Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 4, 1896, Page 6

od Ghe Herald. BY E. C, KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA Hetty Green’s son is ambitious to be governor of Texas, and it is said that the old lady is backing him up. England is not receiving the share of trade from China that she expected when the recent agreement with that country was reached. As Weyler dare not ply his trade as expert butcher in Cuba with the whole world looking, perhaps Spain will send over a soldier to replace htm. The recent election in Canada re- sulted in a victory for the Liberal This is the first time in eighteen years that that party has had a ma- jority in the house of commons. Bill Hohenzollern, otherwise Em- peror William, is learning to ride a c The grand army of wheelmen is iously waiting to learn the kind of wheel he uses. Albert Edward has no reputation for prilliancy, but a prince who never made a foolish speech and who won the Derby will compare very well witb the average royalty of Europe. A Hartford man has been fined $50 and sent to jail for thirty days for at- tempting to kiss a woman. Great care should be exercised in matters of this kind. Many such failures would re sult in serious consequences. ‘The sultan has issued an irade, sug- gesting that in order to end the trouble in Crete the Christians on that island should lay down their arms. This would certainly make it easier for the Turks to end the revolution. There is to be an attempt to exclude ladies from the houses of parliament, or at least to limit the number of fem- inine visitors allowed each member. They say the bills for tea are simply ruinous. “Marching Through Georgia” was one of the musical selections heard at a recent court drawing room in Lon- don. It would hardly have answered to play “America” in the royal pres- ence and claim it as one of our repre: sentative national airs. Here is a French prophet declaring that the world will come to an end in September. It is astonishing, after so many failures on the part of the world to take this hint, that any self-respect- ing prophet will risk his reputation with that particular prediction. The thirty-six prisoners at Sing-Sing, avho, under the influence of Mrs. Bal- iington Booth’s ministrations declared Their intention of leading a better life, may have been sincere, but with some of them it w: probably a case of “when the devil was sick,” etc. A Vermonter who had a large area of what was called waste land planted it with 70,000 trees, and finds himself the owner of some very promising for- ests. Americans are slow to learn that there is money in growing trees as well as in cutting them down. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett was almost whipped recently by Sharkey, the ougilistie sailor. Corbett evidently thought he had a snap and made scarcely any preparation for the event The interference of the police saved the “gentleman” and the contest was declared a draw. Oom Paul is the greatest thing that ever happened in the line of states- manship. He values prisoners at $125,- 900 a piece and makes the Jameson tonspiracy net the government $600,- 500. With a few more such affairs the Boer republic will be paying a reg: alar quarterly dividend. Premier Victor Napoleon says that “the Napoleons have no rights except those they hold from the people, and the people alone can invalidate those rights.” There is a strong opinion pre- vailing that the people gave due atten- tion to the invalidating business some twenty-five years ago. The most enterprising advertising agent yet heard from is in Paris. He has acquired the services of a man with a bald head on the back of which are painted encomiums of soap, pills, or whatever the agent chooses. Then the living signpost sits in the front row at a theater. It is a great idea, and it is only a question of time, doubtless, when it will be adapted to poster purposes. The queen’s watermen are officials without an office. A waterman with- out a barge must be something like an editor without a paper. But we must not forget this difference, that while one fattens on the indulgence of the nation, the other would starve. There are altogether thirty-six of this admir- able body of do-nothings. For per- forming their task admirably they re- ceive a solatium of about five pounds a@ year, PITH OF THE NEW! EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. : A General Resume of the Most Im- vgortant News of the Week, Frem all Parts of the Globe, Dolled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Per. usal by Busy People. _—— Washington Talk. The government forestry commission, organized to make an investigation of various forestry problems and outline an administrative policy on the sub- ject, will devote the summer to its work. Practically all of the field work of the United States geological survey is now under way, about forty or fifty geological and almost as many topo- graphical parties have resumed opera- tiotis throughout the country, and will continue ustil the close of the season in September and