ilomestake Mining Company has :»v iCU lil tUV VUHMV VIVI» D VU1VV uv kjou Francisco a certificate of the increase of its capital stock from $12,000,000 to $21,- 000,000. The company has mines in the Black Hills, South Dakota. t John Frazee shot and killed Brazil D. Courts, who had just offered him a drink. The shooting occurred on the boundary road between lowa and Missouri, near the little hamlet of Dean. F. D. Pritnm was an eye witness oC the tragedy. At Pratt, Ivan., grasshoppers are re­ ported to be numerous enough to ruin corn fields and all vegetation. On a sin­ gle stalk of corn is a quart of hoppers. Plover are arriving In great ^flocks, but hunters are scouring the country for game. ' Mrs. Blanche Davis of Kansas City has brought suit against her former husband, R. H. Davis, for $10,000 because he did not keep his promise to remarry her. af­ ter he m%s divorced from her. Davis se­ cured a divdtce froto his wife in lb* .fall of 1897. * --t-- lisagtte'a M*rr«lotM CNvwth. lived in ||:faenible anS it seemed for a as though the barn itself to in tfct* bnrst occurred rtsolts. tw? Red titer, near wi' Oonnty, is idivV itea th« 4 'Pease river, near Ve*1k<mL ' rivers and their tributaft(* are torrents. The proper ̂ loss is r*tf heavy. It is feared that some lives have been lost. .. WASHINGTON, Secretary of War Russell A. Alger of Michigan has tendered his resignation. It is to take effect at the. Measure of Presi­ dent McKinley. The date has been set, however, for Aug. 1. Secretary Hitchcock has telegraphed In­ structions to Captain Mercer, in charge of the Leech Lake Indian agency, sus­ pending until Aug. 22 the removal of the white settlers--the so-called trespassers-- on the agency lands. Assistant Comptroller Mitchell has de­ eded that the family of a soldier who died during the last war while on fur­ lough awaiting discharge is not entitled to receive the extra pay or; any part thereof provided by the act of March 3, 1899. The Federal Government has send: agents to several points in Texas to se­ cure horses for service in Cuba. The Federal Government is of the impression that the Texas horses, or mustang ponies, lire especially adapted to service in a tropical country like Cuba. Bids have been opened by the Navy Department for the sale of several ves­ sels purchased by the department at the beginning of the war with Spain, but which, having been found unsuitable for service, have been condemned. High prises were offend by biddefs. , u FOREIGN. V*" ' Emperor William of Germany spent an hour with Howard Gou|4 o.n tyoard the latter's yacht Niagara, aVMo^de. Empress Auguste Victqria of Germany sprained her toot/djiring an excursioa to St. Bartholoma, -on the Konlgs See. Great Britain ^ ij|< assembling, a large fleet of warshipa at St. -John's to settle the French-Newfoundland"fi8herie8 j^oor bles. j a x Japan is no^ recognixitf as the equal of other powers, the new treaties with most of the prine&pe-i nations of the world having gone into effect. Another battftSste reported ih Samoa, in which one Malletoan chief wias mortal­ ly wounded and two MataaYa chiefs and one Suatele were killed aftd' three others wounded. •: ? Jfl > There has befen an eruption of Mount Etna, Sicily, lo\jd ^subterranean noises the CMterfd&itei'*M^h dense col­ umns of smoke^ which wye followed; by enormous masses,sand.^ • Captain William A. Andrews, the "lone navigator," who started to cross the At­ lantic in a small , boat, was picked up ex­ hausted about 700 miles from the Irish iCoast and taken to Liverpool, k 'J' , ; v. ' IN GENERA]^, i,-,' Upper-leather manufacturers hays formed a combine with $70,000,000 cap­ ital. The next annual reunion of the 8ociety of the Army of the Cumberland will be at Detroit on Sept. 26 and 27. Peter Dunne, the Chicago author, is considering work on a new play in col­ laboration with Rudyard Kipling. August Stuhrm, a German fishprman of Victoria, ». C., left June 11 in an open boat for Seattle with two or three China­ men. He has not since been heard from. Bicycle manufacturers have finally