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earnings of billion-dollar steel trust to be $29,000,000, assuring earnings for the first year of more than $100,000,000.
F. J. Moses, former governor of South Carolina, was sentenced to imprisonment in New York for stealing an overcoat. He is a victim of opium.
At St. Enine, France, a cook named Tantale killed his wife with a revolver and tossed her body in an oven and cremated it. Then he committed suicide.
J. V. Conklin, receiver of the Canton, S. D., State bank, which failed some months ago, has finished paying the creditors 50 cents on the dollar.
At Volga, S. D., an open safety-pin was removed from the throat of the infant of John Woodward and the child is now recovering after suffering two months.
Six masked men held possession of the stock yards in East St. Louis for nine hours, gagged and bound several persons and robbed the National Stockyards bank.
In his message to the legislature Governor Beckham says Kentucky has recovered from the bitter political rivalry growing out of the Goebel-Taylor contest.
The remains of a woman, thrown from a West Madison street cable train in Chicago, were identified as those of Mrs. John B. Ashby, formerly of Beatrice, Neb.
At Beloit, Anson P. Waterman died aged 83. He was for thirty years resident of Beloit and was twice mayor and for forty years a trustee of Beloit college.
Near Aberdeen, Miss., William Lanier, convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of the Bittelle brothers in 1890, and who twice escaped from jail, was captured.
John Miller, a negro, with a noose round his neck and badly beaten, sought protection of the sheriff at Tampa, Fla. He said he had escaped from a mob of lynchers.
Andrew Carnegie outlined the plans of his $10,000,000 Carnegie institution and named its trustees, who include many well known men, Senator Spooner among them.
Another water gusher has been struck in Milwaukee county, this time on the farm of Jacob Beuscher Sr., in German township, seventeen miles northwest of this city.
The bill creating a fifth assistant postmaster general, introduced in the house by Mr. Watson of Indiana, gives the new assistant charge of the free delivery system, rural and city.
Charles H. Thompson, general manager of the olemargarine department of the Hammond Packing company, is charged with attempted bribery of a Michigan pure food officer
Fifteen were killed and sixteen injured in a collision between two passenger trains in the Park avenue tunnel of the New York Central road at New York. Many of the injured may die.
At a council meeting at Alma, Wis., a resolution was passed for holding a special election for voting on bonds not exceeding $8,000 for the erection of a county teachers' training school there.
A correspondent at Shanghai urges that the powers insist on Russia restoring at once the Chinese telegraph line from Shanghai to New Chwang, if the commercial status quo of China is to be preserved.
A girl arrested at Baltimore disguised as a boy proved to be Miss Caltha Eads, a school teacher of Springfield, Ill., who left there with young Henderson, whom she said she was going to marry.
At the Redwood Falls city election H. M. Aune was elected mayor; Joseph Chadderdon, municipal judge; A. R. A. Laudon, recorder; H. A. Baldwin, treasurer; J. A. Engelhart and E. A. Pease, aldermen.
An anonymous friend of the Post-graduate hospital of New York city has offered to give $100,000 to the institution, providing an additional sum of $200,000 of the last-mentioned sum has been pledged.
At the annual meeting of the La Crosse County Medical society, the following officers were elected: President, C. H. Marquardt; vice president J. A. L. Bradfield; secretary and treasurer, Edward Evans.
Officers have captured a man believed to be Harvey Logan, the noted Montana murderer and train robber. The capture was made at Clifton, Ariz., where he was one of four bad men who were selling jewelry.
A load of lumber on which a party was riding capsized near Bay City, Mich., and instantly killed Mrs. August Demars. Her husband August Demars, and father and sister, Mr. and Miss Christy, were injured.
The open-air treatment for persons in the early stages of consumption is shown to have been efficacious in about 67 per cent. of the cases treated during the past year at the Massachusetts state sanatorium, at Rutland.
Arthur Pue Gorman and Chairman Murray Vandiver of the democratic state central committee were selected as the demoratic nominees for United States senate and state treasurer re-