October. People in Print. Prof. John S. Copp of the theological department of Hillsdale, Mich., is dead. A nursing exhibition is being held in London. It is of the appliances used by hospital nurses. Lord Rosebery’s eldest daughter has been much seen in London this season, and will probably be brought out next year and presented at court. Prof. P. C. Trandberg, instructor of theology at the Danish Theological seminary, Chicago, died in Minneapo- lis. Mrs. Marie de la Chappele died at Ottawa, Ill, at the age of 25 years. She was the daughter of the present Marquis d’Ivery, the head of one of the oldest families in France. Capt. J. D. Marks, who has served Jackson, Tenn., as city marshal and chief of police for twenty years, was stricken by paralysis six days ago and died, aged 48 years. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford university, who has arrived in Seattle, Wash., will sail for Alaska with the two other members of the seal commission and British commis- sioners. ® — ~ Casualties. — Walter Stephens, a yeung shovel pol- {sher at a factory in Anderson, Ind., was killed by the bursting of an emery wheel. Miss Emma Krauss has died at New Baden, Ill, from injuries received in the tornado there. Her death increases the death roll in the village to fifteen. An explosion at the powder works near Marquette, Mich., wrecked the glycerine house and destroyed proper- ty worth $2,000. The boiler of a steam yacht exploded at the Taylor Cycle park, one mile west of Little Falls, N. Y., killing ten persons instantly and severely injuring many others. Two men were probably fatally in- jured and several others were hurt by a train colliding with a stone at Hog’s Bridge, Roxbury District, near Bos- ton. There was a fatal wreck at Friend, Neb. Wind had blown empty stock press ran into them, and half a dozen cars were piled in the ditch. A tramp stealing a ride was killed. A cyclone struck Creston, Iowa. The high school building was damaged to the extent of $10,000 and the Meth- odist church and other buildings suf- fered. Property losses amount to about $10,000 and the streets are block- ed with debris. Ex-Goy. Luce of Michigan had a narrow escape from being killed. He was at work at his barn in Gilead township, near Coldwater, when a heavy door fell upon him, crushing him to the ground. Fortunately help was near, and he was rescued from his perilous position with a dislocated shoulder and painful bruises on the chest. An excursion train containing eigh- teen coaches of passengers, all of whom were employes of the Pennsyl- vania railroad shops at Fort Wayne, broke in two while running at a high rate of speed five miles south of Ken- dallville, Ind. Before the alarm could be given two men were thrown from the platform, one being cut in two and the other literally ground to pieces. On the trolley line running from Frankford, a suburb of Philadelphia, to a pleasure park some distance out, two overloaded open cars in passing each other at a rapid rate, caused a jam among the passengers hanging on the sides. Nine of the passengers re- ceived internal injuries and eleven others received injuries more or less serious. Mrs. Simon Paulson was killed by lightning during a thunder storm at Sioux City, Ia. Her husband and 3- year-old child were standing near by, but escaped without serious injury. The government towboat, Josie, an- thored some distance above the city, was considerably damaged by a bolt, | and several of her crew more or less burned. Many houses were struck and the business streets flooded by the heavy rain- e from ambush and murdered James Gil- christ, a farmer of Lowndes county, Ala., and was lynched by. a mob. The trial of Alonzo P. Walling, joint- ly indicted with Scott Jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan, ended with conviction and penalty fixed at death. John C. Denaldson, a farmer near Warsaw, Ind., has been arrested on a charge of counterfeiting. There is a large number of bogus $2 bills in cir- culation in the vicinity. At Hoxie, Kan., the court house of Sheridan county was robbed, the treas- urer’s safe being blown open and plun- flered and the building burned. All the records were destroyed. Martin Clihal, the old keeper of the ' Chicago Outing club house at Forsyth, d., was shot in the head by some un- wn person, Several arrests have -| been made. Noble Shepard, who was in jail at St. Evil Doings. Bill Westmoreland, colored, fired cars on the main track, the fast ex-| der of Thomas Morton and Lizzie Lea hey, escaped from prison during the night. . City Marshal Scott of North Balti more, Ohio, was killed while attempt- ing to arrest three robbers whom he caught in the act of endeavoring to effect an entrance into the village postoffice. An unknown man and woman were found dead in a bed in a house of ques- tionable character at Wilkesbarre, Pa. It is believed to be a case of double suicide. The coroner has begun an in- vestigation. Rey. A. Cornish, pastor of the United Brethren church, one of the largest churches in Fort Scott, Kan., was walking by the fence at the house where