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PRE?! Mtt SlY ?' The Ch ef Magistrate of Uruguay Falls by an Assassin's Hand. KILLED BY A MILITARY OFFICER, ft 1 rf The Celebration of the Independence of , the Republic W?l tn Progress Crime Committed as the President Was 5c- i Lravin; the Cathedral, Where a To ' - . Drum Had lleen Sung; Before Him. j Mostlvu fo, Uruguay (By Cable). J. ! tdiarte Borda. President of the Republic of , , - Uruguay, was assassinated just a few min- j b ates after the Chief Executive left the Cathedral. where he had listened to the s Te Deum sung on the occasion of the anni- j ersary of the Independence of Uruguay, j | Following the assassination, and while i the immediate members of the President's ! official family were still bending over him ? where he had fallen, there was a forward ; -? movement of the crowd which had gathered. and in order to protect the dying President ? . his military escort attacked the crowd and j succeeded "in driving it back, only after many persons had been wounded and sev- ; oral killed. The assassin is Avelino Arrendondo, an j ' officer in the Uruguayan army. He is a KwP, Uruguayan and only twenty-seven years ! old. Now that Uruguay's chief is dead he Is calm, and declares that he is content | With his action, and that his crime was not | Inspired by anything more than a personal P*-" hatred for the President. I; Montevideo was in gala attire to-day in j celebration of the independence of Uurguay, j which was proclaimed on August 25,1325. The day, according to the programme ' which had been mapped out. was one rej>" ' plete with festivities and feasts, r . - The first bullet went wild, but the second I struck President Borda in the left breast. 1 rr~ ?Ati s ik. TitokAn I bc leu iuiu iuo uruis ui uisuup i k 8oler and sank to the ground, as Of the official ceremonies, the singing of i the Te Doum was the most impressive. i,\ Hundreds had gathered in front of the ; cathedral, and the President was well re: ceived. as he passed out the door. He had ?y walked only a few steps when Arredondo. stepped forward out of the crowd and raised a pistol. Before any one could stop him he had llred two shots at the Presi? dent. KS For an instant there was an awful silence; w, then a frightful uproar. The crowd ? poured forward with cries and shouts, and i while Arredondo was seized by several sol- j iv 4 diers, the other troops were "thrown into ; tine to keep the crowd from trampling upon the prostrate body of the President. The soldiers attacked the crowd with bayoj wets, and finally drove it back after many had been wounded and several killed, fifc. . The President, still breathing feebly, was i then removed under military guard to the ] r ' city palace, where he died in a few]minutes. I nj The body was then wrapped in the flag of I ^ Uruguay and removed to his late home. | K"'. > JoseJCuestas, President of the Senate,was , nominated for President ad interim by the i > ' Chamber of Deputies later in the afternoon. ] pf- He immeaiately.dismissed all the members : of the Cabinet except General Luis Perez, who will continue at the head of the War Department. ' Sen or Borda was elected President of J Uruguay for the term extending from 1 March. 1894. to 1898. Only after a fierce ; light for it Congress balloting twenty- J seven times and his administration has been beset with tribulations from the out- 1 *et. While the assassination is univer* ' aally denounced, his removal from the aphere of control is regarded as a good i thing for Uruguay. He has all along been ; suspected of keeping the revolution alive j for his own purposes, and he was connected -V -with a firm which provided the military materials for the Government, whereby he must have amassed a fortune. President \ Borda was about fifty years old. He was a ' married man, and had a family, aad also a brother, who is an officer in the Uruguayan army. | BRANDING THE SEALS. " V*n*rim.nt of M.rkinr tha VoOBt 1 Female* Successfully Carried Out. The United States revenue outter Bush if with Professor David Starr Jordan, of Stanl ford