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Show TODAY'S TELEGRAMS. Democrats 31el. SCRAM-ON, Peuna., July 2 Tlie democratic State convention fur the nomination of State officers met this morning. Echley It. Coxe was temporary chairman. The Miter BUI. Wasjiingtou, July 2. Conferees Confer-ees of the silver bill met this morning morn-ing and spent an hour discussing the dltlVrences between the two Houses. They leparated at neon, hating come to no conclusion. It is said there Were three propositions presented for consideration. Thfc conferees adjourned to meet tomorrow. The llouse conferees brought to the meeting acopyff.t'"-" bill as it passed that body, -nd this formed the basis of whatever dUCto sion took place. A great jiorllon of the time was spent in general talk upon tlie subject, so that no definite proioslllnn was before them. Ileiatj Ruins In Amttrln. VJI2CKA, July U. Terrific rains have fallen in the Interior of Austria. Aus-tria. Ureal damage has been done by the storms, especially in Upjtr Austria. Want the Wjo.ulnir nill Mcm.t. WJtbHtxatois, July!. Tho ms-ni-bers ofthe National American Wo-man'sSutTrage Wo-man'sSutTrage Association, through Jane 11. Spallbnl, its treasurer, aud the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, through Adam BIttenbcnder. superintendent of legislation and petitions called upon the President today and asked him to sign the bill providing for the admission ad-mission of Wyoming on the tlr of July. The Wyoming bill provides for political equality without distinction distinc-tion of sex and advocntcsiHoman suffrage. They say they desire to relebratu the 4th of July in honor of Wyoming's statehood in conueo! tion with eveuU for which the da; Is already commemorated. It Is the ' intention to have the Wioiuingaud : Idado billa sent to Cat May Point, . where the President will pass the Fourth, and request him to sign I them. I rhr ITIilon anil lr!iKU. Du.NRAR, Peun., July . The work of smothering the fire In Hill ; Farm mine has commenced. The ' miue cannot be llooded. The In-1 quest over the bodies of tho tvvu men brought out of the slope began ou Monday. What is mcr-l needed is relief for the twenty-one u blow s and bcvtnty-scven orphaus of the victim. 1 here is much suffering. I Slrllslnc Carpenters. CI.S.CIS..NAT1, July i Tlie striking strik-ing carpenters have agreed to return to work, the Itoseci being willing to glvu ten hours' pay for nine hours work afler July loth. Of the l.Mkl men uneiuployitl HhXI will U-able toot tain work. Mll,oo Dnmasr Seat-ilk, Vah., July i. The loss by last night's fire isS109,iWrt. I Tbf Ileal nn.l II. merit. Cl.M IS.NWTJ, July iU The tern-' perature moderated last night anil is still lower today than at this time jesterday. CllICAbo, July i The long-promised long-promised cool wave has arrived, bringing relief to t o sweltering inhabitant-. At nine- this morning the thermometer registered US de-1 grees, a drop of nearly twenty degrees de-grees since yesterday. Sennle. I WAS1UM.TOX, July ". i lunih, from the committee ou public lands, reported tho Senate bill to provide for the delivery of land latculs to their rightful owners, and asked for its immediate consideration. Statements, State-ments, were made by Plumb, Pad- j dock and Berry tint there were some 2-V,(KI0 land patents accumulated accumu-lated iu the general land otllcu for which those entitled to them had j not applied, that a thrifty linn of Washington attorneys had been )rmltted to have lists made of them, that they had then communl-i-ated w ith persons entitled to them, notifying them tint they could get their patents on payment of a certain cer-tain fee, that this was an act of collusion col-lusion between the assistant commissioner com-missioner (who was then a-si-tant Secretary of the Interior acting a commlssioncri and this lw Una, and that the bill was designed to frustrate that Jcb. The bill was then passed. Ejrranil I'onnsws. Paris July i Kyraud has made a full confession to ttiepyli.i1. nil Mend. Boston, July 2. Tlie directors of the Boston aud Montana Consolidated Consoli-dated and Silver Mining Company have declare1! a dividend of 51.50 per shire, payable August 1st, ami tlie balance of the assets on July 1st, Sl.Otfn.UiK). r |