Samuel Harper, father of President
Harper of the University of Chicago,
Is dead, aged eighty-seven.
Policemen armed with riot guns ar
rested eleven bookmakers at the Del
mar track at St. Louis Tuesday for
violating the anti-betting law.
The shah of Persia, while shopping
at Paris, suffered a brief fainting spell
from the effect of the heat. The at
tack passed off without serious incon
venience.
Waldo Story, an American sculptor,
has been given the commission for the
statue of the late Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, which is to be placed in the
lobby of the house of commons.
Thursday, July 27.
John M. Collins has been appointed
chief of police of Chicago.
The Cedar Rapids (la.) Transfer
company warehouse, filled with ma
chinery and household goods, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000.
At Montreal, Que., C. E. Desmarteau
Wednesday broke the world's fifty-six
pound shot throwing record for height.
He put it over fifteen feet and eleven
inches.
The comptroller of the currency has
ordered that the stockholders of the
First National bank of Barberton, O.,
which went into bankruptcy some
time ago, be assessed $100 each share.
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
companies have formally announced a
reduction in the rate of refined sugar
between San Francisco and the Mis
souri river and points in Kansas and
Nebraska from 50 cents to 28 cents per
hundred pounds in carload lots.
Friday, July 28.
The town of Gornie, B. C., was near
ly destroyed by fire Thursday. The
damage Is $50,000.
William Slugger shot and fatally
wounded his wife and William Vivian
at Knox, Pa., and then fired a bullet
into his head.
J. Pierpont Morgan was among the
passengers who sailed from Liverpool
for New York on board the White
Star liner Oceanic.
