F. A Walton, Clerk Of The Pacific

press oflloo at Dallas, Tex., abscondod on the 6th with S:;5,000 belonging to the company. THE Rhode Island Suprome Court decidcd on the 5th that tho ballot-systom law could be extended to city and town olections. Seckhtaky Moiilf.r, of the agricultural dopartmont of Kansas, on the 6th stated that tho value of crops in the State for 1889 was $104,572,498. The value of live stock for the year 1889 was 9116,186,460. The colorod men's conventiou in Washington on the Oth elected ex-Senator Pinchback president of the National organization and issued an address to the people of the United States asking justico for the colored race, and declaring that tho colored voto in the South is suppressed by vioence or noutralized by fraud, and that thoir children are not afforded school facilitles to which they aro entitled. The colored voters are urged to support in the future only such candidates for public office as are known to be in favor of justico to the colored American citizons. All we ask, says the address in conclusión, is justice, cqual rights and fair play. The box factory of J. K. Hunt, tho shoe factory of Lewis and Pifer and tho Trix Company in Rochester, N. Y., were destroyed by flro on the 6th. Loss, $100,000. A FREK Hlirary, to cost not loss than $1,000,00, was on the Oth offerod the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., by Andrew Carnojjie. Chief-Justicf. Shope, of the Illinois Supreme Court, on the Oth granted a writ of error in tho case of Fielden and Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago Anarchists. in order that the question of the right of the condemncd men to bo personally presont in court whon the decisión of the Stato Supreme Court was rondered may bo determined. Ox the Oth Beputy ShcrifTs Ross and Snead were ambushed and killed near Camdon, Ark., by negroes whose frlends the ofliccrs had arrestad. Cüari.ottk DUNLAP, aged 20 years, committed suicide by poison on tho Oth at Susquehanna, Pa. She was to have been married to a man she did not love, and preferred death. roquesting1 in a letter that she be borled in her wedding dress. Advicks of the 6th from Oregon say that the floods had washed away fifty houses in Oregon City, fifteen buildings at Salem, and caused considorable damage at other places. The waters were subsiding. WhtlH tho famüy of J. 15. Perkins were at dinner on the Gth at Cincinnati, O., a sneak-thief entcred the house and secured a box containing $4,000 worth of diamonds and $25 in cash. About fifty women. rppresenting the best families in Lathrop, Mo., visited two gambling dons on tho 7th and completoly guiW them, emptying out nearly $1,000 worth of liquor into the street Duiiixg a wind and snow-storm on the 7th at Minnewaukan, N. IX, the roof of tho court-house was blown off. The followingmurderer.s were hanged on the 7th: Sam Dill (colored) at Jacksonville, Ala.; Ligo Moore at Greensboro, N. C. ; John Wilson in Yancy County, N. C, and Malon Hankcy in Montgomery County, N. C. It was reported on the 7th that English capitalists had purchased a twothlrd interest in the Korepaugh circus, the estáte rotaining the other third. PCBLISHEBS of paper-covered libraries formed a trust in New York on tho 7th with a capital of 83,000,000. Tkf, schooner Minnohaha, en route from Philadelphia to Providence, R. L, was, with her crew of six men, given up on the 7th as lost The wages of the coke workers in the Connellsville (Pa.) región were on the 7th ad vaneed rrom 12 to 15 per cent. Sam Morgan, of Rhinebeck, N. Y., was blown by dynamite into such fine pieces on the 7th that thoy couldn't find any of him. Therb wero 2f9 business failures in the United States during the sev-nn davs endedon the 7th, against 291 the previous seven days. Tho total of failures in the United States January 1 to date is 1,887, against 1,871 in 1889. TnE court-house at Dallas, Tex., was burned on the 7th, and most of the records woro destroyed. Loss, 8100,000. A storm which raged throughout Pennsylvania on the 7th did great damage in Fayette and Westmoreland counties and the Connellsville coke regions, unroofing and blovving down houses and factories. At Blairsville the glassworks were wrecked and Charles E. Barr and Mr. Berney were killed. The loss in tho coke región would reach $500,000. ■ A terrible blizzard prevailed all over the Northwest on the 7th, and the storm was said to be the worst since 1882. At üamilton, O., on the 7th George Lummis, aged 23 yoar3, made an unsuo cessful effort to murder Effle Longnecker, aged 10 years, because she reected hls suit, and then killed himself. In Florence County, S. C, Coroner S. T. Burch killed a negro, whom he found, as alleged, stealing potatoes from his yard. The murderer then presided at the inquest on the 7th and the jury returned a verdict of justiflable homicide.