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death for conspiracy to overthrow the government of the republic. John Mitchell, president of the United States Mine Workers, announced that he will not be a candidate for reelection as president because he does not regard himself as well enough to attend properly to the office. A coroner's jury at Iola, Kan., decided that Miss May Sapp was murdered by a person or persons unknown. The H. D. Reynolds bank at Valdez, Alaska, closed its doors. A courier from the president's camp on the Tensas reported that the president had killed a fine buck, but no bear. Thirty-six political prisoners broke out of the prison at Kutais, Russia, and got away. They had been incarcerated in secret cells for a year. Arthur E. Fowler, former secretary of the Japanese-Korean Exclusion League of Seattle, escaped from the insane asylum at Steilacoon, Wash. Jerome D. Gedley was appointed receiver for the Council City & Solomon River railroad in Alaska by Vice Chancellor Howard of Newark, N. J. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, the Cleveland (O.) woman who was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for bank wrecking, died at the Ohio penitentiary. Herbert Fletcher De Bon of Chicago attempted to end his life by jumping into the sea in midocean from the steamer Moltke. Prince Tzereteli was murdered by Russian peasants at Tiflis. Twenty-three Italians were sentenced to varying terms in prison at Newcastle, Pa., for Black Hand outrages. The second decisive game in the world's championship ceries was won by the Chicago National league ball team from the Detroit American league team by a score of 5 to 1. The power of Mulai Hafid, who has been proclaimed sultan of Morocco in the south, has been greatly strenghtened by the declaration of the Ulemas or holy men at Fez, that he has more legal and moral right to the throne than Abd-El-Aziz. In a battle with revolvers in St. Louis between six United States revenue officials and H. C. Moorman, suspected of manufacturing oleomargarine, one of the revenue officers was probably fatally shot through the breast, and the suspect received a bullet through the groin, from which he may not recover. Capt. John W. Myers, national secretary of the National Union since 1888, died at his home in Toledo, O., of nephritis. Edwin M. Watson and his wife, who profess Christian Science, were found guilty at Mount Holly, N. Y., of manslaughter in not providing medical treatment for their little son, who died from pneumonia. The three-year-old son of Thomas E. Leadon, a painter, is dead at his home in New York from the effects of nicotine poisoning caused by eating part of a cigar which his father left on the sideboard. Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, who arrived at the port of New York from Europe, paid duty on $10,000 worth of goods. Four men were killed and several others seriously hurt by the falling of a derrick where a new bridge is being constructed over the Cuyahoga river for the Nickel Plate railway. In a dynámite explosion at Wolcotville, Ind., Howard Roy, a clerk in a hardware store, had his head crushed, and Charles Craft, a customer at the store, had both his legs broken. Mrs. Charles J. Romadka, wife of a rich Milwaukee man, confessed in Chicago that she had committed several burglaries, taking jewelry worth thousands of dollars, much of which she gave to a negro. Michael Cronin, one of President Roosevelt's Adirondack guides, and the man who drove him 16 miles to the station on the night President McKinley was assassinated, has been declared insane. The Union bank of Richland and the Bowman bank of Kalamazoo, Mich., both private institutions, closed their doors with liabilities stated to total $195,000, of which those of the Union bank amount to $120,000. Kiev police arrested a revolutionist named Kruglikoff, charged with being an accomplice in the Boris Nikitenko plot to kill the czar. Rudyard Kipling, at a luncheon at Victoria, B. C., declared that Canada should encourage the immigration of British subjects rather than that of other races. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, who is serving time for her part in wrecking an Oberlin bank, is lying in a very critical condition in the hospital of the WO. men's ward at the Ohio penitentiary. Mrs. John C. Breckinridge, widow
