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Mjuxvui wuivixin, C. JDOAsTlS, Publisher. JASPER. INDIANA, j Thchk were light frosts in low places , Sinntli IVilfAtn r, tli.i , I 1l t Ctf t lit 8th, but no damage was done. Nine Italian war ships paid a complimentary visit to the Rritish tleet at Spithenu ou the Oth. Salutes wore exchanged. Tun secretary of the interior, on the 11th, directed that the payment of the Ef00,000 to the No Perces tribe of Indians in Idaho be resumed. Tm: French chamber of deputies passed a motion, on tho sth, urging the government to negotiate with the United States for a treaty of arbitration. Tub German steamer Nordstrand loaded 325 tons of Alabama coke at Mobile, on the 10th, for Mexico. This is the first considerable shipment of coke from that port. The Manchester Guardian says that Gen. Lord Roberts.who, it was recently rumored, was to bo appointed commander-in-chief of the Hritish army, has refused to accept the appointment. Ick formed on water tubs in the region -10 miles north of Sioux City, la., on the night of the Sth. Corn looked as if it had been injured, but it was thought to iHi too far along to be seriously damaged. FnKi)i:r.iCK W. Haas, for many years editor of the Folka Freund, of Lancaster, Pa., and prominent in Gorman musical circles throughout tlint state, died very suddenly, on the 5th, from heart disease, aged 52 years. Thk longshoremen in convention in Milwaukee, on the Uth, decided to make, "their body international, and a fund was set aside to organize ou the I'acific, Atlantic and gulf coasts. The amendment to exclude saloonkeepers was lost. Notices were posted in the Atlantic mills at Providence. It. I., on tho lltlu announcing that an advance in wages will go into effect in the several departments of that concern on the 29th. The notices did not state the rate of increase. Tun state department was Informed on the 10th, by Mr. Denby, United States minister to China, that Pak Yonk Ilyo, minister of the interior ind the practical dictator of Corea, had lied from that country under charges of treason. Miis. MAnr Rbown, a monogaminn pensioner, died, on the ICth, at her home 5 miles from Kno-wllle, Tenn. She wasjthc widow of Joa Rrown, a boldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1504. Her husband died fifty-one years ago. Thk high court at Leipsic, on tho 6th, sentenced a Metz coal dealer named Hanne and a sergeant in the German army named Schreiber, respectively, to four years' and eight years' imprisonment for betraying military secrets to the French. Tm: Irish national convention, which met inOmagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, on the Sth. was the scene of constant strife. Owing to the disputes between Timothy Hcnly, John Dillon and Dr. Kenny, no chairman could be appointed and organization of the convention was not effected. Fha.nk M. Pixlev, the veteran editor, founder of the San Francisco Argonaut,.and one of the best-known men in California, was, on the 7th,. re ported to be dying at his home in San Francisco. Mrs. Pixlev was also dan gerously ill. Doth were suffering from nervous prostration. Jrnc.B Woods, of Chicago, on the Uth. modified the sentence of Eugene V". Debs from one year in jail to six months, and those of the other direc tors of the American Railway union from six months to three. The sen tences are now concurrent as the court originally imposed them. Ma von Pinohle's five-year fight for three-cent car fares In Detroit, Mich. wns crowned with suecesss, on tho 10th, when the mayor, as motorman took out the first car on bverett Pack's new line In opposition to tho Tom Johnson road. Mayor Pingrce is now sure of a fourth term. A NATIONAL Cuban presidential election was held, on the lOtJi, all ovcrthe United Suites, and also In Mexico, Jamaica and South America. There were over 100 clubs controlling as many election districts in the United .States. Early returns indicated the choice of Palma for president The questwn of the ownership of several hundred thousand acres of land in Los Angeles county, Cal., recently decided ns belonging to the United States, will probably be carried to the United States supreme court on appeal by the Southern Pacific Hailroad Co. for final adjudication. At the request of the warden of the Clinton (N. Y.) prison, from which he is a fugitive, the state department, on the Uth, asked the French authorities to hold Tom O'llricn, the notorious bunco stccrer, in the event he be acquitted on his trial for killing his partner, Reed Waddell, of Springfield, 111., in Paris, on March - last. Gen. Giieixy, who has been granted leave of absence for two months, will attend the International Geographical conference in London, as the delegate of the National Geographical society of Washington city. His presence has been partlcwarly requested by the officials In charge, nnd he will take part in the discussion on the subject of .Arctic and Antarctic explorations.