he rooms, when some one sud- denly sprang out from the weeds about twelve feet away and shot a bullet through his hat, just missing his head. Prof. E. T. Jordan of Morristown, Ind., engaged in a heated argumeat over the financial situation and routed his opponents. While on his way home he was waylaid by several men, who assailed him with eggs. He pursued them and was knocked senseless with a stone. Jordon was formerly state gas inspector and is well known all over the state. The men who assailed him have not been apprehended. Henry Elroth, once the owner of large cabinet ware factories in Peoria, Ill, and Mexico, Mo., was found dead in his lodgings at Kansas City, Mo., having committed suicide with mor- phine. Ellroth was 55 years old. He was one time wealthy, but lost his wealth about ten years ago. Soon after that his wife left him, and is now liv- ing in Chicago. Ellroth had been de- spondent for several weeks, and last night told some of his friends that he would not be alive next day. From Foreign Shores, The Natal contingent has defeated with heavy loss a force of 2,000 Ma- shonas, Consul General Lee, in a private let- ter, says the Cubans are actually in control of their island. Dr. Jameson, the Transvaals raider, has been indicted in London for vio- lating the neutrality laws. The Conservative government was badly defeated in the Canadian elec- ions, the Liberals winning on account of the separate school proposition. The opposition has decided to re- quest the Spanish government to in- troduce a bill providing sufficient re- sources. to prosecute the campaign in Cuba. Gen. P. D. Roddey, formerly in the service of the Confederate states and for eight years a company promoter in in London, Eng., is in the bankruptcy court. Hugh Sproston, Jr., the leading fig- ure in business circles of British Guiana, drowned himself by jumping from a steamer into the Demarara river. He was short in his accounts 2.0), 000. The Berkner Nachrichten has learn- ed that Emperor William has had a collection of English pamphlets on the monetary question sent to him. This news will inspire the German bimetal- lists with renewed hope. The Persian promoters of the revolt at Van have made their escape. Six thousand Kurds, who were advancing on Van, have retired on receiving or- ders to do so from the Turkish author- ities. The Druses in revolt are awed by the presence of Turkish troops. —= ~ Misceltaneous. The National Derby at St. Louis was won by Prince Lief. Corbett was nesrly knocked out by Sharkey, the Marine, at San Francisco. An actress challenges Jim Corbett to a sparring match. A hot water motor which is expected to revolutionize railway traffic is being tested by the New York Central. The Democrats of the Twentieth dis- trict. Ilinois,' have nominated James P. Campbell of Hamiltoa county for congress. All the European steamship lines sailing to continental ports had en- tered into an agreement to increase the minimum rates for first and second- class passage. It is announced that Yale is to re- ceive $750,000 in cash as the bequest of a wealthy widow. She made her will and the sum is to become available at her death. The name is kept secret. According to a schedule filed by L. D. Phelps, assignee of Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau, theater and opera managers, the unsecured debts of the firm amount to $388,549, and the secured debts to $114,201. A. Cuneo, a Wall street broker, re- ported to be worth $3,000,000 to $4,000,- 000, has been sent to tie receiving hos- pital at New York to await an examin- ation by the commissioners of insan- ity. Jennie E. Flynn recently sued Frank J. Flynn at Cleveland for divorce and alimony on the ground of desertion. Since then Flynn has fallen heir to $40,000. The conmon pleas court has now given Mrs. Flynn her divorce and awarded her $10,000 alimony. Mrs. Thomas Curtin of Valparaiso, Ind., was found dead in the rear of her residence. where she had gone to put up a rain barrel. She was in constant fear of lightning. As the lightning wes heavy, it is thought she was epectened to death. She was 55 years old. 'The supreme court of Indiana has decided in favor of the Nicholson law, which provides that liquor selling shall not be carried on in the same Toom ns other business, and gives the county commissioners the right to in- quire into circumstances when passing on applications for license. Considerable excitement was created on the coast of Mendocino county, Cal., by the appearance of an immense tidal wave. The swell was seven feet high- er than ordinarily and rushed up Big river with great force, but no damage was done. The great wall of water is attributed to a Japanese earthquake. Through the instrumentality of the Bureau county court an organization of farmers was formed at Princeton, Ii, to construct an extensive farm drainage canal in a special district, to be known as the Union special canal. The channel will have an _ average width of twenty-five feet, and will ex- tend along the Green river valley for ; Louis awaiting execution for the mur- ' a distance of twenty-five miles, WKINLEY IS TOLD THAT HE HAS RECEIVED THE NOM- INATION FOR PRESIDENT. The Committee on Notification Per- forms Its Duties at Canton—Chair- man Thurston Makes the Notifica- tion Speech and Maj. McKinley Replies—Large Crowd Is Present Canton, Ohio, July 1.