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I I ipotott Unifln. R. O. Dunn ,Pnblisher. Terms $1.50 per year in Advance. The name of the city girl who asked her uncle, "which are the cows that give beef tea," has not been announced. James Six of Logansport, has been arrested for having seven wives. And they actually propose to punish him further. The government is now responsible nn letters sent by registered mail, but only to the extent of $10. Uncle Sam don't take many chances. The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., will lecture at the Chautauqua meetings at Fairmount park en "Fools." Will the usual "Admit One" be printed on the tickets? Gilbert Parker, the dramatist, has teen in turn a Canadian bear-hunter, a dramatic critic, an editor, a novelist, and a playwright. He is still on the right side of five -and-thirty. When Senator Hoar arrived in Washington from Boston last week a reporter said to him: "So you have been presenting the Mayflower log to your state." "Log!" exclaimed the Senator, palpitating with disgust "you might as well call it a beam!" The manner in which the business affairs of a cit/ are too often managed is illustrated in the fact that the New Haven city government is paying about $6,000 in advertising the assess ments for street sprinkling and the total assessments will bring in less than $12,000. One place where the Chinese wage earner longs to spend his money and cannot afford to do so is at the cat and dog meat restaurant. If the ani mals are black they cost more. This was copied from a Chinese sign: One small basin black cat stew, 5 cents grease from black dog, 4 cents one pair black cat's eyes, 4 cents." Perhaps the funniest bit of satire ever directed toward the custom of giv ing complimentary dinners to persons departing for foreign service was shot at one of our ambassadors to a Euro pean capital, who is himself a humor ist of world-wide repute. He must have enjoyed reading the information gravely imparted, that he was "slowly eaung his way to his new post of duty.'1 Inventions and new appliances fol low each other our time with bewild ering rapidity. The insecurity of ten ure by -whicL steam holds its place as the most useful motive power for long distances has been made apparent by the success of recent experiments with electricity, carried by a third rail, which were undertaken by an eastern railroad. The president of the road put the possibilities of the laiture in con crete form by saying, "Our locomo tives may soon follow the old stage coaches to the scrap heap." "Nothing new under the sun," said "the preacher." Yet many peop think that he did not foresee the bicjcle. Nev ertheless, Mr. Yang Yu, late Chinese minister to this country, declares that they used bicycles in the Flowery Kingdom twenty centuries ago. He adds that their manufacture was final ly prohibited by the emperor because the Chinese women rode so constantly that they neglected their families and domestic duties. This bit of satue in dicates that Mr. Yank Yu, has attained a very intelligent appreciation of Oc cidental humor during his residence in this country. Business shredwness and financial ability are unfortunately not confined to the better class of merchants. At a recent meeting of the Liquor League of Ohio, one of the officers remarked that after a man was grown and tem perance habits formed he seldom ever changed and he therefore drew the conclusion th^t for the success of the liquor business missionary work must be clone among boys. "Nickels expend ed in treats to the young now will re turn in dollars after the appetite has been formed." Even the habitual drinker must stand appalled before the frankness of statement of such diaboli cal facts. In a government report on building and loan associations it is shown that the total number of associations has increased from 4,499 to 4,617 the num ber of associations reporting from 4,- 443 to 4,531 the shares outstanding from 9,500,755 to 9,985,999, and the in stallment dues dues paid in, paid up and prepaid stock and profits, from $370,471,289 to $449,643,048. The assets increased from $403,475,395 to $489,- 659,734. Expressed in percentages the number of associations showed an in crease of 2.6 per cent, the number of associations reporting an increase of 2 per cent, the shares outstanding an in crease of 5.1 per cent, and the install ment dues paid in. plus paid up and prepaid stock and profits an increase of 21.4 per cent. One of the worst effects which may fairly be referred to the influence of the "new" journalism Is the tendency shown by some unwise clergymen to imitate its^ sensational