Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 July 1901 — Page 2

Weekly Courier.

MMN, ubliah.er. i INDIAN.. JASPER, The transport Haseoeh which sailed tmh, S.'u Kran Uses, u th .' " ' h. fa Mai carried djt.-Ccn. lorlnn ai u :itinguifchcd company of BllllllaiO, lin n .ui'l a BOSsber of school teacher. The Louisiana Pun hase World's Fair national commission formal! aprovcd the site selected at Si. Louis, formulated a statement of its duties ami adjourned subject to all of the chairman. Final arrangements w.-rr made, on UM 2th. for Um fifth annual ewnvt-a-I ''ii of h A merit jmi J.-e Meek ;ociatitn and the SOfsH Ot.S al Live Mock exposition, w liich w ill le hel id ahsago December j to c Inrlsslvs Warrant were issued ly the treasii ry depart tnnt. on the -th, in favor of IJcar-Admiral NN in. I". Sampson fr . and C apt. Inn, h L ( hadwi. k lor .t'.nt for tin ir shares of irie money decreed tltm by ihe court of rlainss. :"; ince 1 him, brother of the emperor of China, who has-been seiet ted to proceed to llerlin and there formally apologist for the murder nt Pallia ia June last, of Haron Von Kcttlcr. tha "ernian minister to China, bails foi Europe July 20. 'I he Forty third repimenf. the last et UM volunteers to leave the Philippities, eriived at Baa PrSRf ISfO. on t n1'Tth. OS the transport Kilpatrick, days from Manila. The Forty-third was in the Philippines 18 month, seelog much Serviufc. A; list BSOefisg of the Yalt- Alumni association at New Haw-n, (otin., on the 25th, resolutions were adopted addressed to Secretary May expressing pride in the achievement S of his s.,n Adelbert, in the public service "which leflovl neb credit tijHiii the u... ' r sity SBd the country." There a- a ehuritj fete, on the -7 th. .it the lVtit Trianon, in Paria, nn.de famous by Marie Antoinette. The fete was cigaiiinl by the ;mtess de Castellaac and other society ladies. Ii, attired ;n rustic Cost ttSBOS of the period, reproduced scenes from ihe life o! Mane A bt net te. A hip business consolidation SSS been effort ed at fHoos Ify, la., hj whith the Sitmv t ity tias esSSpOSJ and the Sioux I ity Klertric SOSSpsSJ haie been consolidated umler the title of the Sioux t ity s and EtOclrfcl to. with a capital stock f liyOTfi.Oflfl. Tbs incorporators ar- BIOOS 1 it men. At Ebb ratio. Kas., OS tbe CTth. Je sic Miirri.i?i was found guilty of RMW tSSfbter in the sei-ond degree, ; n the killing of Mrs. Olin t'astle. Tbs penalty bt not more than five yeaiS'ir less than thiee years in tbe Muit(n tiary. fine ,f Morrison's law yers iinii ediatcly t.'.rd a notier of ap peal. Many of the first elass mechanics working in the Northern Pncüc rail road shops had a genuine surprise OL the bPtbi vtbn mcb received a perSonni not ifi.-n lion of an increase ir wages. It was granted by the onipony of its own free will, and with out any request whatco-r on the ji;.rt of the men. As an outcome r.f an sitercmtloa which th bad iu the high eourt (senate), during the '.-ret dotiberntloa sfter the close of the trial f the Maripiis tie l.ut -Saluces, Senators l.c Preit Is louoav and Aucoin fmnrht a '!m-I with pistols i'Tth. Two i-htits vtithotit results. .ear Pa rls, SO th w ere Sil hSOSI Dr. IJoliert Korb, the tierman lae leriologist ; I'rofesstirs Vun Leydes ind Fraenklc. and -ilMiut ofe hundred erman hygstdbt and sjtet-ialist will attend the ttllereultsis eonjrres to Is? held in London July .2 tt .''.. lir Kot-h will relate l f,,r.- tbe ciuitrres the startlintr results l,c has r..-.