University, and the party of seal brand. ?n aboard, has arrived at Tacoma, Wash., |. ten days from St. Paul Island, with news of I ' the successful Inauguration of the branding of the seals. The Bush met Professor Jordan and his party at Duteh Harbor on 1 July 24. The party Included Professor Else met E. Parmer, Professor Thomas D. Wood, Arthur H. Greeley, Arthur J. Edwards, | Howard T. Warren, Trevor Kincaid, ana ' Bobert E. Snodgrass. ?? -' They went at once to 8t. Paul Island, . where the work of branding the young fe- J male seals was begun. Several thousand -Of the seals were successfully branded with an electric device that causes no pain.. { Professor Jordan landed and made a care- 1 ful examination of the herds and rook- ) i" eries. ' Professor Jordan expressed himself as greatly pleased with the trip ahd the com- c plete success of the branding. He is at ] work on his report, and It will be filed Shortly after bis arrival at San Francisco, ] , whither he hastens without delay. He left i Professor Farmer and his party at St. Paul i Island and be was continuing the brandgft lug- , Kcv York's New Police Chief. A change of much importance to the Po- 1 lice Department, of interest to all New , ' Yorkers and of possible far-reaching effect j upon the coming election in the Greater ; ] Mew York, took place at Police Headquar- j \ ? g.xx ?w. I iers wnen reitrr vuuun icmcu avm iuc j office of Chief o! Police and John McCullagh. one of the Acting Inspectors, was ap- | pointed Chief to fill the vacancy. The retirement of Chief Conlin was a surprise to many. The appointment of Chief MoCul- . lagh was even more of a surprise, because ! It was generally supposed that DeputyChief Moses W. Cortright would be pro- ' moted in the event of the retirement ol Chief Conlin. 1 i ri " . \ Sensational Itumor About the Kalaer. The affair of the German Kaiser's black 1 eye received on board the imperial yacht ( Hohenzollern, off the Norwegian coast, is commented on by Harold Frederic, a reliable European correspondent, in the ' . Light of the latest rumors that Lieutenant ' von Hahnke, stung by some insulting speech of his imperial master, assaulted < ~ the latter, and then, knowing that he had .ruined himself for life, calmly committed 1 Sr*.w suicide. Where the Apple Crop It Big, s Kansas and Missouri are rejoicing in bfg npple crops, while everywhere else in the tJnion the fruit seems to be scarce, small, ( and of rather poor quality. New York buyers are reported to be swarming in the two States, buying up all the apples in , ight. , i Women Drivers at a Horse Race. . Mfcs Lotta Elliott, of Danforth, Me., was . the driver of the winning horse at there- 1 cent horse race in rittsfleld, in which all ( the drivers were women. The women wore 1 divided skirts, and acquitted themselves 1 most creditably. H > ' THE NEWS EPITOi.'-'ED. Washington Items. A reign of terror in Uruguay was report- | m! in advices received by the State Department at Washington. j On August 20 the expenditures of the | Government during the current fiscal year had exceeded the receipts by more than ?24.000,000. On that date, too, the pension payments since the fiscal year began had amounted to more than *25.000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is taking j steps to secure to America part of thetrado j of supplying horses for European armies. 1 The two sessions of Congress last winter are found to have appropriated $528,000,000. The Government will send out a new ex pioring party to Alaska next year. Statistics for the past year show that Great Britain, Germany and France, respectively, were leaders in trade with the United States. A. W. Faber, the lead pencil manufacturer, was tlned ?30 000 bv the United States Government for unvaluing imported pencils. Domestic. RECORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Per Clubs. Won. Lost. ot.J Clubs. Won. Lost. et. Bait 6!) 