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OCEANS Concise Summary of the Wired News of a Week. Important Happenings and Things of Interest from All Over a Great Country. Wednesday, June 29 The prohibition party is holding national convention in Indianapolie. Gen. Quite a boom is in progress for Nelson A. Miles for president. The town of New Boston, Arkansae 25 miles south of Texarkana, has been wiped out by a tornado and several people killed. The advance guards of delegates to the national democratic convention are gathering in St. Louis. The chances favorable for a warm time among the Bourbons. Jacob H. Plain, cashier of the GermanAmerican National Bank of Aurora, III., has been arrested, charged with the misappropriation of $65,000 of the funds of the bank. Over 500 homes, business houses and schools, A short distance from Pittsburg, Pa., have been inundated by a cloud buret. One life is known to have been lost. Fire has devastated the lower half of the village of Lake Placid, N. Y., a wellknown summer resort. A rainstorm set dein and saved the town from utter struction. Thirty-nine men deported from Cripple Creek under military escort,have arrived in Denver and joined the colony of exiles already located there. This colony numbers over 200 men and they have organized a local union affiliated with the Western Federation of Miners. Thursday. June 30. The prohibition party in national con vention at Indianapolis, Ind. has nominated Silas C. Swallow of Penneylvania for president and George W. Carroll of Texas for vice president. A ealoon at Walkerville, Mont., was entered by masked men and $1000 i money and valuables secured from the proprietor and inmates. The robbers escaped. After a trip around the world, John Alexander Dowie has arrived in Chicago. Dowie will now answerin the bankruptcy court, the proceedings having been brought before his departure for Aue tralia. W.H. Maxwell, euperintendent of in atruction of New York City, has been elected president of the National Educational Association which has been in convention in St. Louis. The postmaster general has declined the request of the Louis & Clark exposi tion authorities for the issuance of special series of postage stamps com memorative of the exposition. The steel trust earnings for the June to quarter are over $18,000,000. ample cover in full the preferred dividend. Friday, July 1. Two distinct lines of operation have developed in the preliminary ekirmish ing of the democratic national convention in St. Louis. One is a scheme to rush the nomination of Judge Parker on the first and second ballot, and the other is to scatter votes 80 as to prevent of an early nomination with a view naming Cleveland or Gorman. A fierce forest fire is raging in the mountains near Tombstone, Arizona Much valuable timber and considerable mining property is being destroyed. The Fidelity Savings Association of Denver, Colo., has gone into the hands of receiver. Liabilities are placed at $1,000,000. Two prominent society and club men Minneapolis, Minn., have received fatal of injuries and five other persone were seriously injured by the explosion of gasoline launch on Lake Minnetonka, near that city. The census bureau has issued its bulletin on the negro population. There are 9,204,531 negroes in the United States, found perhaps a larger number than is in any country outside of Africa. Seven thousand one hundred minere in the employ of the various corporations have the Birmingham Ala., district in suspended work, pending the adoption of a new scale of wages. Saturday. July 2. President Roosevelt has arrived at a Oyster Bay, L. I., and was given great reception by his neighbors. Two women and a man, occupants of a automobile that crashed into an motor train in New York, are badly in jured. The women will probably die. Judge Lanning has signed a final de in the United States circuit court at cree Trenton, N. J., ordering a sale of the in United States Shipbuilding Company by foreclosure proceedings instituted the the Mercantile Trust Company and New York Security & Trust Company The two mortgages held by them are $16,000,000 and $10,000,000 respectively. Nearly 1500 employes of the Pullman Company have been laid off at the Officers Pull car shops near Chicago. of man the company declare that it is neces the to cut down expenses and that sary orders on hand do not require 80 large force. Senator J. R. Burton of Kaneas, convicted of accepting money from a com under investigation by the postpany office department, has been granted an appeal to the supreme court by Judge of St. E B. Adams of the district court Louis. Sunday. July 3. The Chicago Limited on the Wabash railroad, a half hour late and running miles per hour, was wrecked inside 50 limits of Litchfield. Ill. Twenty f the city are dead and about 40 more or less persons seriously injured. The engine ran into an open switch and struck a freight and standing on a eiding. The engine the first three coaches were piled in a heap and consumed by fire. William J. Bryan has arrived at the Jefferson hotel in St. Louis and is one of
