News Condensed

Rev. J. H. Harwell, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cambridge City, Ind., accused of passing bad checks, was bound over to the circuit court here and had to go to jail. The Catskill Shale Brick company, with extensive works at Catskill, N. Y., Is in the hands of a receiver. The company had extensive contracts with Brooklyn and Jersey City. The plant is assessed at $200,000. Charles Gray is under arrest at Jeffersonville, Ind., accused of murdering William Counts, a druggist, of Reelsville, near Terre Haute, on the night before Thanksgiving, while attempting robbery. Conrad Becher, one of the publishers and editors of the L,aPorte( Ind.) Journal, is dead, aged 55 years. Mr. Becher served five terms in the city council and was a prominent Odd Fellow. Joel Blakesley, one of the oldest residents of Peoría, Hls., is dead, aged 82 years. Five members of the family of F. M. Roberts at St. Louis were poisoned by eating cakes made of prepared buckwheat ilour. It is doubtful if they will recover. Detected in a clothing store at irrankfort, Ky., a burglar vvound a coat about his head and, jumping through a píate glass window, escaped. The city council of Pana, Hls., passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of cigarettes within the city limits. Dealers will contest. Herbert I. Matthews of Kansas City, Mo., who died recently, was regarded as one of the greatest authorities on old books in the west. To get into the Kansas legislature it cost Samuel Ernst of Atchison only $8.35. The Buffalo, X. Y., real estáte exchange is in financial embarrassment. When the new exchange was built, $28,000 worth of its stock remained unsold. The stock has not yet been sold, and now there are liabilities which must be met and not sufficient funds with which to meet them. George Appo, the noted ChineseAmerican criminal and green goods sleerer of New York city, was sentenced to the Mattewan asylum for the criminal insane. His father is serving a life sentence in the same institution fpr wife murder. As a last cal! the legislature of New York is Informeel that if it will only "blow in" just $1,000,000 more the great Albany capítol will be completed. Up to date this mammoth toy has only cost $21,653,511. The New York and New Jersey Lumber company, a West Virginia corporation, assigned in New York to Harwood R. Pool. The company was incorporated in 1892. Such a demand for American cotton has sprung up in Japan and China that it pays to ship the product from the eotton states all the way to San Francisco by rail, and there put it on board vessels for its destination. The body of a cattle dealer named Mulholland, who had been missing for some days, has been found on the Slieve Galbin mountain, County Londonderry. It is believed the deceased lost his way and perished from exposure. Brooklyn Masons are planning the constrution of a Masonic temple 125 feet square, and to cost $250,000. The export of gold from South África during November amounted in value to L087,529. The only son of a revolutionary soldier in New Hampshire is Samuel S. Green of Portsmouth, who was 84 years old last week. The body of Frederick Rainsford, a farmer, who was found dead in his house Saturday week, still lies at the undertaki ng rooms in Cedar Rapids, Mich., claimed by no one. A new and apparently inexhaustible vein of fine blue granite has recently been found ftear Fredericksburg, Va. While hunting John Bradley, ' a young man of Emporia, Kan., accidentally shot himself. The skull is badly shattered and he is not expected to live. Selma Mahnke, aged 2 years, ate candy ornaments off a Christmas tree at Sheboygan, Wis., and died. Sebastian Wolf, school teacher of Laclede township, Fayette county, Hls., and a prominent farmer and stock raiser, was killed in a runaway accident. Max Becker of New York city, 30 years old, a waiter, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. He was released from the Stamford, Conn., insane asylum two weeks ago. The Commerical club of Kansas City has taken steps to erect a statue of Thomas H. Benton. Sam Lung was held up and robbed at Springfield, O. His skull is fractured from a blow struck with an iron bolt. William Walker, aged 40, a farmer of Danvers, Hls., attempted to board a freight train and feil under the wheels. He leaves a widow and four children. He was a cousin of the late David Davis. William Bwart Gladstone, England's "Grand Old Man," celebrated his 87th birthday, the third natal anniversary since hi.= retirement from official public life in March. 1894. The Wilson line steamship Volo is a total loss at Wingo, off the coast of sweden. The crew and passengers were saved. Mrs. Smith, a 100-year-old woman of Orantham, England, does all her own housework, nurses an invalid nephew, and sells potatoes which she planted and dug up herself. IJaal university of Quebec has conferred the degree of doctor of divinity upon Rev. Thomas J. Conway, rêctorelect of the Catholic university at Washington. A fishing smack belonging at Malaga, Spain, has been wrecked, drowning twelve men and several children. The Kiel canal is lighted over its sixty-two miles by electricity and is the longest distance in the world lighted continuously in that way. There are 5,000 poles. The fetes commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco Da Gama were to have been held at Lisbon next year, but have now been postponed until May, 1S98.