32 .693 Philn Fa..47 60 .439 Boston ...7*2 34 .679 Pittsb'g ..45 59 .437 X'w York.64 37 .634 Louisv'le 46 60 .434 Cinein'ati62 34 .620 Brooklyn 45 59 .433 Clevel d..54 47 .535 Wash'n.. 43 60 .417 Chicago .49 59 .458 St. Louis.26 79 .243 President Th^nson, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, says that business conditions have imp'ove" I all over the country. A steamer and two sailing vessels reached Puget Sound ports from Alaska, bringing gold dust and miners from the Klondike country. Officers of the law killed Dan Clay, a notorious outlaw, in Oklahoma a few days auo. Clav's c-areer nearlv eaualed that of the notorious Daltons and Doolins. He has caused much excitement in the little town of Miami by his daring outlawry. Joseph Fife, a colored youth, convicted of attempted criminal assault on Mrs. Marks, a widow, and who subsequently confessed to other like crimes, was hanged in the yard of the city jail at Richmond, Va. A young colored man named Bonner, who was arrested at Belleville, Texas, for assaulting Mrs. Seaehas, an aged white woman, near Wilheim, was taken from jail by a mob of 200 men and lynched. He confessed the crime. The cloakmakers' strike in New York City ended by a concession of thlrty-flve per cent, advance in wages by the employers, and 15,000 operatives returned to work. Mrs. Sarah Carter, aged eeventy-flve years, died at New Can.aan, Conn., from the effects of paris green taken with suicidal intent. She lived on a farm by herself, and it is thought that her lonesome life, and her inability to look after the farm on account of her age. led her to end her life. Prince Luigi, of Savoy, and his party of Italians reached the summit ot Mount SI. Elias July 31. at 12 o'clock noon. The altitude indicated by the mercurial barometer is 1S.100 feet. It" is the most successful expedition ever undertaken. The party was fifty-one days on snow and ice without sickness or accidents. Mary Kyle Dallas, the well-known poetauthoress, expired at her home in New York City of heart failure. She was about sixty years of age. Reports received at Little Rock, Ark., Indicate that six of the colored men implicated in the murder of Johnson and the assault on Hanley in Cleburne County have been lynched. Eight lynchings occurred in the State in four days. "Al" Hankins, a Chicago gambler, was killed by the collapse of his folding-bed. Commander Booth-Tucker returned from Europe with the assent of General Booth to go ahead with his colonization schemes In the Southwest. Jacob Barber, a child of four years, was jhot through the heart near the village of Langford, N. Y. His mother Is thought to have done the deed and is believed to be insane. The mother was not arrested, but is toeing watched. It is said her actions have peen strange for some time. The Western Passenger Association reused to make special rates for Mew York >uyers. Former Judge Dillon announced that he ffould urge the Gould family to criminally prosecute the conspirators who, using Mrs. Lngell as a dupe, plotted to obtain a share if the late multi-millionaire's fortune. The question of applying the new jury aw in the trial of Aaolph L. Luetgert in Chicago was settled by the prosecution acluiesoing in the objections of the defenoe. In Brooklyn Mrs. Otillia King, a former ictress, of Vienna, shot herself after an unruocessful attempt to kill Placlda Salt to. G. M. D. Legg's large poultry house at Tuscola, 111., was destroyed by an inoendiiry Are, and Bobert Lathrom's body was ound in the ruins, The Seattle (Wash.) authorities com>elled the overloaded Alaska schooner tfoonlight to carry less freight. A train in the coal city branch of the Alon road was ditched near BranchTille, ,'owa. The wreck is believed to be the vork of striking miners. The engineer and Iremen were killed. A sudden and heavy rainfall caused great lamage by floods in New York City and Brooklyn. Mrs. W. L. Scruggs, wife of the extflnister to Venezuela, who was injured on August 14 by falling from a train, died at Atlanta, Ga. The Futurity Stakes, the great race of :he Coney Island Jockey Club's fall meetng. was won by Thompson Brothers' Ally Ci'Alouette. The track was muddy and the :ime, although good, was not fast. Fire almost destroyed Alva, Oklahoma. The loss is if'SO. JOO. The