History Of A Week

The Hnotpye record is now 105,300 erna In seven hours and ten minutes, made by Lee Reilly on the Leadville, Colo., Herald-Democrat. Another body has been recovered from the debris left by the recent fioods at Guthrie, O. T. It is that oí Frank Miles, a negro drayman. There are ten missing yet. Barney Whitloek, warden of the Tolleston Gun club, who has been on trial at Crown Point, Ind., on a charge of assault with intent to kill, was convicted of simple assault. He was sentenced to dx months in jail and pay a fine $500. Judge J. E. Thompson, of Danville, Hls., is said to be slated for appointment as assistant attorney general of the United States. Adolph Meyer, chef of the Union club, Chicago, has been elected supreme high chief of the grand lodge of the Epicurean college. The beautiful residence at Winwah Fark, near New Rochelle, N.Y., of President Green, of the Columbia Navigation company, burned, causing a I0S3 of $200,000. Many valuable pictureswere burned. Grubbin's Galtee More won the two thousand guineas stakes at the Newrnarket (Eng.) races yeterday. Friday, May 7. The national festival of the North American Gymnastic union (turnerbund), which is held quadriennially, has opened at St. Louis. Mrs. G. F. Van Vechten, of Cedar Rapids, was elected president of the Ioiva Federation of Women's clubs, having 1Ö7 votes to 43 for Miss Mae Hogers, Of Dubuque. Munroe Salisbury, the well-known horseman, has been declared insolvent by the superior court of Alameda county, Cal. The new sugar fáctory at Salinas, Cal., vvill employ 30,000 acres of land planted to beets. James A. Herne, the playwright and actor, will fiH the pulpit at St. Paui's church, Thirtieth street and Prairie avenue, Chicago, Sunday night, May 16. Obituary: At London, Mrs. George Linnaeus Banks, poet and novelist, 76. At Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Mary Forman,' 75. Saturday, May 8, The Duc d'Aumale died Thursday at Zuces, Sicily, of. the shock he experienced upon hearing of the death of the Duchesse d'Alencon. Senator Mitchell has secured the passage in the senate of the bill to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Wilhelm Spiegelberg, of Oshkosh, Wis. A woman known as Belle Walker was shot and instantly killed at Leadville, Colo., by her paramour, who called himself George Ratliffe, after a quarrel. The assassin then took his own life. The triple alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy has been renewed for six years. England offers for sale as old and obsolete the following warships: The fourdecked wooden battleship Conquistador, the wooden battleship Vengeance, the iron battleships Grampus and Trircomalee, the cruisers Bacchante and Canada, and three lS-year-old tropedo boats. Monday, May 10. Fire destroyed the big tobáceo house of Briggs & Fleming at Wilson, N. C, destroying $70,000 worth of tobáceo. The loss on the building is $15,000. W. L. Scruggs, who brings the Venezuelan treaty recently ratifled by that government, has arried at New York. The Railway Mail Clerks' association of the Sixth división adjourned at Peoria, Hls., to meet next year in Sioux City. Fifty thousand people viewed Saturday's events at the National Turnfest at the Pt. Louis Fair grounds. The Moshannon National bank, of PLilipsburg, Pa., has been authorized to begin business ; capital, $50,000. Conspicuous among the floral tributes at the funeral in Paris of the fire victlms were magnifleent wreaths sent by the emperor and empress of Germany. President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has signed the law abolishing capital punishment from and after July 1 next. The rumor is prevalent at Pittsburg that the beam pool has collapsed, though local manufacturers will not discuss the matter. Tuesday, May 11. William Hallet Phillips, a well-known attorney and clubman of Washington, was knocked overboard from a yacht and drowned in the Potomac river. An explosión has oceurred at the Snaefell lead mine on the Isle of Man and twenty miners have been killed. Harry Varnell will shake the dust of Chicago from off his feet this week and pitch his tent in Marión, Ind., where he will go into the saloon business. N. W. Nelson, president of the Metropolitan bank of Richmond, Va., was found dead in his bathroom, with the gas turned on. Flre which broke out in the barn owned by Albert B. Kuppenheimer, Chicago, smothered three valuable horses. The ring and stables of the Circus Moliere were burned at Paris, a fireman and policeman being seriously injured. Milton Ii. Hollister, a prominent citizen retired business man, of Delavan, Wis., died Sunday night, aged 63 years. The Paxton & Vierltog iron works at Omaha has increased its forcé of employés from 45 to 100 and extended the time to sixty hours per week. Wednesday, May 13. In England, France and Germany the ratio of multiple birth is thirteen twins per 1,000, and 160 triplets and eightquadruplets per 1,000,000 births. Secretary Sherman celebrated his 74th birthday with a reception at his home on K street, which was attended by the president and his cabinet. The revolution in Honduras is ended and that country is peaceful - until the next revolution, The prospect of an abundant erop of all kinds of fruit in Oregon is excellent. The J. R. Dayton Tablet company's block at Quincy, Hls., was burnd. Loss, $100,000. A Snohomish (Wash.) grocer recelved a box of eggs from an up-river rancher, each egg being stamped, "We want good roads." Gold exports from Mexico during the flrst half of the current fiscal year are offlcially given at $3,635,633, an increase of $1,222,192 over the amount exported in the corresponding half of the previcus fiscal year.