—The notifica- tion committee reached here at 11:4 Judges G. E. Baldwin, William R. and Henry A. Wise were at the depot tu meet the parry with decorated tal, hos and carriages. The parade was or- ganized, the Grand Army band and the citizens’ troop of cavalry leading the vehicles occupied by the guests. Citi- zevs fell in belind 2nd an enormous crowd quickly gathered about the Mc- Kinley home. The crowd was enor- mous and the cheering was incessant. Maj. McKinley was cheered again and again when he appeared. The cere- monies occurred on the lawn in front of Mr. McKinley’s house. Formally Notified, Chairman Thurston addressed Maj. Me- Kinley as follows: Gov. McKinley: We are here to perform the pleasant duty assigned us by the Re- publican national convention, recently as- sembled in St. Louis, that of formally no- tifylug you of your nomination as the can- didate of the Republican party for presi- dent of the United States. We respectfully request your acceptance of this nomination and your approval of the declaration of principles adopted by the convention. We assure you that you are the unanl- mous choice of a united party, and your candidacy will be immediately aceepted by the country as an absolute guaranty of Republican success. Your nomination has been made in obedience to a popular de- mand, whose universality and spontaneity attest the affection and confidence of the plain people of the United States. By com- mon consent you are their champion. Their mighty uprising in your behalf emphasizes their conversion to the cardinal principles of protection and reciprocity as best ex- emplified in that splendid congressional act which justly bears your name. Under it this nation advanced to the very culmina- tion of a prosperity far surpassing that of all other peoples and all other times; a prosperity shared in by all sections, all interests, and all classes; by capital and labor; by producer and consumer; a pros- perity so happily in harmony with the ge- nius of popular government that its choicest blessings were most widely: dis- tributed among the lowliest toilers and the humblest homes. In 1892, your country, unmindful of your solemn warniygs, returned that party to power which reiterated its everlasting op- position to a protective tariff and demanded the repeal of the McKinley act. They sowed the wind. They reaped the whirl- wind. ‘The sufferings and losses and dis- asters to the American people from four years of Democratic tariff are vastly greater than those which came to them from four years of civil war. Out of It all one great good remains. Those who scorned your counsels speedily witnessed the fulfillment of your prophecies, and even as the scourged and repentant Israel- ites abjured their stupid idols and re- sumed unquestioning allegiance to Moses and Moses’ God, so now your countrymen, shamed of their errors, turn to you and to those glorious principles for which you stand, in the full belief that your candidacy and the Republican platform mean, that the end of the wilderness has come atid the promised land of American prosperity is again to them an insured inheritance. But your nomination means more than the endorsement of a protective tariff of reciprocity, of sound money and of honest finance, for all of which you have so stead- fastly stood. It means an endorsement of your heroic youth; your fruitful years of arduous public service; your sterling. pa- triotism; your stalwart Americanism; your Christian character, and the purity, fidelity and simplicity of your private life. In all these things you are the typical American; for all these things you are the chosen leader of the people. God give you strength to bear the honors and meet the duties of that great office for which you are now nominated and to which you will be elected, that your administration will enhance the dignity and power and glory of this repub- lie, and secure the safety, welfare and hap- piness of its liberty-loving people. McKinley Replies. As Mr. McKinley stepped forward to re- ply he was given an ovation. When the cheering ceased he spoke as follows: Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee of the Republican National Convention: To be selected as their presidential candidate, by a great party convention representing so vast a number of people of the United States, is a most distinguished honor, for which I would not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great responsibilities of the trust, and my inability to bear them with- out the generous and constant support of my fellow-countrymen. Great as is the honor conferred, equally arduous and im- portant is the duty imposed, and in ac- cepting the one I assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of the people to the best interests of our be!oved coun- try, and the