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Show . Fire destroyed tho business proportion propor-tion of the. Village of Nome, N. D., causing a' lo3M ot 7C,000. Cholera has again broken out In St, 1'otornburg, there being as many-as many-as Blxtecn caseB n day reported. During tho month of May there wore 57 cases of bubonic plague, with 27 deaths at Guayqull, Ecuador. Tho strike of tho Georgia flK-mcn for seniority of white men over negroes, ne-groes, lids passed to thy .arbitration stage. Four women were drowned wlin nn nutomobllo ran into tho river at Knights .Landing, .CaL Tho chaufl four escape. ' 5 , f Walls of, many buildings cracked and much other damage was dono as tho result of nn earthquako at CoplajH), Chile. Tho peoplo of Santa Fc, N. Ml, havo decided to allow the saloons to continue con-tinue business, tho vote, however, being be-ing a very close ono. The wago scnlo ot the Pennsylvania Steel company, cut 10 per cent on April 1, Is to bo restored on July 1. Aboilt 7,000. nloh aro affectod. William F. Downs, a 900 a year clerk In the register's office at Baltimore, Bal-timore, Is to bo placed on' trial on tho 'charge ot lutvlrig .ombazzlcd .iC7,000. Tho govornor ot Missouri has b.a. cd tho bll prohibiting the smoking of clgarottcs In public places by persons per-sons between the ages of 10 and lif years. Tho report comes from Berlin that the Turkish authorities last week executed twelve of tho rlnglcadors, Including six Armenians, concerned in tho Adana massacres. Post ofllco Inspectors from Cincinnati Cincin-nati believe they, have discovered tho headquarters of the "BlacT. Hand" society In Marlon, Ohio, where throo men havo been arrested. The strlkp which has closed twenty-two hat factories In Danbury, New Mllford and Bethel, Conn., for tho last llvo months hns been practically ended, end-ed, both plde3 making concessions. Mistaken train orders resulted In a bad Bmashup on1 tho Great Northern, flvo miles out of Vancouver, B. C. Engineer McCade was killed and a number of passengers wore badly injured. in-jured. ; , The head of one of tho auditing departments de-partments of tho Union Pacific at Omaha has issued ordors that none of tho men may chew tobacco while on duty, and has removed all tho cuspidors cus-pidors 'from Jils offices' Lazarus- Silverman, a, pioneer banker bank-er and financier of Chicago, who 1? credited with originating tho plan for tho resumption of specie payments in 1873, known as .the Sherman bill, died in Chicago, Juno. 9, aged 70 years. Secret service men havo been engaged en-gaged by the' federal authorities tc prevent the' Importation and sale lotjery tickets In Porto Rico front Santo Domingo. Tho tickets aro being seized and confiscated by the authon ties. J Fred Mohello, on trial at St. lxiu.e ' for (ho murder ot Constable Satr Young, was assassinated In the corl-dor corl-dor "ot Iho . Four Courts, by William Kane, an ox-deputy constable and a friend o'f Young,. while Mohelle waa bclng takeu into court for trial. Kane Is under arrest. Mrs. Eloctrn B, B.card,' convicted ol; misappropriating about $2,000 ot tho funds of tho Chlldron's Hospital association, of penver,-whlJo she wni? acting ns treasurer' of that Institution, Institu-tion, has been sentenced to from eighteen eigh-teen months to three' yoars In tho stato penitentiary. Tho town of Korlnchl, 185 miles to. Uio southeast of Padang, Sumatra, was destroyed by an oartrquako on tho night of Juno 3-4. v Two hundred peoplo wero killed and many others Injured. The shock was accompan- i led by a tidal wave which swept away tho natlvo huts., Mrs. Elzabeth Sharp, a prominent society woman of Balom, O., killed her 12-year-old son and then ended hor own life. Grief over tho Incur-ablo Incur-ablo nature of her son's ranlady, whe had been moiitally deficient rrom birth, is supposed to have caused the woman to lose her reason, Tho American-Hawaiian Steamship company has contracted with tho Pennsylvania Steel company for the construction ot three steamships ot 0,000 tons each, at a cost of 11,700,000, Thoso veBsols will form an addition to tho fleet malutalnod by the company com-pany on tho Pacific ocean. M, Guchkoff, loader ot tho October-1st October-1st party In' tho Itsslnn duma, has Instituted In-stituted proceedings for 'crlmlnnl 1U bol against Dr. Duhrovln, editor ot thai organ of tho Union of Russian People, which printed .an article alleging al-leging lhat monoy had been used In passing tho old-bollovors' law. Andrew Carneglo had founded 1,800 libraries, representing donations aggregating ag-gregating f 51.50C.C93, according to his own Btatemontj The major portion por-tion ot thoso libraries aro located in Amorloa, England being second In tho numbor- installed, whllo Canada has been 'liberally romombered. . Whllo, retiming homo from a picnic noar Unlontown, Fa,, in company with Mrs. Fannlo Itogors, Charles Froman was shot from ambush nnd killed, Mrs. lingers has been arrested arrest-ed as an accessory and ,tho authorltler aro searching for a man wlth.Vuom .Froman quarreled at tho plcnlc, Leon II. Brady. glvl. engineer, wns acquitted at Kansas City of tho chargo ot killing Joseph Flanagan In nn apartmont houso last March. Ills plea was self defeiiBO and tho unwritten un-written law. Brady charged his wlfo had. bee.p, tha recipient of un-wolcomo un-wolcomo hUenU'nis from Flanagan. i |