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DOMESTIC. Chicago May wheat, $1.221/2. A panic occurred in San Francisco theater. The steamer Servia was burned on Lake Superior. John Y. McKane was released from Sing Sing prison. is missing. It is alleged he has disappeared with the money. The Standard National Bank of New York went out of existence. Philadelphia offers $10,000 to her ball players if they win the pennant. Charles P. Doxey, one of the bestknown politicians of Indiana, died in Andersor. Michigan came out victorious in the third annual debate with the University of Chicago. Judge Thomas A. Dyson of the sixth judicial district of Wisconsin died at La Crosse as a result of a fall. Senator Gorman resigned as chairman of the democratic caucus and was succeeded by Senator Turpie. Six men were killed by an explosion at the Atlantic Dynamite company's works near Dover, N. J. J. Fred Meyers, editor of the Denison (Iowa) Review and an old-time newspaper man, died at Denison. A decision by the North Dakota supreme court will have a tendency to check the wholesale divorce business. A combination of the Arbuckle coffee concern and the Havemeyer sugar interests is reported as very probable. Daniel Bitner, one of the wealthiest and best-known men in Kansas, died at Emporia. He was 80 years of age. The Knights Templar triennial conclave scheduled to be held at Pittsburg this year may be postponed because of the war. Samuel Nichols, managing editor of the Buffalo Times and until recently pension agent of Buffalo, died. He was 55 years old. Gov. Black signed the bill erecting the new county of Nassau out of that part of Queens county not included in greater New York. Eight persons were killed and over $100,000 worth of property was wrecked in a cyclone which swept over Iowa and southwestern Dakota. 3 Andrew Nelson and wife were murl dered by robbers at Black Earth, Wis. Wm. Beston and Wm. Fuller confessed and went to prison for life. Robbery was the motive. A United States senator said that the bribery charges against Senator Hanna made by the Ohio legislature would not be taken seriously by the senate. The announcement of the engagement of George W. Vanderbilt to Miss Edith Stuyvesant Dresser evoked much favorable comment in New York society. The Illinois supreme court declared that the senatorial redistricting act, passed at the recent special session of the legislature in January, was unconstitutional. The president nominated Gen. Michael Kerwin to be pension agent at New York, and Charles H. Treat to be collector of internal revenue for the second district of New York. Nearly 75,000 men have applied for enlistment in New York, and it is believed that city could supply the whole 125,000 men called for by the president for service in the war with Spain. Investigation is being made of the accounts of the Hampshire County National bank and the Hampshire County Savings bank, both of Northampton, Mass. There is reported a shortage of about $19,000 and the president Comptroller Coler reported to Mayor Van Wyck that the constitutional debt limit of greater New York is $246,312,000; that the actual debt is $50,193,246 in excess of the limit, $24,224,846 of which was owing by the old city of New York and $25,968,399 by the territory taken in by consolidation. As a result of a meeting of contractors holding New York city contracts 40,000 workmen were discharged. This is a result of the comptroller's decision that contract liability must be considered in estimating the city debt. As the city will not pay a
