At the end of a fixed time she will tak<_ up her. residence in a villa at Lake Lucerne. The house in whioh the young Frinoe killed him -**- self at Meyerling is being pulled down. Tbe ordera of the Emperor are to make effort's to obliterate the soene of the midnight tragedy and oauß. it to ba forgotten. - Mrs Sarah Jane Whitling was hanged on j June 25 in Moyemonsing Gaol, Philadelphia, I for poisoning her husband and two children to get the insurance on their lives, amount ing in all to 500dol. She was quite at oase, and said she did not "mind hanging more than sitting down to breakfast." A lively electric storm on June 15 played havoo in New York and New Jersey. The Churoh of the Immaculate Conception in New York was struok by lightning, also two churches in Newark, flew York. The damage in both oities amounts to 109,000 dole. In this Is included the destruction of .the atandaxd oil tanks at Comm-anepaid, and "• - the national storage dook at the same place. A number of lives were lost, and great damage to property also oaused in Maryland and Kansas. At the State election held ia Pennsylvania ,on June 18 over 75,08© majority was given against an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the geneial sale and use of intoxicating liquors. Great efforts were made by the temperance people to influence the vote in favor of the amendment. ' Brass bands and groups of children Binging hymns could he seen and heard everywhere in the principal cities during polling hours ; while numbers of women argued with, and almost beseeohed, voters to deposit amendment ballots. A tornado struok the cemetery of Middle town, New York, on June 17, and cut its way through it 500 ft wide, tossing and whirling huge granite and marble monuments in all directions, bursting shrubberies and uprooting trees. The tornado spent its fury among the graves. Monuments weighing as much as five tons, and costing many thousands of dollars were ruined. A license was issued at the State capital Chicago, on June 11, to an organisation called the Amerioan Execution Company, the avowed objeot of whioh is to take the burden of all executions off the hands of the sheriffs. 