Show SPARKS FROM THE WIRES The July crop reports for Germany show a further Improvement upon June In wheat and rye One thousand miners In the Davy W Va coal fields wllj today be granted a 10percent Increase In their wages I The NIcaraguan Government has reconsidered re-considered Jty decision not to tat t-at the panAmerican exposition and commissioners will be appointed Last weeks bourse was extremely Inactive but values showed n firm tendency The small volume business busi-ness is quite without precedent The storm which began in Paris Saturday night continued yesterday and effectually broke the hot spell the longest and most severe that Paris has ever known The feature of the Grand Circuit meeting which begins at Columbus 0 today will b tho freeforall trot of stallions for a purse of 5000 on Thursday The transport Hancock sailed from San Francisco at 10 oclock yesterday for Taku China Ia Nagasaki with four batteries of the Third artillery numbering 175 men Gen French ha occupied Middle burg In the Transvaal and Gen Pole Carew with the Guards brigade has arrived at Bruigsprult twenty miles wast of Mlddlcburg Tod Sloan who was Injured Inst Fri day at the Liverpool July meeting meelng while riding Maluma is progressing favorably and It Is expected he will returnto London early this week LondOn stock exchange was In some respects unsatisfactory last week but on the whole the market closed with a wih a brighter outlook The renewed advance ad-vance of Lord Roberts wan regarded as an encouraging sign During a national demonstration at Cork hand bills were distributed discouraging dis-couraging the work of recruiting for the British army and urging that as Englands army was now discom forted In Soith Africa the time was ripe for an Irish rebellion tme The British War olHee has received a dispatch from Lord Roberts explain ing that only one train was captured on the night of July 21st between Kroonstad and the Van and that it contained supplies and two olTlcora and I 100 men of tin Welsh FuHllceni a |