Show telegraph notes st petersburg sept 8 the finance ministry estimates the grain harwetel in boods a is forty pound as follows winter wheat spring wheat winter ryo 1 oate 6 0 barley harvests exceed the poor average of 1897 to 1901 being about live sixtus sixths of last years was an improvement over tho past years boston fiedt 8 the directors of alie ialy west mining company have declared a dividend of 65 cents per hare new york sept 8 of an involving a large fortune depend upon abe date of death of arthur beckwith an artist who belonged to a prominent family of this city lie disappeared from tho sanford hall any lum a nii thing L I 1 in 1894 and never lias been heard of since owing to complication between the heire and the batuto on the question of tim of tho transfer tax couill ha instituted proceedings in tho surrogates court to have the dale of death fettled i the also invoice tho cuto of leonard forlis beckwith hi brollier Lr ollier ot one timo chief engineer of alio hoth were declared to bo and left large property interests each inherited estate of about half dollar from their father leonard died intestate in according to the petition of the ad of the estate of arthur beckwith lie in 1890 escaped from an asylum at Lit eMeld conn and wa two later discovered in havana cuba living in squalor he waa in 1893 placed I 1 in the sanford hall asylum at illish aing pending begun in january in to have him adjudged incompetent he again escaped in january 1002 iw wa declared legally dead it i now ought to have 1 death placed buforo that ot leonard in which the latter heir will get most of eboth fortune |