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TO-DAY'S CONDENSATION Wool is in better demand at Philadelphia, prices firmer with a tendency toward higher values. There has been a terrific storm of rain, with thunder and lightning, in Texas, and another in Wisconsin. Elias D. Dorsey, of Denver, has been appointed to be receiver of public moneys at Del Norte, Colo. A dispatch from Tien Tsin says there are alarming reports that the Japanese are fortifying the Liao Tung frontier. Governor Matthews has appointed Benjamin Harrison, ex-president of the United States, a trustee for Purdue uni. versity for a term of six years. Six others were also named by the governor. The St. Petersburg Gazette saye that the Russian-French syndicate, receiving no reply from China, has offered the Russian government to issue a 4 per cent loan of 400,000,000 francs. The proceeds are to be employed for conversion purposes to strengthen the Imperial bank or to be expended on railroads. A Wichita dispatch says: Kanadia, a Kickapoo squaw, took a shotgun to-day and held up the contractor of the Choctaw railway in Oklahoma and all his men, and would not let them build a foot of track on her allotment until a bond of $2,000 was put up as a guarantee for damages. At Clinton, Iowa, the well known banking house of G. Haywood & Son assigned to G. W. Chase. Liabilities are about $180,000; assets $270,000. It is thought all claims will be liquidated. A letter has been received at Galveston from William A. Brady, Corbett's manager, stating that the champion will be there the latter part of September or the first of October and asking for. suitable quarters for his final training. The Reading Railroad company will on July 1 default for the fifth successive time in the payment of semi-annual interest on the general mortgage bonds and the accumulated interest dueto the holders of these bonds will then amount to about $5,000,000.