i The Missouri Democratic conven
tion favored free coinage by a vote of
423 to 110.
“Dink” Wilson was electrocuted at
Auburn, New York, on Monday for
having shot a detective.
1 Dr. Rice won the Brooklyn handi
cap, Henry of Navarre second. Sir
Walter third, Bassetlaw fourth. Time
l 2:07’,.
All the employes of the National
tube works at McKeesport, Pennsyl
vania. struck on the 1 -Ith,for a restora
tion of the old rate of wages.
The Missouri Democratic state con
: vention which met at Kansas City
an the 15th gave the Bland presiden
tial boom a start with much enthusi
asm.
i President Hill of the Great North
ern road has agreed to the demands of
the men and those charged with crimi
nal acts during the strike will be re
stored.
Dr. Meyer has been convicted at
New’ York of murder in the second
degree. He was charged with having
poisoned persons whose lives he had
insured.
I There was a terrible cyclone near
. I Kunkle, Ohio, on the 17th. which
caused the death of five people. Their
bodies were torn to pieces in the fury
of the storm.
Mamie Sheehan, aged 12, a pupil of
r a Cincinnati public school, at a recess
jumped a rope GOO times without stop
ping. At night she was unconscious
at death’s door. Her physician sus
pected the rupture of a blood vessel
i n the braiu.
Spain has decided to pay in gold
the sum of $17,000, equal to $23,000
of Spanish currency, as an indemnity
to the American Methodist missionary
who was unlawfully expelled from the
Caroline Islands when Spain annexed
, that territory.