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G jl 1 . 13 11 -A 20 27 Ä28I29 30 31! f! TTtt I! U X T TO PTf 1 S w w -.v ; THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Ox the 7th Thomas II. Fortnan, aged ft'i years, died at his home iu Lexington, Ivy. Fortnan was well known to trotting horse men all over the country, having developed some of the best horses now on the trotting turf. Consumption caused his death. I'll l vns Pt i!K u-lin (.urn-fi1iil tlin late John Drown as Queen Victoria's I personal attendant, died on the 7th. , Ox the t)i Recorder Go IT of New

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York city sentenced Vineenzo Vino, funding of money naid as income tax., the wife-murderer, to be electrocuted Mi:. J. Coleman Dkayton has gone some time during tho week beginning to Kurope, and, it is hinted, a recoilMonday. August 12, at Sing Sing. i eiliation witli her husband may lie conThe Valkyrie started up the Clyde tidently looked for. in tow, on 'the sth, for Henderson's Thk committee of the city council of vard. where she will be fitted for her Richmond. Va.. which had boon tnves-

voyage to Now York, for which port she will sail on the lsth. The royal proclamation dissolving parliament, signed by the queen at Windsor, on the sth, fixes the date of the assembling of the next parliament as August 12. Tm: business p6rtion of Nowburgh, N. Y., was wined out by fire on the Sth. The estimated loss is $75,1100, with insurance of about $45.000. Two isti.nct earthquake shocks were felt at Springfield, Mo., on the th. William Rest, tho most notorious j resident of the vicinitv of Paint Lick, Kv was shot and instantly killed at 'aint Lick, on the Sth, by Speed Nu nn, is the outcome of a quarrel. The kill ing of Rest wipes out a family of outlaws who have been the terrors of thai ection for many years. The first section of an excursion train on the Grand lrunlc railway from Sherbrooke. Que., carrying pil grims to the famous shrine of Ste. Anne de Raupre. stopped at Craig's road crossing, at 3:45 -a. in. on tue tth, when it was run into by the second ection, causing a frightful wreck in which thirteen persons were killed and twice that number injured. Ox the sth the bodies of eight Chi nese were found in the San Joaquin river at Madera, Cal. They had been working in the mines sttuatcd in the mountain. S miles distant. Foul play is suspected. A THOI.I.EV car with thirty passen gers on board became unmanageable at Fast Liverpool, ()., on the sth. and; slid down the Franklin avenue lull cm the north side of the city, killing one man and injuring-etghteeu other peo ple, two of whom will die. David Meiicieh, or .T. West Mcrcier, better known by his stage name, "Ned West," all over the country, was, on the Sth, adjudged insane by the county court of Madison county. 111. West was at one time a famous minstrel, and also an acrobat and aeronaut. Tub secret service of the post otlice department has issued a circular offer ing a reward of $3,000 for the capture of Joseph Killoran, Harry Russell and Charles Allen, who escaped from the Ludlow Street jail in New ork city, July 4. The men are wanted for post office robberies and other crimes. One thousand dollars will be paid for the return of any one of the trio to the United States marshal in New lork. Soml of the German newspapers are now chnrging that the costly Kiel ca nal is practically worthless. Jonx Case, alias McDowell, was pos- j itively identified at Riddles, Ore., on the 9th. as the man who went through the coaches and took the booty in the ' hoH-up of the Oregon express In Cow Crcc-k canyon, recently. Ho was held in S7O.00O bail. James Pool was also held in S0OO on suspicion of being one of the robbers. The San Francisco Exit miner said, on the Oth, that the stolen will of exSenator Fair was in the possession of a detective named John Curtain; that he stole it from the clerk's office January 2S last and had offered to surrender it to the executors for 8.1. 000, which offer had been rejected on advice of Judge Stock. JrrOEiA YNon, of the supreme court of New York, on the Oth, admitted exPollce Inspector Wm. W. McLaughlin, who had been convicted of extortion, to bail in the sum of $30,000. Mr. McLaughlin was still under S20.0OO bail on indictments which had not yet been tried. Two ncHGi.Aits were shot at Poland, Ind., on tho night of the Sth. One named Harry Jackson, a noted Chicago eroou. was icuieu, anu aiioiner, named Arch Agar, was fatally wound ed. He was from lerre Haute. A third man, named Ed liarker, made his escape. A caisson" of a largo bridge in course of construction by a linn nt Nasalllama, Egypt, sank, on tho Oth, witli fortv workmen, all of whom were killed. Hv the collapse of a platform upon which 1,000 persons had gathered to participate in the Elk festirltics in the Inlet Casino at Atlantic City. N. JM on the evening of the 10th, 100 of their number were precipitated to the lloor below, a distance of 2f feet, all of whom sustained more or less serious injuries, while Mime, it was thought, would die. Tun Cornell crew was hopelessly beaten by the Trinity Hall eight at llcnlcy-on -Thames, on the 10th. The men were cither overf rained or, as the London Times suggests, had been tampered with before the race, as five of the eight showed signs of physical collapse.

