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Electrocution Reported
to Be a Success.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.
Minnesota's Supreme court Declares
Wheat Futures Are Illegal
and Contracts Void.

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New York again.
Neither St. Paul nor Minneapolis has
a single horse-car line.
There is fine Of 5000 for practicing
hypnotism IL Cincinnati.
The Arctic Ice Machine Company al
Cleveland, Ohio, has assigned.
A 100000 union railway station has
just been opened in Louisville.
A syndicate has offered to buy the
Washington monument for shot tower
Pennsylvania farmers, irrespective oil
Alliance orders, are holding wheat for
$3.50 bushel.
Beacon Hill in Boston is to he ex,
plored by diamond drills in the interest
Of rapid transit,
England and Germany have each ap-
piled for 2eO, 900 square feet OF space at
the Columbian Fair.
Strong resolutions were adopted at a
public meeting at Windsor, Canada. iav-
oring commercial union with the United
States.
Cadets Griffith Of Maryland and Kav-
anaugh Of Nebraska at the Annapolis
Academy are to be c0urt-martialed for
hazing.
Thomas Edison, the electric wizard,
has new system Of applying electricity
70 ears that does away with the trolly or
the slot.
The Minnesota supreme court declares
wheat futures are illegal and operators
on the wrong side can repudiate their
contracts.
The Odd Fellows in the United States
can boast of membership Of nearly
700,0OO and an annual revenue OF more
than 81, 100000.
The official report on the executions
by electricity at New York show them
to have been a acomplete success, as was
designed by the law.
The Boston Herald has dispatch say
ing that ex-Speaker Reed will give up
politics and enter large business cor
poration at New York.
1t is probable that the scheme OF
transmitting mail in large cities by pneu-
matte tubes will be abandoned on ac-
count OF the great expense.
1t is estimated that the Western rail
roads have earned $250,000 the past year
from the transportation OF Mormon mis-
sionaries and their proselytes.
New York will soon have score or
more Of practically free public baths,
unless the plans Of the trustees OF the
Baron de Hirsch fund miscarry.
The water Is so low in the Erie canal
that boats are grounded all along the
line. The Creeksand feeders have not
been 10 low as now in some years.
There will be more than an average
yield Of corn and buckwheat in New
York. Alarge tobacco crop has nearly
been secured in excellent condition.
The excitement at ClearIield, Penn,
over the suspension Of the Clearlield
and Houtzdale bank still continues, and
the mobbing of the bank was feared.
The Mexican government is preparing
TO meet all revolutionary forces that
cross the Rio Grand, and the prepare
tions indicate that the government is
much alarmed.
All the Northwest railroad companies
are calling attention to the critical situa-
tion in the North Dakota wheat fields,
where the wheat is lying in stacks for
want Of threshers.
No rain worth mentioning has fallen
in Norwalk, Conn, since early in the
spring. Asa consequence herreservoirs
are empty, and arrangements are being
made to tap the mainsoi a neighboring
town.
Developments in the Ohrstman bank
failure at Paris, ILL.,, make the situation
more serious than at first supposed. II
is stated that the loss will not be less
than $lb0,0OO, and the assets may not
exceed $4,000.
Chairman Coppel Of Che board of
directors Of the Denver X Rio Grande
railroad has issued crcular announ-
cling the appointment Of E. j. .Ieiiery,
formerly general manager Of the Illinois
as president and general man
ager.
; The Lee county, Ark, troubles are
at an end unless mob at
tempts to hang the negroes now in the
Mariana Jail. Itappears that no lees
than fifteen negroes were killed out of
q gang Of nineteen who commenced the
trouble.
The wharf strike at Savannah, Ga, is
gradually extendingto to all branches of
labor. The business Of the city
s at standstill. Money Is tied up In
cotton, which is piled up in the Yards
and sidetracked along the lines of the
railroads. The banks are unable to ac-
,ommodate their patrons. The strikers
ire quiet and orderly.
The diatillers at Peoria, ILL.,, the great
,st whisky-producing city in the world,
nave decided to use the Takamine Japan
'se) process Of making whisky. The
lew plan greatly reduces the cost Of
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