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The czar of Russia has ordered that the Finnish language be substituted for the Swedish in the commercial school at Uleaborg, Finland.
The comptroller of the currency has issued a certificate authorizing the Citizens' national bank, of Dennis, Tex., to begin with a capital of $50,000.
The Tokio correspondent of the London Chronicle, under date of July 8, says that the Japanese captured over ten guns and 50 prisoners near Kai Chou.
A waterspout, accompanied by terrific wind, passed through Clinton, O. T., and vicinity, on the 6th, in which six persons were killed and several injured.
Report says there is no truth in the story circulated in the United States by a news agency that the pope suffered from an attack of palpitation of the heart on the 5th.
Gen. Jos. H. Lewis, famous as commander of the "Orphan brigade" in the confederacy, dropped dead, on the 6th, at Frankfort, Ky. He was chief justice of the court of appeals for more than twenty years.
On the 5th, Olvin Gray and Lucy Pine, children of farmers of Union courty, South Dakota, took strychnine and died in each other's arms. They were lovers, and their union was not approved by their parents.
Rev. Silas C. Swallow, on the 7th, mailed a brief letter to National Chairman Stewart at Chicago, advising him of his acceptance of the nomination for president by the prohibition national convention at Indianapolis. June 30.
Capt. A. T. Mahan, United States navy, retired, was the guest of honor, on the 6th, at the dinner of the Imperial Federation league in London. Sir John Colomb, M. P., presided, and many prominent persons were present.
In the first four days of registration for Rosebud Indian lands, 10,000 people had registered. Commissioner Richards, of the general land office, stated to Senator R. J. Gamble that in his opinion the rush would grow stronger daily.
Edmund Bersca, former member of the house of delegates of St. Louis, was, on the 8th, given a sentence of two years in the Missouri penitentiary by Judge Jesse McDonald, for accepting a bribe of $2,500 for his vote on the city lighting deal in 1899.
A report received in Washington from Minister Allen at Seoul points to the existence of a great danger to both belligerent armies in Manchuria. He says he has learned from a missionary surgeon that cholera has crossed Manchuria and appeared at Antung.
Two Yale students, William Henry Goodwin, of Burnside, Conn., and Ralph W. Armstrong, of Hayesville, O., were drowned in the Connecticut river at Northfield, Mass., on the 5th. They were in bathing, and neither could swim. Goodwin got beyond his depth and Armstrong attempted his rescue.
# JUDGE ALTON BROOKS PARKER OF NEW YORK WAS NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT
Judge Alton Brooks Parker, of New York, was nominated, on the first ballot, for president of the United States, by the Democratic national convention, at St. Louis, at 5:35 a. m on the 9th, after an all-night session devoted to nominating and seconding speeches, punctuated by noisy demonstrations.
W. H. Morgan, assayer, president and general manager of the Grouse Mountain Gold Mining Co., was found dead, on the 7th, in a lodging house in Denver, Col. He had committed suicide. He was one the first number deported from Cripple Creek. Letters left by him show that he had been threatened.
Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, was released from custody by Sheriff Bell of Teller county, Col., on the 5th, after furnishing bonds for $10,000 on the charges of murder and inciting riot, filed against him at Cripple Creek. Bonds were provided by a guarantee company.
Geo. F. Kroehl, president of the First national bank of Asbury Park, N. J., which some time ago was put into the hands of a receiver, was, on the 7th, acquitted in the United States court of the charge of making false entries in the books of the bank. The verdict was found by the jury under direction of the court.
On the 7th, six miners and union sympathizers were run out of Victor, Col., by 25 masked men and ordered never to return to Teller county. They declare they were horsewhipped and told if they were caught in the district again they would be lynched. The men boarded a train for Denver, and will lodge a formal complaint with Gov. Peabody.
Oliver W. Stewart, cha! man of the prohibition national committee. has