-nty Schieed with t liliereulin. Frank J, ( 1st rainier, of :mdot te. Kits., on the h. was ftt tl a parole pardon by (mv. Stanley as a reward for courage and services in the recent rOSi mine mutiny at the sToOSSl penitentiary, f strander climlM-d half way up the shaft and reached the carriac,He was then pulled up. an! inform -d the officers of tne condition of affairs. The Association of Military ;,r peons of the I nitetl States this yeal W ill tiffer the ROM flSSdlT gold meilal valuetl at ll'H), fur the Iwst ISSnn id "The Most Practicable Organisation of the Medical Department of t.e 1'nited States Army for Active Bom b-e.-' The competition is open to all persons eligible to membership iu the Late accounts from the seene of tL: BotKls in the West Virinis eoal fields Inda ate that the early rtpOTtl of loss Of life and destruct ijn f prop.-riy were very greatly SXSgfrntel InStead of $2.000,01,, ttOfOOO is ,,ow Stated as the pTSbabj proM-rtv ;,, ishile the snssbsr killed ix variously stated, the lower t-jure b.-niK- Wu than a score. The Sc, nth African war .v .is aijaia ihe subj.'-ct tif innumerable piestioa n the Bfltksh house of eosnnena on the 2.1th. Little information was elicited except that the war continue to cost k 1.. Vi.inui weekh ; that the nil thorit.es ,-v,Mliat).,, ,,ia. th ,,il;Ml,.n of (ape Colony ssmbsroi from 1 not to J.tss, ,,,.. ,,,: that lh).r,. Ut r- . 4M eases of typhoid fever aBSSM ths troops dsrinft the month of iprU, of h"h numljfr fl sjrneol julai

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nr. CUBRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IH BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. ien. Maximo tiome tailed from Hn'iiiia for N-w York, on the -6th. by say of Tan. pa, Fla.. aceonianicd by he privat ssofoleiy of ii.-i,eu. , ood. The povernor of tbe New York Itoeh exchange voted, on the Nth, not to close tbe exchange on July 5 and 6. At a meeting of the Harvard Alumf.i as-.. .. .i: at t ambridge, M.i-s . n the Mtb, Hon. John D. InTOS wa lectl presitletit. A portrait of Louisa. Iidy Manners, ifterwjrd eountcM of Dysart. Iy Hippner. ww- sold at auction, in I.onJon. on the rth. for 1 4.7541 piinea. M. Kersbsw, formerly f lli-imr, ml who at one time was one of Voles jestknou athlttta. lied in San Ft SSV ;iMo. on the ".Tth. ae: 29 years. The secretjiry of the treasury, on the ITUb purch.Ted $?t)U,0t)0 shortterm four-er-eent. honda at 113.91 lloer invaders, under Malan and Smit. alniut three thousand stroaoj, Sttaebed Ui hmor.d. t ape Colony, early on the niort.ini: of the .v.th. Tlo town w. s defended hy a iletaehment of the North Staffordshire militia ander Capt. Hawk-haw ami the Iowa rnard. Aftei a fbybt lasticj,' U hour 1 . :h ts wrtbdrt a . fbc .nth natitmal lank f New j'ork eitv was placed in the hai.a temiM.rarx r--eier lv the eomotroll r of the eurnmy. on the -Tth. bce;ids' i.t toe in,i tt'tlness of a lior- ' rower. anroximatinff fl.SOfMlOu, enred h doobtfnl collateral. La I.iH-ha I Havana i. referring editorialiy , the ani' ation movenaMt. arsrna its sgitoton to proceed slowly, saying pre ma tun action will peore harmful t thtnsels anil that their efforts should 1-e s: ed for that tin:Is tbo future wben the problem of snnenntlon t t-mes up. The jury st Fldor.n.o. Ka.. after rrsSgHling for 30 bonrSi found Miss .'es-ie Morrison sTuilty of mauslauirht ter in the seeond letrree for the killing of Mrs. olin I. CastlO The peOSb j ty is not mare than fite years nor less than three vears" imprisonment. The jury at Sprintrliebl. ft., in the case of lieorjre V. Thatcher, eborged with forcinsr the name of the late slUionoire, p. P. Mast, to notes erecatinp n irfsi, returned a verdict of aetuittal. While Alfred Norlin. the county treaMirer. MRS workinir in bis office in the courthouse, at Minden. Neb., on the nullit of the UJth. some one entered and kniM-ked him senseless, anl. after rifling his ocketa ami the money drawer, set tire to the building. The er, of N'aney Hanks Lincoln. moth r of Abraham Lincoln, in