town has 2000 popilation. The town is new, having only seen built four years, and the whole busiiess portion consisted of wooden structures. Foreign. Lord Salisbury proposes that Great Britain. France and Russia jointly guarantee the Greek indemnity loan and control the revenues set apart to meet it. Cholera has made its appearance among i the members of the Northampton regiment stationed at Bombay, India. Every precaution is being taken against its spread. The TtriH?h steamer Gairloch. from Aber ileen, has been wrecked off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Eight of the crew were drowned. Twenty women were killed in an accident to an apparatus used for raising water at Jloncada, Spain. A despatch from Hamburg says that Janos Rigo. the Hungarian gypsy musician who eloped with the Pr'ncess d<? Chimay, formerly Miss Clara Ward, has sailed for the West Indies, accompanied by her. The nude body of a tall, powerful man was found in the Thames near London Bridge. The man had been strangled and his limbs bound with cord. There was no clue to his identity, and the case promised to remain one of the many mysteries of the river. Two members of the Calvert exploring expedition, Wells and Jones, who perished of thirst in the west Australian desert, had an imposing funeral at Adelaide, South Australia. Their bodies were placed in the Jubilee Exposition building, which was draped. In a speech before the Volksraad of the South African Republic President Kruger repudiated British suzerainty of the Transeaal j KH7BER PASS CAPTURED. British Lose Possession of India's Northern Gateway. REBEL TRIBESMEN VICTORIOUS. Lundl-Kotal, the Most Remote of the Fort* In the Hill*, Fall* Before the Afridi* .'500 Men Driven Out anil the Fortification Destroyed The Fight La?ted About Twenty-four Hour* Simla, India (By Cable). Fort LundiKotnl, a British outpost, situated at the Avfromfi nnd nt the Khvber Pass, and ?T'ir risoned by 300 men of the Khyber Rifles, has been attacked and burned by the insurgent Afrldis. The Afridis attacked Fort Lundi-Kotal Tuesday. The garrison held its own until, after sharp fighting, in which the native commander of the garrison was killed while gallantly leading his men, the enemy gained an entrance. The fight was continued two hours inside the fortification by the Khyber Rifles in the towers at the angles of the fort, which wero strongly buiit cf stone. The Afridis lost heavily before they finally captured the place. They looted the fort, cnpturing a quantity of supplies, and then burned the structure. The famous Khyber Fass, leading from 1 Afghanistan into India, has now fallen into the hnnds of the rebel tribesmen, who have 1 risen against the British oppressor. The |) 11'1 v\ \ THE KHYBI (The principal pass from Afghanistan Into 1 hitherto loyal to tt e British in many an ontbi posts in the Kurran Valley are threatened dv the powerful tribe of the Or&kzals, the e Mohmand tribesman are preparing for a I renewal of hostilities arouna Fort Shab- \ kadr, thonsands of British troops are en- J gagod in crushing the revolt in the Swat ( Valley and two brigades of British troops a are holding the Tochi Valley, where tne < Mahsud-Mazi are again restless. ( The British authorities are gratified at \ the faet that all the men on leave from the s Fortieth Regiment, of Pathans, composed J -* - X. 0??la anH Dnnapvftll whAAA I OI muuuiciuu?, un??io uuu wUv..,~_r, tribes are revolting, rejoined their colors I on the outbreak of the present disturb- b anoes. In addition, many members of the 3 reserve forces of this body of men have b voluntarily applied for enrollment. A ma- 3 jority of the garrison of Fort Ali-Musjid, p which was also captured and burned by ? the enemy, have arrived safely at Jamrood. t The surviving defenders of the fort made q terms with the Afridis previous to their AMEER OF AFOHANHTAX. ' a surrender. The fdelity of the levies, whose v agreement stipule,ted that they must resist ? attacks without British aid, is much j1 praised. The weekly Cabul caravan happened to a be halting at Fori LundiKotal when the at- 8 tack was made, and sought refuge in a neighboring village. It was captured. It Is currently reported that the British Government has sent a second letter of warning to the Ameer of Afghanistan; who - L-,!