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Show m:vs summary. Governor Tanner of Illinois is spending spend-ing the week in Yellowstone Park. Two of the assassins of President Ileureaux have been captured and shot- The yellow fever situation at the Soldiers' Home at Hampton is much improved. Three 3'oung men and their team were killed by a train on a crossing at Humboldt. Iowa. There has been a general advance of from 15 to L'5 per cent in the price of lumber since .Inly 1. Charles Yager of IJrandt, Pa., while temporarily insane, murdered his three children and suicided. Richard Crocker was among the passengers pas-sengers on the St. Paul, bound from Southampton to New York. Miss Frankie George, an actress, shot herself, in Chicago, because she had been jilted by one of her profession. There were seventy-eight deaths from yellow fever at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in the last week of June, and only seventeen seven-teen deaths in the last week of July. Among the bridge orders in the market are eight bridges for Japan. They were designed by American consulting con-sulting engineers. The first and only national bank outside out-side of the continental boundaries of the United States is about to be established estab-lished in Honolulu. A tornado with a velocity of eighty miles and a width of three blocks passed pass-ed through Elizabeth, N. J., doing damage conservatively estimated at 85,000. From 2,000 to 3,000 men are under arms in the Yaqvri country, engaged in a bloody conflict. The entire country is in a state of terror and people are fleeing to the larger settlements. Louis Pullerman and Michael McDonald McDon-ald were put to death by electricity in Sing Sing prison. Pullerman died in fifty-five seconds; current was turned on McDonald for eighty-five seconds. Governor Geer has decided to present each member of the Second Oregon regiment with a bronze . medal, to be cast from one of the cannon captured in the Philippines, if it can be. secured. The state department fully approves of the action taken by the United States Minister Powell at Tort au Prince in enforcing respect for the sanctity of the United States legation. The preliminary steps have been taken toward the founding of an oil exchange in San Francisco. It is proposed pro-posed to handle the entire oil business of the state through a system of certificates. certifi-cates. The first bale of the new crop of Texas cotton was sold atpublic auction in front of the Cotton Exchange, New York city, for the benefit, of the sufferers by the floods in Texas. It brought 82,000. No information can be obtained in Washington regarding the story of John Zaehert of San Francisco, that the Russian government in 1S33 established monuments to mark the Alaskan boundary bound-ary line. Senator Jones will, it is said, resign the leadership of the Democratic com" mittee by the the time the national convention meets, so as to give an opportunity for the choice of another chairman. Lewis Morrison will take a company of American plajers to Japan. It i Mr. Morrison's intention to leave San Francisco next May with a company of twent3'-two people, scenery, etc., and play a year in Japan. Aetititr Sceretary of State Adee has received a cablegram from Minister Towell at l'ort an Prince, Haiti, con. firming' the newspa paper report of the violation of his legation by police officers who were making arrests. The state department has succeeded in locating- .Senator Ileveridge, of Indiana, Indi-ana, over whose whereabouts some anxiety was felt by his friends. lie was detained in quarantine at Nagasaki Naga-saki on steamship Empress of India. At Independence, Kan., a tramp aged "7 years, giving his name as R. C. Yonng, has confessed to murdering A. C. T.ush and .John Cooley, prominent farmers and stock-raisers from Shiota Indian reservation, lie killed them for $30. Miss Fannie (loodwin, a milliner at Fairview, Ky., shot and mortally wounded Bryan Allegro. She charged that he wrote scurrilous notes and cut offensive phrases in her window with a diamond. She was released without bond. Third Assistant Postmaster-General Madden has issued an order calling the attention-of postmnsters everywhere to the fact that packages cannot be mailed to the Yukon district. Only letters and postal cards can be sent to the Yukon territory. Dr. Thomas C. Meudenhall. president Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who made a survey of Ala.ska says: To accede ac-cede to Canada's boundary claim would be to give her all of the value that the United States purchased from Russia in southeastern Alaska. Lightning struck the big brick power" house and carhonse of the South Orange avenne electric ro;id on South Orange avenue lit Xewnrk. X. .1. The building I i caught tire and was destroyed, with ! eig'hty-nve ears. The railroad odicials claim a loss of S:',i'l. '). |