Mils. GkOIIOK MONTOOMKHV, of Jef fers 'tivillo, Ind., was taken suddenly ill, on the 10th, with what the attending physicians declared tube a well-developed and hopeless case of cholera. Sksatojs Vest, of Missouri, sailed from New York on the Westertilund for Antwerpon tho luth. Ho will remain abroad for Ids health for several months. Si-tii RintAuns. Iowa's wealthiest

L landowner and pioneer, died nt OakIf land. Cal.. on tho toth, aged S. IIU J; wealth is estimated at 0,000,000, ir I Ti:.v stores, comprising must of the

business portion of Wauwatosa, a sub urb of Milwaukee, wore burned on the 10th; loss. S.10,000. Nicolas Pikhoi.a, leader of the revolutiomiry party in Torn, has been elected resident, ami Mr. Hillinghurst, vice-president The election was (puot. Tm: crops throughout Clinton eountv. Ind.. were badlv damn cod by a heavy Kith. frost on the morning of the A thin coating of ice also formed an water. Gr.x. F. M. Di:akk received the re- ! publican nomination as gubernatorial I oiiiitliihito at Des Moines. In., on tho 10th. Tin: internal 1 revenue uureau nas ue- , i t . gun work In eTmncot Win with the re Junneotion with the fetigating the affairs of the gas works, reported, on tho 11th, that in the ad' ministration of nine years of the late Win. Adams, a shortage of over 520,000 was found. Tm: face of an unknown negro was found in Waycross. Ga., on the night of the 10th. It had been severed from the head, and the body could not be found. The face wore ,a smile and the peculiar fate of its owner is a mystery. The Corne'.l men at Henley, Fugland, held a mooting, on the 10th. and resolved, subject to the approval of tho I'nlver-dtv of Ithaca, to send two crows to Henley in ISSUi. The necessary funds were arranged for. Tm: steamer Kite, with the Peary expedition on board, sailed from St. Johns, N. F., for Grecnlnnd at daylight on the 11th. The weather was clear and pleasant and the wind from a most favorable point. Hon. A. U. Angeus Canadian mintstor of agriculture, resigned from the cabinet, on tho 11th, as a result of differences witli his colleagues on the Manitoba school question. The governor of Pennsylvania, on the ltth, respited Albert W. Wood ley, the Allegheny county murderer, until Octviber-V. He was sentenced tobe hanged on tho IStli. The secretary of the interior, oil the 11th, approved two school-indemnity lists in the Sacramento (Cal.,) land district, embracing 12,502 acre. Maj. 11. E. Ai.vor.D. chief of the dairying division of the department of agriculture, left Washington, on the 11th, for Denver, Col., to preside over the agricultural congress of western farmers, which meets in that city. Ox the 11th Deputy KheriiV Thompson levied an attachment ou the S10,000 that Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, had put in the hands of "Phil" Dwyor, of Rrooklyn, as forfeit money for his coming fight with Corbett. The at tachment was gmuted by Justice Stover on behalf of James II. Tooker, who recently got a judgment for S3,Os7 against Fitlmnions. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The American stentn yacht Yampu, belonging to Chester W. Chapin, capsired in the dry dock in Fay's yard at Southampton, on the 12th, and was completely wrecked. The yacht was just about to be launched, all preparations havinir been made, when she suddenly fell over with a great crash. Several men were lnlurcu. two oi s-llcni- employes at Fay's yard, fatally. t tiEXCH Ueputies Kiclmru ami nenold fought a duel, on the 12th, with pistols, with the usual result, neither fing injured. On the same day M Hassott nnd M. Archain, members of the Seine municipality, fought a duel with swords, with the unusual resuU that Ra.ssettwas wouinicd in the wrist. Tn.i.y Scott, John Armstrong and Joseph Humphreys, directors of the Hutchinson (Kas.) re forma tor, have tendered their resignations to Gov. Morrill rather than submit to nn in vestigation of the charges of extravagance and profligate expenditures of -täte money preferred against them. The