BpsSr eer county. Ind.. i at last marked by S creditable mniitiment. It has just been eomph-ted and is now ready to tarn over to the commission created by the last ceneral assembly. TboSBSI . llarker. vho shot Ket John Keller, snd who wa found gui! IV ii a inrv at .ierev itv. . J., was sentenced, on the "?th. to five years imprisonment ami to pay the costs of tbe trial. s a result ot the nrenk.ng or a temporary platform built on a sen f folding inside s.ntl bridging the top of .i monstrous tank in the Lastern el vator at P.ufTalo. N. Y., six in n fell a di ta-rt-e of so feet. Four wert . ii. -o. one instnntiv. ami Hie otfors died within a few hours. Another is not e. . ted to live. There arrived at As'neroft. It. (".. on he T i h . a pd! bri k weighing l.oi pOSmdn, representing the greater jKrtion of the year's clean up of the Cariboo Mining Co. All tbe flint glass factories of the country ; rated under the scales of the American Flint Ulass Workers' union, closed down, on the 2tth. for periods mssjiSMJ from four weeks to two BSOntbS. Fully forty thousand i.ien ami Imus will enjoy the customary sOanSBfff vacation. At t bttatlts auction rooms in Lon don, on the IStfc, a tair of small Loiii XV. cabinets. with brass mounts, and cxeeiited by ( aflieri. which were formerly the property of the duke of leeiN. were sold at au tion for X I,(MIO. Mi-s Minnie A. Stoner, dean of the woman's department and profesor of tlomestic seience in the Kansas State Agricultural coilege. has Wen elected professt.r of I'limcstit- science in the Ohio .täte university. On Ib.- th K. ii. Ibin ff Co. reported: "Failures for the week numbnrul Sot in the I nited Ststes. against 207 for the corresponding week last yesr. and -J is anatla, agrust 21 last year. ' The seerrtary of the treasury, on the L'sth. Iiought lljl.000 hort term five-per -cent, bonds at 109.7frt; f97.34u threes at 109.9001, and $1,190 fours at Iii 1:. Hiirint- a storm, on tbe ?th. ligbfnine killer" four men. all of whom leave hirer families, who were at work harvesting in a wheat field on tbe J. C. Halb, rt farm, near Lodi, ind

I Tbe president, on the tth, disposed of . p.uii i , as, . s,.,eroi applies IIOM w ii- denit-d and others f.'1-auted to rostors eltrll rbybta. In u number of rases pardons for minor offenses wers lt.. nt,-.!. and the senti ncea in others were cuiuiiuted to stmrter terms. I he StSlSSS nl of the treasury Iwlancea in the ieuerul fund, exclusivs of ihe ll.'Hi.iMMi.nui gold reserve iu the divistssl of redemptitin, issued on the -th. sbi'Wed: A ui liable cash balance, Ji: M : gold pj '--'.l-'S. The n.o t ... par t in.-nt, on the 2sth, fOVS out a statemeut to the effect that it is ready t pire every enconiapeme 1. 1 to the naval militia, litis was called forth by reHirts that the de part men t had decided to abandon tltv militia. A tire at Tsaritsin, a fortified town in the government of Saratov. Russia, on the :th. consumed several sawmills, 21 timber-laden Itarpes and the t imler deMits :u..l quay on the Volga. The damage is placed at 5,000.0)0 roubles, snd it is reported that several

lives were lost in the fire. LATE HEWS ITEMS. Lann Ta.. bids fair to become fr nious for the many tine earls found there. tn- r-tntlv s,,(l for l.soo. It was found bv .in old Swede SSJOCd P r.aou on a nam bed which prod need the famous Queen Marie n!out a month ugo. and slUsOOgb weiphitg less, i6 grains, is a n.u. li finer ami more rslusl k g St, Monpiis I M n g. at Shanghai, rceeivetl a dispatch on the Itoth, from sian Fu to lbs effect that the f psoas dowager of China, fearing a trap to capture ! -r. dec! it es to return :o Pel. in. and has i.otified the grc.nd couneil tl at the future capital will 0 Ka;-Fenp-Fu. in th Province of Bo Nan. Tbo i nited states