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a hotel in Valley City, N. D., as Thomas Owens and wife, were found dead, clasped in each other's arms. Prussic acid had been taken. J. J. Crowley, supervising special agent of the treasury, in his annual report states that the number of arrests made during the year for violations of the customs laws was 58; number of seizures, 1,356. The receipts for the year exceeded those of the preceding year by $8,058,188. Secretary of Agriculture Morton in his fourth annual report says that 72 per cent. of the farms in the United States occupied by their owners are absolutely free from mortgages or other incumbrances, and he refutes the idea prevailing that the farmers are glmost universally in debt, despondent and suffering. During the last fiscal year the exported products of American fgrms aggregated $570,000,000, an increase of $17,000,000 over the preceding year. Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau, says in his annual report that timely warnings of all severe storms likely to cause injury to shipping were sent to all maritime stations and resulted in almost incalculable benefit. The average percentage of verification of the bureau's forecasts during the year was 82.4 cent., an improvement of 2.4 per cent. over that of last year. In a riot during a dance at the home of Charles Johnson, east of Lebanon, Ind., "Jack" Dowden and Jeffrey Gulldon were fatally hurt. The collier steamer San Benito, bound from Tacoma to San Francisco, went ashore seven miles north of Point Arena, Cal., and six of the crew were drowned. An electric locomotive that will run 200 miles an hour has just been completed at the Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia. A caboose attached to a work train on the Licking Valley railroad jumped the track and rolled down a 40-foot em bankment near Ashland, Ky., and 30 persons were injured, some fatally. An unknown man and woman who registered as George Wilson and wife were found dead in their bed in a room at the Standard hotel in New York, having been suffocated by illuminating gas. As a result of the flood in the Skagitt river the town of Hamilton, Wash., is a complete wreck. Willy Haas, who cut the throat of Mrs. Emma Brader, his employer's wife, at Covedale, O., was convicted of murder and will be the first victim of the electric chair in Obio. On Manhattan neid in New York the contest for the American champion ship at football was won by the Princeton college team, the Yale forces being defeated by a score of 24 to 6. The First national bank of East Saginaw, Mich., closed its doors with liabilities of $300,000. James Michael, the little Welshman, rode 29 miles 1,293 yards in an hour at Memphis, Tenn., lowering the American hour record two miles. While skating on a pond near Waupaca, Wis., Ret Brown, aged 21, and Ira Gibson broke through the ice and were drowned. David M. Wright, aged 17 years. died from injuries received while playing football at Austin, III. George W. G. Ferris, who conceived and built the world-famous Ferris wheel, died at the Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., of typhoid fever, aged 38 years. Five children of Snyder Neal. living five miles north of Hamilton, Mo., were burned to death while the parents were attending a dance. In a riot at Cleveland between a score of Hungarians and as many Irishmen many men were stabbed, two fatally. The visible supply of grain in the United States on the 23d was: Wheat, 59,971,000 bushels; corn, 18,150,000 bushels; onts, 12,208,000 bushels: rye. 2,657, 000 bushels; barley, 6,146,000 bushels. Mrs. Casper Laboy, of Nesqueboning, Pa., was stabbed to death and her husband fatally slashed by robbers. At Delmont, Pa., John Tarr, aged 25 years, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. They were not liv ing together. Patrick Meagher. a justice of the peace at Gilberts, III., and his mother were suffocated by coal gas at their home. A temporary prison at Mena, Ark., was burned and Tom Casey and H. Hopkins, confined for disorderly conduct, perished in the flames. For the first time in nearly 20 years the national republican party closed the campaign with all its debts paid and a surplus of $100,000 in its treasury. Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross society, in her report of the work of the Armenian relief expedition in Asia Minor says that 50,000 Armenians will starve unless helped by May 1
