News Condensed

One of the results of "greater New York" wil! be the wiping out of tifiyfoiir postmasterships, most of which pay a grootl salary. The business of farming in Spain Is bo much depressed that the government is about to devote $1.200,000 to the relief of that industry. The Model Dry Goods company ot Sparta, Wis., has been closed by the sheriff. For the iwelfth time in succession the Prince of Wales has been nominated for the office of grand master of English Mark Masons. An epidemie of influenza is prevalent In Carlyle, Hls., and neighboring towns. There are 100 cases in Carlyle, entire families boing down with it. Councilman John Slider of Kokomo, Ind., threw himseif from the roof of his business block and feil thirty feet to the pávement, inflicting fatal injuries! This is his third attempt at self-destructiOD within a month. He was arrested recently for larceny, and the disgrace unbalanced his mind. Dr. E. Vale was fined $15 for failing to report a case of diphtheria in Licking township, O. All the churches and schools there are closed. Hungary has given formal notice to Austria of its intention to termínate the customs and commericial convention between Austria and Hungary. Cecil Rhodes has had the title of "The Buil That Separates the Fighting Eulls" conferred upon him by the natives. Edward Hamilton, a laborer, was arrested at Taylorville, Hls., on a charge of murdering the Ilegitímate child of Cora Kline, who is nowHamiuci.'s wife. At Vernon, Hls., a jail delivery was made and twenty-two tramps were turned out at one time. Henry B. Bauman, who brought suit for $10,000 against the Illinois Steel company for injuries received while in the employ of the company, was awarded $7,000 by a jury at Joliet, Hls. William Scott, aged 30, was run down and killed by a fast freight train on the Wabash railroad at Keilers, Ind. The agricultural college of the Missouri state university has been notified that Secretary Francis has allowed the claim of the college for 24,000 acres of government land. John L. McCleary was blown to atoms tvhile thawing out a can of frozen nitro-glycerine at Wheeling, W. Va. Homer Smith, aged 50, one of the leading farmers of northern Indiana, dropped dead at Palmer while riding on a load of oats. Colonel W. E. Craig Qf Staunton, Va., collector of internal revenue for the Sixth Virginia district, under President Arthur, and district attorney for the western district of Virginia under President Harrison. is dead. The trial of Emperor William's chief of secret pólice, Baron von Tausch, on charges of forgery, perjury, and lese majeste, has been flxed for March. Daniel O'Hearn, a farmer residing at Clare, Ia., was accidentally shot by nis youngest son. Cecil Rhodes is a hearty supporter of the Salvation Army, and he has made General Booth an offer of land in Rhodesia for the army's use. Benjamin Gandy, aged 55 years, and Seabright Berry, aged 45, both oí Gloucester, N. J., were instantly killed by an express train on the Philadelphia and Reading railway at Philadelphia. The jury in the Noble county, Ind., circuit court acquitted Patterson and Matthew Stewart of Avilla of receiving deposits after insolvency. The Louis Brames bottling works at Fort Wayne, Ind., flled a chattel gage for S22, 572.29 in favor of Herman Tebbets et al., preferred c'reditors. The Court Royal cigar manufactory made an assignment and A. A. Purman was appointed trustee. Liabilities, $2,500, which will be fully met by assets. The strike in the Jackson-Wellston district (O.) is broken. Sentiment of the miners is overwhelmingly in favor of resuming werk. Ex-Speaker Keifer dropped on the ice at hls home in Springfield, O., and badly wrenehed and sprained his arm. ■ Rev. Austin Reginald Carew Cocks of England will begin an Episcopal revival, offlcially known as a mission, in St. Mark's church, Philadelphia, on Jan. 31. He is a nephew of Lord Salisbury. Sophia Perrottet, daughter of Representative Perrottet of Mascoutah, Hls., was married to Louis Schubert at Shiloh. Hls. Indictments againsf'Messlah" George Schweinfurth have been stricken from the docket at Rockford, III. The Grand opera house at Winnipeg, Man., was totally destroyed by flre. Loss, $40,000. The theater adjoined the Hotel Manitoba, which had a narrow escape. Thé University of Wuertzburg has awarded to Professor Behring of Marburg the Rinecker prize of a gold medal and 1,000 marks for the most important discovery of the last three years - his antitoxine for diphtheria. It is proposed that there be a congress of Jews who have intermarried with gentiles, that the advantage of such intermarriages may be set forth in a fitting manner. While hunting near Elk Point, S. D., W. J. Murphy, aged 17 years, was frozen to death. Murphy lost his bearing-s during a storm. Mormon missionaries are aetively at work in Berrien and "Van Buren ! ties at Vandalia. Some converts are i being made. The purpose of the missionaries is to promote immigration to I Utah. Abraham Marberry of Mossville, Hls., was killed by a tree falling on him. J. F. McNear & Son, hardware and carriage dealers in Columbia City and North "Webster, Ind., have made an assignment, with assets and liabilities j each amounting to about $6,000. Gintz Bros., furniture dealers at Akron, O., have assigned. The assets wlll equal the liabilities, each being about $8,000. The I. M. Burton company, a large ! lumber and milling concern of Mount Vernon, M. Y., has made an assignment. Total liabilities cannot be learned. Aalska and Puget Sound merchants and the steamship companies are pröparing- fcr an infiux of 10,000 to 15,000 minera into Alaska this spring.