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# NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.
India's jute crop is estimated at 6,800,000 bales of 400 pounds each.
The Nicaragua canal commission sailed for Port Limon, on the isthmus.
Frank Novak, tried at Vinton, Iowa, for the murder of Murray, was convicted.
W. S. Tyler, late professor of Greek language and literature in Amherst college is dead, aged 87.
Miss Ida Sundsteardt of Rockford, Ill., was fatally burned by explosion of a gasoline stove.
Dr. D. E. Salmon, a government expert, severely criticised the Bordon process of butter-making.
Dr. W. D. Flynn, ex-president of the Minnesota State Medical society, died at Redwood Falls.
The monetary commission took a recess until Dec. 15, when it will reassemble in Washington.
Fifteen alleged moonshiners were captured by government officers in a raid in Scott county, Ark.
Pat Galvin, a returned Klondike miner, now in New York, was offered 1,000,000 for part of his claim.
Formal charges have been preferred against John U. Smith, United States commissioner for Dyea, Alaska.
A fast passenger train on the Lake Shore ran into a freight at Ligonier, Ind., demolishing both engines.
The employes of the Bourbon Shipping company of Bourbon, Ind., are on a strike against a cut in wages.
Three persons were killed and several others were fatally wounded by a boiler explosion at Louisville, Miss.
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky thinks the republicans, if united could accomplish a reform of the currency.
At Indianapolis Mrs. Nellie Walley recovered a judgment for $5,414.80 lost by her husband at a faro game.
Trustees of the Northwestern university are considering the advisability of banishing football from that institution.
John Ryan, Sr., a pioneer citizen of Atlanta, and one of the richest and most widely-known men in the south, died.
William F. Burden of Newport, R. I., died in the Astoria hotel, New York, while preparing to dine in his apartments.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, an arctic explorer, returned to Marengo, Ind., from an extended exploration of Wyandotte cave.
Mrs. O'Reily, widow of the late John Boyle O'Reilly, the patriot, poet and editor, died at her home in Boston of preumonia.
The United States agrees to suspend seal-killing for a year of the British will do the same.
The special naval board considering the subject will recommend the erection of a $3,000,000 armor plate by the government.
The fire which was started a week ago Sunday in the Smuggler mine, at Aspen, Col., is to all appearances under control.
Up to November 27 a total of 4,289 cases of yellow fever had occurred in this country the presnt year, and 446 had proved fatal.
H. Wiswall, the Boston capitalist who was injured by falling into the cellar of the Grand Opera house at Atlanta, died.
The trial of ex-Cashier T. B. Youtsey of the First National bank of Newport, Ky., has been postponed until March 1.
William McNeal was found dead by the road side near Abingdon, Ill., his riderless horse reaching home without him.
John Cherry committed suicide by taking morphine at Shelbyville, Ind., and William Ford dropped dead on the streets.
The University of Pennsylvania professor shocked the national Methodist conference with a paper in defense of evolution.
Thomas, alias Lutz, etc., who married Miss Rutherford of Minneapolis, was recaptured and is in the Memphis jail again.
Asa Briggs, the farmer who was shot on the night of November 10 by an unknown masked man at Hannama Falls, died.
It is understood that President McKinley has appointed all the colored men to office in Georgia whom he desires to honor in that way.
Victor Molain has sued the stockholders of the defunct bank of Superior, Wis., to recover $600 he had on deposit when the bank failed.
James Foley of Savannah, Ga., sues the Central of Georgia for $5,000 damages for being put off a train on a scalper's ticket.
Senator Burrows thinks congress will have a long session in debates on the currency and other questions, and may not adjourn before August.
Rapid progress is being made in the preparations for the trans-Mississippi and international exposition, which is to begin June 1 1898 at Omaha.
