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Tuk family of ] heodon: Gross, consisting of Iho purents and oight ehildren, with ono visitor, Miss Lena Erbst, were cremated by the burning qf the house in which they lived at llurontown, Mich., on the night of the 29th. Praiiuf. fires were on the 28th doing great damage near Fort Worth, Tox. TWOBBOTHSBS named O'Dell, fvigitives froin justiee, wcre killed by a posse of olficors 111 tlio muuifCauia uvm u ramo, Tex. , on the 2Sth. The coroner's annual report on the 28th showed that 259 persons were killed last yoar in Chicago by tho railroads. At Yazoo City, Miss., six thousand bales of cotton, worth 8300,000, wore destroyod by fire on the 28th. A rA.ssiíXGKit train on the Chosapoako fc Ohio road was wrecked by a broken axlo near White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., on the 28th, and ten persons were killed and ten injured. An Arkansas assassin killed Jerry O'Neil and his wifo on the 29th in their homo at Mount Sterling, Wis. GovEitNon Gödeix, of New Hampshire, issued a proclamation on the 28th that all saloo ns in tho State must be closod and tho prohibitory law strictly enforced. A hek of soventy-five lumpy-jawod cattle was shot at tho stock yards in Chicago on tho 28th. The firm of Alexander Beek & Son, carpet manufacturers at Philadelphia, failcd on the 28th for 8130,000. Mus. Emzabeth Pmce, of Normal, 111., celebrated her ninoty-ninth birthday on the 2'Jth. She was in good health. Tbksesv, the daughtcr of Kiag Prancis I., of Sieily, and tho ex-Empress of Brazil, died suddenly on tho 28th at Oporto, Portugal. Tiihf.e women perished in a fire on the 28th in San Francisco. At Pallas, Tex., nine men wore horribly burncd on the 28th by an explosión of molten metal in a foundry. His Majkstv Carlos I. was formally proclaimed King of Portugal at Lisboa on tho 28th. In New York City on the 29th thero were 50,000 cases of influenza, in Boston 20,000, and in Phildelphia 25,000, and several deaths liad oceurred from tho diseaso. On the 28th 1,942 immigrants arrived in New York from Europo. Tintoi-iiiiorr the Northwest a heavy snow-storm prevailed on tho 29th, blocking all tho railways. In Stevens County, Kan., thero was much suffering from lack of fuel and food, and macy were on the verge of starvation.