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largost in Southern Michigan, was destroyed by fire at Kalamazoo on the 18th. Twenty ttiousand bushels of wheat, valiiod at 817,000, belonging to various farmers was destroyed, with llttle or n insiirance. Mits. .Ioiix Zi'kxet; And two children were thrown trom .i bu?%v na runaway at Lima, O., on the 13th and killed. Mks. .Ioiix 11oi.pi:n and her son Edward were nrrestod in Monticello, 111., on the Hth charjed with waylaying and lcillinr 11 ; i f 1 i - ■.' üussi-11 in Juno last. Lavicndkk & Spinnagk, dealors In general mercli -mdiso at Scotland, S. D., failed on the I4ib. Liabilities, 875,000; asst'ts. SlO.UO.i. Two uxiiNou'.N men were swept over the Niágara Ful is on the 14th. One wasclinging to a lioat; the other leaped lnto the rapids bef ore tho boat roached the falls and triud to swim ashore, but failed. By an explosión on the 14th in the oap factory of the Kendall Manufacturing Compaiiy at Providence, R. I., ten employés wero badly burned, two fatally. Threk men and one woman were killed and several others seriously injured in a so-called nogfi'o riot in the neighborbood of Üirmingham, Ala., on the 14th. The vinegar factory of Paul Bechtner at Milwaukee was deatroyed by lire on the 14th. Loss, $100,000. Au oil we 11 was struck near Findlay, O., on the 14th thatproduced 1,000 gallons the first hour. This is said to b the largest flow known. Lv a quarrel at North Platte, Neb., on the 14th Edward Newman shot hls wife and himself, both dying in,stantly. In a collision on the Cincinnati Southern road near Danville, K.y., on the 14th Louis Simpson, elimineer, and a tramp were killed. The distillery of the Kentucky Dlstillery Company and Conrad & Seller's Great Western pork house at LouisTille, Ky. , were totally destroyed by fire on the Hth. The loss was estimated at over $1,000,000; partly insured. Hkkhy E. Wai.do, of Minneapolis, and Miss üussie lloffuian, of Kansas City, were drowned on the 14th while fishinjr on American lake, near Tacoma, Wash., by the capsizing of thelr boat. Mrs. Carkie Howahd, of Jamestown, N. Y., found her stolen child, which had recently boen abducted, in an asylum in Erie, Pa., on the Hth where it had been taken after being abandoned by its abduotors. Neab Santa Barbara, Cal., natural gas was struck on tlie Hth, with a flow of 3, 000, 000 feet a day. By a unanimous voto the United Carpenters' Council of Ch icago resolved on the Hth to cali out on a strike all carDenters and joiners under its jurisdiction September 1. Tho violation by the New Bosses' Association of the agreement by which the recent strike was settled was given as the causa Eight thousand men would be afTected by this decisión. J. H. Waim), a well-known membor of the Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange, committed suicide on the 15th by cutting his throat with a razor. Two Pinkkrtox detectives belonging to the force now at Albany, N. Y., guarding railro.id property, were killed on the 15th by Ijeing run over by a train. Ukkxown persons placed an obstruotion on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks twinty miles from Pittsburgh on the night of the Hth. An excursión train struck it and two engineers and a supposiíd tramp were instanüy killed. Cahki.kss contructors caused the almost total domolition of Red Cliff, Col., on the 15th by the explosión of powder with which thf'y wcro blastin. A BAKN belc ngin lo Josiah Beatty, near Columbus, Iud., was destroyed by Ure on the 15th, toothor with 16,000 bushels of grain and farming implements, the whole valued at S40.000, partly insn rmA. Businkss failures durinj? the seven days ended on the 15th, number for tbe United States 174, Canada 23, total 197, as com pared with 203 last week. For the corrcsponding week of lastyear total 213, represüiiting 131 failures in the United States and 32 in Canada. The body of John Kirkland, foreman of the Pennsylvania shops at Crestline, O., was found under the railroad bridge at that place on the l:;th. There were deep cuts on his head, and his watch and money were gone. Chakles Pkatt was taken from jail and lynchcd at lilair, Neb., on the 15th by enraged citixuns for the murder of M. R. Towne and daughter. A love affair was the causo of the murder. A train on the Michigan Central road struck a broken switch at Augusta, Mich., on tbe 15th, overturning the engine, which exploded, killing the engineer and fireman, and injuring several other persons. WlLLJAM Tult.kv, of Colurabia City, Ind., set a spring gun for burglars in hi gun store on the night of the 14th. On entering the store his foot struck the trap and he received both loads from a double-barreled rifle, killing liim instantly. It was estimated on the lSth that the wheat erop of Minnesota and the Dakotas would reach 93,000,000 bushels. The yield per acre for the State of Minnesota was estimated at 13 bushels; for South Dakota, 10i bushels, and for North Dakota, lllj busbels.