, 1900-07-26
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.


There are 933, 249 Scandinavians in
the United States.
Japan has appropriated $50,oOO,OOO to
carry on the war with China
Every department of the Philippine
islands has asked for more soldiers.
Iowa gives promise CT finishing the
century with the banner corn crop OF
its history.
The President has returned to wash
ington on % of the critical situa-
ton in China.
The business section of Prescott,
Arizona, has been wiped odt by IRE.
Loss, about 81, 100000.
Christian Endeavor Sunday In Lon
don brought crowds to 200 churches
where delegates to the nternatlonal
convention preached or were part OF
the audience.
j. NJ. Green of Trenton, New Jersey,
has been chosen president of the Ma
tional Educational Association. Inc
next place of meeting was left to the
executive committee.
While $500 persons were waiting at
the Pennsylvania station at YOUNGSTOWN,
Pe%nnsylva"ia ia. to go with an excursion,
n fast train ran into the crowd, inJur-
ing five persons, one of whom Will die.
A terrific explosion wrecked Depew's
store at Naylor, Georgia, Wednesday
night. Fragments of a mans body
were found in the ruins, and 1t is be-
lieved a safe blower was killed while
Mt work.
The steamer Clutch has arrived at
Vancouver from Skaguay with 100000
in gold dust, besides n large mount in
drafts. The majority of the sixty pas
sengers brought large packages of
gold, tome more weight than Il could
carry off the boa unaided.
Lord Curzon of Keddleston, viccroy
of India, has cabled to the secretary
of state for India. Lord George Hamil-
ton, that an excellent rain has fallen in
the northwestern provinces and in
parts of central India, n that useful
showers have occurred in ~Rajpootana
and Deccan.
The State Board of Horticulture for
California reports the acreage of april
cot orchards at about $500 acres,
and it is roughly estimated that some
S4.SO0,000 is invested in apricot or
chards, the drying houses and all the
ap~purtenances to growing the fruit inc
getting 1t ready for market.
Last week was a hard one for the
old men of the Kiowa, Comanche aud
Apache tribes of Indians. They had to
give up all of their wives but one.
Some of the medicine chiefs had as
many as ten women whom they called
wives. All but the favorite one are
now living away from the old bucks
tepee.
Troop B, First cavalry has received
orders to proceed TO the Preside and
sail for China. A detachment of the
Seventh i~nfanty arrived to garrison
Fort Russell until w companies of
the T~wenty-third infantry reach here.
The troop horses will be loaded and
shipped to Seattle and the officers and
men will leave for the west on Friday.
The foreigners at Tien Tsin are cred
tied with having died at their posts
With tragic heroism. They We're now
ed down by the Infatuated Boxers IL
til their strength was withered and
their ammunition gone and they only
gave up the fight after shooting their
W wOmen and children, to save them
from outrage and torture at the hands
of the Chinese.
'ihJ'i 'touNh dStht VI LII SHtN el1It
and Arapahoe Indians, with headquar-
tiers at Cantonment, Oklahoma, has
just sent II band of 400 Ute Indians
back to Colorado. A few days ago the
Utes suddenly appeared on the Chey-
enne reservation, having come over
land. The w tribes at once began a
dance and pony swap. but Major
Stouch learned of 1t and ordered the
Utes home. The Cheyennes knew of
the Utes' coming and had made prepa-
rations to receive them. They refused
to tell how the communication between
the two tribes is maintained. Not a
white man knew of the Utes' coming,
and word must have been sent by mes
senger.
Anoka, Mimi, July 1.-THE investi-
CATION into the recent mysterious
shooting of William Wise and his wife
ut Anoka, Minnesota, has bee solved
by the confession of Eliza Wise, the
younger of the Wise girls, that the de
PENDANTS, James Hardy and Elmer Mil
Ter, committed the murder and prac-
tically admitted that the plot to shoot
her parents vas formed with the
knowledge of herself and her sister.
The mother had $1,000 in the bank
which was to 20 to her daughters In
case of her death, and the girls had
said they would divide with their suit
ors when Mrs. Wise was dead. The
father had forbidden the boys to call
on his daughters, and so he was in.
Guided in the plot. Eliza testified thai
she saw the boys and their guns out.
side the house before the shooting. The
girls story made a profound sensation
as the defendants had established O
tentative alibi and 1t was the genera.
belief Il they We're innocent.