Show TELEGRAPH BRIEFS The Canadian department of agriculture reports gratifying prospects for the winter wheat crop A satisfactory dock trial of the starboard engine of the United States cruiser Baltimore Balti-more was given yesterday The port engine en-gine will be worked Saturday The board of United States engineers appointed ap-pointed by the last Congress to make an inspection of tho Texas oat for the purpose I pur-pose of recommending some point available I for the location of a first class harbor have arrived at Galveston and will look over the ground and hold public hearings The President has granted a pardon in the case of John Alaspa the Indian convicted con-victed of resisting an officer and sentenced to six years imprisonment in Washington territory The barkentine W H Dimond from Honolulu brings word that Rev Father Damien widely celebrated a the leper priest > of Moloka died at Katawa Hawaii April 10 The Democratic state convention of Ken tucky yesterday nominated for state treasurer Stephen G Share the present incumbent who was appointed to succeed the fugitive Tate The election will beheld be-held in August The platform adopted endorsed national platforms ofS andS and-S especial reference being made to the stand on the tariff Col Fred Grant new minister to Austria has arrived in Vienna arre Terrible forest fires are still raging in Michigan The village of Norway is surrounded rounded by flames Bruco Crossing and Matchwood have been destroyed The refugees re-fugees sought safety in ditches and cellars Man are missing The supreme court of New York today granted AttorneyGeneral Tabor permission permis-sion t bring suit in the name of the people against the Electric sugar refining company for the dissolution of the corporation and the appointment of a receiver |