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Five companies of the Twenty-secand infantry, stationed at Fort McDowell in San Francisco and four companies of the same regiment at Monterey, were dispatched to Goldfield, Nev., by Brig. Gen. Fred Funston, commanding the department of California, in compliance with orders received from the war department. Capt. William Cox, the representative of Gov. Sparks in Goldfield, stated that he had information from the Mine Owners' association that an attetmpt would be made very soon to reopen the mines with nonunion men. Nine companies of regulars went into camp at Goldfield. Ambassador Bryce has been summoned to England for a conference and is not expected to return to America. The late George F. Porter, millionaire of Minneapolis in his will left $100,000 to Miss Stelia M. Blethen, his confidential stenographer. Joseph and Floyd Randal!, brothers, aged ten and eight, and Ernest Doutelle, aged 12, were drowned at Flint, Mich., while crossing Flint river on the ice. Four hundred miners are known to have been killed by an explosion of black damp, or methane, in mines Nos. 6 and 8 of the Consolidation Coal company of Baltimore at Monongah, W. Va. Five men escaped, more dead than alive, through air shafts. Carling's restaurant in St. Paul was partly destroyed by fire and a woman employe was burned to death. Flames destroyed the big implement warehouse of David Bradley & Co. at Council Bluffs, Ia., the loss being $225,000. The sentence of the three Americans, Richardson, Mason and Hare, who were to be shot at Chihuahua for the murder of two other Americans whose insurance they attempted to collect, was commuted to 20 years imprisonment. James Bartlett Hammond, head of the Hammond Typewriter company, was declared sane and given his freedom. The jury which will try the case of George A. Pettibone for complicity in the murder of former Gov. Frank Steunenberg was completed and sworn in at Boise, Idaho. Mrs. Mary Stet of Altoona, Pa., was murdered by a burglar. Maj. William L. Geary, U. S. A., died in the army general hospital at the Presidio, San Francisco. He was the first American child born in San Francisco, his father having been the last alcalde and the first mayor of that city. President Roosevelt entertained at dinner a number of bear hunters from the Louisiana cane brakes. The secretary of the treasury has accepted bids for the Panama canal bonds to the amount of $25,000,000. The average price of all the bids accepted is 103. The Southwest Bridge company of Joplin, Mo., with a paid-up capital stock of $265,000, one of the largest manufacturing enterprises in the district, went into the hands of a receiver. The Fort Pitt National bank, one of the older financial institutions of Pitts. burg, Pa., was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. The State bank, of Admire, Kan., and the Bank of Stotesbury, at Stotesbury, Mo., closed as a result of the failure of the National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City. D. H. Perry, of Salt Take City, prominent capitalist and Democratic national committeeman from Utah, died at Los Angeles, Cal. The "Jim Crow" bill passed the Oklahoma senate and will become effective in 60 days after being signed by the governor. Twenty bandits attacked a monastary near Pskov, Russia, but were repulsed. Six monks were killed. The steamer St. Marys of the Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railroad company, was burned at Hallowing Point, on the Patuxent river, in southern Maryland. In the federal court at Topeka, Kan., demurrer to the indictment of Secretary H. H. Tucker, Jr., charging him with using the mails to defraud in his efforts to promote the Uncle Sam Oil company, was sustained, and Tucker was freed. Rice hall, at Washburn college, Topeka, Kan., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $100,000. Murdered by "Black Hand" enemies, it is believed, Gottlieb Voegeli, 50 years old, was found shot to death in a freight doorway of the La Salle street station at Chicago. The British turbine torpedo boat destroyer Tartar has beaten all records for her class by steaming 35.952 knots an hour against the tide. Encouraged by the success of other Russian artists in America. Mlle.
