News Summary

A serious collision occurred on one of the C. B. & Q. branches near Atchison, Kansas, the otber day. Several passeugers were seriouslv in jured. The passenger train was in charge of a 'green' enïineer. The rumor that Mrs. (íarfleld is aboutto marry a woalthy Cleveland gentleman, is emphatically deuied by friends of that lady. Tuv Methodist university at Mitchell, Oakota, was destroyed by fire the other morning, the fire originating from spontaneous combustión oí oiled rags in the art room. One student was killed in trying to escapo from the thlrd story. Sev eral other studente and teachers werd in jured. Thomtw J. Potter, vice president and general manager of the Union FaciftV railroad company, died in Washington a few days ago. It is rumored that Mr. Blaine is to run for the governor of Maine this summer and that the legislature will, after his election, choose him for senafor when Mr. Frye's term expires in Harch, 1889. Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Engineers, saya he is confldent of the ultímate success of the men in the strike on the Burlington. Postmaster-General Dickinson bas directed General Supt. Nash of the railway mail service to proceed at once to Chicago, there to remain during the present railroad troubles. Prior to hisleaving Washington Mr. Nash received instructions, which will govern any action he may take. These instructions have not been made public. An accident occurred on the Erie road at Hcio, N. Y., the otherday. One passenger was killed and 12 others sersously in.iured. William Putnam Endicott, father of the Secretary of War, died in Salem, Mass., recently, aged 55 years. Mrs. Kllen Tupper, known as "the bee woman, " and one of the foremost entomologists of the world, died suddenly at KI Faso, Texas, recpntly. She was widely known in theeast and throughout Europe. Henry Bergh, the founder and president of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animáis, died in New York on the I2th inst. E. F. Thomas, postage due clerk in tho Washington postollice, has been arrested for theft. íSnits are to be brought to secure the cancellation of patents issued on lumber culture entries in tli ■ Humboldt, Cal., land district. The -enata coinmittee on territories has reported favorably anenablingact for the admission of North Dakota. Three men were killed and several severely injured in a collision near Huntington, Pa., the other mornin. The Detour plow works at Dixon, Hl., were burned tho other day. Loss $150,000 Several tenement houses in New York were Immfd the other !ay. The inmates barely escaped with their lives. The house committee on Inrlian affairs has completad the annuil Indian appropriation MIL It fippropriate $5,198,283, belng (896, l-l-l less than the estimates. Tne fierre gale aloug the Atlantic coast on the 13th inst., drove 23 vessels ashore at Lewes, Uel. Twenty-five lives were ost. A meeting of the resident members of the Chi Psi fraternity, whose chapters are 'ocated in many of the prominent colleges of the country, was held in Washington recently an I organized a Washington alumni iissooiation electing Senator Palmer of MicLi ;an, pre-ident, and Gen. F. D. Sewali vice-president. Hon. Don M. IUckinson, postinaster-eneral, memlier of the Chi Psi chapter at the university of Michigan, was present at the meeting. The annual convention of the fraternity U to be held in Washington April 4, 5 and 8. Cyril P. Benedict, an old employé of the Adams express company in Washington, has been sentence 1 to the penitentiary for three yearj and a half for embezzlement. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and the District of Columbia were practical'y snowbound for several days, as a result of the great storm of the 13th inst. An Indian outbreak in the far north west is impending. A premature blast of dynamite, three miles from Breinen Ga., buried four convicts beneath a huge pile of dirt. and when exhumed three wero found to be dead. The fourtu is not expected to recover. Chairman Jones of the republican na tional committee decides thatdelegates to the national convontion should be chosen in the same way that delegates for con gress are choseo. Fiv hundred American engineers, firemen and brakemun are wanted to go to China, and John Jone-s, who has been there three years, is now at Albany drumming up recruits. F.ngineers are to get $250 per month, firemen $175 and brakemen $Ii5, if they guarantee to remain five years. Miss Ella Keats Peay, a niece of the English poet John Keats, died in Louisville, Ky., recently.