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THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER. Domestic. The visit of the Italian cruiser Liguria to San Juan, Porto Rico, has been made the occasion for a show of international good feeling, the sailors of the United States cruiser Baltimore and those of the Liguria fraternizing. Judge Acheson filed an opinion in the United States Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia, sustaining Judge Kirkpatrick in appointing James Smith, Jr., as receiver for the United States Shipbuilding Company. The McNair Mill, at Fernandina, Fla., with aM the lumber stored in the mill yard, one of the Seaboard Air Line warehouses, was destroyed b fire. The entire waterfront was saved with difficulty. The W. A. Denecke private bank at Casper, Wyo., capitalized at $5000, but carrying large deposits, failed, overspeculation in poor stock loans being the statement of the cause. Six persons wree injured, one of them fatally, by the explosion of a boiler on a steam SCOW belonging to the Empire Shipbuilding Company, at Buffalo, N. Y. Capt. Oberlin M. Carter having completed his term at Fort Leavenworth for conspiracy to defraud the government, was released and hastened to Chicago. Commander Robert E. Peary, who arrived at New York on the steamer Philadelphia, spoke with confidence of his ability to reach the North Pole. Katharine Flynn Ray was arrested in Newark, N. J., on the charge of torturing her niece, Mary Conning, six years old, until the child died. Rev. William E. Hinshaw, a life prisoner for wife murder in Michigan City Prison, was allowed to go to the bedside of his dying mother. The San Juan (Porto Rico) office of the Vandegrift Construction Company, interested in a $3,000,000 trolley scheme, has been closed for nonpayment of rent and owing to attachments for salaries in behalf of many engineers, other employes and business creditors. Mrs. Caroline Koch, aged 46 years, committed suicide at her home, in Philadelphia, upon learning that her daughter had been secretly married in opposition to the family's wishes. Judge Quarton has appointed Frank Weimar receiver for the State Bank of Germania, Ia. The institution has $25,000 capital and $40,000 of deposits. Mrs. Mary Ousick and Mrs. Julia Ward, who boarded with Mrs. Ousick, died in New York under circumstances indicating death from some poison. The Ogden-Lucien cutoff across the Great Salt Lake was formally declared completed and made part of the Harriman system. It has cost $4,200,000. Under involuntary bankruptcy proceedings the Lacrosse (Wis.) Cheese and Butter Company has been adjudged bankrupt. The White Star liner Cedric, which was falsely reported to have been lost in midocean. arrived at New York. The military force in the Cripple Creek (Col.) coal district, where the miners' strike is prevailing, has been increased. Gen. Ruiz Reyes, representing the government of Columbia. reached New Orleans on his way to Washington. Elisha B. Gaddis, a multimillionaire, of Newark, N. J., died suddenly of heart failure.
