Condensed News

New Orleans bad an $100,000 blaze the other day. 2 A half-mülion dollars wortli of property was destroyed by tire ia Knoxville, Tenn., recently. A Toledo paintpr nagned Wakelee, in a fit oí jealousy, eut his wife's tlirout and then shot hillisrlf. A tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern road caved in the other day, instantly killing six persons. Tearman's pork-paeking establishment in Hainilton, Ont., was burned recently. Loss $130,000. The entire family of Wm. King of Clifton, Staten Islunil were poisoned by eating canncd corn brei. 3 The warm weather had a very debilitating effect upon Gen. Grant. He grows wcaker aïmost daily. Edward Taylora saloon keeper of Fall River, Mass., has fallen heir to property iu Enghuul valued at 1,000,000. It is estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 appolntments and remováis been made since Cleveland took the chair, News from Tucson, Arizona, is to the effect that a supply camp had bet surprised lv the Apaches and live men murdered. Fout ears on the Chicago, Milwaukee fe St. Paul road were blowo from the track near Sioux City, Iowa. Six persona were seriously injured. Tlie reinterment of the remains of the late Alex. 11. Stephens took place at Crawfordville, (a., on the lOth. Robert F. Toombs delivered an address. An order has been issued by the Seeretary of the treasury whereby the coinage of standard sllver dollars at San Francisco and Carson City ara to be discontinued. A Khode Island man ho wants an office as a medical examiner for tiie pension bureau has tent to the authorities at Washington diagrama of various snrgical operatlo'S pcrformod by liim as evidence of his litncs.-. Joseph Kcnsiin a salí, li keeper of Newport, R. I., suflering trom the delirium tremcns sat onaSS-pouncl keg f powder and exploded it with Bulcldal intcnt. Some half dozen people were Injured by the explosión. (in. Sparks, the land commissioner has issued an order forfeitlng the bulk of the fraudiilnit Maxwell land grant, covering a tract on the Bouthern part of Colorado and New Mexico, 'l'liis ivill throw open to the public entry over 1,500,000 acres. Gen. Middleton, who has been pursuing Big Bear, bas found the country impassable tor horses and is now on the return to Fort Pitt. Supplies for the north have boen couiiteiniaiuled. Tlio probabilitius are the commaud will leave for home at once. Wm. Tinsley, who at the (Vntennial exposition was given plaee as the oldest architect in the United States, aml who for many vears haa heen a Ufe member of the Amerieau 'institute of architects, died recently. He was bom in Olonmel, Irdand, in 1804.