methods in or der to attract or startle their congre gations. It Is essential that the church should maintain its hold upon the peo ple by keeping abreast ot the times and adapting its methods to the chang ing conditions around it but the in fluence of the pulpit should never be anything else than elevating. Sensa tionalism should never find a place there. THE NEWS RESUME DIGEST OP THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel egraph Reports The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. The Nation's Capital. W. J. Calhoun has decided to decline the position of controller of the treas ury. Senator Davis has repoited from the committee on foreign relations an an amendment to the general defic iency bill to pay $6,000 to the families of the three Italians lynched at New Orleans. The state department has received a statement from Consul-General Lee. at Havana, in which he declares his sou has no connection Avhatever with 1he premature publication, some time ago, of the Ruiz report. The senate has confirmed the nomin ations of J. F. Gowey of Washington to be consul general at Yokohama, Japan, and Col. Henry E. C. Merriam, Seventh infantry, to be brigadier gen eral. People Talked Ahont. Walter H. Lansit, one of the most promising cattle painters of this coun try, died at his residence in Dorches ter, Mass., aged forty-two. John D. Rockefeller is remembered among old Cleveland merchants as a young man in the oil business who was often seen A A ith his face, hands and clothes shining with the illuminant. Mrs. Dorothy HOAA ard, one of the most eccentric women in Indiana, had a niiiii'a for tine clothes, and when she died recently left 175 dresses of the nnest quality. Rev. Dr. Frank M. Ellis, pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist church, Brooklyn, died suddenly of apoplexy, at the Brooklyn Tabernacle Baptist church. Rev. George Rockwell, one of the best known ministers in the Reformed church in the State of New7 York, died at his home in Tarrytown, aged 70 years. Very Rev. Augustine F. Hewitt.DD., superior of the New York community of the raulist Fathers, is dying in his apartments the monastery in New York. Father Hewitt has beeD in \ery feeble health for seA eral years. Eimle D. Nustadt, senior member of Niibtadt A Co. of Now \ork. formerly one ot the most importrnt flour com mission houses on the produce ex change, died suddenly, aged fifty years. Devolson Wood, professor of me chanical engineering and technology at SteAens' institute. Hoboken, N. J., died in that city, aned sixty live Aoais. He was connected with the institute for twenty-fa vears. Col J. Vi\} son Bradler. the newly elected commander of the Ancient and Honoiable Artillery Company of Bos ton, is a great-grandson of a Revolu tionary soldier, and claims, as a mater nal ancestor. Col Five, who command ed a regiment at Bunker Hill. M. D. Preble, proprietor ot the Sedg A A ick hotel, at Hawarden, owa. died of acute peritonitis. He was lormerly piopnetor of the Sanborn house at Mitchell. S D. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and a M. W. A., by horn the f-ineial obsequies will be per formed. Accidental Happening*. William Moore, while standing near his home at Ironton. Wis., dropped dead. He was So years old. E. A. Arnold, an attorney of West Superior, was thrown from a buggy and received painful injuries internal ly and about the groin. George Blakeley, proprietor of a job printing house and secretary of the school board at Bradford, Pa.*, is dead, and Miss Lillian Spatz, a waitress in the Williamson restaurant, is in a pre carious condition, the result of laud anum, supposedly taken with suicidal intent. Letters received in New Bedford, Mass., from Herschel Island, bring the intelligence that three of the stauneh est steamers of the San Francisco whaling fleet are caught in the ice off the mouth of the Mackenzie river. They are in danger during June, when the ice breaks up. The lives of 1120 to 150 men will also be in danger. Crimes and Criminals. James Pollard, colored, was hanged in the jail yard in St. Joseph, Mo., for the murder of Joseph rvin, also col ored. A man, supposed to be Charles L. Herndon of Whitely county, Kentucky, a wife murderer, has been arrested at Oconomowoc, Wis. Annie Gordon, an inmate of a house of ill fame at Fond du Lac, Wis., has committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. She had been in the city for three years. Ed Martin shot and killed John John son and fatally wounded Claude Tut tle at Galena, Kas. The trouble orig inated over a swing which was put UD in the suburbs. James Smith, a colored lad of four teen, is in