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OTHERWISE UNNOTICED A party of Jews have left Russia to cultivate beets in Colorado. World's fair opening day will be observed by the state of Missouri as a general holiday. The run on the Indiana Trust Co., Indianapolis, continues, despite exhibitions of confidence by men of affairs. Litigation has been begun at St. Joseph, Mo., for the distribution of the Burnes estate, a $5,000,000 corporation. Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, declares that he is in no wise a candidate for the pice-presidential nomination. The bureau of the interparliamentary peace conference has been called to hold the next conference at St. Louis, August 5. The town of Illig. on the coast of Somaliland, has been bombarded by the British. The sultan of Illig was captured. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in an address at Syracuse, N. Y., said the United States should rule the Pacific ocean trade. Gladys Stevens, aged four years, died as the result of burns received while striking a match, which ignited her clothing, at Pana, III. Because of high wages demanded by the waiters' union, hotel and restaurant men of St. Louis have decided on an "open-shop" policy. Emperor William will appear in Rome shortly after President Loubet's departure, with the especial object of paying a visit to the pope. After chasing her recreant husband through three countries for four years, Mrs. Gitel Tablinsky found him in St. Louis, living with another wife. A New York court refused to set aside the interlocutory decree granted Mrs. Clemence Dodge Morse on the application of her second husband, Morse. The collapse of a cage in the Robinson mine, at Johannesburg, South Africa, precipitated 43 natives 2,000 feet to the bottom. All were mashed to a pulp. "Mother" Jones broke out of quarantine in Utah and marched through town with striking miners, exposing scores of persons to infection. She was placed in jail. The original "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" appeared in a Louisville police court to answer a charge of throwing a jar of slop on the head of an unwelcome visitor. Japenese ladies, en route to the World's fair, refused to walk through the mud from the sleeper of a wrecked train near Oskaloosa, la., and were carried out pack-saddle fashion by the men on the Pullman.
