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Show j SPARKS FROM THE WiRE o George R Wright, a well known California pioneer and steamship captain. Is dead at San Francisco. For many yearn ho wns Identified Iden-tified with const steamship freight and passenger pas-senger Interests. Ho was y.jurs of age Fourteen repreeentatlvei of the esper Boat club of Philadelphia who go or . i to take part In the rowing competition for the grnn I challenge cup nt the Henley regatta, have Milled on tfu American liner .New York. The precipitation In the vicinity of Peoria, III., for twelve hours was four Inches. tho heaviest for years Nearly all of the railroads soff r. -1 f r .tn wash outs aiel much dainng haa been done In the lowlands. The Mississippi river at Ial Crosso. Wis . stands the highest for three years The factories fac-tories nlong the water front are closed. In tho lumbt r-yards water stands several feel deep. It Is n.,t expected that the he'ght of the flood will bo reached before Monday or Tuesday. Dr. Brown Ayers, president of the t'nlver-slty t'nlver-slty of Tenness-e. at Knoxvllle, has receive I from W. J. Bryan a draft fo.- M00, Offered as a prize for the best fjjav by a student of the University of Tennessee on the RUbJcct, Thf Principles of Free Government." Mr. Bryan, as trustee of the Phllo S Bennett estate Is distributing 010,000 among twenty-five twenty-five colleges of as many States. Benjamin V. Porter, a well-known and wealthy resident of Santa Crur, CaL, died suddenly of heart failure at his country home near BOUQCl. He was 73 Keen old. Mr. Porter Por-ter was the owner of large troets of land In Los AngeP-s county nnd In Oregon, and was worth probably $C(X'0. He cut th.i flist telegraph poles used between San Frunclsco and San Jose. William If. Rogers, for fourteen years a member of the editorial staff of tho New York World, Is dead from ucuto pneumonia. He was horn In Jnnesvllle Wis . In LSSi, and was graduated from Belolt. Upon leading col- lego he went Into tho newspaper Held at M Paul and Minneapolis, subsequently becoming night editor of the Chicago Tribune. In 131 he went to New York Mai. el Gates, aged 1 years, and Georxo Job 1 Jr.. w;ero found In a dying condition fom tho effect of strychnine rtolsonlng .,n Knnsns avenue In Rosedak. Kan., and both die I be. fore medical aid could bo administered. They both protested when an effort was mado to sn e them and it la supposed tha' troy vol-untarlh' vol-untarlh' took the poison, having made a mutual mu-tual agreement to commit aulclde The . ung couple had been sweethearts for several months. Secretary H E. Reed announces that M. D. Wisdom, secretary of tho llve-atOCk exhibits ex-hibits it the Lewis and Clark exposition, las met with unexpected mccr-A In g.-Unlnc the co-operation of stock-growers. Mr Wisdom has Just returned from an extend'-d visit to California, Illinois. Missouri. Minnesota, Montana Mon-tana and Washington. In the Interest of tho exposition s live-stock show, which opens August Au-gust 1 for cattle, sheep, swine. g,.at and poultry, and August 28 for horses Five awards aro posted for each class. |