jail at Annapolis, charged with an attempt to wreck the Bay Ridge excursion train from Washing ton. Smith-was seen to place a rail road tie on the track about a mile and a half from Annapolis, Md. The state department has granted a warrant for the surrender to the Mexi can authorities of Pedro Ramos, who is held under arrest at El Paso, Tex., for assault and attempted murder committed in the attack on the custom house at Polomas last fall. Joseph Smith, a carpenter, was ar rested at Rapid River, Mich., on the charge of attempting to murder Geo. Demitt, a saloonkeeper. Smith fired at Demitt with a revolver, but a by stander struck his arm and the bullet just grazed Demitt's cheek. Charles Breitsorecker, who was ar rested at Toronto, Ont, a few days ago or. the charge of forging a check for $2,000 in Chicago, and let go as the authorities there did not want him, has again been arrested on receipt of a telegram from the Chicago police. Foreign Gossip* Dr. Jameson has sailed from London for Cape Town, en rout for Buluwayo. Japan has ordered four thirly-one knot torpedo boat-destroyers from the Yarrows. Russia will establish a permanent diplomatic legation in Abyssinia next fall. William Philips Molinyneu, fourth earl of Sefton, is dead. He was a Knight of the Garter. Brion, in the Department of the In dre, has elected its cure. M. Hugenof (a queer name for a Catholic) as may or. It is stated that seven other French priest for mayor this year. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Post says the Novoe Yremya protests vigorously against the action of the United States as to Hawaii which, it adds, may soon be followed by an attempt to annex Cuba. Rumors have been afloat in Havana, probably emanating from official cir cles that Gen. Maximo Gomez, the in surgent commander-in-chief, has been killed in a fight near the military line in the province of Pueito Principe. The reports have not been confirmed.. The American Society of Civil En gineers has opened its convention at Quebec. It v. as welcomed by Pro Mayor Non'is, Lieut. Gov. Chaperau of Quebec and Hon. Marchand, premier of the province. The annual address was read by Maj. Harrod, president of the society. An arctic expedition led by H. J. Pearson and two other English gentle men has started for the Barents sea. It will explore Nova Zembla and the Isl and of Waigats, as well as the great Tendi-a of the Samoyeds, from the Ural mountains to the Petchora river. Jer.n de Reszke's v'ctory in the War saw Derby this year with'Claude Frolic is his second. His horse Wrogard won the imperial prize last year. In twelve months the tenor has won $ *0,0) in stakes. His stud farm at Borovno is in charge of his younger brother. Victor who is said to have a finer voice than Jean, but will not cultivate it. Otherwise. The tobacco directors have declared 2 per cent dividends on the preferred and 2 per cent on the common stock. The official welcome of Cincinnati and its commercial bodies was extend ed to the pan-American tourists. The managers of the Newberry, Mich., state prison have let contracts for additions to Lysette & Gray of Sault for $31,808. Maj. A. J. C. Wrench, of the Royal Welsh Fusileers. was married at the Scotch church, at London, to Miss Aljs Theodora Briggs of Cincinnati. Col F. B. Mussey, the well known Washington correspondent, is dead at Muldlebury. Yt., of Bright's disease. He was titty-one years of age and had been ill for some time. Ennle D. Nustadt, senior member oi Nunstadt & Co., formerly one of the most important flour commission hous os on the New York Produce exchange died suddenly, aged fifty years. The Western Writers' association held a reception at the Winona hotel at Eagle Lake, Ind. James AVhitcomb Riley, John Clarke Ridpath, Eugene Ware and others took part. The directors of the Pittsburg, Fort Wa.Mie A: Chicago Railroad company mot New York and organized by reelecting Charles Lanier president, and John J. Haley secretary and treas urer. The rulitzer Publishing company has icsumed the management of the St Lou Post-Dispatch. Col. Charles Jones having resigned as editor ana manager and severed all connections: with the paper. At Lincoln, Neb., District Judge Holmes appointed S. A. D. Shilling re ceiver tor the failed Merchants' bank. The bank suspended a month ago and it was thought at that time a receiver would not be necessary, but the stock holders have disagreed. Peter Maher was married at St. Thomas' church, Philadelphia, to Miss Agnes Torpety. After the marriage the couple left for New York, where they will take the steamer Lucania for an extended European tour. J. A. Jordan of Hannibal, Mo., was