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Being a Condensed Story of the News of the Week. Western Federation of Miners meets in Denver. The California fruit merger will be dissolved in September. Ground for Jamestown Exposition will be broken next month. Quarrel between France and Vatican may lead to breaking of old treaty. Forty-five battalions of Japanese are landed on the Liao-Tung Peninsula. The Misouri State Medical Association attacked the use of patent medlcines. Adjt. Gen. Bell of Colorado announces that he will resign his office Monday. The G. A. R. veterans of Missouri, encamped at Lexington, are royally entertained. A meeting of the Democratic National Committe was held at the Hotel Jefferson Monday. Russia buys four steamers from the Hamburg-American line, to reconstruct them as auxiliary cruisers. The fourth meeting of the Good Roads Convention was held on the terrace at the Missouri building. The first collision between Russian and Korean forces at Kan-Kow results in a rout of the Russian cavalry. Harry D. Babcock, Jr., a Yale freshman, dies in New York of injuries received in polo match with Princeton. General Kuropatkin is hastening his preparations for withdrawing, having decided to give up even Haicheng. Tercel Thomas of Pasadena, Cal., stabs his paralytic son in the back and then ends his own life. The boy is dead. Robert Walsh, son of Julius S. Walsh, was one of the many persons hurt in street car accidents in St. Louis. Seven persons were killed, five are dying and many were injured by an explosion in a fireworks plant at Findlay, O. The Japanese, after destroying several miles of railroad, have re-embarked and sailed from Kai-Chou, it is asserted. Sultan of Morocco makes offer to bandits for release of Ion Perdicoris and Cromwell Varley, who are held for ransom. Moroccan bandit communicates with American Consul at Tangier relative to release of Ion Perdicoris and his stepson. Although weather conditions have been unseasonable in portions of the Mississippi Valley, planting has made fair progress. The Newark, O., Savings Bank closes. A receiver who has been appointed says that he has found discrepancies. The Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis absorbs the American Central, paying $165 a share for a majority of the stock. Commander Peary will conduct a party of consumptives to the Arctic regions, where the sick persons hope to find new health. The strike of the masters and pilots of the Great Lakes threatens the West with one of the worst commercial disasters in its history. The reception given for the visiting newspaper men by the Indiana Commission was a record-breaker, 1,000 guests being present. The wife of a rich New York man has been traced to St. Louis, having disappeared from her home several days ago without explanation. One of the four Lascars arrested recently at Cronstadt on suspicion of being a spy claims to be a Filipino, and as such entitled to American protection. W. H. May, an express messenger, had an encounter with a sea lion, which broke from its box in a car while the train was nearing Kansas City, Mo. Kansas decides to expunge from school histories the story that Gen. Funston swam the Bag Bag River on the ground that the story, which gained the Kansan his present places, is fictitious. One hundred and fifty persons have died in New York in the last week of cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctors are completely nonplussed and do not know how to stop the spread of the epidemic. Weather conditions generally favorable in Illinois and crops are in fairly good state. The Good Roads Convention, which met in St. Louis, will organize township, county and State associations to make concerted fight for better highways. The battleship Rhode Island beached shortly after it was launched at Quincy, Mass., running upon a many