sustaining care and aid of Him without whose support all we do is empty and vain. Should the people ratify the choice of the great convention for which you speak, my only aim will be to pro- mote the public good, which in America is always the good of the greatest number, the honor of our country, and the welfare of the people. The questions to be settled in the national contest this year are as serious and im- portant as any of the great governmental problems that have confronted us in the past quarter of a century. They command our sober judgment and a settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, bene- ficial to ourselves and befitting the honor and grandeur of the republic. They touch every interest of our common country. Our industrial supremacy, our productive capacity, our business and commercial pros- perity, our labor and its rewards, our na- tional credit and currency, our proud finan- cial honesty and our splendid free citizen- ship—the birthright of every man—are all involved in the pending campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and intimately connected with their proper set- tlement. Great are the Issues involved in the coming election and eager and earnest the people for the rights and determina- tion. Our domestic trade must be won back and our idle workmen employed in gainful occupations at American wages. Our home market must be restored to its proud rank of first in the .world, and our foreign trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse national legislation. reopened on fair and equ! le terms for our surplus agricultural and manufacturing products. Protection and reciprocity, twin measures of a true American policy, should again command the earnest encouragement of the government at Washington. Public. confi- dence must be resumed, and the skill, the energy and the capital of our country find ample employment at home, sustained, en- couraged and defended against the un- equal competition and serious disadvant- ages with which they are now contending. The government of the United States must raise enough money to meet both Its cur- rent expenses and increasing needs. Its revenues should be so raised as to pro- tect the material Interests of our people with the lightest possible drain upon their Fesources, and maintain that High Standard of Civilization which has distinguished our country for more than a century of its existence. The income of the government, I repeat, should equal its necessary and proper expendi- tures. A failure to pursue this policy has compelled the government to borrow money in time of peace to sustain its credit and to pay its daily expenses. This policy should be reversed, and that, too, as speed- ily as possible. It must be apparent to all, regardless of past party ties or affiliations, that it is our paramount duty to provide adequate revenue for the expenditures of the government, economically and prudent- ly administered. The Republican party has heretofore done this, and I confidently be- Neve it will do it in the future, when the party again has been entrusted with power in the executive and legislative branches of our government. The national credit, which has thus ‘far fortunately resisted ev- ery assau!t upon it, must and will be up- held and strengthened. If sufficient reve- nues are provided for the support of the government there wi!l be no necessity for borrowing money and increasing the public lebt. The complaint of the people is not against the administration for borrowing money and issuing bonds to preserve the credit of the country, but against the ruinous policy which has made this necessary. It is but an incident, and a necessary one, to the policy which has been inaugurated. The inevitable effect of such a policy is seen in the deficiency of the United States treas- ury, except as it is replenished by loans and in the distress of the people who are suffering because of the scant demand for either their labor or the product of their labor. Here is the fundamental trouble. the remedy for which is Repuvlican oppor- tunity and duty. During all the years of Republican control following resumption, there was a steady reduction of the public debt, while the gold reserve was sacredly maintained, and our currency aad credit preserved without depreciation, taint or sus- picion. If we would restow this policy, that brougut us unexampled prosperity for more than thirty years, under the most trying conditions ever known in this coun- try, the policy by which we made and bought more goods at home, and sold more abroad, the trady balance would be quickly turned in our favor and gold would come to us and not go from us in the settlement of such balances in the future. The party that supplied by legislation the vast revenues for the conduct of our great- est war, and promptly restored the credit of the country its close, and that from its abundant revenues paid a large share of the debt incurrred in this war, and that resumed specie payments and placed our paper currency upon a sound and enduring basis, can be safeiy trusted