coal operators of the Itirmingham (Ala.) district, who control seveneighths of the output south of Richmond, Va., have completed the formation of a combination for the regulation of prices and the maintenance of a uniform system of securing contracts. A HEi'OitT was received, on the 12th, of a light in Jackson's Hole, south of the Yellowstone park, between settlers of the region and a party of Bannock Indians who were unlawfully killing game. One Indian was killed and fifteen captured. Summing up the situation as viewed by government officials hi Washington, there is in the present condition of fceHng among the nations of Kurope no immediate prospect of any concerted action for an enlarged use of silver. The venerable Kev. D. R. McAnnnlly, senior editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, and one of the most prominent men in the Southern Methodist church died, on the 11th, at his residence, in St. Louis, aged 8.1 years. Assistant Seciietauv or the IntkiilonJouN M. Reynolds has decided thnt the father of a deceased soldier has no pensionable status under the net of June 27, 1S00, during the lifetime of mi oh soldier's mother. l'Ali.citKS in the United States during the week ended the 12th, as reported by R. G. Dun A. Co., were 2M, against 247 for the same week last year. In Cnnnda the failures were 53, against 40 Inst year.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Tili southern part of Porter count; Ivan visited tho past week by an army

of grasshopper, which is literally eat ing up the crops. Whole nelus ot nay und corn have been taken by them. The damage amounts to thousands of dollars, A hemaiikable instance occurred at Hugcrstown. John Kowe, aged 76, the father of sixteen living children, und all but three attended his birthday anniversary at his home near tltere. There wore ninety-live relatives pres ent. Sri.i.iVA.v county reports tho melon crop in excellent contiumn, muwiui three-fourths less acreage than last year. Du. Josnt'A II. Kesteh, a prominent physician of Hammond, sixty-seven years of age. committed suicide tho other morning in his office. When discovered he was lying on the lloor with his coat thrown over his head, and was apparently asleep, but on examination it was found that the coat hud been saturated with chloroform and he was dead. The Klwood Natural Gas nnd Oil Co., of Hlwood, has been sued for S10,000. Jerry Claxton wants S'-'.I.OOO and Charles Hand demands S15.000 for per sonal injuries sustained. Mit. and Mns. Jo5lAH Skei.t cele brated their golden wedding in Elk hart. Rev. Ha yien Rayhchn, of Kokomo. has married 1,270 couples in the past half century, The Studeluikors, at South Rend arc organising a lino uanu among tneir employes. Gold brick swindlers have struck Whitley county. At Indianapolis Jacob Allen, a young colored man, well known, the other afternoon sprang off a bridge into the canal with suicidal intent. The water was too shallow, but he continued to wside until he found a deep hole, and then sank to tho bottom. A W.ujasii woman has been bothered by a eat which killed her chickens, and, not being able to induce any of her male aecpiaintances to kill it, she caught the feline the other day, and, holding it by the neck at arm's length, shot it full of holes with a revolver. Rev. Omeu Oakks, of Wheeler, Por ter county, died the other morning, aged 45. A singular coincidence exists in the death of the Oakes family. All the members, eight in number, so far, have died on Sunday, and the funerals were held on Tuesday. The deceased prophesied his death on that day last ednesuuv. Lmuu: MooitK, aged 10 years old, of Leo, refused to assist in washing the breakfast dishes, and then.it is said. she went to her room and attempted suicide with rat poison. Dig Four road has purchased 71 acres of land at Jeirersonville, on which to erect the new shops. Wai.tkk Lowe, an employe of the American wire-nail works, was badly burned while cleaning out one of the mammoth boilers. Wihm; suffering from the