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NEWS OF THE WEEK. The president has signed the New York and New Jersey bridge bill. The report that the Millard party were lost in the Southern California desert is false. Dr. Henry C. Meyer, the New York poisoner, has been sentenced to Sing Sing prison for life. The cash balance in the treasury Monday was $116,813,621, of which $68,375,525 is gold reserve. Census returns show that about 70 per cent of all the farms in the United States are unencumbered. B. F. Cox, 30 years old, committed suicide in Boston Friday. Unrequited love was the cause. A sharp frost visited the section about Boise, Idaho, Sunday night, resulting in great damage to vegetables. Snow fell at Carson, Nev., Sunday. This is something unprecedented in that section at this time of the year. The southern half of Augusta, Kan., is inundated, and the Arkansas river threatens to flood Wichita, Kan. Four out of a party of six were drowned Sunday by the upsetting of a boat on the Foster reservoir at Brewster, N. Y. A semi-annual dividend, of 2½ per cent payable August 1, has been declared on Canadian Pacific common stock. Muley Hassen, the Sultan of Morocco, is dead. It is rumored that he was murdered while traveling near his capital. N. J. Morrissey, Mrs. N. B. Cantz and Raymond Miller were sunstruck at Warsaw, Ind., Sunday, and will not recover. Charles Blaker, 40 years old, of Amboy, Clarke county, Wash., was killed May 25 by being thrown from a wagon. Jacob Wickland, 11 years old, of Echo valley, Stevens county, Wash., was dragged to death by a pony on May 31. The silver commission which convened at Berlin in February has concluded its labors without arriving at any decision. M. L. Andrews, auditor of the Cudaby Packing Company, was drowned while bathing in the Platte river at Omaha Sunday. The entire business portion of the town of Pleasantville, Ia., has burned. Loss $75,000. The fire was of incendiary origin. Nels P. Swanberg and his daughter were drowned at Skagit City, Wash., last Friday. Swanberg's body has not been recovered. Sila, Young, Rigler and Brown, the train robbers recently captured at El Reno, I. T., broke jail Sunday night at Pond Creek. The Lane county bank at Eugene which suspended about a year ago, opened its doors for business Wednesday morning. Senator Morgan has presented an amendment to the tariff bill, directed against the formation of trusts in imported articles. The trial of Father Dominick O'Grady, the Catholic priest who murdered Mary Kilmartin at Cincinnati, has been postponed until July. Congressman Charles H. Grosvenor, republican, was on Monday renominated by acclamation by the Eleventh Ohio district convention. The prince of Wales held a levee Monday at St. James for the queen. The officers of the United States cruiser Chicago were presented. By a change in the rules of the Chicago board of trade proprietors of regular warehouses are prohibited from merchandising in grain. Timber along the Mesaba & Northern Pacific railroads in Minnesota and Wisconsin is burning, and much valuable pine will be destroyed. The English combination of coalowners has decided to make a general reduction of 10 per cent in wages. The miners are organizing to resist it. Enormous damage was done to crops along Walnut river, Kansas, Sunday, by a heavy rain and hail storm. All the bottom lands are submerged. Congressman McCann, of Illinois, is not a candidate for re-election. He will take charge of the Twenty-second street electric car line in Chicago. The bill to appropriate $200,000 for the Atlanta exposition, was favorably re ported to the house Monday from the committee on appropriations. Isaac Kemp, a negro, who murdered Deputy Sheriff Ed Carver at Westover Va., Thursday, was on Friday taken from jail by 400 men and shot to death. The Troy laundry building in Portland burned Wednesday morning, and four chinamen perished in the flames. The fire was caused by an exploson of gas Fire destroyed the agricultural implement warehouses of Buford & George and the Keystone Implement Company at Kansas City Sunday. The loss is $300, 000. Daisy Estes, a girl 21 years old, was SO badly burned by the explosion of a lamp in Portland, Saturday night, that ampu tation of her lower limbs may be neces sary. Eugene Parsons, the 14-year-old son o Mrs. John Lyndon, had three teeth pulled by Dentist King, at Los Gatos, Cal. Mon day after inhaling chloroform. The boy died. A riot occured at McKeesport, Pa. Wednesday, in which 35 men were in jured, two of whom have died. The trouble grew out of a strike at the tub works. While on the lake near Vermillion Ohio, Sunday, a boat containing five per sons was upset and Amos Larkins, Mil dred Larkins and Bessie Ainsworth were drowned. Ramon Coronel, a prospector who ha
