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John Odell and W. 0. Ruch, at Beaumont, Tex., attempting to save Tom Nicnolson, from asphyxiation in an empty 600 barrel cypress oil tank, were overcome and all three died. A report circulated in the financial districts stated that the Westinghouse Electric Company has actual orders on its books which total between $60,000,000 and $70,000,000. The Wolverine and Mohawk Copper Mining Company, in paying their 1,200 employes, included an extra check for 5 per cent of the total wages of June as a bonus. Queen Mary has personally bought respirators of the most approved type for every member of the household at Buckingham Palace. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is sick and being taken East on a fast train. Accompanied by her husband she reached Chicago Sunday morning, Aug. 1. Judge Hand, in the United States district court, denied the motion for a receiver to take over the business of the American 5 and 10 Cent Stores. American dispatches to the London newspapers say that the recent intimation to the American Government that England will send another note soon indicates a reversal of British policy. "I have no political aspirations whatever, looking to the holding of office in the future," said William J. Bryan in a speech at Portland, Ore. After balloting 12 hours without result, the jury in the case of George W. Ward, charged with killing his wife, was discharged at Whiteplains, Mo. Four girls were drowned at Flemington, Pa. They were: Esther Fisher, 20, and Thelma Floruss, 13, of Farmington; Marion Bower, 19, of Monument, Pa., and Erma Butterbaugh, 18, of Cherry Tree, Pa. General Muller, one of the leaders of the Boer revolt, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for treason. A double electrocution took place at the Eddyville, Ky., penitentiary, when Turner Graham, 24 years old, and Will Lane, 23, a negro wife murderer, were executed. A man was killed by lightning in a hollow tree, at Terre Haute, Ind., where he sought shelter during a storm. He is believed to be Roy Davis of Effingham, III. The Wharton National Bank at Wharton, Tex., was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. Illinois Central Chicago to Cairo passenger train was derailed just south of Anna, III., July 30. During the past two weeks the Italians have advanced five miles along the entire Isonzo front. The Austrian losses are estimated at 80,000. J. M. Cockrell, Chicago agricultural commissioner of the Rock Island, has been employed as manager of the farm development bureau of the Memphis, Tennessee, Business Men's Club and will resign the Chicago position Aug. 15. A cablegram reports an unprecedented heat wave sweeping over Southeastern Alaska. So intense is the heat that beach residents are towing small icebergs broken off the Taku glacier to anchorage near their cabins in order to cool the atmosphere. The dedicatory exercises of the government experimental creamery were held at Grove City, Pa. A Russian ukase Issued calls to colors men born in 1896. "Wish" Sheppard, a negro, charged with attacking Miss Mildred Clark, 14 years old, daughter of Enoch Clark, a Federalsburg, Md., farmer, July 15, was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The Swedish army is now the largest and most efficient in the country's history. Since the outbreak of the war the army has been almost doubled. Charged with recruiting soldiers for the Villista army here in violation of American neutrality laws, Manuel de Icaza, Villa consul here, was arrested
