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bank of Athol, Mass. Robert Robinson, Perryville, Ky., and wife, were poisoned by robbers, who then ransacked their home. The wife's death is likely. At Carbondale, Kan., Robert Forbes. a .wealthy citizen, paid $5,000 for a gold brick, which he now finds to be worth at least 50 cents. At Dallas, Texas, Former Governor Hogg, in an interview, emphatically declares himsen out of any race for the United States senate. A run on the German-American bank at La Crosse was started by farmers and women depositors, who heard it had invested in railroad stocks. W. J. Bryan scored by counsel in the Philo S. Bennett will hearing at New Haven, Conn., for drawing up a will in which he himself was made heir. Two suspected postoffice robbers were wounded and captured by six Ishpeming (Mich.) policemen after a revolver battle on a train near that city. At Salem, Ind., Rev. George V. Dickey, pastor of the Presbyterian church, has disappeared and some ot his congregation think he was mur. dered. United States Senator W. M Stewart of Nevada, aged 76, was married to Mrs. Agnes A. Cone of Atlanta, Ga., whose acquaintance he made by letter. Jesse McClue, living near Marion, Ind., shot his sons, aged 5 and 7, to death in revenge on his wife, who refused to see him. He then surrendered. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, British ambassador at Madrid, will succeed the late Sir Michael Herbert as ambassador of Great Britain to the United States. Albert A. Patterson, the Ann Arbor student who disappeared May 21, was married to Dr. Maude G. Hinman, of Saginaw, one of the two to whom he was engaged. Henry A. W. Healey, son of A. Augustus Healey, Brooklyn, N. Y., surprised society by marrying another than Miss Laura Hubbard to whom he was engaged. From Bloomington, III., a shipment of 500 pounds of seed corn has been made to the department of agriculture of Rhodesiá, south Africa, which will try to introduce maize. Immigration Commissioner Sargent, in his annual report, warns against the colonization of alien communities in large cities, and urges teaching the advantages of the country. Federal courts have jurisdiction over all navigable waters, even if all are in one state, according to the United States supreme court decision. The canais are included. A New York subway cave-in, by which ten workmen were killed, is blamed to negligence. Contractor John B. McDonald's foreman and superintendent were arrested. To prevent confusion and guests being mistaken for ushers at the white house, Secretary Loeb has arranged to have the ushers wear Diue uniforms with silver buttons. Gen. Ballington Booth, in a report to the Volunteers of America field council at Pittsburg, howed that 400 women were cared for during the year in the society's home of mercy. At Butler, Pa., William Marks and Patrick Hardy mistook a nitroglycerin can for a maple sugar can and tried to cut it. Marks was instantly killed and Hardy fatally injured. Fifty per cent. reduction in the pension roll, totaling $79,500,000 is predicted by an official of that bureau as likely within six years. The appropriation asked is $1,700,000 under 1902. One hundred industrial stocks have shrunk $1,753,959,793 since the recent boom, according to Wall street statisticians Standard Oil is $243,750,000 lower and the Morgan group, $18,200,000. The steamer William F. Sauber was sunk in Lake Superior by the explosion of-the boiler after a twenty hours' struggle in a gale. Capt. W. E. Morris and one seaman were drowned. At Joliet, III., Motorman Bouray fainted and fell from the platform of his car at the top of a hill. The car ran away and killed a man and demolished a house at the bottom of the hill. "Believing it to be the will of God. I will come to you letter of acceptance forwarded," telegraphed Rev. Dr. Pondexter S. Henson of Brooklyn N Y., to the parishioners o: Tremont temple, Boston. Janauchek, the actress, has received