to preserve both our credit and currrency with honor, stability and inviolability. The honor of our government is as sacred as our flag, and we can be relied upon to guard it with the same sleepless vigilence. We hold its safety above party fealty and have often demonstrated that party ties avail nothing when the spotless credit of our country is threatened. The money of the United States and every kind of form of it, wheth- er of paper, silver or gold, must be as good as The Best in the Worid. It must not only be current at its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial center of the globe. The sagucious and far-seeing policy of the great men who founded our government; the teachings and acts of the wise finaveler at every stage in our his- tory; the steadfast faith and splendid achievements of the great party to which we belong, and the genius and integrity of our people have always demanded this, and will ever maintain it. The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage earner and the pen- sioner, must continue forever equal in pur- chasing and debt-paying power to the dollar paid to any government creditor. The con- test this year will not be waged on lines of theories and speculation, but in the light of severe practical. experience and new and dearly acquired knowledge. The great body of our citizens know what they want, and that they intend to have. They know for what the Republican party stands, and what its future return to power means to them. They realize that the Repub- lean party believes that our work should be done at home and not abroad, and everywhere proclaim their devotion to the principles of a protective tariff, which, wh‘le supplying adequate revenues for the gov- ernment will restore American production, and serve the best industries of American labor and development. Our appeal, there- fore, is not to a false philosophy or vain theories, but to the masses of the Amer- lean people, the plain, practical people, whom Lincoln loved and trusted, and whom the Republican party has always faithfully striven to serve. The platform adopted by the Republican national conventic has received my care- ful consideration and has my approval. It is a matter of gratification to me, as I am sure it must be to you and Republicans everywhere, and to all our peole that ex- pression of its declaration of principles are so direct, clear and emphatic. They are too plain and positive to leave any chance for doubt or question as to their purport and meaning. But you will not expect me to discuss its provisions at length, or in any detail at this time. It will, however, be my duty and pleasure at some future time, to make to you, and through you to the great party you represent, a more formal aeceptance of the nomination tendered me. No one could be more profoundly grateful than I for_the manifestations of public confidence of which you have so eloquently spoken. It shall be my aim to attest this appreciation by an unsparing devotion to what I esteem the best interests of the people, and in this work I ask the counsel and support of you gentlemen and of every other friend of the country. The generous expressions with which you, sir, convey the official notice of the nomi- nation, are highly appreciated and as fully reciprocated, and I thank you and your associates of the notification committee and the great party and convention at whose instance you come for the high and excep- tional distinction bestowed upon me. Another Filibusterer, Boston, July 1. — The Standard says it is thought that a Cuban filibuster barkentine, F. F. Cassen, Capt. F. A. Cassen commancing, left this port last night, successfully eluding the govern- ment authorities, and is now safe on her voyage. ‘Che Cassen’s cargo is said to include 90 men. 2.200 stands of arms, 4 Gatling guns, 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition and a large supply of provisions. Four whale beats fully manned, are believed to have put off from the Quincy shore to meet the Cassen during the night. Five Drowned. Sharon, Mass., July 1—To-day four choir boys and the choir master of St. John’s Episcopal church of Charles- town were drowned in Lake Mattapan. The dead are Choirmaster Tred E. Brackett, 12 years; ‘Thomas Parker, 11; Harry Laker, 12; William Watkins, 12; Benjamin Gibbs, 12. They were members of a party from St. John’s church, who arrived here this morning to camp until Saturday. Disappointed Miners Retarn, Port Townsend, Wash., July 1.