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NEWS IN SHORT ORDEP. The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid Reading. Domestic, The large independent operators of the Pocahontas coal region have entered into an agreement to raise the price of soft coal. Rear Admiral George A. Converse was appointed chief of the Bureau of Navigation, succeeding the late Admiral Taylor. The peace prospects at the stockyards' strike received a black eye in the arrest of President Golden, of the Teamsters' Union. The managers of the St. Louis Exposition have decided not to pay the expenses of the foreign jurors to the fair. Receiver W. G. Taefel, of the New York Savings Bank, was found drowned in a branch of the Licking River. E. J. Gildersleeve, a ticket broker, was fined for dealing in nontransferable World's Fair railroad tickets. A dozen persons were injured in a collision between a motor train and a trolley car near Coney Island. Minister Leishman cabled the State Department that he had along interview with the Sultan. One man was killed and several injured in a head-on collision near Sharon, Pa. Custer Gardner, a white man, was hanged at Munfordville, Ky., for the murder, in November last, of S. D. Osborn and his son David. The house of John Harper, at New Haven, O., burned, and Mr. Harper and his wife, both over 80 years old, were burned to death. The remains of Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor were buried with military honors at the National Cemetery at Arlington. State Bank Examiner Bergh, of Wisconsin, took charge of the state bank at Mauston, Wis., and closed its doors. The Republican State Convention of Missouri nominated Cyrus P. Walbridge, of St. Louis, for governor. a William Hoyt hitched himself to sulky and pulled his wife from Moline, III., to the World's Fair in St. Louis. Private Joseph J. Hammot, of the Eighteenth Regiment, U. S. A., stationed at Fort Schuyler, was murdered. Ambassadors Bellamy Storer and Charlemayne Tower arrived at New York on the steamer Deutchland. President Roosevelt and his family returned to Washington, where they will remain for a while. Former Secretary of War Root has declined to become a candidate for governor of New York. Michael Davis was arrested in Brownsville, Pa., on the charge of killing his mother. Heathfield Washburn, grain dealer of Buffalo, committed suicide. The accident bulletin of the Interstate Commerce Commission shows a decrease in the casualties on railroads since the use of air brakes on freight cars. Judge Platt, of the United States Circuit Court in Harford. Ct., signed the decree of foreclosure of the mortgage given the Ship Trust. George F. Hammond confessed in Spokane, Wash.. his part in the holding up of a Northern Pacific passenger train near Bearmouth, Mon. The will of Abner McKinley, filed in Somerset, Pa., leaves the bulk of his estate to his widow and his daughter, Mrs. McKinley Bear. M. Marshall Langhorne, of Virginia, was appointed consul to Chungking, China, and Frank S. Hannah, of Illinois, to Madeburg, Germany. Salvatore Brandaleone and Giovanni Giordano, two Italians, were convicted in New York for counterfeiting. They confessed. John Rogers, the sculptor who designed the famous groups of statuary bearing his name, died in New Haven, Ct. A fire broke out in the lard refinery of Swift & Co., in the stockyards in Chicago. It was not of incendiary origin. Jealous John Anderson, of Pueblo, Col., killed his sweetheart, Mrs. J. J. Appley, and then shot and killed himself. The Lancaster Bank of Lancaster, O., closed its doors in cosequence of a run, and a receiver was appointed. The National Association of Railway Postal Clerks elected delegates to the national convention to be held in Boston in September. Senator Davis emphatically denies the report that he is to marry the widow of Dr. John Reynolds, of Shepherdstown, W. Va. The record in the case of James B. Howard against the State of Kentucky was filed in the United States Supreme Court. The resignation of Charles M. Schwab as a director of the United States Steel Corporation was accepted. Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Rev. Robert Perine, dean of All Saints' Cathedral, at Spokane, Wash., died at Newark. Foreign. The recovery of Lego, alias Porozeff, the assassin of the Russian Minister of the Interior von Plehve is believed to be assured. The officials declare that the murder was a part
