Telegraphic Tickings

Dr. James B. Angelí, the uew U. S. minister t Turkey, has arrived at Constantinople. The ele vator of the Da ven port, Ia., glucose works was the scenc of two territic dnst explosiona, as a result of whicli four Uves were lost and two persons seriously Injured. rrhe report of the U. S. commissioncr of cdueation, Dr. Win, T. Harris, for 1896, has just been completed. It shows a total cnrollmcnt in that year in the schools and colleges of 10,415,197. James Mlller, aged 10, while playing ball at Marión was struck in the head by a pitched ball. 11e went home apparent.ly unliurt, but in the morning hls iiiotlier ïonnd him in a comatoso state, and bo clied ctaring the afternoon. Special Sea.1 Comumoioner John W. Foster has relurned from England and says that Oroat Britaío'a ágreeing to join in a conference on the seal question will undoubtedly result in a new treaty bclng drawn up and signed. The grand stand feil at the h. A. W. state circuit bicycle r:n:es at Ilutchinson, Kas. Four tliousand persons packed the strueturt when one sectlon gave way, throwiny 500 persons to the gronntl. None were killed, but a number were scrioualy injiired. Unity, a camp of Negro workmen employed in building1 the New Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lako Erie railroad, is keeping ip its "reputation for riot and bloodshed. Reporta come from there of a small sized rlot and three or four individual íihts during the progrexs of wbich one inan was fatally shot and innumerable wounds inflicted on others. It is said that nearly or quite all the Negroea in the camp are armcd with revolvers and razors and aro a generully lawless set of mea.