—The schooner Norma, from Kodiak, arrived last night with thirty-five stranded miners aboard, who pronounced Cook’s Inlet mining boom a fizzle. Over 350 miners are at the inlet stranded, un- able to obtain employment, and the supplies are going rapidly. INNESOTA NEWS. Interesting Happenings in the North Star State. The two murderers of Sheriff Rogers of Glencoe have been captured. A district encampment of the G. A. R. was held at Northfield. ; Sheep and other stock around Adrian are dying of rabies. A storm caused a panic at a circus in Austin. Four young people—three from Min- neapolis and one from St. Paul—were drowned at Annondale. Ex-City Treasurer Stapf of South St. Paul has been tined $100 for embez- zlement. Sheriff John Rogers of McLeod coun- ty was murdered at Glencoe by two tramps. Mrs. Alex. Smart, one of the best known ladies of St. Cloud, died of Bright’s disease. A young man named Christopherson, residing near Rothsay, was drowned in Long Lake while bathing. The Goodhue County Sunday Schoob convention was-held at Trout Brook, near Red Wing, recently. W. H. S. Wright of St. Paul was elected high priest of the Mystic Shriners, whose imperial council was held at Cleveland. Charles Meinzer, an old and well- known citizen of Hokah, died from in- juries received by being struck by the sweep of a stump-puller. Frank Martin, a contractor of Still- water, fell from a scaffold about twenty feet to the ground, breaking several ribs and injuring his spine. Ole Estensen, whc runs a sawmill at Henning, was seriously, if rot fatally, injured by getting caught in the drive belt in his mill. Ida, twelve-year-old daughter of D. A. Blakeney, agent at the union depot at Stillwater, died of peritonitis. She had been ill only a few days. The Sixth district immigration con- vention was held at Grand Rapids. There was a large attendance and much enthusiasm was displayed. L. Bronski, a laborer in Sheeran & Filler’s bottling works at Faribault, was badly hurt by the explosion of a gas drum. I. Grettum, the land attorney accused of defrauding the government by ille- gal practice, was found guilty in the United States court at Duluth. Ambrose Diedrick, the 13-year-old son of Leonard Diedrick of Delano, was drowned. while bathing in the river with companions. The supreme court has decided that the House of the Good Shepherd at St. Paul cannot be used as a public work- house for the retention of female pris- oners. A heavy electric storm, with a flood of rain, driven by high wind, passed over Faribault recently, and caused considerable damage to trees and out- ¥ buildings. During a severe storm lightning struck the residence of Judge Stark at Rochester, setting it on fire. The fire was soon extinguished, with but little damage. The annual conclave of the grand commandery of the Knights Templar was held at Stillwater. J. H. Bandall of Minneapolis was elected grand com- mander. A young son of Anton Hassing of Delavan was shot and instantly killed with a small target rifle in the hands of a younger brother. who did not know the gun was loaded. The boy’s mother is nearly prostrate with grief. Emil Obeg, sawyer of the mill at Smith Lake, was painfully injured by falling on the saw. The saw cut a long gash from the center of the shoul- der down the back, cutting the shoul- der blade in two. William Koehler, aged twenty-two, was drowned while bathing in Twin Lakes, near Anoka. His companions tried to rescue him, but failed. His body was recovered. He was the son of a prominent farmer. The Norwegian Lutheran church at Glencoe was burned recently. It is suspected it was set on fire to cover the stealing of silverware. Insurance on building, $800; furniture, $250. The building was worth $1,800; furni- ture, $600. Olaf H. Ingborg, a young farmer re- siding near Hendrum, committed sui- cide by sending a bullet through his brain. Ingborg was twenty-five years of age and was respected by all. The cause of his taking his life is said to have been disappointment in love. The largest hail ever known in this section fell at Worthington recently, accompanied by torrents of rain. Some stones were picked up which by ac- tual measurement were seven inches in circumference. The fall was light, however, and not much damage wag flone. The Weekly Crop Bulletin. Minneapolis, June 26.—The week has been hot, averaging daily 5 or 6 de- ‘grees warmer than usual. The rainfall has been deficient, except over limited areas where.local rains occurred. The \ general condition of wheat is not so 4 good as it was a week ago, the deteri- oration being mainly from rust, al- though some report the fields lodged badly where showers occurred, In some of the central counties that on high and sandy lands has a thin stand, while on the low lands it is most everywhere too rank. The week has been a grand one for the corn, and it has made a wonderful advance since the last report. The oulk of the cro} is, however, still backward, but re prospects now are ‘nuch better, the fields have generally been cleaned of weeds. Rye is turning yellow and has filled well. Early sown oats and. wheat are beginning to head and bar- is ley is well along in this respect. Flax is in blossom. A great deal of clover has been cut for hay and the tame hay harvest will be general this week. Old timothy fields are not nearly as good as the new, but the crop as a whole shows good improvement and is thick and tall. There is ble water in the sloughs, and in consequence grass there will not be cut. Peas and & new potatoes are in the market. The strawberry crop continues getting poorer, caused, some say, by the hot weather in May. Apples are dropping quite badly in places, ‘ 4 ’