effects of a recent siege of sickness, Miss Hose Ellars, living near l'eru, ended her life with morphine. While Charles Ilrothers was digging a well Monday on tho farm of Josenh Keppler, near Wabash, the bucket dropped on his head, crushing his skull. Ho can not live. The seventeen-year-old daughter of Daniel Shannas, of Parke county, was found beaten to death in the woods near her home a few days ago. A neighbor, a married man. is suspected. Fhank Walcon, while painting his residence north of Itrn.il, fell from a ladder and broke his neck, killing him instantly. New fourth-class postmasters commissioned in this state: W. S. Fowler, Guy; Henry Howard, 1'hlex; W. D. Doedeker, Voorheesj W. II. McCloskey, Youngstown. At Franklin while cleaning a shotgun, the 13-ycar-old son of W. F. Hendricks accidentally touched the 'trigcer. One of tho shots struck a son of Van West, who was standing" near, in the hip, producing a very dangerous wound. West Indianapolis citizens raised $300 for a grand fireworks blowout ou tho evening of the Fourth. Clay City is reveling in concrete sidewalks. Em.itrno is angling for an anti-trust r.tnrch factory. Milk dealers at Ft. Wayne have raised the price to eight cents a quart. Somi II k.n i has a brood of petty burglars. Clay county sheep nie being killed by dogs. At Muncic Cncle Jimmy Stewart, aged 01, died from the effects of falling down steps, dislocating his hip. At Logansport, while bathing in Eel river Albert, tho 14-year-old son of Prof. Graham N. Dcrry, principal in the Logansport public schools, was seized with cramps and was drowned in the presence of companions. Indianapolis was remarkably quiet the Fourth under the operations of the Nicholson temperance law. Theiii: arc 3.10 idle convicts in the prison south. The LTnion Stool Co., Alexandria, let a contract for fifty homes to be built near Its plant. . Mmw.EHl'HY has a new hook nnd ladder outfit and a volunteer fire company will be organized. A" Evansvillc. the other nftcrnpon, Henry Kirkendall, aged 2J. was killed with a Flobert rifle in the hands of Den Snndcfur. Kirkendall was pinying ball and Sandefur was in a woods nearby hunting. Sandefur is under rrest. At Matthews, the S'cmi-stcel Costing Co., manufacturers of semi-steel nnd gray Iron castings for rolling mill, smelting works nnd railroad purposes, was located the other day by the Matthews Land Co. This company will employ not less than 10.1 hands at the sturtUnion City is to have a new court house.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES

On tin- lfT rrt of hr I.wrr IViilmul of .MIi IiIkhii Two Tonn !.rli to th 4 Jrotiiiil, Mini Miuijr Ollicr In I tiitiill)-t IVrll -Miiny riiriiilioii' llurm-tl, tin Owner I.ixIiik Tlivlr All on Hürth IViiric I'V-art'il. Dirntorr, .Mich., July 11. The upper part of tho lower peninsula of Michigan Is dotted to-night with savage forest (ires. Already the lumber towns of Wallln, up in Heinde county, ami Cleary, near the little town, have been levelled to the ground, several people have been badly burned, and no otie knows to-night how far the damage has extended. The Thumb has been invaded, and the town of Ivi inlet; is girded with fire, nnd ashes and hhiclc loaves are sifting down on tlte peoplo in the resorts to the north. Wnllin, as far as can be learned, is totally destroyed. The Sullivan Lumber Co.'s mills there und Ü.00O.O0U feet of lumber were burned, together with thirty houses that made up tho little settlement. The people lost all they had. Most of them are at Thompsonville, a neighboring town. They are said to bo in a greatly exhausted condition. Xo deaths are as yet reported from that point. Two Chicago A West Michigan trains are blocked by tho tire just bolow Wullin and the telegraph poles are burned and all wires are down. Late to-night intelligence comes that Cleary, a small lumber town near Wnllin, was burned this evening. The fires, which have been burning for several days, suddenly grew worse and before the inhabitants were aware of it they