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the war. Domestic. There is talk in Japan of retaliatory measures against the new American tariff. Five cannon, captured by General Scott from General Santa Anna during the Mexican war have been stolen from the West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy grounds. Judge Chester, at Monticello, N. Y., declined to vacate the order granted May 11 with reference to changing the place of taking testimony in the proceedings against the alleged Coal Trust. He did grant an order, however, tending to delay the beginning of the investigation. At San Antonio, Texas, natural gas has Deen struck at a depth of 600 feet in a well on the County Court House grounds. Mrs. L. C. Elliott. of Nashua, N. H., died of excessive bicycle riding, according to physicians. She spent much of her time on her wheel, and recently cerebo-spinal meningitis developed. By a fire in Jersey City, N. J., six houses were destroyed, eleven badly damaged, and seventy families were rendered homeless. No lives were lost. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Miss Fannie Richardson, a recluse and miser, died in Taunton, Mass, worth 850,000. No will has been found, and as far as is known she had no relatives. The Pittsburg jury returned a verdict of acquittal in the case of Lieutenant Edward S. Farrow, charged with conspiring to defraud the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association of New York. The members of the United States Bimetallic Commission are in Paris waiting for the appointment of French delegates by President Faure before they proceed to England. Oscar Wilde, who was sentenced on May 25, 1895, to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. was released from Holloway (England) Prison. He refused $5000 to write his prison experiences. He will do literary work in London under his own name. Superintendent of Streets Thomas F. Maloney, of Buffalo, N. Y., was convicted of attempting to bribe Superintendent of Police W. S. Bull by offering him $500 to protect the Goeiet Gambling Club last July. The Presbyterian Union Theological SemInary graduation exercises were held in New York City, and Miss Briggs, daughter of Professor C. A. Briggs, received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, being the first woman graduate of the seminary. A diver discovered that the leak in the big navy yard dock at Brooklyn is caused by a ten-foot-square hole in the apron outside of the caisson. Much additional damaging evidence has been found against Adolph L. Luetgert,the rich sausage manufacturer, of Chicago, Ill.. who is accused of murdering his wife and burning her body. Phineas B. Smith, a well-known citizen of Roxbury, Mass., died of heart trouble resulting from overexertion in climbing a hill while riding a bicycle. He was fiftynine years of age and was a lawyer. Governor Black, of New York, has signed the General Tax Rate bill. The State tax rate for the year is 2.67 mills. The revenues from direct taxation are estimated at $12,003 792.92, and from indirect taxation at $10,048,708. The Illinois Battlefield Commission has decided to erect nine monuments each at Lookout Mountain and at the north end of Mission Ridge to the Illinois regiments which participated in these battles. The Government Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition was opened. In New York City Helen Horsford, left an orphan by the death of her mother, grieved constantly, and committed suicide by hanging. George Bartholomew, an engineer for the Crown Slate Company at Pen Argyl, Penn., was blown to pieces by the explosion of a boiler. Bartholomew is supposed to have. fallen asleep and on awakening found the boiler dry and turned on the water, thereby causing the explosion. His sister, when she learned of her brother's death, attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into the burning boiler house. John Farrell was fined 85 for planting potatoes on Sunday at Nanuet, N. Y. The Holland, a small vessel owned by her inventor and designed for submarine warfare, was successfully launched at Elizabethport, N.J. Mr. Bissel, a farmer livinging east of Carthage, III., having no faith in banks, kept his money hidden about his farm. The other day he hid it up a flue. The next day his wife put up a stove and started a fire and burned up 83000 in bank notes. Three men, one of them James Francis, son of Maine's famous guide and hunter, were drowned in a lake by the upsetting of their canoe. John Reichart, a railroad brakeman, saw a child in the water as his train was passing the Allegheny River at Pittsburg. He jumped off the train and into the water and both were drowned. Martin Wicks and wife, who live near Gresham, Wis., left their home to look after some stock that had strayed away. During their absence forest fires spread over the farm and destroyed the house. Three small children who had been left alone perished. The Coroner's inquiry in New York City into the Leona fire horror, by which thirteen persons lost their lives at sea, resulted in a verdict by the jury exonerating the captain and crew of the Leona and management of the Mallory Line from any blame in the matter. Judge Gibbons in Chicago pronounced the American Tobacco Company an illegal combination and forbade it doing business in Illinois. Governor Black signed the act changing the Civil Service system in New York State. There was a $25,000 run on the Framingham Savings Bank at South Framingham, Mass. Twelve thousand tailors of New York City forced their leaders to order them to strike after they had decided to organize to avoid a strike. Henry Van Buskirk, of East Stroudsburg, Penn., fatally shot one of three men who attacked his wife, and then received a fatal wound. Foreign. A bill intended to divert German emigration from the United States to South America passed the Reichstag. Owing to a short coffee crop a financial crisis has arisen in Venezuela, and the banks refuse all commercialoperations. Laforce Langevin, the only son of Sir