training ship Hartford. mmai ler J. II Hawle arrived at Copenbsgen on the MHb. Tbs DS v department reserved for ht-r the lust berth liuring her two wei ks' visit. The crown prim-e reseat entertained tbe ufbeers of the Hartford at dir.r.ei. Daring a srsoro rain ami elertric storm at Winonn. Minn., on the ;o h. Ikybtning strncb Ibe Vonnff Lsdies' semisary, i Isms ging the roof; the 1-tke si re t britlge was set on tire, but was save.!; some et-. s were killed, ami the Ihm htrdatOSP stunned. He w ill recov ei . Mrs. BopVTS Ptiffer. wife t)i Bt. Rev. Henry t. Potter. Protests al Kpisftipal b.sl.op of Ntw York, died suddenly, on tlie :,.. at the family residence in New orbeity. Mrs. Potter's llostb was Tu, tt heart failure? unperlodueed by the intensely L it weather. Act ording to the Vienna eorro spondent of the London Dolly Telagrapb, a coniict bos occurred between Musfeulmeii snd ( In ;-t inns at Unasinpe. on the Albstttnn-Montsnif i is f r i, t i-r. Ten I l.i .-' ,.::s l iiit' l.i!!--I and sanny otboei nonndsd. Lev. Dr. Pyron Sinderl.iiid. of WssbJnfrton. D. .. dksd at Cstsblll, N. Y.. on the Mtb. from a blood etot oi the brain. 1 1 i r- n :v se oeciirred at thj home of his son-in-law. Drrin Day, president of th. I aimers' national bank. It is asserted in M. Petersburg that M. He Witte, tbt IJusia'i Hnanee miniv ter. will teOVC tbst capital for Manchuria dorlog July. The Meteor. Sritfc Fsnpsror William on board, wrest the ya ht race in l.ubreck bay on tin- it h. Judge W. A. W.mmIs. of the Pufted BtstOO district court, lrrpped dead at 12:21 on the morning of the VJth, at his home in Indls ns pslis. Ind. A tomatlo struck La Crosse, Wis.. alM.ut se.-n o'clfK-k on the evening ot the ftttb, dnfOfj thousands of dollar' worth tif damage. Tbo new Norwegi-n hospital, in course of erection, was n recked. It is claimed that there is an "Insanity trust" in Indianapolis, Ind., the memliers of which stand ready to testify to any patient's insanity for s consideration, (ireat indignation has been aroused by the exposure. Mr. Snn-.uei linrr.ers. president of the American Federation of La I Mir. is dangerously ill :it his home in Washington, as a result or a fall from a trolby ear as he was returning home from a ride with his daughters. ."eriator Patterson, of Ohio, one of the state's Pan-Amei iean commissioners, who is arranging for the dedication of the state building on July 1, soys that I resident McKinley Hfl tisit the exposition on that occasion. A terrific storm swept ov.-r St. Paul and Minneapdis. inn., on the afternoon of the tli doing an imnienSS amount of damage, lluluth. New Ki. hmond. Star Prairie ami other points in the state felt the force of the storm. F-re Commissioner John J. Seannell of New York city, lloss t roker's right hand mar. was indicted by the grand jury, on the L'sth. for malfeasance In office. Me was also bSdttetSd jointly with wniiam I.. Marks for conspiracy. Bt Mary's (athoiic church at HiiiiIngton. Ind.. was struck bv lightning Slid destroyed on the '.'sth. It was Soloed at HMM At Yclpin. Pike eounty. ten buildings were unroofed ami one atone building demolished. No live wert lost so far as known. While seated unter a tree during i straff, thumi. i storm at sfcTftWn, SSS . on he Jsth.l'red Lee. of South ii.gton. and his yo.ing bride w?re struck by lightning. Mr. Ie was m stantly killed and his wife was co stunned, thnt her life is despaired tif. The Louis'ana Purchase Worlds Fair national commission, on the Jsth. spptov. d the tebeetion if the Porost park si'e for the Wtirld's fair at s-t. Louis, ad. pt.il report of the judiciary commit t. m fining in detail th powers and isttlss of the , ornmisiioB under ihe law creating th" body, iml stljourned, subj. . t to the call of tbo -bairinan.