sue- c. Tlifc ttiibf. is capitalized at $40,000,000 and com­ prises forty-five concerns, controlling fifty-six plants. Fire in the St. Rochs suburb of Quebec destroyed sixty-five houses, the loss amounting to $100,000; Three blocks were burned. Over a hundred families were rendered homeless. Five hundred and fifty passengers and $3,000,000 in gold dust arrived at Van­ couver by the steamer Garonne from St, Michael. The steamer Portland has a»i rived at San Francisco with about $1,- 000,000 in gold and 150 passengers from the same place. The loss of twelve members of the, steamer Elk expedition to Ivotzebue sound is reported from St. Michael by the steamer Roanoke. Twelve men perished at various points along the trail between the Selawick and Koyukuk rivers. Scurvy fell first upon them, then starvation) and frost. SOUTHERN. H. M. Lpve, wounded in the thigh by the train robbers near Ute Creek, N. M., is dead. Col. William Preston Johnson, New Orleans, died at Lexington, Va. CoL Johnson was president of TulaUe Univer­ sity in New Orleans. A severe drought since May 1 has greatly damaged growing crops in middle Tennessee and Kentucky. Farther south rains have been plentiful and crops are good. V" ' At Kenova, W. Va., United States dep­ uty marshals raided a house on Dock's Creek and arrested "Buck" Edward and fettresfcttost* \ , T t h e l a t t e r t dfrines and feyiiMni af Churchwito; „ % • BUMtdqnartem opened for all of the varioos provlniclil delegations and tU|/ W ference dfepaitments. RalHes 6f these de-, parfiDMMSi were arranged in addition. to the stated program. Washington street Penmqrivania street an4* other leading thoroughfares of the downtown district were gay with flags and banners bearing the Maltese cross and the familiar motto, "Look Up, Lift Up." The conference formally opened at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon with simul­ taneous rallies in the big tent in the court house yard and in Tomlinson Hall, just across the street. Immense crowds M leaguers and onlookers Were at the open­ ing meetings. Both the tentv which holds 7,500 people, and the hall, which holds 3,000, were taxed to their fall capacity. "Methodism of To-day" was the topic at both meetings. At the tent Hugh Dougherty of Bluff- ton presided and Gov. Mount made the opening speech, welcoming the delegates to the commonwealth. Eli F. Ritter spoke for the city. Responses were made by the Rev. Charles O. Jones of Bristol, Tenn., who spoke for the Methodist Church South; the Rev. A. Carman of Toronto, Canada, for Canadian Method­ ism, and Bishop W. X. Ninde of Detroit for the Methodist Episcopal Church. At Tomliitson Hall the Rev. Frank M. Barbour of Evansville, Ind., called the meeting to order. After devotional ex­ ercises, led by the Rev. George H. Means of Winchester, Ky., the address of wel­ come on behalf of the State was delivered by Charles W. Smith of Indianapolis; Mayor Taggart spoke for the city and the Rev. Charles W. Lewis of Moore's Hill, Ind., for Indiana Methodism. The Rev. G. J. Bond of Halifax, N. S., responded tes in Manhattan and Brook- open Friday inornittg, and cars, FIQUBICS IW THE BBSOKLYS 8TBIKK. Clinton L. Roulter U Pte»ideot of the Brook­ lyn Bapid Transit Company, John N. Parsons it Qenentl Master Workman, and James Pine is Matter 4Vortnnan K. of L., who it leadidg the employe*. were running nearly on schedule time. II looked as if the strikers were beaten; but they would not admit it. The leaders de­ clared they had settled down to a long and determined fight for supremacy, and that eventually they would win. Dis­ patches said, however, from general ap- k pearances the strike seemed to be a los­ ing game. The railroad officials reiterat­ ed their declarations that the strike was over. There was little disorder anywhere dur­ ing Thursday night. Along the line' of the Second avenue railroad in Manhat- tan, where such turbulent scenes had oc- PQLICB USE PISTOLS TOyQLpLL A RIOT IN BROOKLYN STRIKE. % i" ^ ffc« HI. B«tl< to9i Aslwst Ptrt Washington Gen. RuiselljA. tftTJ* 1» teli |iKW•vS'.lSP A • .that- " m%" * " •its . imdlth*as«l*tatit lb mceessor diodi iMpt' ngiriA l^e story of the resignation is closely ed in administration circles, but it - that the. prestd«nr4ii^9<^r «- the resignntitoi, nwd . as Secretary w<p the Aleut wished him to.m&t jM^raurn- Loog Brapch to'Wi»h«3Mto.. and ^Ineed his resignation in the ut^ls of Mr. McKinley. The politicians ha»e far some weeks been anxious to get Alger oujt of the cab­ inet. 