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Show NEWS smiMAliY. ' The Imports of specie at the port of New York last week aggregated only 1)0.139. President Dlax will be unable, on ao-count ao-count of public buslneaa, to accept any Invitation to meet President McKlnley at the border. The Cunard line Intends to equip Ita tteamrra with Inatrumenls for wireless telegraph, and make an experiment to determine Is value. The llllnola house haa passed a bill appropriating I'.'.MMiOO for an llllnola exhibit at the l.oulsloua Purchase ex- I hlbttlon at HL Louis. Thoaeellngelraincr"Klle," for whose lately aome fear had been felt reached St. Johnt. N. II. yesterday, with 10,000 eats, almost a full load. William Orlmea has been appointed v secretary of Oklahoma territory lo succeed William M. Jenklna, recently appointed governor. President McKlnley will deliver a peech In Convention hall during hla ttay In Kansaa Clly on hit way home from the l'aclfle cuttt While practicing for a ball game at Madera, Cal.. Sunday, F. Ii Klrkpat-rlck, Klrkpat-rlck, a young man, collided with an. other player and was Instantly killed. IM Hasten, the latt member of the ( gang of counterfeiter recently captured cap-tured at Spokane, Wash., hat been sentenced sen-tenced to ten ycart at hard labor on McNeil's Islaud. Ilrltlth Columbia la again In the Ibroet of a political crisis, brought about by tho government' bill to borrow bor-row five million dollara to aubaldlto railways In the province. Itohberant Norwich, Kan., entered the olllci- nt the lladgcr Lumber company, com-pany, Sunday night blew open the safe and secured somo money. Twenty 310 bills were found nrnr by. The United Statet government and tho Canadian government are uniting In nn effort to atop the smuggling of and unlawful Influx of Chinamen Into Canada and tho United State. In the bicycle race at Cyler'a park, Sail Jose, Cal., lost week llurton Downing Down-ing broke the world'a one-half mile amateur record of &9 5-5 seconds. Ha rode the distance In SI) seconds flaL Tho llerlln money market now ehow greater ease than for several years. Tha Ilelchsbank rale of discount It tho lowett that haa been In forco alnco June, 1B90, and tho private rato la unusually un-usually low, , The bank nt Pioneer, Wllllami coun- t ty, 0 was entered by burglars during.,. Jf ml.nlal,.rfll,.,,,ll.-. ,r li)d lgM by dynamite and tho turn of 81000 la ""V aald to bo misting. There It no clue to the robbers. In Spokan;, Wash., latt week Winter & Chapman, contractors, who helped Paul Mohr build hit Portage road, Hied ault asking 237,197 from tha Central Navigation and Construction company for work done. Frank Olcson, cashier, and J, B. Stangroom, bookkeeper of the defunct . Bcandlnnvlun-Amerlcan bank of New Whatcom, Wash., havo been arrested charged with receiving deposits after tho failure of that Institution. j I'rlnco Tuau haa utterly failed to pro- duc a rising nmung the Inhabitants of j Mongolia, who ara kept quiet by a wholesome rrsprct for Ilussta. It la therefore declared to be unlrua that an Insurrection has broUuu out In Mongolia. Mon-golia. In Seattle Sunday, II. II. Darnell of Oil City, Pa., waa found dead In hla bed at the l'errlu house. He bad blown out hla brnlua with a revolver, Aa near as can bo ascertained, the suicide sui-cide took pluco sometime Saturuay af ternoon. Preparation for tho polar expedition, expedi-tion, tinder Captain llaldwln, are 'well In hand, and he expecta to aall with forty companlona from a Norwegian port In June. Supplies have already I been sent from America, and his ship . ' - la nearly ready. The commttleo appointed by tha Ten nessee Senate to Investigate the charges char-ges of attempted bribery preferred by Senator Klbrldga In open Senate against ex-Comptroller Jaract A. Herri' ' reported that tho evldeuco did not tuttaln the allegation!. ''.. The Importi of dry gooda and gener- at merchandlte ul the port of New : York latt week were valued at J10,- ( OnS.OO'i. The exports of specie to all countrlet aggregated 52,380,571, consisting con-sisting of $1,010,501 silver bare and coin and SI, lit. 010 gold. In Topelia, Ka., while relisting ar- I rest Sunday, tleorgu Head waa struck I - on tho head by Policeman Hall. The blow fractured hla akull, causlngdeath six hours after. Head had been drinking drink-ing and had been disturbing a religious relig-ious meeting on the street. The President haa appointed Col. Merrltt Ilarher of the Adjutant-Den eral'a department and Major Oscar If, ; Long of tho quartermasters' department depart-ment brlgadler-generala of volunteer on account of their long and faithful services Is, tht Philippines. Fifty million dollar of Oreat Hrlt- J sin's mew loan has been placed In the ,J United States. The National City 1 bank, J, P. Morgan & Co, Daring, ' Magoun ,t Co., and the New York Life ' Insurance company, comprise th syndicate that bat taken tha loan, |