- A * - 1 v..? (natiffiitnr of the re- C IS Ut'llOCU IV MO tuu volt. ^ The news is confirmed that the Orakzais k have risen and cut telegraphic communica- I tlon with all of Ihe garrisons and posts of b Kurran Valley. 3 Killed by Falling Walla. Edmundson <fc Perrlne's live-story furniture house at Pittsburg, Pe:in., was burned j causing a loss of $105,000. After the fire 0 had been subdued and the firemen were J , coupling up their hose, the alley wall of the j t building fell, burying under the debris two j firemen, Zeke Glover and Parry Holt. Two boys who were watching the firemen work \ were also killed by the fallen wall. Connecticut's Large Peach Crop. The Connecticut peach crop will be very large this year. The fruit Is unusually firm. I Throughout the State it Is estimated there * will be upward of 1(X}.0QQ baskets gathered. c NEW C. A. R. HEAD. Genpral J. P. S. Gobln Elected Commander-in-Chief. The business session of the thirty-iirst annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was formally op ?ned in the Music Hall, Buffalo, N. Y., when Cincinnati wus selected as the place of reunion in 18i'8. General J. P. S. Gobin, of Lebanon ' V 1 A\r OESEBAL J. T. 8. GOBIS. (The New Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.) Pei.n., was then elected Commander-inChief on the second ballot. His chief opporents wore J. F. Mack, of Sandusky, Ohio, and John G. Linehan, of New Harnpst.i :e. - ^ !R PASS. . , j'dla, through which the powerful Afridis, tak, marched upon their former friends.) , The following reports wei-e read: Genial Clarkson. Commander-in-Chief; John : I. Mullln, Vice-Commander-in-Chief; C. V. Buckley, Junior Vice-Commander; A. E. ohnson, Surgeon-General; M. B. Taylor, 1 'haplain-in-Chlef; C. B. Bumester, Adjut- ! nt-General; A. J. Burbank, (Quartermaster- ; 3-eneral; C. A. Suydam, Insj-ector-General; leneral Clark, Judge-Advocate; J. Cory ] t inans, Senior Aid-ae-Camp and Chief of | naff; H. L. Zallnski, Chief Atd-de-Camp on i llitary Instruction in Publ-o Schools. The report of AdJutant-C-eneral Charles ' S. Burnester showed that the total mem- 1 ershlp of the order in good standing June 0, 1896, was 7302 posts, with 340,610 memers; on December 31,1896,7276 posts, with. 27,412 members; on June 30, 1897,7106 < osts, with 319,456 members, and that durng tho past ten years the Grand Army of lie Bepublio had expended for charity the lagniflcent sum of $2,100,617.67. ( I EPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTIONS, i i leetlngs Held In Pennsylvania, Mary- j land and Nebraska. I The Pennsylvania Republican State Conention nominated James S. Beaoom for I tate Treasurer and Levi G. McCauley for j Luditor-General, and adopted a platform } adorslng the McKinley Administration and j he Dingley bill and denouncing the civil ervice policy of Mr. Cleveland. ] In the Republican State Convention held i l Maryland the faction headed by United < tates 8enator Wellington was defeated. i 'he recent primaries in Baltimore were de- j lared null" and void for irregularity and ew ones were ordered. The convention ad- i >urned until September 15. The Republicans of Nebraska renomiated A. M. Post for- Associate Justice of he Supreme Court and named C. W. Kaley nd J. N. Dryden for Regents. The plat- ^ arm is practically a reiteration of the St. .ouis declarations of last year. Weyler Will Remain in Cuba. I At the last Spanish Cabinet Council held t he new f^iine Minister, General Azcarraga, ] nnounced that Captain Generdl Weyler ? rould remain in Cuba and that he would t e strenuously supported by the Govern- I lent. General Azcarraga also announced hat the Government would unreservedly ? dhere to the late Senor Canovas's reform oheme in its entirety. i Killed by Lightning While Thrashing. ? Lightning struck a thrashing machine at ! rhich sixteen men were working on Brush I Jreek, in Montgomery County, Virginia, filey Simmons and Prank Dot^yns were illed outright. Cabell Dobyns and Helms .ester were fatally injured, one of them , laving since died. Ten others were severely j hocked and two escaped unhurt. r Tax on Aliens Doesn't Go. The Alien Tax law, passed by the last ' * T ! 