made general manager of the Consoli dated Green Bay & Western and Ke Avaunee, Green Bay & Western rail roads to succeed S. W. Campion, whose resignation has been accepted. Actors and actresses, playwrights and theatrical managers attended the funeral of William F. Hoey, "Old Hoss," which was held at his late res idence at New York. The casket was almost buried from view with floral tributes. The suspension of Harvey B. Rich & Co. Avas announced on the stock ex change, New York. Mr. Rich has been a member of the exchange since 18G5. It is said at the office of the firm that the liabilities are small that there are no open contracts and that they hope to be able to resume business in a few days. Detectives raided the stock broker age offices of Gerlick & Co., on the twelfth floor of 30 Broad street, New York, and made eight arrests. T. J. Gerlick, the leading member of the firm, was among those captured. In the police court he and his companions were charged with unlawfully gam bling in stocks. The will of Dr. John P. Atwater was filed in the surrogate court at Pough keepsie, N. Y. The estate is valued at a million dollars, mostly real estate in Chicago. Yale college is to get a lot of land in New Haven valued at $25,000. The remainder of the proper ty goes to the two children. A report from Anderson, Ind., says: All tin plate works in the gas belt, par ticularly Elwood, Atlanta, Gas City and Montpeller, have closed in all the departments governed by the wage scale. All skilled labor in the Union Window Glass factories was suspend ed pending a readjustment of the wage scale. The Clan-Na-Gael guards of .Chicago have decided to test the new state law against uniformed and armed inde pendent societies. Major James Reilly and his men will turn out on July 22 to participate in the unveiling of the Logan statue. A member of an other independent military company will swear but warrants against them. I RAGING ELEMENTS. CYCLONE AND CLOUDBURST WORK HAVOC. Northwestern Towns Visited by a Destructive Storm-At Barnum, Minn., Bridges Were Swept Away and Streets Torn Un-Diiiuth Bad ly FloodedOther Towns Suffer. Barnum, Minn., July 6. Saturday morning a cyclone passed 3ust south of town, followed by a cloudburst. The Moosehorn river rose rapidly, and in five hours the water stood three feet deep in every house on level ground, and a raging torrent ran through Main street, compelling every one to make a hasty move up stairs. Several fami lies could not remove their effects. Every bridge in town was washed out, and the streets were torn up complete ly. The houses of J. Murphy, Wm. Nevers and Fred Maguire were blown away, and Mr. and Mrs. Murphy were badly injured, the former probably fa tally. The St. Paul & Duluth lost sev eral bridges and several miles of track, and no trains are expected for a week. A great many logs and ties floated away. The water has now sub sided, and the town looks desolated. Duluth, Minn., July 6.The storm at tained the proportions of a cloudburst. The greatest amount of water that fell in the shortest space was one-tenth of an inch in a minute and a half. The city was literally flooded. The side hill avenues were raging torrents. The streets were guttered to a depth of four feet in places. Acres of paving were lifted and floated for miles. Scores of buildings were flooded. The losses in Duluth and vicinity are at least $200,000. The street railway com pany was a heavy sufferer. Its power hoL.se was flooded and its tracks were covered with rocks, sand and debris of all descriptions. The railroads are also heavy sufferers. The St. Louis river is the highest since 1888. Two million feet of logs are coming down from the Johnson-Wentworth boom and are be ing caught as they enter the bay. The water in the river is four feet deep over the picnic island at Fond du Lac. Princeton, Minn., July 6. During a heavy rain at this place a severe wand, cyclonic in nature, suddenly arose, and though lasting but a few minutes, did great damage to shade trees and build ings. The St. Anthony ic Dakota ele vator was badly damaged, and three plate glass windows of N. E. Jesmer's department store were broken. Sev eral buildings and residences were un rooted and badly shattered, but no se rious accident occurred, though several persons sustained slight injuries. The s*orm swept the surrounding country, but no serious damage is reported ex cept at the home ot Mr. Croft, about four miles north of here. The house was shattered and Mr. Croft injured. West Superior, Wis., July 6. The Northern Pacini railroad finds that it will have to resand all of its switching tracks here by reason of damage by the