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News in Brief William A. Wheeler, president of the council of New York university, died in New York. Martial law was abolished over the whole of Formosa and the Pecadores islands, says a dispatch from Tokio. The Philippine commission has passed an act granting Sabin Glass of San Franc'sco a franchise to construct telephone and telegraph systems throughout the islands. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Geneva says that several persons have been killed or injured by violent thunderstorms which prevailed throughout Switzerland. Fire at Antioch. Cal., destroyed J. Lindenburger & Co.'s salmon cannery, cold storage plant, 600 barrels of canned salmon, twenty fishing boats and one launch. Loss, $150,000. Charles F. Wells, vice president of the National Lead and Oil company of Pennsylvania, has been killed and his daughter, Clara, injured in a runaway accident at Beaver Falls, Pa. At Hagerstown, Ind., President Mason of the Commercial bank issued a statement that the bank wwould not again open for business, and it is expected a receiver will be named. John L. Flynn of Mississippi, after a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to kill his bride at New Orleans, has committed suicide. Mrs. Flynn was a daughter of C. F. Hudson of Greeley, Col. President Roosevelt has approved the issue of $600,000 of bonds by the treasury of Hawaii to refund the gold bonds of the republic of Hawaii, issued under an act of the legislature of June 13, 1896. The League of American Travelers. a national organization which has for its object the security of concessions from railroads on mileage and other questions, was launched at Cincinnati, Sunday. Rear Admiral W. H. Whiting, having served for forty-two years in the United States navy, will relinquish command of the naval training station at San Francisco and be placed on the retired list. Charles Henry Treat, who became United States treasurer several days Robert JO descripatin difeet B s1 '0.38 Treat, who for thirty-two years was deputy and royal governor of the colony of Connecticut. A telegram has been received by the Harvard college observatory from Prof. Lowell at Flagstaff, Ariz., statuo projection B SUM there that Sup terminator Mars on Sunday near Propontis position angle 19 degrees. It is announced that Albert T. Patrick who is awaiting execution for the murder of William Marsh Rice, the Texas multi-millionaire, has instructed his take 01 IIIH 'Я PLACE siq case to the United States supreme court. In a battle at St. Louis between five negroes, believed to be highwaymen, and four police officers one negro was killed, another probably fatally wounded and a third was shot through the left arm. None of the officers were inJured. J. P. O'Brien has been formally elected vice president and general manager of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company at a meeting of directors held in Portland, Ore., vice B. A. Worthing, whose resignation was accepted. Cardinal Richelmy has instituted a movement to secure funds for the erection of a monument to Christopher Columbus in the neighborhood of St. Peter's, Rome, to commemorate the -AÓOSID 180.18 the JO authorisary 44044 orer's death. The Canadian Pacific Railroad company, which recently purchased the Esquimalt & Uanimo railway, announces that survey parties would at once be placed in the field, looking to the extension of the line to the north of Vacouver island. In the case of the state of Minnesota against Congressman C. B. Buckman to recover $70,000 for alleged illegal timber cutting, the supreme court has decided against the state, finding that the state's claim had been outlawed. "OO 28 IO шлр brokerage euro Chicago, have suspended business. The whereabouts of S. L. Frazer, the active member of the firm, is unknown. Thomas Medill, an associate, has cured a warrant for Frazer's arrest, charging embezziement. At Cheyenne, Wyo., Judge Scott de cided against Colonel J. H. Pratt of Omaha in the celebrated Pratt-Leiter suit, holding that the partition of the property of the company in that state valued at over $500,000, as made by the commission appointed by the court was just and equitable and mus stand. The cartmen's union has decided Join the longshoremen in a sympa thetic strike at San Juan, P. I. Western contractors, Nebraska, IIII nois, Minnesota and others, are figur ing upon contracts for building the Western Pacific road. the Gould
