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Otherwise.

Otherwise.
The steel beam pool has collapsed.
John w. Echols Of Georgia is made
president Of the A. p. A. Il
The prospect for an abundant crop Of
all kinds of fruit in Oregon is excellent.
The Traders Bank of Lynchburg,
Va, has been. placed in the hands Of
trustees.
The Rockford, Ind, National bank
has been authorized to begin business;
capital, $5O000.
At Los Angeles the fund for unem-
p1oyed now exceeds $4,000. Over S3,-
600 per week is paid out.
The Illinois State supreme court has
handed down decision declaring the
indeterninate sentence law to be con-
stitutional. %a% Fl
The Butte. Mont. reduction works,
owned by w. O. Clark, have been al
most entirely destroyed by fire. The
damage was $4,000.
Manufacturers of wire nails, wire and
rods are, about to form a grand COM
bination to control the market for all
these products.
A severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Reno, New, lasting several mo-
nents. The vibration was from north
to south. E]
A Touring mill at Pendleton, Or, has
orders on hand for ten thousand barrels
Of flour to be- shipped to China and
South America
The Mississippi Valley Cottonwood
association has decided to advance the
price of all grades Of cottonwood lunl-
Der s. per 1000 feet.
Col. H. c. Rector commercial agent
Of the Cotton Belt railroad, died at his
homo in Memphis, Tenn, aged fifty
one.
The twelfth annual diocesan conven-
ton Of the Protestant Episcopal
church met at Pittsburg. Rev. Robert
J. Coster presiding, Bishop Whitehead
being absent il Europe.
The American Ticket Brokers' asso-
citation is holding it's nineteenth annual
convention at Pittsburg. About two
hundred cf the five hundred members
in the association are in attendance.
The Cincinnati chamber Of commerce
and other organizations have appoint
| ed a committee Of ten, headed by Gen.
Andrew Hickenlooper, to go to Buffalo
to secure the location of the next pa
tional encampment of the G. A. r. =,
The Hope gold mine at Basin, Mont,
owned principally by United States.
| Senator Carter, closed down because
the management could not pay back
wages due the miners. An effort is be-
ing made to reorganize the property
! with the aid of Chicago capitalists,
Under the new Colorado game law
the killing Of elk, mountain sheep and
bison is prohibited at any season OF
the. year, while deer, antelope. etc.
with horns, may be killed for food pur-
the first of November. 10
Richard Dawson, earl Of Dartrey
is dead. He is succeeded in the title and
the estate by his eldest son, Lord Gre.
morne, aged fifty-six. The family is
one Of the great ground landlords ,o1
the United Kingdom, owning thirty
=, thousand acres.
According tosa dispatch to the Lon
don Times from Melbourne, all four
/ Of the daily newspapers in Sydney
have been fined $500 each for contempt
of court, consisting in improper com
ment upon the trial of Frank Butler,
the murderer, which is now pending.
A party Of Kansas City investors
have purchased ten thousand acres o1
land on Lower Horse creek, forty five
miles from Cheyenne, where they will
establish a colony of Eastern farmers
Large reservoirs are to be constructed
and the entire tract placed under irri
CATION and cut up into small farms
Excellent authority states that Judge
Morrow, now on the United States dis
trict bench in California, has been de-
4 cided upon to succeed Attorney Gen.
eral McFenna as judge Of the Ninth
circuit court of appeals. 1t is under
stood that Judge Waymore will sue
T, ceed Judge Morrow,
President Woodmansee has issued 9
call for meeting of the executive
committee Of the National Republican
league at the Auditorium hotel Chi
cago Thursday, May q. Final ar
rangenlents will be made at this meet
ing for the Detroit convention Jul!
10.
Deep Diving to Recover Treasure.
The greatest diving feat that wa
ever attempted was that Of the raisin.
) Of treasure that sank with the steam