Show Dots Chicago lSIntha circuit court Boone County yesterday Dr Thos N Cream convicted of the murder of Daniel Stott of Garden Prairie was sentenced to the penitentiary for life after the application of his counsel for a new trial had been overruled Davenport IS The river has falen an inch in twentyfour hours The worst is believed to be over Malone N Y 38 Sunday night the house of J McCarthy Cooks Corners burned and four of McCar thys children perished Philadelphia ISGen Hoyt and staff and Pennsylvania troops left for Yorktown today St Louis lThe seventysecond annual meeting of the American Board of Foreign Missions began this afternoon at 3 oclock About 500 delegates are here New York ISA Paterson machine ma-chine manufacturer a few days ago sent a marine engine to Alaska and has just received orders for a steam engine for Auckland Australia another an-other for Bombay aDd a third for South America The Times President Gorman of the lire department said yesterday that if the present rapidly diminishing diminish-ing supply of water faiied in case of a large fire the department would use the next best enemy to a fire and that was dynamite We have a regularly drilled department of sappers and miners It is divided into four companies composed of assistant firemen of the whole service ser-vice We are thoroughly drilled in the use of explosives I |