1 4..MA ? n n n 'ennsyivaniu i^egisiaiutv, u<uvuu uu- , (institutional by Judge Acheson, of the ] Jnited States Court. The law imposed a ] ax of three cents a day upon adult male j liens resi ling in the State, and its passage ( aused a rush of foreigners to the naturaX" i ation courts. ( Prime Lulgi's Discovery. The ascoot of Mount St. Ellas b;/ Prince ,uigi, of Savoy, determines its 'altitude at 8,120 tvt, ana also that it was, not a volanov. TO DEATH 07ER NIAGAM Two Men and a Boy Swept Oyer the Horseshoe Falls. PERISHED BEFORE THOUSANDS. I ! Frank Weber. of BnfTalo, and Warren Bunh and Charles Glaaner, of Chlrnjjo, Sailed In a Small Boat to Their Watery Graves 'Thousand* Stood Powerless on Shore Watching the Tragedy. Niagaba Falls, N. Y. (Special). A thrilling tragedy was enacted In the raging waters of the Niagara Sunday afternoon, nnd 1 hree lives were sacrificed to the treacherous waters of the river. About 5 o'clock it was reported that a boat had ventured too near the rapids, had been caught in the swift current and was seen to be carried over the Horseshoe Falls. In a short time the river bank was lined with persons from the hotels and Prospect Park. Some one descried the boat, and the cry went up in the throng, "There she goes!" Tho men clung with desperate energv to the boat, which was swept along ...it), lUktnU. .nr.i.lit., intn *1. lnnn -onMtl WIHl Il^UbUlU^ xn^'iuuj iUkU bUO IVU^ xapivu I of the Canadian side. The boat was tossed about as if were paper. Then it disappeared altogether between the huge waves, to reappear again. No effort was made by the occupants before they reached the swift water to stem the course of the croft, and it is supposed they were intoxicated. When they reached the rapids they must have realized that death was staring them in the face, but they simply clung to the boat and went down to their fate. The crowds on the shore groaned and watched the boat with its occupants with strange fascination. .The great strong waves picked it up, hurled it down, and then would pause momentarily to be hurled downward again toward the brink of the cataract. The distance from the falls to the beginning of the swift water is fully a mile. The boat was less than four minutes in going this distance and, just bofore reaching the terrible plunge, capsized. This was the last seen of the men, and it is supposed that their bodies wereswept over the falls. The boat afterward was seen in rimr hoi nor hnt was not recovered. An oar was found by one of the crew of the Maid of the Mist. No sooner had the news of the tragedy spread than search began for tho persons who were In the boat. It was learned that tho victims of the tragedy were Frank Weber, of Buffalo; Warren Bush, twentvone years old, of Chicago, a former employe of the United States Express Compnny, and Charle9 Olasner, twenty-nine years old, of Chicago, employed by the United States Express Company. They had been camping on the banks of the Niagara River, with several companions. On the fatal day they hired a small boat at La Salle and started to row across tho Niagara Biver to the Canadian shore. SORROW FOR JOHN P. UOVELL A General Kxpre??ion of Sympathy Called Out by His Death. Seldom has there been such a general expression of sympathy over the loss of one whose life has been devoted to business pursuits, as has been called forth by the recent death at Cottage City, Mass., ortnat venerable landmark of the business world, the late John P. Lovell, founder and President of the John P. Lovell Arms Company of Boston. Almost numberless messages and letters of oondolence, on the death of his honored father, have been' received by ' Colonel Benjamin S. Lovell, Treasurer of the- Lovell Arms Company. The wide scope covered by these communications 1? in It- ; self evidence of the great regard