'fhe Pingree alliance was the ex­ cuse. They feared It, and they feared the hostility of Senators McMillan and Buiyows if Alger remained in the cab­ inet, They urged the President to get C$1 Alger, but McKinley said he could not ask for Mr. Alger's resignation with U 3 >" - OEHKBAL B. A. --New York World. for Canadian Methodism; Bishop John F. Hurst, Washington, D. C., for the Meth­ odist Episcopal Church, and Bishop O. H. Fitxgeaald of Nashville, Tenn., for the Methodist Episcopal Church Benth. Following these addresses, which were preceded by prayer and choral singing, the conferences were formally turned over to the presiding offleers, and during the remainder of the sessions the general subject of Methodism was discussed, the sentiments responded to in the numerous eloquent addresses being the unity of members of the church throughout the entire world. At night English's Opera House was i f *2:' mvM:.?. .. %' ,-tf ! ': 'jW ' <k,T& '• ' " * . MARKET REPORTS. Chieago--Cattle, common to prliMt $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 60c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 32c" to 33c; oats, N«: 2, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 54c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice new, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $&00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 ii> $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $#.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2,24c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 52c to 54c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2, 59c to Ol^c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 35c to 87c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 50c to 60c. * Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye,,No. 2, 56c to 58c; clover seed, new, $3.80 to $3.90. Milwaukee--Whpat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 28c; rye. No. 1, 53c to 55c; barley, No. 2, 41c to 43c; pork, mess, $9 00 to $0.50. Buffalo--Cuttle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3 .50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.00. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, l $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $3 00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 72c; corn. No. 2, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 81c; butter, enmefr, 10c to 10c; eggs, Watt- em. ]4e ta We. T0MLIN60N HALL. added to the number of meeting places, and at three big demonstrations the topic of "Intellectual Life" was discussed by a humber of well-known speakers. While speeches and song occupied the three days' sessions, so far as the mass of the delegates is concerned, business of an important character received attention at the hands of the board of control. Taking into consideration the fact that tjw Bpworth League, as an organisation, has had but a decade of existence, the showing made at the conference this year was little less than marvelous. The or­ ganization was given birth at a confer­ ence of young Methodists held in Cleve­ land in 1889. Before the Cleveland ses­ sion numerous societies existed in the Methodist Church North, and it was at this conference that a majority of them united and started the big organization. The Methodist Church South aiw entered the new movement with enthusiasm, and at Memphis in 1800 organized the first branch. More than 25,000, local chapters have been organized and the aggregate membership now approaches the 2,000,- 000 mask. SWOLLEN FACE AND HANDS. HospltakCase Puzzling the Musicians of Mew York. The New York BelWvue hospital