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Judge Barnes, of the Nebraska supreme court, has granted a temporary injunction against the Nebraska Grain Dealers' association, which, it is alleged, is operating as a trust and in restraint of trade. A local passenger train was wrecked at Pleasant Hill, Mo., mortally injuring Engineer Frank C. Berry, of Sedalia, and painfully injuring Engineer Raymond, of the same place. Twelve of the 20 mills of the American Sheet & Tin Plate company at New Castle, Pa., will be placed in operation next week. The bank of West Liberty, Ky., closed its doors, owing to excessive loans. The bank has been running about three years and had a capital stock of $15,000. Two negro robbers entered the office of Contractor S. T. Roberts, in the business district of Des Moines, Ia., during the day and robbed him of $415 in cash and more than $500 in checks. Gen. James R. Carnahan, major general of the uniform rank, Knight of Pythias, died at his home, after an illness of two weeks. Arthur Weaver, a prominent business man of Clinton, Wis., was killed in a runaway. His wife was seriously injured and may die. John Ballard, assistant postmaster at Richmond, Ky., has been arrested on a charge of rifling registered letters. H. H. Loving, a former banker of Paducah, Ky., shot H. A. Rose, a prominent lumber man, and killed him. It is supposed that the shooting resulted from a quarrel over business affairs. The Warren paper mills at Raubsville, Pa., were almost destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000, partially insured. President Stuyvesant Fish, of the Illinois Central, declares rate discrimination should be stopped, but opposes the government's naming the tariffs. Seven state insurance commissioners met in Chicago and decided to visit New York and investigate the large life insurance companies. The celebration of the semicentennial of the opening of the Soo canal was begun with a naval parade, witnessed by Vice President Fairbanks. Ohio prohibitionists nominated Aaron S. Watkins for governor. Policeman Patrick E. Owens, of Chicago, fatally shot his wife during a quarrel. The Catholic Order of Foresters at its international convention in Boston reelected Thomas H. Cannon high chief ranger. King Oscar of Sweden has picked a cabinet favorable to a peaceful settlement with Norway. Through a return filed by an undertaker at the office of the town clerk of Middletown, Conn., the fact became public that on July 14 George W. Tweed, a son of the late William M. Tweed, of New York, known as "Boss" Tweed, committed suicide by jumping from an upper veranda of the Connecticut hospital for the insane. Andrew Wylie, for a long time a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, but who retired some years ago, died at Washington. Disappointed in love, Charles E. Reese, aged 50 years, one of the best-known and most highly respected men in southern Montana, suicided by shooting himself through the head in Virginia cemetery at Virginia City. Percy Pierce, of Buffalo, has been awarded the $2,000 trophy offered by Charles J. Glidden for the best showing in the recent automobile endurance test from New York to Mount Washington and return. Four lives were lost by the capsizing of a small skiff on Swan river, five miles north of Verna, Itasca county, Minn., near Ingstrom's landing. The names of the unfortunates are: Edith Tichenor, Goldie Tichenor, Everett Tichenor and Mrs. J. M. Pogue, settlers of that portion of country. The bank at Royal, Champaign county, Ill., was broken open and robbed of $4,000. Nitroglcerin was used and the explosion, which blew the safe door through the roof, was heard for miles. The robbers escaped. Duane Herbert Church, whose invention of about 150 machines has revolutionized the manufacture of watches in America, during the last 20 years, is dead from heart failure at his home in West Newton, Mass. Seven sailors were killed and eight severely injured by the explosian of a submarine mine during mining practice in the Sandham Roads near Stockholm, Sweden. A boat containing the victims struck the mine and was blown into the air. One white boy and two negro boys were killed outright and 20 other persons were more or less seriously injured in a heavy windstorm which struck Bessmay, La. Mrs. Fred Schneider, the 18-year-old wife of a merchant tailor, of St. Joseph, Mich., committed suicide by jumping into the St. Joseph river before the eyes of several hundred resorters T. M. Casey, cashier of the defunct Salmon and Salmon bank, of Clinton, Mo., who has been out under an $8,000 bond for foregery, has been arrested under four charges of receiving deposits when