In which he was held bv the leaders In business and . public life. These expressions of sympathy have not been oonflned to New England, but they have come from every prominent , business centre of the North, East, West anl South In fact, from every portlcai of the Union; because the- name of John P. Lovell, and the corporation created by him, i have been for more than a half century the synonym or noneet aeanng ana Dusiness Integrity. Even from England, from firms with whom Mr. Lovell had enjoyed the , pleasantest business relations for morel :han fifty years, Colonel Lovell has received nessagea of sympathy. A SAD ACCIDENT.. icoce ot Children Thrown Into Waterud Five Drowned. At the foot of Cherry street, Tbeonto, i Canada, there Is a float made of rough :imber, twelve feet long by six feet wide, lsed for conveying workmen from tbe nalnland to the breakwater, a distance of ' ibout a hundred yards. Tbe float Is-worked , )y chains attached to- the bank, on one side ind the breakwater on the other side. Tweni:y-one children, boys and girls, Tots eight to thtreen years old, crowded in :he raft to go to bathe at the breakwater. Salf way crots the channel, where the water is very deep, the raft oapsized and til the children were thrown into-tbe water. There were many boats fa the neighborhood, and these were soon at the scene of ;he accident. All of the ohildren were resrued except five. Three bodies have been recovered, those of Albert Drisooll, eight ' fears; Gertie Harvey, eleven years, and 'Jack" Bethel, ton years. The names of he other two children are not known. Disastrous Collision. Rcrjnlng at fast speed to Cooey Island, a rolley car of the Nassau Electric Railroad, lashed into a drag upon which forty per10ns were riding, and, after killing twe inrsea outriarht. hurled the z>as3engers to he roadway, 5Iany of the party were serposly injured, and the passengers in the rolley car were thrown into a wild panio. Three of the passengers on the car were ilso injured. William Grupp, driver, thiry-two years old, of Brookly, was fatally njured. ChuUlongkorn Not Coming Over. The Sing of Siam, Chulalongkorn I., will, tot visit the United States, as at first ' iroposed. After his continental visits, His Majesty will re-embark on his yacht at Marseilles, France, and will sail for home. i Army of the Potomac Keunlon. President McKlnley and Secretary Alger ' ittended the twenty-eighth reunion af the Society of the Army of the Potbnoac, at 1 fvv* ?*. y. y jUght Sentence Canned Lynching. At Williamsburg, Ky., Caney Sullivan, a *hite fanner, who was sentenced, to twenty fears' imprisonment for assr.alting his 1 sister-in-law, was taken from jail and ' hanged by a mob. There were about fifty ' men in "the mob, all well armed. They tame from the neighborhood of Corbin, and entered town so noiselessly that they I did not awaken any of the inhabitants. I The light sentence for so UastardJy a erfme caused the lynching. Bank Deposits Increase, The Stato Bank Commission of Kansas reports that bank deposits have luer.asid ii5.000.ooo since January 1. WHEAT MARKET MM | ' I All Europe Must Look to the United States For Grain Supplies. .. CAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL RISE. , I In New York September Wheat Towehe^ 81.00 3-4 and Cash Wheat 81.14 1-4 Then There Was a Drop In Prices Du0 to Sales to Take Profits The Govern* ment's Kenort on Short Foreign Crop?^ New Yobk Citt (Special). There wa? again great activity in wheat on Monday" and a new high record price was made for: .. it, although it was not [maintained. The chief dealings were in September wheat, or wheat deliverable In September. On the. New York Produce Exchange Septemba^ wheat touched $1.06%, or 1% cents a \ bushel above the high price of Saturday," which up to that day was the top price. The closing price was $1.08%, or 1% cents below Saturday's closing price. The high price was 14% cents above the high price one week before (August 16). The drop In prices in the late trading was ' ,'t due to sales to take accumulated profits, and to Information that the reports frhm