The powers at Pekin have finally agreed upon 450,000,000 taels as the amount of the Chinese indemnity.
George H. Daniels, of the New York Central, wants the standard time between Chicago and New York reduced to 26 hours.
Jesse Higginbotham shot and killed William Hines, a neighboring farmer, at Bowling Green, Ky., over domestic troubles.
Rear Admiral Sampson, in discussing the MacLay history, accuses Schley of having made conflicting statements concerning his part in the Santiago naval battle.
Fully 67,000 men and women are involved in the strike of the Garment Workers in New York.
J. D. Eckman, manager of the joint-rate inspection bureau at Indianapolis, died Monday. He was known among railroad men all over the country.
Many farmers in the vicinity of Harrisburg, Ill., are pasturing their corn fields on account of pastures being burned up, and the corn is worthless for anything else. In a number of localities praying and fasting are resorted to in the hope of bringing rain.
Congressman Champ Clark, of Missouri, says there will not be five bushels of corn raised in his township, in Pike county.
Ten dead, one man driven insane and five prostration were the results of Sunday’s heat in Chicago.
Plate glass windows were cracked by heat at Paris, Ill.