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with its 600 feet of train sheds, the ferry house, a hotel nearby, the terminal of the street railway, a new immigrant station, burned two ferry boats and threatened the docks of the North Gernian Lloyd and Hamburg American lines. The loss is estimated at about $500,000. No lives were lost. A run was started on the Denver savings bank, which owes depositors about $2,000,000. The doors were closed, and thereafter depositors were allowed to enter one at a time and draw ten per cent. of their deposits. Charles P. Sapp, editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Virginian-Pilot, died at Norfolk, aged 33 years. A switch engine crashed into a way car at Emporia, Kan. The way car, which contained a number of stockmen, was demolished, and ten persons injured, one probably fatally. The Chinese minister conferred with President Roosevelt in regard to pending negotiations for the purchase by China of Hankow railroad and concessions. Phillip Loew, 70 years old, committed suicide in a Chicago hotel, leaving a note reproaching his children. Eva Dakin, a Chicago actress who shot and killed a robber, was acquitted. Miss Agnes Ruckle, of Vancouver, B. C., and Miss Anderson, of Cascade, two school teachers, while attending a picnic went swimming in Christina lake and lost their lives. C. H. Prescott, a Portland (Ore.) capitalist, and at one time prominent in railroad circles, is dead here as the result of a stroke of paralysis. An unknown man committed suicide by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge. Mrs. Leslie Creamer and daughter, aged six months, living near Edenton, O., were burned to death. Mrs. Creamer used gasoline in starting a fire in the cook stove and an explosion followed. Representatives of all the independent telephone companies in Illinois met in Peoria, III., for the purpose of forming a powerful organization, the object of which will be to fight for business in this state. Alexander Melville Bell, father of Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, died at the home of the latter at Washington, aged 86, from pneumonia, following an operation for diabetes. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters began fts third annual convention in Odd Fellows' hall at Philadelphia. The delegates represent a membership estimated at 125,000 men and boys. Rev. Lewis Albright, of Delaware, O., widely known in Ohio, having been presiding elder of the North Ohio Methodist conference, a trustee of Ada university and of Ohio Wesleyan university, is dead. Gov. Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin, in an interview at St. Paul, Minn., stated that the report that he would resign the governorship in September and go to Washington as United States senator in October was without his authorization. President Schurman, of Cornell university, has received a diploma and the announcement of his appointment as a life member of the American Academy in Rome, established for the advancement of the fine arts. Capt. William E. English, commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans' association, has issued a general order for the second national encampment and reunion of the association, to open at Milwaukee September 7. Mrs. Annie J. Taylor, aged 59, a seamstress, and her granddaughter, nine years of age, were burned to death in a fire in a tenement house at Dallas, Tex. Edward Coffey, a farmer of Lexington, Ky., shot and instantly killed John Ingram, another farmer, in a quarrel about a ditch. J. Pierpont Morgan had a conference with President Roosevelt over the proposed sale of the Yankow railroad in China. A severe electrical storm accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain did damage in southern Indiana estimated at over a half million dollars. King Oscar of Sweden is leaving the capital in search of quiet and rest and Crown Prince Gustave will again be appointed regent. Five Italian laborers were struck by an engine and killed at a railroad junction near Alexandria, Va. Fire swept the docks at Hoboken, N. J., destroying a depot and train sheds, two ferry boats, a hotel, immigration station, and other buildings; loss estimated at $500,000. Many lives imperiled. An excursion steamboat sank at Broad Ripple park, ten miles from Indianapolis, Ind., with 180 passengers on board, all of whom were men, except one, a woman, who was rescued by a launch. One person was reported missing. The New York state court in dismissing a manslaughter charge against three Christian Scientists, under whose care a young girl died of diphtheria, held that a child may be treated by healers. Paul Morton and his wife, with two friends, narrowly escaped injury in an automobile accident in New York. State Senator Frank H. Farris, of Missouri, was acquitted by a jury of the charge of bribery in the legislature. Nine boats capsized by storm during a regatta at Pewaukee, Wis. Coe, the Boston athlete, made a new world's record in the shot put in the