and physicians a»e interested in the case of Mary Fogarty, 68 years old. The woman's face and hands are greatly swollen and treatment has not afforded her any re­ lief. The Bellevue men are divided over the case. One faction believes it to be acromegaly, a swelling of the bonss from some cause not understood. Others are sure It is pneuroo-oat eopa thy, a swelling and hardening of the bow** of the extrem­ ities folio wing lung trouble, whleh results in tkruoB-expuision of poisons from the lungs and absorption of the poisons in the bonjr .frame. Both diseases are raye and not understood. The patient has a growth of gray bear ̂but this is n«C ascribed to enrred the night before, pea6e reigned su­ preme. Crowds gathered, but beyond a few catcalls and jeers order prevailed. A big force of policemen lined Second ave­ nue from end to end. and this had a ten­ dency to awe the crowds. In Brooklyn also the night was a quiet one. Daylight revealed the fact that the usual wipe- cutting had occurred, but the damage was quickly repaired. Th% labor men are beginning to fight among themselves. Mortimer O'Connell of the Phoenix Association of Railroad Men looked into the strike in Manhattan and declared there was'no strike on. He said the Knights of Labor ought to be ashamed to have John N. ^-JParsons at their head. Parsons had only a small body of men organized, he declared, and he said they should have known better than to attempt to strike under these cir­ cumstances. NEGROES MUBOfcW A WOMAN. A Man and Wife Beat a Whit* Widow to Death, Neat- Idaho, Clay County, Ala., while Mrs. Mary Measles, a white widow, wrfg driving from her field a drove of hoga owned by John Turner, a negro farmer, Turner and his wife appeared. Mrs. Measles threatened to hold Turner re­ sponsible for the damage. Turner's wife thereupon knocked Mrs. Measles down with a club, breaking her nose, and Tur­ ner,- who had a club, set upon her and beat her head into a jelly, killing her. ft jVyvi; ti Lady Colin Campbell is one of the i fencers In England. William Dean Howells has taken golf as a recreation. Q The Empress Frederick's favorite amusement is croquet. , Princess Charles of Denmark long rides daily on her bicycle. Dr. SaabPuel Ii. Winans, the new dean of Princeton, is not a clergyman. ; President McKinley has received fhs LL. D. degree from seven colleges. Lady Rose Leigh, Lord Abergavenny's daughter, can lift a 200-pound weight. Congressman Bingham of Pennsyivanis is reported (he handsomest man in Con­ gress. The Princess of Naples is saM to b« the most beautiful member of a reigning family. . "Oom" Paul Kruger understands Eng­ lish, but always insists upon employing an interpreter. MataaCa, the Samoan claimant to royal honors, is passionately fend of Moody and Sgnley's hymns. Aschbishap Hifdan of San Francisco aeldoih naes a carriage, but usually walks or trafpls tn * street eat. - 8itaf|^ix says he en- '" htt editerfal dotfes jnon than he did such an excuse. President Lincoln had refused t6 accept Secretary Chase's resig­ nation from the cabinet, even after he knew that Chase was scheming to be a presidential candidate against him. President McKinley said he could not ask Mr. Alger to leave the cabinet be­ cause he had announced his candidacy for United States Senator from Michi­ gan. The members of the cabinet were more open to the argument of the men who wanted Alger out of the way of the success of the administration. They agreed that the Secretary of War must be sacrificed, and they expressed their views to the President. At this stage in the developments, At­ torney General Griggs was sent as a mes­ senger to Vice-President Hobart, to ask the Vice-President to advise Alger to re­ sign. Mr. Hobart agreed to undertake the delicate mission of saying to Gen. Alger what the President and other mem­ bers of the cabinet woftld not say to him. He telegraphed Secretary Alger, inviting him to spend a few days with him at his Long Branch cottage. When the Secre­ tary arrived and the two men had an op­ portunity to talk freely, Mr. Hobart ad­ vised Alger to resign, saying that the country was against him and that he might as well recognize that he must be sacrificed. Gen. Alger asked if the Vice-President spoke only for himself or at the sugges­ tion of others. Mr. Hobart had to tell him the whole story, that the President wanted his resignation, but did not wish to ask for it; that Attorney General Griggs had been the messenger of the President nut! the cr.l)ia:t to Lii, aiiJ that he (Hobart) was merely the agent of the administration in advising Alger to retise. Gen. Alger remarked that he would hand the President his resignation as soon as he returned to Washington. He said he had supposed that he and the President were on terms of friendship justifying frankness regarding this situa­ tion, but all he desired was to know the President's pleasure. He returned to Washington and handed hi* resignation to Pvesident McKinley. Is consideraMe Po«u®ta* river, from ^ ir *r4w»«ta, for the Pa*cu- of WlPs- v wt aw*Porcupine raeek «t»«?e western point of the Pottifcpino is cnljr twelve miles from lijrun region is rich in gold, and Jmmgn miners have incited * territory is claimed by and of this Government, which does not propose to tnrn it over ltfr the Canadians, Vi i It has been found advisable, on aeconnt of information received by the Washing­ ton authorities, to arm Government transpdto n.ed in the cattyingoM^s _t5*J l*pines- Suit* not carried any means of defense and are at the mercy of the sualUHt csaft eqd^ped with one rapid-fire fun. The litter would be able to sink the largeet of the transports, which is nothing but a ship* load of peopfe, whose weapons would avail nothing in an attack at sea. The authorities decline to confirm the rumor that the War Depastment has had ad­ vices of a plan of the»*Filipinos to estab­ lish a small navy fo* depredation ptn> |̂>)ses, W i &eans Of gating materials of war landed at convenient ports, and as ai system of attack upon onr amy trans* ports. They admit the trsnstxrrta in to ie armed at once, and the equipment wilt be furnished with such prompters* that the naity Will be called upon tb MqnAy thai guns and ammunition. It is phmhed to< place one or two six-poundevs on eachi transport, and these will serve to resist the attack of anything the Filipinos ai* likely to bring against the ships. ALASKAN DISPUTE HOPELESS. High Indefinite Postponement of Joint Commission Likeljr, A Washington dispatch asserts that the administration has practically aban­ doned hope of a settlement of the Alas­ kan boundary question, and the indica­ tions are that the meeting of the joint high cosunissioa will be indefinitely post­ poned. Definite action on this point, |l$wever, will not be taken until after the 'arrival of Seaator Fairbanks. A confer­ ence will then be held by Senator Fair­ banks, Secretary Hay, John Foster and John A. Kasson, and the boundary ques­ tion disctwaed at length. The best the authorities hope for now is that there will be no clash in the re­ maining few weeks of the mining season. The situation is grave, with the Ameri­ can miners ou one side in a state of irri­ tation and the Canadian constabulary on the other in a very aggressive mood. Should the clash come it will not he through the fault of this Government. Everything has been done to prevent ac­ tion which will cause bloodshed. News of Minor Nofeew Texas floods damaged railroads MB,- 000,000. Essex Hotel, Bloomfield, N. J., was de­ stroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. , • - Nonantum block, Newton, Mass, de­ stroyed by fire., Loss $20,000, Bainard Oliver, 22, Newark, N. 7., kill­ ed his wife by shooting, then escaped, i Chas. Jones, New York porter, fell down an air shaft and was killed. Dan L. Davis, Wayland, Ohio, while intoxicated, - feH > under a train and was kHl<3). • - J'-* " Harry ttader, Nazareth, Pa., attempted tt> iltiinsi his cM® a%d was himself drown­ ed. - - . r ; Dr. EliSSoln,, Hyde Park, Mass, is suf- feriiig froto a d|^e supposed to he lep- ' r * . Stephen,W: i»»ine, <conunerdal traveler, Wilkesbarr^ JFSu. committed