NEWS FROM INDIANA.

Latest Happenings Within the Borders of Our Own State. Nttllrr should lie l.iven. Iiidlssspoiis, Ind., JttSO Hi ttorm Uonoml TsyloV ssyi that no insanity Inqnosl sbooH bo held ssy BrberS in Indiana nit BOO f SOtlso bO" ing tirst served on the defendant, and .ls further: v- BbsoM ss i .'tMiit to esssnss the value of elthr life ST liberty I ilo not sm hy m-' nkota ebsrsttS with stli ls Mia- nuttht Hoi to ie stets sollet 'f tkat r m 1 1 tiins as much as If he I charged with owli-g ten SOtiari for a k ' Mil. It ni- to nit- l Mat Iu r.- a ni. i. mI r t is st stake, as eil as his satire futun sapsl r.es. he oukIu to ! rv.l with notice of mi h stssmpti ti prseesdlSaTS, Preosostly the best answer to the allegation of tusiinit) i the tit f i. tan t himself." Insnne KiiKinrer ans ill-. Ind., June -. an engineer running i: pill Dan lb nliet tea here ami Loulst ills went insane from on t he Texas road, the excessive heat i and rail away with his engine He juiued on his engine in the yards beten? town two miles and he made the run here unaccompanied. He lore up switches ami came near running into a pasM'iiger train. Tbe engineer on the passenger saw the engine coming, and, realizing homething was wrong, took to a switcb. When Ilcnyon was taken from the cab he was a racing maniac. Illd II in n llrenm. hiikomo. Ind., June W. Oscsr Miller, who trietl to strangle his wife, has U'cn arrested. He admits mak ing the attempt, out says he ilitl it in a dream. He -a he dfOStued the I house was on fire and that he was trying to rescue his wife. He refuses I to sav anvtbing about tbe cbloro form with which the woman's pillow m saturatci!. I lnuui il i n i on r I . L'uood. Intl.. June .'s. I.afc Trauer. 15 years old, w;.s arrested for -toning a house, and Judge Jones -UM-ned sentence provided the mother of the defendant would give the lad a flogging. Adjournment fol lowed to the basement of the city hall, and the mother wielded the lah to the satisfaction of the law. Ill null! Lite WISS, Fort Wayne. Im!.. June 88, Baysound McKinley. 2 year- old. met initsnt death by electrocution, He entered the employ of the Fort Wayne Trsctioa SOMpsnj a fcv days ago as a Ksentsn. and while working; Sfl a line 'i eongbl hold of a live w ire and was killed. McKinley WSI nnniarrled. House Mows Bosen, a-hville, Ind.. June SA. Daring I -tor-n a boUSt occupied by Shanno-i Hamp:on gnd family, near this city, was blown down, but the family meaped with slight bruises. Miles of fencing were leveled by the storm and much damage nrSl done to irrowing Tops. Floth Vre luanne. JefTersonv ille. Ind.. nnc 2. Albeit firay. of Henry vifle, becominp ar e. was ordered transferred to i the Central Indiana insane 1 ospital. and his father gare way to Intense grief over his son's condition anil was jl-o declared insane. Driven I nan lie. l. if.iyette, Ind . June - William Stanton, a well-to-do fanner, while craed with the heat, secured a shotgun and tried to kill a farm laborer. He was overpowered with difficulty and was removed t.i the county jail fur afe keeping. Snpp.iaeil to lir lien, I Booth Hend. Ind.. June M, Mrs. KliJ Mahoney, an inmate of the county Infirmary, suffering with BSthntt, .i supposed to be dead, and pn-parn-tlona were making for burial. Then she revived, and i f ill am. ng the living. Shetl ll'ii ii. . I Winchester. Ind.. June Us. I'ire broke out in the main hay shed of the flood rieh Brot be ra' Hey, flrois and Coal eosspony, burning it to the ground, entailing a lo-s in excess of IMtB, with $.1.2.'i0 insurance. l.