storm. The storm played havoc with the tracks. The railroad has had steam shovels and work trains bring ing sand for a Aveek with Avhich the yards here were being reballasted, and all of it is Avashed so bad as to render the tiacks unsafe. The steam shovel and thirteen cars at Carlton gravel pit are buried under a slide of sand, aud a work train and eighteen cars Avere derailed near there by running into a washout. Brainerd, Minn., July 6The storm was the worst ever known in this sec tion. Ram fell in torrents for hours, and at one time the city looked like one vast lake. SeAvers Avere inade quate to carry off the water, and many cellars and basements in the business portion were flooded. The railroads suffered from washouts. Inside the city limits a section of the Northern Pacific track sixty feet long is gone and a rapidly floAving river takes the place of a small creek. St. Paul, July CA severe thunder storm passed over this city. A house on the West Side flats Avas turned over and demolished and four of the seven inmates were badly injured. Several people were badly shocked by lightning. Death in a Well. Winnipeg, Man., July G.On Satur day Henry Moore, a farmer living be tween Grand Coulee and Wascana, As sinaboia, descended a well he had com menced to dig a week before, and which Avas sixty feet deep, being low ered by Charles W. Beatty. of Palmer ston, Ont. Beatty felt the rope slacken and heard Moore fall. He ran for An drew Moore, a cousin, who lowered Beatty. When Beatty was thirty feet doAvn Moore heard him choking and called, butgo no ansA\*er. He went for James Carroll and asktd him to lower him (Moore). Car roll said he Avould go down himself, as he did not think himself strong enough to pull Moore up. At twenty feet Car roll called out: "Pull me up, I'm chok- ing." Moore pulled him up, but when near the top Carroll fell to the bottom. The three bodies were fished out with a hook, and the verdict rendered by the coroner was death from suffoca tion. Carroll is said to have a wife and family in Toronto. Biff Railroad Deal. Phoenix, Ariz., July 6.One of the most important railroad projects of the year is now under consideration in Northern Arizona, and officials of the Santa Fe system are on the ground making personal investigations. 1 he scUme is for the construction of a road to the Grand Canyon of Colorado. The starting point is to be Williams on the Santa Fe Pacific. They Criticise Lanrler. Paris, July 6.The Chauvinist news papers make spiteful remarks at the expense of Sir Wilfred Laurier's pa triotic speeches in London. They say as he is the son of a Frenchwoman he ought to deelare in favor of a French party and a separatist press in Can ada, while they think Louis Kiel worthy of canonization. The Roxbury Carpet works plant of Boston has shut down temporarily, throwing over 800 people out of em ployment. 14 ft*' i b-te^A EDUCATORS IN SESSION. Annnal Convention of the Educa tional Association. Milwaukee, July 7.The annual con vention of the National Educational as sociation, for which several thousand teachers have already arrived, was ushered in by a session of the na tior al council of education. At the aft ernoon meeting the time Avas devoted to the discussion of the subject, "The Aesthetic Element in Education." Pre pared papers were read by Prof. John Dewey, of the University of Chicago, and United States Commissioner of Education W. T. Harris, after which a general discussion was had, in Avhich W T. Jones, inspector of literature in the New York high schools Superin tendent of Schools Oscar Soldan of St. Louis State Superintendent Schaefer of Pennsyh'ania Principal Smiley, of the Denver high school, Superintend ent W. B. Powell, of the Washington (I C.) schools Prof. S. G. Williams, Corn ell university Henry Sabin, su perintendent of public instruction of Iowa, and Prof. D. H. Kiehle, Univer sity of Minnesota, all spoke. At the evening session a paper was read by George P. BroAvn, editor of the State Journal of Bloomington, 111., in which recommendations were made for the amendment of the constitution and by-laws of the council so that sub jects beside those noAv laid down in the by-laws may be discussed at the meetings of the council. After a very stormy debate the subject was re ferred to a special committee of five to report at the next meeting of the coun cil. No conclusion was reached on the co-educational question, the discussion of which occupied much of the time at the forenoon session, and it was also referred to the committee of five. A discussion of Prof. Bartholomew's re port on high schools occupied the greater part of the morning, but no