News In Brief

The supreine court declared the law to tax inheritauees by direct heirs unonstitutionaL. The qneen. at the farewell audienee to l.onl lloseberv, invested him with the order of the tïiistle. John ( hambers is supposed to have throvvn himself into the lake at Chiisigo aftet tearing i;t,OJO in bilis to small bits. Nimrod Hennett, a deaf mate living ciear dranger, [ad., while walking the Urand Trunk was killed 'oy i fast t rain. The Omaha Commercial club gave a ban [uet to celébrate big erop prospecte in the state and also the prosperity of the city. While playing base ball in Ni wport, Ky . .Manrire Uavis, asred 13, of Cin.■iiinati, was instan tly kill.'d by being liii in the head by a throvvu ball. At the last séssion of the Epworth lergueconvention at ('ha! tan )Oga, over l:J,OJO paople atteuded the lat service jml many were turned aw.iy for laok jf room. The American ship Arabia, Capt. MacLeon, from New Vork lor San Francisco, was totally wrecked off Cape Horn. The crew was landed at Montevideo. A house in Adams county, O., occupied by Uyas Matiieny and a .Mis. l'ierce. was blown to pieces ly neighbora with dynainite, and both were terribly injured. Special dispatches from Shanghai ■iay that high officials who are well informed expresa the opinión that war between iiussia and Japan over Korea ivill break out bof ore the end of the aext three months. The Wisconsin state board of health lias passed a resolutiou declaring that jigarette smoking is deleterious to the bealth, and espucially deleterious to the physical growth and mental deleiopment of young persons.