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Show !o t.c:oma on?. List Sunday the giri's father wcut off into the hills and the I o;.ii; Lii-hinvar cams hfii-r t-Lo f .iir M:uy in a esrriag-. They wont to tuiPka iii.J to: 1c the train t-.ir this city wiitr.-.' tlit-y wc-ie married MouLiy afternoon after-noon and left for Uio et Monday night. The giri'd folks are aimos' crazed with rief. s-jait Luke Tribunt-J. Tribunt-J. F. Reeves, Jr., of Seary, Ark., placod a revolver to his temple and sr-ut a bul" let crashing tuioagh his brain TaesJiy. For some mouths he had been drinking heavily. He was also addicted to tht use of morphias. KuAres was a member of the lower hon e of t!io lsgi latnre in 1SS3 and mail s a good rteord. The general committee of county democrats, of New York, met Tuesday. The meeting was sensational throughout. through-out. Chairman Charles A. Jackson said the worst faction in the democratic party is within the organization known as Xammany Hall. Every mention of Hill's name was loudly hissed. The bright kid who got off thd fol -lowing onght to bs worth a million by the time ha is twenty-one: Tommy-Can we play at keeping a store in ; ero, mamma? Mamma (who has a headache) Certainly, Cer-tainly, bnt yon must be very, very quiet. Tommy Well, we'll pretend we don't advertise Ex. . . Eight miles northeast of Clyde, San-dnskey San-dnskey county Cal.,is a tract of 300 acreb known as Rash prairie, It is destitnte of soil or vegetation and the rock is of a porous honeycombed nature. Near the south bouudry of the barren tract, in a degression of the ground, iH a spring 150 feet in diameter. The existence of numerous underground sireams hafe lone been suspected, and it was Ihonghtj these were feeders to the remarkable mineral sulphnr spring at Village Greer, I a spring in the same county, and a recent re-cent occurrence proves conclusively taut the peculiar ground covers a lake o! great depth. A . heavy threshing ma-chine ma-chine was baing moved across the tract from the upper farm. The wheels became be-came mired as If In quicksand, and the engine was left nntll assistance could be obtained. The next morning It had gradually sunk down Into the earth until nothing appeared but the smoke stack. The 6nglne was removed by means of a derrick, and borings were made into the porous crust of stone. .Vfatets&a stroek r-tujarying depths from the surface, and a subterranean lake was sounded. An extreme depth cf 250 f6et was reaehed, HERE AND THERE. The price of sugar has been advanced by the sugar trust, Chancellor Yon Caprivi of Germany may resign, it is said. The swimming pool at Beck's hot springs is being enlarged. Idaho Republicans completed their ticket Wednesday and adjourned. Several worn en have tried to bay tickets to the Sulltva'n-Corbett fight. Salt Lake county is getting ready to make a grand display at the World's fair. Whitelaw Held says he will not make many speeches outside of New York State. The Chinese government intend to test the constitutionality of the exclusion exclu-sion act. The Knights of Phythias had a grand time at Kansas City Wednesday and Thursday. Marshal Deodore Da Fonseca, the first President of the republic of Erazil, died Tuesday. a. J. Crook was nominated for Governor Gov-ernor of Idaho yesterday by the People's party convention. William Douglass, a prominent business busi-ness man of Payson, died on Friday last of hemorrhage of the lungs, Hon. Edward Eermanduez, late Chief Justice of the Lonlsana supreme couit died at New Orleans Monday. President Baker of the World's Colombian Col-ombian Exposition Company has re. signed and II. N. Higinhotham was elected to succeed him. The official csoUra nport issued at St. Petersburg Monday mornin? sayt: "An increase yesterday of 381 iiev easts and an increase of 238 deaths, as ioin-pared ioin-pared with Saturday's figures.. The total number of deaths yesterday w. s 3,318. E reka had a little eloptmeut on Sunday Sun-day last. Julius E. Shettle had for some time been paying his attentions to Mary E. Carson, the eighteen-Year-old daughter of John Carson, The girl's father objected to the match, but this only made the couple tbe more anxloa |