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l'iii.i'. ..■;■.; ons were ili'o ned al Prescott, A. 'i'., o the 22d by the giinr way of i-i lavge storage dam built across Hass:; y:u)ipa rivor l,wo yeara ago at a eost pi hundreds of tliou.sands of dollars. Tuk sixteen women trial fol (ts stroyinjf :i saloon at Spickardfiyille, Ho., were found guilty on tho 22d and fined fivo dollars each. John Jacob Astor died suddenly at his residonoo in Xew York on the raorning- of tho 22tl oí heart failure, aged 67 years. Ee Ioft an estáte valuedatStöO,000,000, which goes to bis son and three daughtcrs, hia wife Laving died two years ao. The Jfritish schoonor Glon v.as wrocked on tho 'J'id on Littlo Duck Island, oif Uio coast of Maino, and three of her crew were drownod. Gn.r.Kirr LoSve (colored) war; liangnd on the 21st at BirminghaiD, Ala., for the murder of .). W. Meadowa (white). Tuk schoonor (alremham, which left Ilalifax .lar. up.ry s for tho Kast Indies, was givon up for lost on the 22d with her of live men. ThEEE persons were killed and six injured by the explosión of a boiler in a sawmill at Euther (ilen, Va., on tlio 22d. Thukf. sisters, Mary, Carrie and Ella Tyler, wero thrown from a carriaffe by a runaway on the 22d near Newark, N. J., the two former being killed and tho lattec badly Injured. Rudoi.imi DlTBOISi of St. Alban, Que., in a quarrel on tho 98d with his motherln-law, Mrs. O. Tbibeault, killod her .with an axo, and then killed his wifo and two littlo children in the samo manner. lx was reported on tho 22d that unknown parties had ofTered SI, 000,000 for the franchise of the National Haso-Ball League Association. Miss Rb3INA Itcïiisr mi,n, of Port Townsend, Wash., will start on March 17 to race around tlic world ngainst Goorpe iraócis Train, in an endeavor to make the cúrele in sixty days. By an explosión on tho 22d at tho South Omaha (Neb.) packing houso of Armour & Cudahy threo persons were killed outriffht, soven seriously or fatally injurcd and a nuinber were hurt. Iitdictmknts against twenty-ono "regulators" woro reUirnod on the 22d by the grand jury silting at Lafayetto, La. Tuk exchangos at tho leading clearing housos in the United States during the weck ended on tho 22d aggregated Sjr,o,r,o5,'Jü;i, agatnst $1,081,348,916 the previous reek. As compared with tho corrospondinij wook of 188'J tho incroaso amounted to 5.6.