Show san francisco 27 steady rains yesterday and today to day through the middle section of the state materially improved the prospect ro of the great grain crop the fruit C crop 0 of southern california will be probably the best ever ger had halifax N S 27 the brigantine bri antine S J musson arrived in town three of the crew badly baldly frozen two vessels with sugar fora sora for a nova cotla scotia cotia rell reli refinery nery were abandoned at sea with large cargoes valued at insured new york 27 william huton aged 82 81 died today to day from self inflicted wounds A prominent washington friend of the nicaragua canal company received a letter from managed Man agea N icara lcara gua ua written by a native citizen of that county in which the failure of the canal project is spoken of as a deplorable plo rable but recognized fact for the present the writer exl exi expresses ho hope 0 e to r the future believing the tile canal will za be built through some other unspecified instrumentality than the existing co company all ail concessions ancess i from the I 1 Nicaragua I 1 cabag bayati yan govern government ent cx expire p ire lre in sept september em ber next an and require the tile previous e expenditure of tomake ikpe it permanently rin valid new york 23 28 thomas W keene made his first appearance in new york at nibles garden in Shake day richard III there was a large rouse eouse house and keene was accorded a most flattering reception he was called several times before the curtain the play baswell was well weli mounted and well supported the general opinion of critics is the ictor actor actor Is s an u undoubted bated senius genius sen gen genius lus ius with faults time will remove he certainly achieved a s success U decess tonight to night the world says the wonder grows that mr keene has not followed the example of the actor to whom more than all others he is artistically akin edwin orrest forrest JT and treated the thin and nervous protests of two or three critics with contempt |