Show IslandITLGRAHC TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS A big fire Is reported In the penitentiary at Lansing Kan No particulars yet ExCongressman Benjamin F Herper died suddenly at Sarahvllle Va yesterday yester-day davThere There was only a fivemlnuto session of the Carter court martial at Savannah yesterday Arrangements for the departure of the government expedition for the Klondike are being pushed The Yester block a large office building at JIcKeesport Pa was destroyed by fire this morning Frances Anna Marie Dowager Countess R fes widow of riheD celebrated Lord John Russell Is dead The south Texas and California are splendidly represented In the entries at the St Louis Jockey club The Tennessee Democratic caucus adjourned ad-journed until next Wednesday night without with-out voting on the senatorial nomination The Ozark bridge controversy between the United States and San Domingo Is in a fair way of being settled by arbitration arbitra-tion tionA band of famous cyclists started for I the south yesterday on the steamship City of Augusta They are bound for Bellalr i1aUgUst The total number of entries for the IS I events scheduled for the Coney Island Jockey club Is 9S3 as compared with SW last year The remains of the late Judge H N I Scott brotherinlaw of exPresident Harrison were burled yesterday afternoon after-noon at Washington Pa I According to a dispatch received in Hong Kong recently the plague cases In I Bombay again show signs of increase and there r from IS tp 25 new cases reported dally l i T 4 l f |