The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-06-27
to three inches and was packed in upon
the track like pebbles.

to three inches and was packed in upon
the track like pebbles.
Mondays markets are quoted as fol-
lows: Winter wheat-Ruled 15@1c
lower, closing at inside prices. Range
was 500 @6lAc, closing 60@601sc. For
new No. 2 red lie over July was obtain
able. No. 3 red sold at 551sc. Sample
sales were: No. red, sic for poor to
53@56c for fair to good, No. 2 red sold
at 59@601sc. and No. hard. 53Ac.
Spring wheat-Closed 116c lower
Sales of $1,000 blu. of No. were report
ed. Range was 56A@573Sc. closing
563s@561sc. Sample was off 1c. No
transactions were reported.
Corn-Was &c lower. No. in store
sold at 274. Monday revealed enor-
nous hay receipts but there was no
break in prices. The pork demand was
steady at about the prices of last week.
COLONEL A. B. Colt, of the Fourteenth
regiment, Ohio National Guard, will
have to stand trial for the remaining
indictments for murder standing against
him in Fayette county, growing out of
the suppression of the Washington
Court House riots. Judge Festus Wal
tiers, at Columbus, refused to enter the
nolle offered by the Attorney General
on Monday, acting under the resolution
of the legislature, on the ground that in
adopting the resolution the legislature
was usurping judicial functions.
The Goodrich Reservoir, fifteen miles
from Baker City, Ore. collapsed at an
early hour Tuesday morning, June 16,
: nd great volume of water rushed
down the gulch. wrecking everything in
its path. The home of Mr.. French was
swept away, and the entire family con-
sisting of the parents and five children,
were drowned. A number of bridges
we're carried away, and considerable
damage was done to grain fields. The
reservoir was constructed in 1868, and
was used for mining purposes.
The silver men who bolted from the
St. Louis Convention have issued an
address to the people of the United
States. 1t is an argument for free
coinage and suggests to the forthcoming
conventions the name of Henry M.
Teller, Of Colorado, as candidate for
President Of the United States.
ACCORDING to advices received at
Kingston, Jamaica, the territory in dis
pute between Venezuela and Great Brit
ain has been entered by force of Ven
ezuelan troops, who compelled a party
of British surveyors to suspend opera
tions.
IT was announced late on Monday
night in London, on excellent parliament
tary authority. that the home secretary
has been induced to reconsider his re.
cent determination as regards Mrs. May.
brick, and her release is therefore likely
to take place at any moment.
UNDER Secretary Curzon. of the For
eign Office, stated in the British House
of Commons last week, that the Gov
eminent would continue it's efforts to
expedite the settlement of the Venezu.
ella dispute by some form of arbitration.
The University of Cambridge last
week conferred honorary degrees upon
Professor Francis A. March, of Lafay-
cite College, Easton, Pa, and upon Prof.
Simon Newcomb, of Johns Hopkins
University, Maryland.
OWING to the continued i'll health of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir appar-
emit to the throne of Austria Hungary,
the Emperor has directed Archduke
Otto to exercise the representative func-
tions of the heir apparent.
NE WY "a AAAShA1ANso WIS AoSe "OShA
made a part Of greater Denver by
the vote of the taxpayers of the former
municipality. This adds four square
miles of territory and more than 10000
population to the City of Denver.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has rem
dered decision upholding the Nichol-
son liquor law passed by the last Legis-
lature. The law, which has caused
great deal of political bitterness, is SINH
lar to the Raines law in New York State.
The British Steamer Drummond Cas-
tie has heen sunk off the coast of Brit
tany. France. There were 274 persons
on board, and their fate is unknown.
Only three are known to have been
saved.
CANTON, Ohio, is now the Mecca of
Republican pilgrimages. Many thou
sands have already visited the little city