News Condensed

Hen. David Rankin has a farm of 3,200 arres in Atchison county, Mo. Several hundred acres were planted in corn, and a careful test showed that it yielded 101 bushels to the acre. The 3-year-old child of William Nolan of Zanesville, O., feil into a kettle of boiling water and was scalded to death. % The vast mahogany forest of Nicaragua are almost wholly controlled by Boston firms by contract with the Nicaraguan government. In a deserted farmhouse near LaPorte City, Ia., the body of an unknown man was found hanging to the rafters. A gold watch, set of barber's tools, and a small amcunt of money were found in the pockets. Allen Clark, a farmer near Rushville, Hls., while driving cattle out of Crooked creek bottom, was thrown from his norse and was drowned. Martin Engleman, a farmer near Wabash, Ind., accidentlly shot his 11-yearold daughter with a double-barreled shotgun. She cannot possibly get well. Gold, Lee $; Luce, one of the largest retail boot and shoe firms in Rochester, N. Y., have assigned. Assets an' liabilities are not stated, but are probably large. According to a newspaper interview at Paris, Mme. Adelina Patti is anxious to secure the decoration of the Legión of Honor. Commodore Richard Peck of New Haven, Conn., has completed his 68th year in steamboating. He is 81 years of age, and has been with one company more than half a centúry. The correspondent at Berlin of The London Standard reports that Emperor William has designed and drawn with his own hand the tower for the Germán Protestant church at Jerusalem. Dr. Nansen will receive $25,000 for one week's lecturing tour in England. At Dayton, O., fire gutted the G. C. Wise printing establishment. Sergeant of Pólice Keiler was probably fatally burned and two firemen were injured by a falling ladder. Fred Faulk, a farmer near Atlantic, Ia., was attacked, killed and devoured by ho?s. Lady Haberton, the apostle oí dress reform in Kngland, is the wife of the viscount of that name. She is described as a "weird-looking lady, who parts her hair on one side, scorns corsets, and belong-s to the Pioneer club." The Van Tassel school at Milwaukee has been closed by order of the health department. The janitor's wife haa diphtheria. The Protective League of American Showmen, in session at Cincinnati, have elected officers and adjourned. Excessive taxes in cities are to be fought in the courts. Word has been received at Peoría, 111?., of the death at Denver of James Millard, city collector, who had been a sufferer from bronchial troubles. He went to Peoria in 1853 and engaged in the coal business at Wesley City. H. Stearns, president of the New Tork Western Veterans' association, is missing-. He has long been commander of Shiloh post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Elkhart, Ind. His wife blames a woman named Scott, but believes Stearns wlll return. John L. Sullivan has had his new side whiskers shaved off. He admitted, with others, that they made him look respectable; but they also made him look oíd, and he wouldn't have it. Lizzie Knotkek, living near Riverside, not far from Washington, Ia., loved a man living at Lone Tree. Her mother opposed the match, and Lizzie killed herself with a revolver. Contrary to custom of Chinese residents in this country, relatives of two Chinese who died at St. Paul gave their kinsmen American funerals, at which there were music and flnwprs. The suit for divorce and alimcny brought by Mrs. Emma Cecil ag-ainst her husband, Granville Cecil, was corapromised at Danville, Ky., Mrs. Cecil surrendering all claims on her husband's estáte in consideration of $25,000 cash and an annuity of $2,000. Mrs. Fred Beeck of Two Rivers, Wis., was drowned in a cistern. The jury rendered a verdict of suicide while in a temporary fit of insanity. Edward Meyers and William Williams are charged with having passed counterfeit dollars at Wilton and Durant, Ia. The men have been buying babbitt metal and block tin from hardware stores at Wilton. Alfred Rand of Milwaukee was drowned in the Kinnickinnic river while skating. A .J. Funkhouser, an extensive farmer of Pleasant Grove township, near Charleston, Hls., has assigned. The assets and liabilities reach about $25,000. Washington Cox of Martinsville, Ind., ag-ed 60 years, committed suicide by shooting himself. Ill-health and I spondency were the causes. He left a widow and seven children. F. J. George, representing himself to ! be from Independence, Ia., is held in ' custody at LaPorte, Ind., accused of obtaining money under false pretenses. The first Baptist church of Portage, Wis., was deatroyed by fire. M A London occulist has applied ballbearings to the mounting of eyeglasses and spectaeles, preventing the rigid contact of glasses and metal, and rendering them less Hable to fracture. While attending a dance in Rowan county, Ky., Gus Springer and Mack Mullen got drunk and engaged in a fight with knives. When the ficht was over both men lay exhausted, terribly mutilated and almost dead. Statistics just made public show that in Massachusetts, in spite of the advent of the trolley car and of the popularity of the bicycle, the number of horses is greater oy 3,085 than in the preceding year. Charles Barrett, colored, who disappeared from home at Columbia, Mo., some days ago, was found frozen in the Ice in Hinkston creek. The Green Springs, O., bank has been closed, and Mr. Stinchcomb was appointed receiver. The flrm disagreed, and the depositors wil] be paid in full. John Griffln, a horseman of Albia, Ia., ivas struck by a train while walking along the track and was instantly killed.