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MISCELLANEOUS. In a terrific ten hours' engagement in a ravine near Settat, Morocco, between a French column under the command of Gen. d'Amade, and a column commanded by Mulai Rachid, one of the chiefs of Mulai Hafid's forces, the French gained a splendid victory in the face of heavy odds. succeeding in dispersing the enemy and occupying Settat. Edward S. Whitaker, inspector of police in New Orleans, fired two shots at J. M. Leveque, editor of the Morning World, because that paper had criticised him severely. After one of the bitterest fights in its existence the New York county Republican committee adjourned without having indorsed Gov. Hughes or any other candidate for the presidential nomination. The Western Bank & Trust company of Dallas, the largest savings deposit bank in Texas. was placed in the hands of a receiver. all its quick assets having been exhausted by a long run. The British ship Hartfield, from Liverpool to Seattle. is believed to have gone down with all on board off the west coast of Vancouver island. A petition in bankruptey was filed at Denver, Col., by Orman & Crook, railroad contractors. The total liabilities are given as $741,136 and the total assets as $1,282,771. Mrs. Lydia K. Bradley, one of the richest women in Illinois, died at Peoria, III., aged 92. She was particularly known for her philanthropy. having endowed the Bradley Polytechnic institute. John C. Guinn. a millionaire mine owner, 65 years old. was severely beaten and robbed at his home in Georgia City, Mo., by robbers who first cut the telephone wires. H. R. Drew, a prominent real estate man and one of the pioneer residents of Mineapolis, Minn., died. E. H. Harriman was directed in a decision given by Judge Hough in the United States circuit court to answer all questions propounded to him by the interstate commerce commission except those relating to the purchase of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad stock in connection with the dividend of August, 1906. The Lake Carriers' association, in convention at Detroit, Mich., placed itself on record as opposing the diversion into the Chicago sanitary canal of water enough to make it a commercial waterway. Fire in East St. Louis destroyed an elevator, a grain storehouse and some freight cars, the loss being $150,000. Mrs. Eliza Matsen of Duluth, Minn., confessed that she murdered her husband. Ezekiel Gregory. an aged farmer. was slain by his son in a quarrel near Davidson, N. C. Misses Annie and Maggie Wade, sisters, of Oak Park, III., went insane at Ocean park, near Los Angeles, Cal., as a result of the financial de. pression. The British steamer Tolesby was wrecked on Cape Race, the crew be. ing saved. Two members of the Japanese cabinet resigned and the resignation of all was narrowly averted, the trouble being over the budget. Smoke entering the Nixon theater at Pittsburg, Pa., started a panic that was quieted by the efforts of a detective. Vandals have stolen and ruined $25,000 worth of pictures, furniture and bric-a-brac in the home of F. P. Earle in New York. Mr. Earle is in Italy. Robert Maclay & Son, members of the New York stock exchange, failed for $1,500,000. Secretary Taft has written a letter to the president recommending an in crease of the width of the Panama canal locks from 100 feet, as at present planned, to 110 feet. Emmett R. Olcott, a well-known