-caartl nt llolitilnic I Ii llt-ritt LogSSsport, Ind.. June 's. ;iv'd Tucker and Kniest Z'mmcrtii in, farmer Is.y. were arre-re lat the -eene of the railway wreck nt Cass charged with robbing the dead and injured of money and valuables. i'linuil I lontlnir. Madison. Intl.. June gg, "floater" was found in the Ohio rier Opposed to lie the body of a young man named KttttS. drowned recently while bathing at Lowreneeborg, llrun net!. Klkhart. Ind., June . - F.rnet Lloyd, while boating OK the river, berame delirious from the heat and dived over boo rd, drowning before he could lie rescued. in I'iteh Lettern, New Lisbon. Ind.. June 2. Congressman Watson has named Jot 0oOT the M lesglM bfsobsll iitcber, as )ostmater m re. shot to IMeees. Helena. Mont.. June M. flenrte W. Can.-. I Coutl a ii COOBtJ ra ucb ina u. bad disagn no nt with Joe Shcetz, another rancher, at Cleveland. Ifeil slate, and Opened fire Srltll I six-shooter. Hleet ran inside a s-i!,Min. ami, seizing a sbotgUB, returned the fire with both barrel-, lit. j blowing Iii- assailant to pieces, . c, ron, r's jury ei onerated Sheet. Xekraalta HepnhlleNnaj Lincoln, Neb., June js. The repub licsn state central conitnittec decided to hohl the state convention nt Lincoln. Wednesday, August 2S.

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The Forest Park Site, at St. Louis, Unanimously Approved by the National Convention. OBJECTIONS TO THE SITE OVERRULED. Am I ml, i in tt.l l iik neat-ties' W illi Hie I a, ii I lit it I'liri-liiise i:iionHloii l ti in p it ii as I ibe I'unrri Willi M ii i ii in.- niiouai Cnmmlsslos la I ii v eat .-tl . Bt, Louis, JnjM 10. Without a dissenting rotes tin- Louisiana Purcbass exposition national commission approved the Forest Park site as the loOOtiOfl for tbe World's Fair site iu This if the 'bird and lasf step in t lie site selection. The tirst step was taken Monday sfternoon( when tbs necutivs committee selected lbs Forest Park site. The approval of the selection, Tuesday morning by tbs bonrd of directors, ras The second step. The national con. mission bad been in session since Wednesday morning. I On that day a isit was paid to Forest park under the guldnneS of the executive committee. Tbursdo two I sessions of tbo committee were held, ut which all pbases oi the sit,- srers osnvaaaed. 1 wo sessions were also held Friday, when tin- final action mil token. 1 "The commission received several oommunications from st. Louiasns criticising the selection of Forest l park," says one ihe commissioners, I "One directed attention to the mooted lego difficulties Involved, others argued In favor f :. rlver-froo! site. The commission considered all tbesS ronununkestionS) ami tpproved tbsi site with full knowledge of all tbo i ondll ions. " I he spprovsl of the sits by government con, mission, after an t bo exsminstion ot all the legs! questions involved, should (top OnOC for all this talk tif the existence of legal obstacles to tbe use ol the park. The commission has ir its make tip five lawyears some as i gi there are in the United Htntet Undeey. Tbucstoui tarier, lilynii ;.nd Allen. The facta were fully placed before them, a id they ruled thai no legal obstacles existed. Opinions w r also at hand from a number of learned St. Louis lawyers. Oniaoftons is site considered. The commissi,,!, ;,so gave consider ition to the respective jurisdiction .if the commission, and the exposition company ami drew up a formal statement on the mibject; which was for warded to the Kpoilion company t ollicials. I li- documenl asserted tbst, ns -i precede Sl to valid final action by the Exposition cotnpspy. mtbmlsslon to snd sppit'val by tin- eomnilosioa was necessary on the following objects. Pstnls Pontntnesl in Inessment. First Th. selection of a site. Second The pl;,iis and specifications nf building to ie nsed for t-x-position iiir'(isi", Tbird Ihe plan ami scope of th ex posit ion. ruurtb ibe appointment of all judges and esniniiiers for the exposition. i x 1 1 1 Tbe awarding of premiums. Seventh mi tbe rules snd regulations of tin- exposition eompony governing rates for iiitrnn e and admission fees, or otherwise affecting the rights. prlvib-gCi or interests of the exhibitors or the public Agresonent between the two bodies Oil these suli.