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Show MOKXI.XU TKI.liGItA MS COMIENSKU The Brazilian telegraph companies yesterday reduced the press rate 50 per cent. A cyclone swept over Jewell county, III., yesterday. Two school 'children were killed. The investigation of the (Quebec boodling cases has been chocked by tho witnesses refusing lo testify. I. Robert Graham of tho national temperance tem-perance congress of Chicago, yesterday declared prohibition a failure'. A windstorm last night destroyed the village of Elmvvood near Cincinnati. Mr. Hoop, a resident, was killed. Robert Nickell. the defaulting clerk of John M. Birkley & Co., of Denver was yesterday sentenced lo two years iu Iho pen.' 'While unloading a two-ton crate of crockery at Spokane Falls yesterday, Frederick Moresi was instantly killed by the orate falling on hiiii.,.i.w -' The graduating exercises' at West Point were finished yesterday. Only 'ohelliati in the third class failed. Sixteen Six-teen failed in the fourth class. . At tho International Typographical Union yesterday, resolutions looking to a world's typographical congress at Chicago in 1803 were adopted. The Vassar commencement was held yesterday. Vice-President Morton and family were present. Degrees were conferred on fifty-eight candidates. Edward Costello of Palmer; Mass, shot his 10 month old balm yesterday. He then fired at his wife but a corset steel saved here. Domestic trouble was the cause. The examination of tho concierges and tradesmen has revealed nothing against the arrested Nihilists, in Paris, who will probably be liberated. Public-sentiment is rising in their behalf. The Servian government has sup pressed tho speech of Count Kaluoky delivered on Monday in the Austra-Hungarian Austra-Hungarian diet. The Count said he regretted the rapid growth of radicalism. radical-ism. At Milwaukee, a small town about ten miles from Portland, Oregon. Daniel Dan-iel Harvey, a fruit grower, yesterday morning sl'iot and killed his aged mother, moth-er, and then killed himself. It is supposed sup-posed that Harvey was partially insane. The Green Hill Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, which has for some time past maintained the largest Chinese Chi-nese Sunday school in the city, has decided de-cided to give up tho work of teaehing-these teaehing-these people after July 1st. Stories of leprosy have frightened the young lady teachers. Eniilio Volisco, who represents the Mexican Land and Colonization company, com-pany, operating in Lower California, lias published a letter in the Dearo del Hogar, in w hich he says that Mr. Scott, the late manager of the company, is now en route to India, and that Im therefore cannot possibly bo implicated in the filibustering .movements. The National convention of delegates from the Railway Yard musters' association associ-ation occurred at Kansas City today . F O Hicks of Indianapolis was elected president. A committee was appointed on federation with other railway men s organizations. The matter of luserting a strike clause in the constitution was uot considered. There was great excitement at the Kingston, Ont, wharf yesterday after-uooa after-uooa as an excursion party er-tba auspices of the Canadian Order of Foresters For-esters was leaving on tho Reamer St Lawrence-, an American boat. - -Ihe trouble was over the refusal of the commander of the battery to allow the band to go on board the steamer be-cuse be-cuse the8 captain would not lower the stars and stripes. Yesterday at Moore Station. Itxas. iwo Mexican cowboys. Jose Carnwco and Manuel Bosco, had a singular and fatal duel. The two quarreled oyer he pos cssion of a cow, and as neither hid a trim they drew their only weap-5ns weap-5ns lariats. After a severe battle Car-,nsco Car-,nsco f tiallv lassoed his. opponent. Scd im from his. saddle and rode awa? with 1.1m. Bosco's neck was At tlie session of the Reformed Pres-: bvteri os in New York yesterday the comm tree on divorces reported in favor Siiing divorces to case j or willful desertion. 1 " "r'f ! wosTiC the nse of or trailing in tobacco, Kited. Reference whs again had. ' vicc-president-s bu.h bug m Washington b.-:ng . :l" ""',., lintier business, and tin.-, was to : ;,Xcd ,s an indirect parlicipat'on ... j immorality. |