Show I SHORT STOftlES J At Brandon Manitoba for three days the mercury has been ranging from 35 to 19 degrees below No deaths have been reported Senator Jefferson of Routt county Cola has Introduced a bill restoring capital punishment and providing for electrocution as the means Instead hanging nglng Norman Selby Kid McCoy and his former wife Julia were remarried at Goulds hotol Boston last night by Rev McElveen in tho presence of four personal friends The Minnesota Republican caucus last night nominated United States Senator Knute Nelson to succeed himself him-self No action was taken in the late Senator Davlss successor P IJ Molan editor of the Onsland lOII the principal Afrikander newspaper In Capetown has been arrested on the charge of seditious libel consisting of reflections upon the conduct of Gen French and his troops He Is a member mem-ber of the Cape Parliament William S Warren yesterday was unanimously reelected president of the Chicago Board of Trade for a year This means a continuance of the aggressive attitude of the board In i Its fight against bucketshops and the resulting controversy with the telegraph companies com-panies over the distribution of Its quotations quo-tations tatons In Baltimore yesterday a decree was signed by Judge Wlckes In the Circuit court enjoining and restraining A Booth < t Co fruit packers from In any manner selling or offering for sale peaches or pears not the product of California In cans bearing the label California The talk of the possibility of another British war loan to meet the expenses of the protracted campaign In South Africa was held yesterday in New York banking clrcles I was generally believed that the flotation of such a loan could again findAmerican bankers bank-ers ready to take up C large share of It |