General News

Kev. James De Koven, D. D., dean of Hacine, Wisconsin, college, died of appoplexy at the college Wednesday raorning. While conversmg with a Btudent he Ruddenly exclaimed, "Help me, pleaae," then feil back into a chair unconscious and died within ten minuten. Dr. DeKoven was about 47 years of age, and has been connected with Hacine College for the past twenty yeara. A fire at Vicksburg Wednesday morning caased a loss of $43,000; insurance, $30,000. The principal losers are Louis Hoffman, hardware; Lowenthral's dollar store; Davidson & Sorm, grocers. A general court martial has been ordered for a trial of Colonela Stanley, Twenty-second Infantry, and W. K. Hazen, Bixtieth Infantry. Terrible prairie fires recently occurred in ltepublic and Cloud counties, Kansas. They extended over an area of 10 miles long, 3 miles wide, and awept everything before tlu'in. It is said 'that i about 100 homes were consumed, also large quantities of grain, farming implements, hay, and other property. The winds were so high and the tires so fierce and hot that the inhabltants were obliged to take refuge in cellars, dugouts, or under-ground habitations. But one life reported lost, that of Mrs. Bowersox, who was burned to death while attempting to release Rome horses from a burning stable. Several other persona were severely injured. Bishop Purcell has issued an address to the public in which he says his jïist indebtedness does not exceid one million dollars and thai the deposita do not aggregate live hundrec thousand dollars altogethcr, the rest being for interest. The money, he says, was expendec upon the Catholic Seminaries and other institutions for which the church failed to provide. He appeals to the charitable to help him out of his difficulties. Another prairie fire occurred in Lincoln Co. Ks., burning the house and all the property o1 Mi. Montgomery, living on Bitter Creek, anc doing much other damage A little son of Mr Montgomery, 12 years old, perished in the fiames, and Mr. Montgomery and Isaac Pfafi and a neighbor who attempted to save youtig Montgomery were badly burned and died in a few hours, The War Department has ordered the Kighteenth Infantry from the Atlantic to Bismarck to protect the border, threatened by Sitting Buil. Col. Walsh, commander of the Canadian mounted pólice, writes that Sitting Buil anc his two thouaand warriors, well armed anc equipped, are showing a very ugly and insubordínate disposition. Private dispatches pronounce untrue the story that some of the steamer Brazilian's cattle had been slaughtered because of the exist ence among them of pluro-pueumonia. A number of shippers continue to send live cattle abroad, as they consider it a much lefs expensive manncr of ahipping than to seid dead meat in refrigerators, and the meat commands much better prices on the other side than dead meat. The President haB nominated John B. Ham ilton, of Illinois, for Supervising Surgeon General of the United States Marine Hospital Service; John M. Wilson, Ohio, Consul at Panama Geo. Scroggs, Illinois, Consul at Hamburg; Jefferson J. Kedder, Dakota, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. A Bpecial from Wichita, Ks,, says that gold haa been discovered 30 milea southcast of that place, and great excitement exists among farmers and others. A New York company is said to have bought a mile square of land, and is trying to secure more. Four companiea are already organized. Ore from a shaft sunk some tiine ago is said to have assayed over f 2,000 to the ton. One farmer has been offered $30,000 for his farm and ref used it. The quarterly interest on the four per cent. Joan, falling due April 1, ainounti.to nearly $5,000,000. The Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, in sesion at Nashville, Tenn., approved a proposition to give separate beneficial jurisdictions the power, if they see fit to exercise it, of creating relief of sinking funda, providing it doei not coafiict with the collection and disbursement of the beneficiary f und. The official eurollment reported to the Supreme Lodge shows that the order now has a strength of 63,000.