-cts ami reached itt n conference held Prillny afternoon. The document, ir eonclnsion, seeci t etl the right of tbe commission to sW. pcrvise all expenditures of the x position eompony it mid: Tbe govcrnmenl sppropristlon of s'i.ikhi.ooo does not become available until $10,000,WKi has f,,st been expend ed dj tne exposition com. .any for tbe uses and pSrpOSei of the exposition a;io Uta responsibility is placed upon this commission to attest tbo! expen diture to the president of the United Mates. It is manifest thai the responsibility here thrown upon the commission Involves tbe bit. and, I he re fore, tbs rlgbt, to Inspect nil contracts, examine all accounts, call for statemcntrt, and to refuse t. recognize t trai ts or expenditures inenrred unreasonable in terms or : mount, or without the pan lew ni tbt luv . Al the Frkioj ."Iternoon session Ol the COeOmlssiosi Irt-sident PlSncUl sntl the commit tet on buildings snd grounds, or which Willism 11 Thosnp son is ebiiii m an, conferred w ith the commission If Uit- decided that a toinimunt i 10,000,000 would bavs to be expended 0,1 buildings by the Ksposition company. The commission adjoarned sbont saves o'clock Friday night, subject to the roll of the chair. Several of th eommissiosers, including Undsey, Scott and tJlynn, deported from St. Louis Friday nit lit. All the OtbOTS who win not make the trip to Buffalo with the board of directors left SntOJTtlaj morning. Ural ami Drought In Ni-Iraalta. Litu-oln. Neb., June 10, To-day w.tS the seventh day during which t'ie mercury has reached BOOTS than N degrees, and the fourth dining Urbich if bus reached IU0, For t ight days ih tote has suffered from drongbi ami stftjlh winds. Oafs, potatoes and buy crops have been hadly injured, and cssrn began to curl and wither to-tloy in the lästern part tif the state. Drought, is felt worse in the central Snd eastern part of the state. North of the Platte river the, dry weather ons preceded by n week of ruins, and no damage has been done there.

CONVENTIun reparwllons oet I. teil fm9 ,k Merlins el saiiiriln-nIMlur f the PsosTsnstsss, ("mcinniiti, July l. Nsxl I , the TWOntiSth I Utel mil 1011. 1 : 1 I Kodes r or eonvontioa bsgina n 1 elnnati, Prspa rations have beeu mad for WeOOi rsgsttsrod delegst en .,, ,' Ii any isitors. 1 Its in ling nriU bo bsld . m ball and the two exposition build adjoining it. OsJooo hail, h ti, siiare, will ! us, d f ir con, ,,.,. , , and sect ion mootings. Muslv hull 1 one of the lin.st pipe organ M , tounlry Tin1 iwo export i,,,, ions have been lifted ip with l.r pint forms fov f he choii k and f'hrii I indcavor. Colors of red nml white 11 1 iiiost proonlsont la tbo oecnri - 1 ioturdny bag tbo veleoi dresses will bt dclivereil by C, and local representatives, llcsp vviii be mad.' bv ootegaies from it states, ( amida ami f., reign , o . President Francis K. tin I. III d !icr his annual address, and Sei re lohn Willis Dser will prvscnl h Dual report, 'Ihe only Sunday service of th, ,,, venttefl win b- in the afternoon u , morning and evening being occuniei with regular chuich isffviceo in ihcity, rial ting ministers preai h . ! Oil of Ihe chill " lies. Monday, Tuesoax and j , sessions win be bob osoraing und ai ternoon nml eveiiings in three uud torianis. More than unr Immir, , . fty speakers will tnke part progrsmmes ol ths several iiu nnsong them a Dnmber of ropr enii fives from foreign countries, a l:u number of foreign misslonarh n.. prominent ministers. The la vim win be represented by (tea. 0. llnw Srd, Hon. S. B. ( BpsB, of Host,,, MSB Phillips Hall, of New und others. The MUSie Of the convent io: one of ih.