action on it was taken. ACCUSED OP MURDER. Eocene Bnel Now Lies in Jail Un der a Most Serious Charge. Hayward,Wis., July 7 Eugene Buel, a iarmer living near here, lies in jail, charged with the murder of one Fred Nelson, with whom he was associated in business last September, and who has not been seen since. At that time Nelson drew $400 from the bank here and went off with Buel. The next re port was that, on account of some scrape, Nelson had been forced to quit this part of the country temporarily. Early last winter Buel bought a farm a few miles west ot here, paying cash for most of it. It seems that parties have been searching the Avoods on the quiet ever since the snoAv has gone off, and a couple of days ago.Avhile a man named Wenteuhall and an Indian Avere going along an old trail near Round lake they came aerosss a jaw bone and pieces of the skull ot a man, and in a clump of bushes near by the found the clothing and the rest of the well picked bones of a man. The top of the skull had been crushed in by a heavy blow. The clothing was identified as belong ing to Nelson. Buel Avas immediately put in jail on suspicion. He AA-as called up for his preliminary hearing, but waned examination, and it was post poned until Thursday. FOCB WERE DROWXED. Ill-* es Lost by the Capsizing of a Boat at Superior. West Superior, Wis., July 7By the capsizing of a boat in Superior bay four persons lost their lives. Three members of the McDonald family ot ItascaDaniel, Christie and Mayand Burton McCurry, an electrician, were droAA-ned. the other three persons being saved. The boat was overladen and shipped water over her gunwales, and some of the party climbed out of the boat, which wasabove turned, wTit in some way over- the result Casualties of the Day. Yankton, S. D.. July (i Last Satur day evening Johnnie Gamble and Enoch Cornell, both 15 years old. were seriously burned and Avounded by the explosion of a small cannon. They bent doAvn to inspect a loaded cannon, when it exploded, discharging the con tents in their faces. It is feared they will lose their eyesight. Algona, Iowa.. July 6.One of the usual Fourth of July accidents occur red here by two running horses run ning into the buggy of Fred Myers. He undertook to cross the race track as the running race Avas in progress, re sulting in his buggy being smashed, and he Avas picked up unconscious. At last reports it Avas doubtful wT oul recover Th lady Avitif hihe came out without a scratch. Killed by Lightning-. Gary, S. D., July 7.Another victim was added to the lightning fatalities five miles southeast of Gary in the death of the little boy belonging to KiiUte Holstenson. The shock de prived him of his eyesight and so af fected him that he could not recover. Hope to Win Glory. Pierre, S. D., July 7.Forty members of Company A, S. D. N. G., left for a week at the state encampment at Bry ant. As they passed the best inspec tion of any company in the state, they are going after any honors which are in sight. Killed in Chicago. Chicago, July 7.Patriotism claimed five lives and there was an unusually long list of maimed and injured people as a result of the Fourth of July cele bration. Killed by Robbers. Chicago, July 7.Patrick Grace, a sa loonkeeper at 1501 West Forty-seventh street.and his wife were shot and mor tally wounded by three masked men who attempted to rob the saloon. Eight People Drowned. Chicago, July 7.Eight people were drowned in Lake Michigan while bath ing at various points along the beach. The Mob Repulsed. Lcndon, July 7.A dispatch to the Times from Simla says that a mob there tried to seize a mosque, but the police and troops opened fire and a se rious conflict ensued. Finally the mob was repulsed, with heavy loss,and took flight. The Paris Figaro says that in the letter of Emperor Nicholas, inviting President Faure to visit him at St Petersburg, he refers significantly to "bonds that are henceforth to unite France and E&sshj," HEAT KILLED THEM THE MERCURY IN MANY CITIES BREAKS ALL RECORDS. Many Deaths and Prostrations In Various Cities-Cincinnati Suffer* the Most With Thirteen Deaths, and Fifty Prostrations-Three Deaths at Cleveland Chicago. People Scorched. P0mt Central tn Chicago, Julyr 7.-The wave of torrid S^l whic ade States sweltered last week showed no abatement Sunday. Froma Pittsburdgan to Kansas Cit8y and from ChicagS 2n i sk if and blazing Prostrations ,a reco deaths Avhich has seldom been mailed for the early days of July. Through out the eneire district the mercurv reg istered close to 100 in the shade during the day, and the number of prostra tions ran into the hundreds. nati with a maximum temperature 2?