Two Men Men Were Killed And One

jurea by tho ïaiiing ol a wan in nigbeo's ílouring mili at Salem, Ky., on the 2d. Rhodes & Bros.) operators of the Aston, Knowlton aml West Uranch dress-goods milla at Aston, Pa., failcd on. the 2d for $100,OUO, throwing 1,01)0 persons out of work. Evan N0VAQKAT8, a Norwegian, was drawn into ;m ore-crushinj machino at the Vulcan iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa., on tlie 2d, and almost instantly ground to pulp. Tmo ntimber of hogs packed in the Wost during tlic winter season, Novombor 1 to M-areh 1, was 6,663,803, against 5,483,852 during tho samo periodayear ago. (allures of thrresupposed wealthy farmers of Lancaster, l'a., wero announced on the :ïd, Benjamin L. Gamber, for S3'.),000, Jacob li. Hostotter ior 842,500 and Daniel E. Heifer for $13,504. The femalo orusaders at Farmington, Mo., on the 3d destroyed another wajfonload of heer and attempted to entersoveral saloons but found them barricaded. At Galena, Monmouth and Champaign, in Illinois, a cyclone on the 3d unroofed houses, leveled feno.es and uprooted trees, causinggreat dauiago. No lives wero lost. The stoamor China mado her last trip from San Francisco to Hong Kor.fr in twenty days, including the stop at Yokohama, beating tho best previous record by two days. Robert McCoy and William Ilicks (colored) woro hanged on tho 3d at Homorville, (la., for themurdcrof William Hughes and his wife last November. In the absonce of their parents on tho 3d three children of William Brown, who had been locked in their home noar lluron, S. D., woro burned to death. Dolpha Grahiiam was killed and his younger brothcr fatally injured by a pieco of falling scantling at Hamilton, O., on tho 3d. The old Greeley homestcad at Chappaqua, N. Y., which was formerly tho home of Horace Greeley, being built by him in 1851, was destroyod by firo on the 3d. Dispatciies of tho 3d say that plantations near Greenvllle, Miss., which were always considercd above high-water mark, and were neverbefore submergod, were inundated, the flood being the highest on record. A gang of counterfoiters was captured on the 3d at Buffalo, N. Y. Reports from Kansas on tho 3d woro to the effect that the winter wlieat belt of tho State had been groatly beneflted by rain. Fast day was observed throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts on the 3d, business beinc gencrally suspended. GRACEAU Cin.EUORAD, Of AtWOOd, Kan., was on the 4th sentonced to fifty years in the penitentiary for poisoning his brothor. An explosión of gas in a tunnel ncar Santa Paula, Cal., on tho 4th killed six men. Iï was reported on tho 4th that smuggling frauds in tho glove trado in tho country to the extont of $1,000,000 had been discovored by United States officials. GovEBNOB FlFEB, of Illinois, on tho 4th named April 18 as Arbor day in the State. Auvices of the Hh say tho condition of tho wlieat erop in Missouri would not exceed 85 per cent., owing to severo froezing weather in March. Therb wero 200 business failures in the United Sta {es during the seven days ended on tho 4th, against 1S9 the provious sovon days. Tho total of failures in tho United States from January 1 to date is 8,886, against :.."iG'J in 1SS9. A sr.vi'.iü: storm of wind and rain prevailed at Arkansas t'ity. Ark., on tho 4th, and nearly every house was fiooded to a depth of ten or twi-lvo feot. Two churchos and throo or four residences wero blown from their foundations. The forty-five directors of the world's fair wero chosen in Chicago on the 4th. At Louisville, Ky., the relief for the cyclone sufferers amoimted on tho 4th to$13r.,ü00. Eighthndred appikation for aid had been recëivèi The flre in the Carneron (Pa.) colliery was on the 4th beyond control, and the ontire mino would havo to be flooded. The loss was estimated at 8100,000. Reports of tho 4th from ;!00 Minnesota farmers woro to the effect that tho erop outlook in U10 Stato was excellent. r'iFTKEN' passengere were lnjured on the 4th by the plunging down an erabankmont near .St. Charles, Ma, of an express train. Two tiiikves robbed the jewelry store of M. J. Mitchell at Denver, Col., of $5,200 worth of diamonds on tho 4th and made good thoir eaoape. Tuk sixtieth general annual conference of tho Mormon church openod at Salt Lako City on the 4th with President Wilford Woodruft presidinjj. Siikuiff Joiixson of Atlantic County, N. J., was roported on tho 4th to have sold within two days '200 farms to satisfy foreclosed mortgages, and it wtl said that forty families in tho town of Germania were homeless. Adam I5kcii liad his eyes blown out on the 4th at Lima, O. , by a naturalgas explosión. It was reported on tho 4th that six revonue offleera had been shot by moonshiners at Fleminsburg, Ky. An Indian named Eaglo Ilorse shot and killod Frank E. Lewis, a schoolteacher, on tho 4th at Pino Ridgo agency, in Nebraska, and then killed himself. Advices of tlie 4th say that a tornado at Thotnaston, Ga., blow down soveral buildings, and in its track through tho country the gTOUnd was Bwept as if by a brush, and tlie crups would havo to ba rupl&ntorl. Mks. Carbie You.va was burned to doath on the 4th at Paterson, N. J. Her clothinff caug-ht fire froTn a lamp. a us caunterfeit Sio bill was in circulation on the 4th in St. Louis, Chicaffo and Cincinnati. It is on tho (Jermania National Jiank of New Orleans, letter "C," bank No. 880, series of 1888.