were nearly hemmed iu. They made a rush from the burning town and. as far as known, left no one behind. Several people were badly burned, but as far as known no lives were lost. From Kindee. in the Thumb; were the great forest fire occurred a few years ago. comes the most alarming rep irts. The town is surrounded with flu nies that every moment tiro sweeping nearer the place. The news, as sent front towns near by is, that the people of ICiudoo are wetting tho roofs of their houses and covering the sides with wet blankets: in the hope that they may save all they have in the world. It is feared that tho town will go, and messages urging the people to Hoe for their lives have been sent from several places. Reports from Traverse City. Petoskoy, Charlevoix and the other towns are till of the same tenor that the fires have been burning for over two weeks, and that a sudden strong wind has fanned them into alarming activity. Already a number of farmhouses ha ve boon burned, and the people are coming into town, tolling that they have lost all they had on earth. Late reports from the extreme western edge of the state are that there is a little improvement in the situation, but it is feared that the hot cinders have worked havoc among the famous orchards of that vicinity. THE SPECIAL GRAND JURY In vritl;;tliii; ;imr;;- of C'onaplrjirjr end Sollritrt Hon of llrllit-K. Cillt'AOO. July 12. The special grand jury which was summoned Wednesday for the purpose of Investigating specific charges of conspiracy and solicitation of bribes on the part of aldermen nnd their go-betweens, was impaneled yesterday in Judge Tuthlll's court, and strongly charged by his honor. The jury is composed of twenty-three prominent business nnd professional men. In his charge, Judge Tuthill said: "For months past the press of this city has teemed with charges more or less direct that corruption has existed in the public legislative body of the city. How much of truth there may bo in tho charges I do not know and you do not know. These charges, as made through the press, have reached that stage where special acts of misconduct and malfeasance in office have been charged against particular individuals. On the representation of the state attorney that it was for the public good that a special grand jury should be called and submission by them of evidence to me. I have cause! It to be summoned. Tho only matter to be submitted to you will be the charges of the eorrnption in the city council." Aldermen Charles Martin and V. M. Funkier, who tiro charged with soliciting bribes from lee companies and of conspiring to pass "sandbagging" ordinances, declared all such charges false. THE OWNERSHIP Of llnnilrriU of TlioiisimtU Arrrn of I.nnrt In l.'iillforuU In DlNptitf. Washington, July lü. The question of the ownership of several hundred thousand acres of hyul in Los Angeles county, Cal., recently decided as belonging to the United States, will probably be carried to the I'nitcd States supreme court on appeal by the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.. at least this is the opinion of ollleiaU of the general hind ollice. The case Involves the ownership of overlapping grants to the Southern Pnoiticand Atlantic Pacific railroads. The former road, on the ground that the Atlantic & Pacific road was never built, took possession of the lands. Thecourts hold that the lands reverted to the United States. They will probably not be opened to settlement until final judicial decision is rendered. AN IRATE HUSBAND Shot nt IIU Wife Cnmpniilon, Hut KllU-d in wir-. Canton, X. C, July 12. -Will Wilkinion, of Ashevlllo. was driving with, the wife of Attorney Juttneys, near her home, west of Murphy, late Wcilnesnight, when Jcnncys, who had hid by tho road, fired at Wilkinson, but struck and killed his wife. Wilkinson was arrested at llryson City. Jenneys fled, and hns not been seen. Jcntieys' family came from New York, and hns been living in the vincinlty of Murphy for a few years.

NICARAGUAN CANAL.

