Show NEWS OF TIlE DAY The war with France has already cost China 60000000 taels and John is wil ling to cry quits Californias grain sections need rain badly In the interior the crops are in a critical condition The action of the Duke of Richmond in reducing his rents is a generous deed The English aristocracy in general might well imitate him Delawares new Senator Gray who i I succeeds J3ayard is said to be a fluent speaker and is of splendid physique being over six feet in height It is jocularly proposed to give Rose crans the office of Architect of the Capitol Capi-tol at Washington He has one qualification quali-fication for the workhe can draw the pay The Oklahoma boomers are still I I booming There threatens to be a slight I skirmish before that affair is settled and I it is time the government concluded to settle it President Cleveland was 48 years old yesterday and was heartily congratulated congra-tulated on the event A little child innocently sent him a bouquet of Sweet Violets It was hardly worth while telegraphing telegraph-ing but we are assured by the Associated I Press that President Cleveland will choose a different color of pants from I that worn by Mr Arthur I The Emperor presented Bismarck I with a birthday gifta copy of the famous historical picture Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles II The gift is a great tribute to the Iron Chancellor To be ambushed by the Arabs as the English forces were today is not at all I creditable to the military genius of that I expedition It is high time the English were ambushing the Arabs if they expect to close the campaign this summer i Prospect Park Brooklyn is to have a fine monument in memory of the heroes of the war On the four sides will be lifesize bronze statues of Washington Jackson Scott and Grant It will cost about 300000 The colliery disaster at Camp Hansen mentioned in yesterdays Berlin dispatch to the DEMOCRAT is as bad as I expected The firedamp destroyed the main shaft and air apparatus suffocating 200 men Ninetyeight bodies have been recovered St Paul Minn had a tragedy last night Mrs D M Britton and a man supposed to be her lover were found in a room dead both shot through the head The womans husband a gambler is missing and one Bergstrom has been arrested ar-rested on suspicion Our dispatches this afternoon give I nothing new in regard to the Miners Union riot in Bellevue and Broadford I Wood River From this we infer that no serious trouble has occurred as yet but I there is certainly cause to fear that the I matter will not end short of bloodshed I J W Smitha plain everyday Mr Smith left the employ of a Sonora mining min-ing company last week and abstractedly took along with him a small gold bar worth about 13000 The mining company com-pany will reward the man who can find the above named Smith with 4000 The President not yet paid any attention at-tention to the demands of the two factions of the California Democracy A patched up peace is expected but there is much bitter feeling existing If the President can satisfy both factions the particolored Democrats of Utah need not yet despair A secret gang of assassins has been unearthed m Dallas Texas and twenty three arrestsincluding the sheriff and se yen deputieshave been made Throe men have been murdered and a friend of one of the murdered men joined j the gang learned it secrets and then gave its members away There should be some hemp stretching in that vicinity before long Senator Miller will leave Washington immediately after the adjournment of the Senate and after passing a few days in New York will go to California to remain during the summer Senator Stanford will reach the Coast almost as soon as Miller During the summer months Stanford proposes to make a tour of California Cali-fornia visiting if possible all the counties coun-ties of the State and renewing the acquaintances ac-quaintances he made during his canvass or the Governorship Montgomery nominated yesterday for Commissioner of Patents is a lawyer and large practice at of good standing Lansing Mich The President knew his qualifications and yesterday morning requested re-quested a friend to telegraph him and ask him if he would serve the administration as patent commissioner This was the I first intimation he had of the matter His answer was I am a candidate for no services are at the com office but my Cleveland His name mand of President was immediately transmitted to the Senate Sen-ate |