the West of damage to spring wheat wera greatly exaggerated. These reports ema?. nated chiefly from the Chicago Board of Trade, and from the large holders of wheat in Minneap- ! olis, who wene interested in rushing up the price for speculative purposes. At the same time it was generally thought that the large foreign demand would sooner or * tribe* vhAat fft ft. milflh higher place. Cash wheat took a jump. 18 The high quotation was $1.14#, against i the high price of f 1.11 on Saturday. The dosing quotation was 11.11#. I - i'l FOREIGN CROP REPORTS. Shortage of Wheat and Rye In En rope V Sends Up Prices. Wabhixotox, D. C. (Special). The Agricultural Department Is informed through * Its agents abroad that the reports of a shortage In the wheat and rye crops of i European countries are fully warranted by, * the facts. In eastern Europe particularly there is a deficiency of rye. In a special grain crop report Statistician Hyde, of the ') Department, said: "This fact, as well as the wheat dellclency, will tend to restrict the export*- m]y tion of the latter from those European countries which usually bare a surplus of that grain. As to non-European countries . < ^ it it- - T? 11. 1 Ah^f. - - omer man me uuueu oiaies, men a^iv ?m gate contribution to the European supply will be materially affected by the faotruK India, denuded by the- famine,- will have practically no wheat to export." Conservative commercial estimates the total wheat crop in France as low a* 100,000,000 hectoliters, making it about] "( one-seventh less than the heavy crop of! ; Z 1896. An official report from Germany says .y! that none of the leading- cereals are rated; as "good." Mall advices from Bussla speak nnfavor-- *Js ably regarding the wheat and rye crops, i the recent great heat hairing caused pre>, "V mature ripening. Prices of wheat at Vienna are reported' to be the highest in ten yeac?> and iorafg&j wheat is being Imported. A W\ 'y vlg In Belgium the yield of wheat Is repoctj jfl ed as satisfactory, but that of rye defl-j - ^ eient. Advices from Copenhagen^ Denmark, jay that rye had suffered from, stomas bo* wheat was a fair average crop ant barely The wheat crop of Boumaofa is described' as "very disappointing," and parcels of new grain received in London are im*g?4 ar and of very poor quality. Crop prospects in India were Improve# by rains in many districts-, but fta BanrteV , \,\i and Punjab much more- sain- was needsgj >< <3 Reports from Australia ytheoropehave been improved by rain,, and mwwilf to Telegraphlo reports fro? Argentina ?p- v resent* the weather as-being favonfcio fo? :he crops. s?TWhMrt win?a>l??IJI. "'"Jl ng wheat raisers of Kana lbs htg Jamp a the wheat market indnoes the farmers fo , lold oat for a higher Pile* Big rales Tisay ' "* if Western farmers wfll hold their crop atfr? ;y days wheat will go to-tU?. AN ACED PHILANTHROPIST. John I. Blair, of HewAaqr, BeedMsths' .. Age of KiaeCy-Ave? ' The Hon. John I. Blair, of BUlrstown. & Nj r., on Snnday was ninety-fire years of of*. There was no pahllo- demonstration, owlif . to the Impaired healths# the aged phflan? * \7 *^ -m HON. JOHN L.SLAIB. * hropist. A short time-ago It was bellerwH I ;hat he would die, buVh* rallied and is now . tS xvported to be itn preening. Biairstown was aamod after him, and all the working people-la It owe their living to. Vs j(m, as the men art-engaged In the various ' enterprises which he- founded. He mada>lls first dollar when, he was a hoy of eight roars, and he has said that he felt prouder in<l happier over-that dollar than he felt , ?nen he had hi* first million. Atnvoe- Knuckles Down. In response to the note of protest and earning addressed to the Ameer of Afghanstan by the Indian Government, in qW regard to inciting Mohammedans of India -M to revolt against British rule, tho Ameer /f has issued a firman ffjrM.ldfng bis subjects, Tj to join the Indian rebels. Tl\< Ameer has presvifibed severe \-onalties. MUor Hatha. At Clinton. Uy., an acw of wheat yielded ; ijJ IAS two-busb.ot sacks. ; 7*3! Oats six jwet high ia the stftfi ?a 3d In Lar^o Cowtty- i>r?aou.