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Domestic. William T. Cobb, of Rockland was nominated for governor of Maine by the republican state convention. Peter Maher was knocked out in one minute and forty-seven seconds by Jack Williams of Kansas City at the Manhattan club in Philadelphia. The men were to have fought six rounds. The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the International Hahnemannian association, with a membership of over 200 homeopathic physicians, in this courtry and Canada, was held at Rochester, N. Y. Kinzie Smith, a farmer who lived northwest of Pittsburg, Kan., died of hydrophobla, the result of a wolf's bite on April 10. The wolf was stealing a chicken and Smith attempted to drive him away. P. H. Ravlin, a stationary engineer of Chicago, declaring that he had been induced by a collection agency to assign his salary for ten years, has ap pealed to the circuit court for relief. He owed $86. The total attendance at the world's fair for the past week, as officially an. nounced, was 540,485, an increase of over 67,000 over the previous week and 402,777 over the total attendance for the first week. The board of trustees of the village of North Fond du Lac has adopted a resolution to call for a special election on an issue of $10,000 in bonds for a public gasoline lighting plant. There will be much opposition. An appeal for aid was issued by the officers of the United Mineworkers at Trinidad, Colo., and generally distributed throughout the city and county. It will also be sent to all the cities throughout the East and West. The apostolic delegate at Washing ton has received a brief from Rome erecting the diocese of Great Falls, Mont., and appointing the Rev. M. Lenihan, a priest of the archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, the first bishop of the new see. William J. Donahue, after a fall from near the middle of the Brooklyn bridge in New York, swam almost to shore where he was picked up by a ferryboat. Donahue was one of a gang of painters at work on the bridge. He was not seriously injured by the fall. The First National bank of Saratoga, N. Y., has been closed. It owes depositors $890,000 and has among its assets $1,118,000 in loans, discounts, stocks, securities and cash. W. H. Bockes, the cashier of the bank, is missing A run was started on the Citizens Na tional, but ended a short time later. Settlement will be made, the entire amount of capital stock having been $ privately subscribed. This action is fully authorized by the controller. ) Much interest is taken in the dect sion of the state forestry board to se lect 20,000 acres of federal lands in the i / vicinity of Ely for forestry reserve purposes. Gen. C. C. Andrews, executive agent of the forestry board, says e that two-thirds of the tract is covered ; with small timber, and the other third 1 will in a short time be planted with seedling trees by the board. The tract includes several lakes which are well B suited to be stocked with fish, and the land can be stocked with deer and practically all kinds of wild game.
