Five Men Were Killed On The 8th By A

cave-in in the Víctor coal mine noar Trinidad, Col. A BXA.V1 snow-storm which prevailed throughout Northern Michigan on the Bth proved boncficial to the lumbermon. Tica Union l'acillc fast mail train was wrccked near Sidney, Nob., on the 9th by a broken rail, and tho cara caught fire and the two mail-cars and tho baggage-cars were burned. Adam Bkaxtioan, dealer in pianos at New York, failed on the rth for $100,000. He had boen in business forty-two yoars, and indorsing notes for a friend caused tho fallare. O;ï tho 9th Cano croek, noar Poplar Bluffs, Mo., overflowed its banks and nearly a hundred families wero foreed to abandon their homos and over one thousand acres of corn in the shock wero dostroyed. Wn.LiAM Tokühxs, of Phüadelphla, after a lover's quarrel on the 9th fatally shot Bello Carter and then shot himsclf. John Hioks, agod eighty-four years, was on the 9th released from the northern prison at Michigan City, Ind. Ho had served forty-êlght yoars of his Ufo behind tho bars. As tuk result of a feud Ferdinand Gasting, living near Winamac, Ind., shot and killed Charles Kuryart on tho 9th and then took his own lif(!. lïoth were farmers. Many farms in Southern Illinois were on tho 9th almost submorged with water, tho result of a long-eontinued rain-fall. A caisson of the new bridgo near Louisville, Ky., gavo way on tho 9th, orushing to death fourtoen workmen. DüKING a galo on tho 9th in Brooklyn, N. Y., tho wall of a church was blown down, and in falling it crushed a small houso adjoining, killing David Purdy and his sister Mary, andbadly injurlng four other persona, The diabursementa from the ponsion office for tho Milwaukee district, which inoludes Wisoonsln, Minnesota and tho Dakotas, during the last six months of Ib89 were 075,181.20, against $2,340,460.01 for thC Ia3t six months of 18S8. TtlE largo hominy milis at West Indianapolis, Ind.. wero burned on tho 9th, causing a loss of 8100,000. A general order was issued on tho 9th to all brakemen and baargage-mastors on tho lïead'.ng railroad by which they are all compelled to report for duty with clean shaven faces. Attokneys for tho Cronin defense in Chicago filed thoir bill of errors on tho lOth in the motion for a new trial. New Yohk groen goods men on the lOth swindlod two farmers, Adam Schmidt and J. Schlek, living near Sioux FallB, 8. D., out of 1,200. John and Polo Frenen, arrested ton days ago at London, Ky., for murdor committed in Virginia seventeen years ago, were identifiod on the lOth as tho guilty parties and taken to Virginia. Thkke were 834 business failures In the United States during the seven days ended on the lOth, against 'Á:12 tho provious sevon days. Fifteen of eighteon horsos which were shipprd from Pennsylvania to Newark, N. J., were found to have been suffocated on the lOth when they arrivod at their destination. THE threo childron of J. W. Brayden, living near Donaldsonville, La., died on the lOth from the effects of strychnino given by mistake for quinino. E. W. Niciioi.3, a veterinary surgcon, died on the lOth at Springfield, Mass. He was sheriff of tho Union prisoners at Andersonville, and helped to hang tho ten men convicted by tho prisoners' court martial of stealing thoir scanty supply of ration3. J. C. Pabish, forty-two years of ago, was hangod at Raloigh, N. C, on the lOth for criminal assault upon his own daughtcr. He died protesting his innoconco. The treaty of the United States with Coeurd'Alene Indians was signed on the lOth, and the Government becomes possessed of twenty-two thousand acres of the most valuable part of the reservation. The boUii o' cw mcn ana tnat ui woman - victims of the great flood - wero found at Johnstown, Pa., on tho lOth. The firm of Hobbs, Glidden & Co., dealers in building materials at Boston, failed on the lOth for 5150,000. Durino 1S89 the coke operators of Connollsville, Pa., marketed 5,825,000 tons of coke, valued at $8, 150, 000. ! The house of Thomas Ilenderson at Webster Springs, Va., was burned on the lOth and Mr. Ilonderson and two children were burned to death. The annual report of tho National Woraan's Tempéranos Union for 1889, made public on tho lOth, shows a total membership of 142,348, a ffain of 8,821 over the previous year. At Baltimore on tho lOth tho young wifo of John J. Fink attacked and routed two constables and other men who had come to seize the furnituro for nonpayment of rent. Durin'O a fire on the lOth in tho Rivergide milis at Augusta, Ga., ono of tho walls feil. injuring ten men, some of them fatal ly.