- special textures, u chaioi Of l.'.'tKI voices h. iv ing been dr.. I f., RlSny week-. This chorus Will lM ! v i.l. il among three halls, anil will Im led by Hu c of tin best-knot on of choirs in 1 1-is country Complete arrangements hit' made for the receplion of Visit 11 committee of 000 members : t li -lion Kndeuror societies will athis work. In addition to the prograi ijni t the three IsigO halls, where n n socommodot ions will bo srrangeil 13,000 people, tnoro will be daily nieei logs in all in tbree of the lai 1 nburcbes nf ibe city. At noons tin re will also be . . enl services held in tbo market factories, shuns and public b ii k that the entire lime from o'clock until ton o'clock at nlgl ' be crowded with meetings, and togs will pick those meetings in which they are most interested. Tbe "0 liciul Programme." a bookie of pages, gives i be programme end a list of the speakers of the lOSCN te ever) boll, church or mertinu i Among tbs prominent peskei w ill deliver addr. .ses are: Dr. I B'il bur Cbspsnan i New Iforki im 1 iit-lius Woelfkin, Lev. (i. Campbell -Morgan, v. ho ha.s recently conn- fftaa Kiigland to take the place sU . copied by lt. 1.. Moody; Dr. Porres, of New York j Dr. It. Torn nf Chlesgo; Will P. Moody , Dr. In M. Sheldon and Dr. T. S. Hnmliti Washington. D. C; Dr. Wayla ml 11. Snd Dr. Milton Merle Smith, of Vrs ork. WORSE THAN A BATTLK. A m It 11 In 11 e orts Una) All riekiiiK in irsettan of Rent I'roalrnlloii. ( hica.o. Juso '' The heat In cngo to-day broke all records June sine) Ifflfc. For three botirs liar f,.r ih afternoon 1 he g xernnient th. i ter in Ibe nest hi 1 bureau at the Ii of the Auditorium tower rcf i ÜT. In Btaaj phi. es in the street : was Hit anil Kin. northwest breen brought sstn relief after nightfall, boi at 11 VI the mere IM was :.iainaoarlnir a round Of. There win intene solT.ii-' throughout lbs City, especially ill the poorer districts, tha police sniiralances Seie Io pt busy picking up ii Urns lio bad succumbed to tb heal No fstolitiea vvere report e I, h'ii Several of those who wore prOStrSteti are in a serious , ondittett. Forcaster Cox says it will be -M' hot ter to morron . ONE KILLED, MANY INJURED serious Cottlelon notsross Tesllei i nt nml 1 11 MTnnsns lsssf r W ltd I'lenlekera. Chicieo. July I, One person s. killed and neiir.y a scon- of otheM wt-rc injured yepterdny in a OOlHsin between an citctric car m Irvin l'iirk boatevsrd i.ml two wagons I0111Iel with picnickers. Both wagon m svertumod by lbs shock and their impsnti were cruahed and bruised ths beavj timbers ,-n.d the itatnp of tin- frightened bones. Both ' fnotoitnsn and eondnctor of Lb net e arrested, JUDGE WOODS' SUDDEN DEATH Pettrrnl Jnttse VSIIIIam A. W. '-! gaisd OsnMahlg nt in tpneiiiienta In I ml la 11 11 polls. Indianapolis, Ind., .tune M, Jtlil William . Woods, of the United Stales circuit court, died suddenly Friday night while lying abed in l I apartments at the Delano hotDeath cams in 11 few seconds pa ' midnight. The judge had not lieen feeling SreM In tbo early part of the evening, bid paid little heed to the sick neat.

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