*, fo^ the 8 highestCincinfo howe death deaths resulting out of a total ot 50 prostrations but there Avere many fatal cases at other points. In Chicago the mercury registered close to 90 degrees for the greater part of the day, and there Avere over score of prostrations.i At midnight a severe thunded storm swept over the city sendinagn the mercury down sev fief Avelcom re -a bl in Thirteen Deaths. Cincinnati, O., July 7.-Saturday was the hottest day in the present torrid spell. The Aveather bureau showed the mercury at 97 from 2 to 3 p. m, and but few people ventured on the streets. I ifty prostrations and 13 deaths were reported. Local thermometers showed irom 102 to 106 in the shade during the afternoon. Since dark a breeze has been cooling the air. and the mercury at 9 o'clock stood at 90 degrees. Specials from other Ohio points re port the extreme heat to-day as fol- ioAVS: Dayton, 100 to 110 degrees, two deaths and many prostrations Lima, 105 degrees, one death Newark, 102 to 10.r degrees Upper Sanduskv 95 de grees at 8 a. m. and 105 at 3 p. m. Milwaukee, July 7The intensely hot wave continues unabated and the rec ord of 97 degrees Avas reached again. Charles Frazer, a workingman, died here from the heat, and there were numerous prostrations. Other parts of Southern Wisconsin are suffering the same as Mihvaukee. At Racine two deaths from sunstroke occurredthose of Ole Johnson, (55 years old, and Charles Pokouio. Three persons were prostrated there. Cleveland, O., July 7.The heat here Saturday was the most intense, the temperature reaching the highest point for the season. Three fatalities oc curred, and there have been several other prostrations. OCCIPIED BY TIRKS. A Villag-e in Tliessal Taken After Desperate Fighting. Athens, July 7.The Turkish troops alter a sharp tight with the inhabi tants, haA-e occupied the village of Kalabaka, in North Thessaly. Kalabaka, although Avithin the tefri toij occupied by the Turkish troops, AA'a*. under Greek administration. The attack Avas made last Thursday by a bodj of Turks and Albanians 2.000 strong. The inhabitants fought des perately, killing many of the Turks, but Avere finally OA-erpoAvered. Most of them fled to the mountains. The otheis have probably been massacred or taken prisoners. The Turks, after pillaging the tow n, destroj ed it. Two ^lyterions Deaths. Cleveland, Ohio, July 7.A man 60 j-ears ot age hired a skiff. He Avas ac companied by a woman 40 years old. The man told the boathouse keeper the woman Avas his daughter that she was weak minded. They rowed out into the lake. Until late in the atfernoon the boat hovered around one spot. Finally the occupants appeared to en gage in a scuffle and one of them fell or .lumped irom the boat. The other then folloAved. There is no clue to their identity. Independence Day Abroad. London, July 7.Three hundred citi zens of the United States, residents of London and A'isitors, set down to the annual dinner of the Amerfcau Society in London to celebrate Independence day. Most of the Americans promi nent in official and business life in London were present. Ended by Strychnine. Algona. IoAva, July 7.A. P. Orton, a farmer living three miles southwest of here, killed himself by taking strych nine. Mr. Orton went home late and under the influence of liquor, and after abusing his wife, A A ho was sick in bed, turned the hired girl out of doors, and finally ended his life. Youni? Gets His Commission. Washington, July 7. John Russell Young, the neAV librarian, filed his bond, received his commission, and took office on Saturday. In conversa tion Avith a reporter Mr. Young said he accetped the office in the hope of mak ing the library the greatest in the world. Prof. Andre's Preparations. Stockholm, July 7.A dispatch from Danes island dated June 28 announces that the filling of Prof. Andre's bal loon was completed on June 22 and that everything ifvas ready to start in his attempt to cross the arctic region on July 1. The winds have been chiefly northerly. Store Robbed. Dover, Minn., July 7.Bush Broth ers' store was burglarized, about $75 worth of goods being taken. The bur glars gained an entrance by breaking a window. Bike Builders Q,nlt. Toronto, Ont., July 7. McLean & Ockley, one of the largest bicycle firms in Canada, have decided to close out their business, the reason being said to be due to breaks in the prices of high grade wheels in the United States. Greek Loan. London, July 7.A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Athens says that the government has already negotiated a loan and that the moment the peace conditions are signed the indemnity will be paid cash down. I j i\