A Fiviirlil Id'port on tlif rroiiai'il Itoatt to tin MniIo liy the t'nllrtl Sinti' i'iiiiiiiita. Ion -Tin Work .'in Im CniuptiMril in Si-vrn Vfitm, hut Will ('out Morn tlntit tliu Katiiimtra -Till" I'ornuT .Miuingi'illi-lit Se VurHjr t'rlt U'iiirit. Cincinnati, July 13. A special to the Post from Grcytown, Nicaragua, üays that a favorable report on the Nicaragutiu ou; ul will be made by the United States commission which has been in the country for some weeks anil has carefully examined the proposed canal route and the terminal harbors on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The commissioners are now at work upon their report, which will be of an exhaustive character. They will state their unanimous conclusion that the Colorado bur, which has caused so much trouble at the entrance to dreytown harbor, can be partially removed by dredging, and that a p"rinauent opening through it can be maintained by building and maintaining a sea wall of piling to the southward of the harbor, so as to break the ocean current which washes up tho sand on the bar. The commissioners think that the work of constructing the canal can bo completed within a term of six or seven years, but that the total cost will exceed the limit set by the projectors', and that SI 10,000,00'J will not be tin excessive figure. The commission will ventilate its opinion of the former uinnsigtMiiont of tho'canal enterprise.and will present a number of severe criticisms in this connection. The commission consists of Col. Win. Ludlow, of the army; Civil Engineer M. T. Endicott, of the navy; Alfred Xoble, of Chicago, civilian. All are appointed by the president. All are on the cruiser Montgomery and are due at Key West, Fla., to-day. THE OHIO RIVER. Cfitrrul I'liiii for I ioirovlne 11 Nnrlciitlon t)ll!'.'iiltlfn In tint Wtir. Washington, July 1". The general plan for improving the navigation of the Ohio river is treu ted in the annual report of Col. Amos Stickney, corps of engineers, United States army, with reference to the work accomplished during the year ended Juno III), ls'.l.V The plan has for its object to secure additional depth at islands and bars by the construction of low dams across chutes and by the building of dikes where the river is wide and shallow bo as to confine the How to a smaller cross section and by dredging. A radical Improvement of the upper part of the river has been commenced by the construction of a lock and movable dam nt, Davis island, five miles below Pittsburgh and work on another lock and dam No. , has been commenced just below Reaver. Surveys have also been made for sites for movable dams Xos. 2. 3, 4 and .1 of the series. A snag boat and two dredges belonging to the United' States are constantly employed when; funds are available and tho stage ot the river permits, in taking out sikikh and wrecks and in dredging away gravel and rock obstructions that cannot otherwise be removed. Tho work of improvement has been continued all along the river to Mound City, 111.. i.VJ miles below Pittsburgh, where dikes are being erected. Speaking generally of the project Col. Stickney says that it is impossible to determine in advance just where and how much work will be needed for making good navigation upon the entire upper length of the river, and therefore it is impossible to submit cstimutes for complete improvement The work, he says, must be progressive and tentative, nnd owing to the varied interests and covering nearly 1,000 miles, of river, tho locations of worktr must be at considerable distances, apart, so that no one reach of rivercan be taken on hand nnd improvement completed in advance of othcrpartsof the river, unless largo amountrt of money are provided. Continuing, he says: "The grcataadT; growing commerce of this river, its numerous cities, and the rapid in crease of the already large population of the valley should appeal in strong terms for adequate appropriations for sueh betterment of the navigation asIt is certain can he obtained by wellknown methods." A JEALOUS WIFE Trim to Kill Hit Chili! ami llfmrlf Mother I.ovn Conquer mill Itoth nrr Siivrtl. CJhani Radius, Mich.. July 13. It developed yesterday morning that Mrs. John Lewis, living in tho southern part of this city, made a sensational attempt at suicide and murder Thursday. She took a large dose of strychnine und then gave a dose of thedeadly drug to hcr.Vyoar-old daughter, Ressie. Not satisfied with this she' then tried to strangle the little girl with a towel. The suffering of the little one aroused the pity of the crazed mother who sent for a physician. The woman, told him the whole story, and the mother nnd child were saved by hartt work. It is understood that .MrsLewis, who is VS years of age, wns.jealous of two young ladles who are. residents of the same house. She hasv. also been considered slightly off on ,he subject of spiritualism. ri hi tier Ilcarrve Trrmmaaern to be Criminally I'roteruteil. Washington, July DL The secretary of the Interior hns requested the nttorney general of the United States, to direct the United States district attorney in California and Oregon tobring criminal suit against timbertrespassers in those states. Cattlemen hare been running stock In government timber reserves, trampling down the brush and small timberHeretofore they hare been simply ejected by force, hut recently a lawwas discovered under tvlilob theycoultS be prosecuted. .