News Condensed

George J. Eacock has been appointed receiver for the Spring & Emerson Stationery and Printing company of Lafayette. Ind. Liabilities, $30,000; assets .less. To secure a claim of $50,000 held by the defunct Sioux City National bank, the Sioux' City Engine and Iron workg has given a bilí of sale to Reveiver Erown of the former concern. Samuel Corbett, missing from Decatur, Hls., since Nov. 4, was found dead near the Oakridge sehoolhouse in Long Creek township. He was an epileptic, aged 60. It is supposed he died in a fit. The Clinton Furniture company, retail furniture dealers at Clinton, Ia., were closed on chattel mortgages and Claims by suits aggregating $4,050.25. Horace Harding of Stilesville, Ind., a barber, committed suicide by shootlng. Harding's extreme deafness and inflrmities led to the deed. He left a note to that effect to nis family. On account of the erop deficiency, Australia requires 100,000 tons of wheat and flour from America, and half of that quantity has already been ordered. Hyrum Jeppesen. James Christianeon, Sr., and his son James were buried In a snowslide in Logan canyon, Utah. Jeppesen extricated himself but the others were killed. White workmen were engaged in excavating for a ditch near the village of Silver Lake, Ind., they unearthed one of the the finest specimens of the tusks of a mastodon ever discovered in northern Indiana. It measured seven and one-half feet in length and weighed seventy-elght pounds. George Nungesser, a well-to-do farmer, aged 68, froze to death near Bucyrus, O. He was walking to Bucyrus and feil by the roadside. Under the direction of Fish Commissioner Brice a large number of Pacific coast salmón are to be planted in eastern waters. The highest vote ever cast in Nevada was 19,691, at the presidential election of 1876. This year the total vote of the state was 8,507. The J. E. Owens Drug company of Kansas City has failed. The bank holds notes of the firm aggregating $11,250. The will of Mrs. Emira Forbes of Anderson, Ind., leaves her entire estáte to the Christian church of that city. It is a large gum. It may not be generally known that the story of Enoch Arden, as it stands in the poem, is In every detail a true one. It was related to Lord Tennyson by the late Mr. Woolner, the wellknown sculpter, whose widow has the manuscript of the story. Peter Layman, a dairyman of Akron, O., drew $525 from a bank to meet a payment on his farm. Burglars entered his house and secured the money. On the evidence of his father, John Taylor was sentenced at Pana, Ills., to the Chester penitentiary for larceny. He broke into his father's shop and stole iron, which he sold for money to buy liquor. Mr. Clarence Cook, In an address the other day, declared New York the ugliest city in the world. # D. W. Sheudy, a well known attorney of Rockford, 111., and Justice of the Peace, attempted suicide by swallowing a dose of laudanum. He will recover. The celebration of the completion of a quarter of century of King Oscar's reign will be signalized by a Scandinavlan art and industrial exhibition at Stockholm during the next summer. Madrid papers claim that the United States desires to ruin Spain's colonial power. The porte has decided to decline payment of all claims for indemnity for massacres except those advanced by Americans. Eroperor William addressed the officers at the military school at Hanover and cautioned the soldiers to act in a more friendly manner toward civilians. It is said that Emperor William is considering the advisability of recalling all the officers whom he Ioaned to the Chinese government for the purpose of instructing the Mongolian warriors in the arts of civilized warfare. # It is not unusual for the Duke of Westminster's charity bill to amount to $100,000 a year. Joseph Henderson was killed at Middleville, Mich., in an eneounter with a savage buil. George D. Hamill, aged 50, of Syracuse, N. Y., committed suicide at Phoenix, A. T., by taking morphine. Poor health and flnancial ti-oubles drove him to the act. He was interested in mines in Yavapai county, A. T. Four states have passed the 1,000,000 mark in their vote. New York carne first, with 1,334,339; Pennsylvania second, with 1,194,463; Illinois third, with 1,089,825, and Ohio fourth, with 1,015,825. Klijah Simons, who went with his bride from New York to visit at Merrimack, Wis., was accidentally shot and killed by a companion, Fred Van Derhoof. The public schools of New Orleans have been compelled to close during: the present month, the reason given belng that, however willing the city council might be to help the schools, tnere are no funds available for the purpose. M. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi has been elected president of the Societe Libre des Artistes Francais. Governor Altgeld of Illinois has commuted to twenty years the life sentence of Henry Schwartz, who was implicated with Newton Waat in the murder of Express Messenger Kellogg on the Rock Island road between Joliet and Morris, Hls., in January, 1886. An Indianapolis physician, after an hour's lively chase, caught a 'possum in his back yard. James Atwood was admitted to the county farm at Mascoutah, Hls., from Centerville township. His age is 110 years. The revolution in Uruguay has been squelched, but to keep things interesting a religious outbreak is going on in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Sir Tatton Sykes, one of the richest barons in England, has announced through the English newspapers that he will not be responsible for any debts or engagements contracted by his wife, who has left him.