suicide by shooting. - j>our thousand. Tampa, Fla., cigarmsk ert»- ^ Work •o^-er a disagreement wi|h * rm the Johnstown * IS ^3 Commissioner Evans has be^n vln®i" cated of the charges made against him; by the investigation of his bureau by that pension committee of the Grand Army.i Everything in the nature of a complaint! has been inquired into and the commit­ tee found that the commissioner had no&> only executed the laws relating to his. bureau, but had been liberal in doing so.; While the committee is entisaly satisfied! with the work of the commissioner, it* makes no concealment of the fact thaC it will endeavor to have the Secretary of the Interior change some of his rultngs< and amend the rules of practise. All the diplomats are quietly laughing; at the State Department and a ludicrous^ blunder it made. AmbMMkdor Tower at< St. Petersburg notified the department of the death of the Grand Duke-George by cable, and it devolvecf upon the States Department to send a reply in the name] of the President of the United States. This was don6, and a cable to "His Im­ perial Highness Alexander III.," insteadl of Nicholas II., the reigning sovereign ofj all the Russias. Alexander III., as every; schoolboy knows, has been dead sevenlj years, and how the State Department* came to make such a blunder ls bayoiid? the ken of ordinary mortals. :'«v President ' 1. postpone his Western trip until the early' part of October, unless Mrs. McKinley** health permits him to leave earlier. The President has made a positive engage­ ment to visit Chicago to attend the cere­ monies attending the corner stone laying: of. the public building, which will take< place Oct. 9. As his Western trip Is postponed until fall he will simply extend his jonrney from Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis, where he will welcome thO' returning volunteaers. If he should be able to leave for the West in August, he" might go to the coast, but there is little likelihood he Will start during the heat of the summer. There will be two sons of former Pres­ idents fighting for the flag in the Philip­ pines, for in addition to Brig. Gen. Grant there will now be Lieut. Col. Hayes of the Thirty-first infantry. Webb C. Hayes, son of Grant's successor, has already won his spurs in the Spanish-American war. He began as major of the First Ohio infantry, and went with Shaffer to Cuba. He was wounded during the fight* ing of July 1, and his horse was killed* He also went with Miles to Porto Rico and saw .what little fighting there was there. He was brevetted colonel for hit services in Porto Rico. His new regi­ ment Wii l be iargeiy ra ised f rom Ohio . ' • An old soldiea whose patriotism has not " dimmed withi agq wants, to help reim- # burse Uncle,Sam for t£e $20,000,000 paid § to Spain on account of the Philippines:;' Si He draws a pension of $72 a month and { desires to contribute 25 per cent of it : for that purpose. Secretary Gage receiv- J* ed a l e t t e r from the old soldier in which f ' was enclosed a check for 25 per cent of V his last quarter's pension. The check ^ was returned to the soldier with a per- $ < Bonal letter of thanks from the Secretary * >f the T r e a s u r y . ^ ^ Told in a FewLinea, / Robert Moore,*. Jackson; Mo., John Strong to death. // Eugene Noroff. New York, after squan­ dering a fortune, killed himself. * \" Mrs. Julia Brooks of New York mitted suicide, Seabright, N. J. Jos. Swedek, small boy, Chicago^ killed by the* explosion of a toy cannon. Edward Mullander, 14, Carthage, Ohio, injured by a July 4 pistol, is dead. Mrs. Josephine Keith Spalding, wife if A. G. Spalding, died at Seabright, N. J. Police at Wilkesbarre, Pa., are baffled over finding a headless body in the river. Maj. Gen. Jos. Wheeler has been order­ ed to report to Maj. Gen. Otis at Manila. , Rev. W. B. Alsbury and Lizzie Hartley were married on a street car, St. Joseph, Mo. Nut and bolt trust project has been re­ vived at Cleveland. Chances are for ear cess. : i President has spproved the sentence dismisstf in Tihe ca* of Umm & X. Neall.