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AT Tacoma, Wash., the United States grand jury indicted President Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific railroad, and all the other leading officials for violating the interstate commerce law. JOHN H. CHAPMAN, of Chicago, was reelected president at the annual meeting in Indianapolis of the Baptist Young People's Union of America. N. M. TABOR and W. H. Bush, lessees of the Brown Palace hotel in Denver, made an assignment with liabilities placed at $650,000. THE local directory of the World's Columbian exposition by a vote of 24 to 4 passed resolutions rescinding the action of the meeting of May 16 and ordered the gates closed on all Sundays after the 16th. By a cyclone which passed over Stif water, Minn., and vicinity two persons were killed, over a dozen injured and much property destroyed. DURING a battle with French gun boats on the Meinam river twenty Siamese were killed and fourteen wounded. HAT & WEBB'S bank at Carmi, III., made a general assignment with liabilities of $170,000 and assets of $216,000. THE world's fair auditor in his report shows that the total receipts of the exposition up to June 30 were $21,251,316 and total expenses were $20,610,160. MARY SCHIREBER, aged 5, and Annie Geary, aged 18, were burned to death at their home in Port Clinton, O., by an explosion of gasoline. YoUNG-MAN-AFRAID-OF-His-HORSES, the head chief of the Sioux nation of Indians, dropped dead at Newcastle, Wyo. THE Schleisinger syndicate at Ishpeming, Mich., the largest operators in orein the world, weresaid to have failed with millions of liabilities. IN Wyoming an army of crickets was devastating every sort of vegetation. THE doors of the national bank of Kansas City, Mo., were closed with liabilities of $1,000,000 and assets of $3,000,000. The failure caused the Franklin savings bank of the same city to suspend. UNKNOWN persons lynched Meredith Lewis, acquitted of the charge of murdering his wife, near Roseland, La. A TORNADO swept over the town of Leipsie, O., unroofing many buildings and doing other damage. THE failure was reported of the Northern bank. the oldest financial institution in Kansas City, Kan., with assets of $475,000 and liabilities of $315,000. A REIGN of terror has been inaugurated in Montana by idle men as a result of the closing of silver mines. By the explosion of coal oil at Columbus, O., Clement Miller and his wife and baby were fatally burned. FREDERICK T. RAWLINS and Richard P. Roughton, prominent citizens of Sandersville, Ga., killed each other in a street duel. IN Cineinnati the John Kauffman Brewing company went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $150,000. FLAMES in the Fresno flouring mills at Fresno, Cal., caused a loss of $100,000. IN a stream near Mill Creek, Ind. Mrs. Adam Allis and her son and daughter and Willie Boyce were drowned. Mrs. Allis and her daughter lost their lives in trying to save the two boys. IN Chicago the Bouton Foundry company failed for $200,000. THE doors of the private banking house of William Oberhauser in Peoria, Ill., were closed with liabilities of $60,429. THE recent cyclone in Iowa killed fifty-seven persons Pomeroy, thirteen in Cherokee county, six in Beuna Vista county, four in Pocahontas county and two in Wright county. WHILE en route to Little Rock W. F. Werner, sheriff and tax collector of Crittenden county, Ark., was shot and robbed of nearly $12,000 by persons unknown. ALBERT BUTTEROUX, aged 16; George Pond, aged 24, and Willie Clawson, aged 12, were drowned while bathing in the bay at Galveston, Tex. THE 100-yard sprinting event at Go shen. Ind., for a purse of $2,000 and the championship of America was won by Morris, of California, in 9 3-5 seconds, which is one-fifth of a second below the world's record. IN a fit of jealousy Luca Sceseich, a and miner. capitalist wife at Los Angeles, shot Cal., and and killed then his killed himself.
