News In Brief

A Shanghai dispatch says thafc official reporta show that there w ere over 40,000 deaths froin cholera in Pekin during August. Three Indians weiÉe held up near Lewiston, ldaho, by three masked men I and robbed of 82,300 paid them by the I government for land. Wm. llayg-ood, while blaspheming at High Shoals, Ga. , declared there was no God, no heaven and no hell, had his tongue paralyzed. A boiler explosión at the car factory at Warsaw, Ind., killed instantly Quincy JN'ebruner, the fireman, and James Hoffman, a teamster. The jury in the Frank Clancy inquesi at Ann Arbor returned a verdict thai Clancy carne to his death from a blow on the head by some person unknown. The jury censured the Toledo authorities for not investigating the case more thoroughly. Bristol tunnel, 1,200 feet long, on I the B. & O. railroad near Zanesville, O., caught fire from sparks. One hundred f eet of the tun nel has fallen in. Efforts are made to prevent the fire from a point where a coal vein projects from the tunnel's sides. A special from Kingston, Jamaica, says that Capt.-Gen. Martínez de Campos has written to the Spauish consul there, it has leaked out, that the strugo-le against the insurrection in Cuba is hopeless. Theconcedingof autonomy, he adds, is the only means by whioh Spain can avoid losing the island. The Cubans are jubilant. H. M. Romberg, a prominent liveryman of Decatur, Ind., left about two tnonths ago to visit his old home at Hamburg, Germany. Word has been received that he has been taken by the Germán officials and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, charged with whipping an official in the army prior to his coming to this country. Window g-lass manufacturers from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois met at Cleveland and organized a combination, the purpose of which is to advance prices to meet the increase in the price of raw materials and the prospective advance in wages. It was decided not to resume operations at the factories until September 27. A fight took place in a covered bridge aear Rockport, Ind., between Belle Levi and Frank Hurst, on one side, and Wm. Broshears and Charles Williamson on the other, in which Miss Levi and Hurst were mortally wounded. The fight was the resuït of an old feud between Broshears and Hurst. Hurst was taking Miss Levi home in a buggy when the attack was made. An unknown tramp was murdered on i Pennsylvania freight train near Mansfield, O. His throat was cut from ear to ear. Two tramps on the train were suspected. They boarded in Erie train and were met at Ashland by ofticers. The tramps, five in number, opened fire and the battle raged ove minutes before the tramps were nandcuffed. The engineer and firemen were wounded. Constantinople: The sultan has sent a dispatch to the Turkish ambassadors at Paris and St. Petersburg, bitterly complaining of Great Britain's attitude regai-ding Armenia, which is iescribed as discourteous and derogatory to the sultan's prestige. The dispatch concludes with an appeal to the French and Russian governments to use their good offices with Great Britaiu to modiiy her present attitude. A dispatch from Loudres, France, says: Fourteen railway trains loaded with siek and maimed persons arrived from Paris, and their wretched occupants are lying helpless about the station clamoring to be oarried to the iacred grotto. There are now 25,000 persons vvaiting to be dipped in the healing water, many of whom appear to be at death's door. Seventeen of the occupants of the list train from Paris died on the iourney. A heavy letter addressed to Baron Alphonse Rothschild was delivered at the baron's office, at Paris, during his absence. The baron's confidential ilerk, M. Jadowsky, opened the packige, whereupon it exploded. The slerk's eyes were almost torn out of his head, and one of his hands was so badly shattered that three of his Sngers had to be amputated. AnarchIsts are thought to be responsible, and 30 were arrested on suspicion.