National Prison Congress

The National l'rison cong-ress was held at Denver. President Jos. Nicholson. Detroit, dclivered the annual al dress. The parole, gradinjrand indeterininate sentence systcms vvere indorsed as tending to decreae crime. The prison chaplains held a session. Amunr the papers read was one bv the president, Kev. G. H. Hickox, of Jackson, Mich. Gov. Culbertson, of Texas, says ha will prevent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fig-lit at Dallas, btit Chief Jus tice Hurt says there is no lavv to stop it. The Japanese parliament has vcted a credit of 2,000,000 yen for the building of four inmolad ships, 10 coast-defense vessels and 50 torpedo boats. Klsie ( iriiiiin. aged 13, of Zanesville. O., ran away from home, secured a norse and revolver and was pr&cticing to joiu a Wild West show wheu cajitured. The lumber yards and milis of Moore Jk, Galloway and the ron blast furnaoe of the Wisconsiu Kurnace Co., were destroyed by tire at Kon du Lac, Wis., with total loss of $-,'25,000. The wedding of Miss Conseulo Vanderbilt, daughter f V. K. Vanderbilt, and the youtif duke of Marlboroujfh, ia announced. They first met in London and Paris 18 months ago. J. J. Whitcoinb's daughter, aged 13, was burned to death at Ottawa, O., wliile trying to start a fire with oil. The pirl s mot her was shocked so she will die and the building was destroyed. The London Sportsman announces that Laycock, Goodfellow & Bell, öankers, have cabled to the New York Yacht club an offer of L1,000 for a race in English waters bet ween the Defender and the Valkyrie III. After two weeks of torrid heat, breaking the record for any week in iSepteinber in -'U vears Colorado and other western states were given a Kudden change and from 'i to 14 inches of snow feil within l:.1 honrs. Al Kinporia, Kas., the thermometer dropped 0 degrees in 12 hours. The cold wave moved eastward and the lake regions received a sudden chili, but not quite so severe as in the west.