, 1900-08-23
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

Two anarchists. 1t is reported, have
left Vienna for the purpose of killing
the prince of Montenegro.
Arguments in the Powers case are
under way at Georgetown, Kentucky,
and II will soon be decided.
The suffering among British soldiers
In South frica is declared by A. g.
Hales to be due TO red tape in war Of
flee methods.
A severe hail storm has destroyed 49,
600 acres of the finest grain grown in
North Dakota this year, even that cut
and in shock being ruined. Many hall
stones were three to four inches in d.
ameter.
Thunder storms have put nj the for
est fires in Michigan which have been
burning for n week. At least twenty
farm buildings were destroyed, besides
fences and crops. Damage by fire In
the country last week is estimated at
100000.
Governor Beckham OF Kentucky has
issued n proclamation c~onvening the
General Assembly in an extra session
on Tuesday. August rs. 1900. The only
subject to be considered is the modifi-
cation of the amendment Of the Goebel
election law.
Theodor Wolf wires TO the Berliner
Tugeblatt from Paris that Germany
will get more first prizes Mt the EXPOSE
tion than any other nation. He estl-
mates the Eumber at $50. Germany
will be frs. In Industrial arts, with
twenty grands priX and 100 gold med
ais.
The Navy Department has rejected
all of the bids for armor plate opened
.,r ~, att-- - tI.n damn t-
ment does not mean that the govern
ment will adopt the alternative of
building IN armor plate plant, but new
advertisements will be issued II new
bids received.
In n railroad accident near Rome, fif-
teen persons were killed and forty
wounded, of whom fifteen are seriously
injured. The disaster was caused by
the telesc0ping of two sections of the
train for Florence, bearing the notable
persons who had been attending the
recent ceremonies mt Rome
The National Association of Spanish
American War Veterans. which in
cludes soldiers who fougiI in the war
with Spain, has called its reunion for
October Sth to 18th, inclusive. at Chat
tannoga, Tennessee. Circular letters
TO members and to soldiers who fought
in the war have been sent out.
The final meeting of the superior jury
of awards at Paris shows ~, 700 to be
the total number of awards made to
exhibitors from all q untrics mt the
pG.is exposition. They are divided in
tn s.S2T grand prizes, s. lGG gold medals,
IL 2fI silver medals, 1l.G15 bronze
medals, and 1888 honorable mentions.
y. Romans, Il w~ell-known farmer liv-
ing ten miles west of Fort Scott. Kan
Sas. committed suicide by cutting his
throat. lie was nominated for county
commissioner by the Republicans last
week and political opponents had at
! tucked him sharply. He was an over
q sensitive man. and the strain drove hiIl
to suicide.
The Rev. Father Mulvihill of ST.
Bridgct's Catholic Church, ST. Louis.
has announced to his congregation that
he will marry free of charge young
couples who are determined to jump
into matrimOny. by this method he
hopes to prevent the elopements which
have been of frequent occurrence in his
parish of late.
Two hundred starving natives ap-
pearcd before the governor of Porto
Rico, having walked from San Loren
20. They begged the governor for
bread or II chance to work TO earn II.
He promised them employment on the
public roads. Other delegations of
hungry Islanders seeking s%ustenance or
means of obtaining 1t are coming.
Official adviccs to the Department of
Agriculture report that the foot and
mouth disease is prevalent among live
stock throughout all of Europe except
Norway, Sweden and Holland, and i'm
portation of animals from European
countries, principally Germany. Aus
tria, France, Belgium and Switzerland
is being prohibited by this government.
Warned by the fire which lately de
stroyed n million dollars worth of bus.
mess property, the city authorizes of
Prescott, Arizona. have secured an Op.
ton on the valuable and unfalliug
Banghart springs at Del Rio, twenty
miles north of the city, and have called
n special election August 18th, to vote
on the issuance of 100000 in municipal
bonds for the installation of II new
water system.
EX-ConGressmnn Jerry Simpson has
made the novel suggestion to the fusion
state central committee that women in.
terested in fusion success in the com.
ing campaign shall give entertainments
sucn hs lawn parties III various sec
tons, and while entertaining the men
IN social ways press upon them the ne
cessity for voting for fusion. 81 dc
not think" MIR. Simpson said, that wo
men should take the stump md max,
speeches."
AS nearly as figures can express II
the cost to the United States of the wal
In the Philippines has been S1S6,6TS,
600 In cash II mt least 2,239 lives OF
American soldiers. The casualtief
Were as follows; Soldiers killed ia NJ
tion. 533; deaths from wounds, 1875
deaths from lscas and other causes
l,GGS; total number of deaths, 1884; to
tai number wounded, 2.073. The wal
with Spain ended and that with the
Philippines began February /, 1898.
A dispatch to the Herald from Paris
says: The loug-distance balloon race
which started from Pare d'Acrosta sta.
ton, mt N%inccnnes. could not b,
brought to Il successful conclusion, as
Ii leading balloons We're stOppA by
the ocean. The first prize may go tC
the Compile de In NnuleN. whose bal