Show TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Lord Courtenay Henry Reginald Court enay eldest son of the Earl of Devon is I dead Four trainmen were killed In a collision I on the Cincinnati Southern near Chattanooga Chatta-nooga I Statement of the condition of the treas II ury shows Available cash balance JI02 70313S Gold reserve 172 S9926 The secretary of war sent to the senate I n letter transmitting the draft of a bill to protect explosive mines in the waters I of the United States Fire in the Crystal Springs Brewing Ice comoanys plant at Boulder Colo destroyed property to the extent of 50000 fully covered by Insurance Marquis jJ < Hoyos the Spanish minister to AustriaHungary will be succeeded by Senor Polo y Bornabe late Spanish minister min-ister to the United States I Mr Newton W Taylor president of the Cleveland 0 Paper company and for many years an Important factor In the I paper Industry of the United States is dead Fred T Moore paying teller at the I National Bank of Commerce Boston Is missing and his accounts are short from missing Oo to 50000 A warrant has been issued I Is-sued for hs arrest The news from Calcutta says that the j plague Is causing great alarm there At Hongkong eatialf stated that I there has been a great decrease in the number of resh plague cases I A circular issued to the stockholders of the Great Northern Railway company by President J J Hill announces the acquisition 1 ac-quisition by the company of the stock of the Seattle Montana railroad Dallas Tex was visited by a 350000 I fire which destroyed Shields wall paper house Mistrals dry goods house and the j Home Sewing Machine companys build I ing J W Cowan lost his life The comIng mill of the Hazardvllle Powder company at Hazardvllle Conn In which fuses arc prepared exploded C8 dPl Alfred D Lundon was killed and Foreman Fore-man James Colby was seriously Injured An agreement was signed by Gaudaurs representative to row R M Johnson for a purse of 2500 and the sculling championship champion-ship of the world The race will be rowed In Vancouver harbor on Dominion day I July 1 L Buchner aged 70 who committed suicide at St Louis by shooting himself through the head was a brother of 1r Samuel T Glover and an uncle of Mrs Robert Glover I Kern and exCongressman Tho plague at Hongkong Is making frightful headway among the natives large numbers of them dying dally Seer Se-er Europeans have died from the dread scourge Among them were two Sisters of Mercy As an outcome of an election dispute at ParIs M Henri Rochefort the editor of Llntranslseante and M Oerault Richard Rich-ard the former Socialist deputy J ghl a duel M Rochefort was pricked on his l right hand Mrs Frank M Pixley widow of the late prominent politician and journalist died at her ranch near Corte Madero Mann county California The cause of death was herrt disease from which she has suffered for many years According to a special dispatch from Shanghai the American mission at Tung Chow near Wu Chow province of Kwangseo on the Hong Kiang has been looted and burned by a mob In an outbreak out-break of the foreign clement Denver was visited by the most severe hailstorm In many years Windows were I smashed jyavdens beaten down and trees damaged The downpour T > f rain accompanying accom-panying the hal was very heavy flooding I the streets and causing stoppage of all the streetcars for hours |