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the Cincinnati, Sanrtusky & Cleveland railway neat' Urbana, O., tiiJ ihu nies senger, took elovon money packages and esoaped. At a meeting of th' National CivilServico Reform League in Boston George Wllliam Curtís w;is ro-olooted president. lx the ten months' session of tho last Congress President Barrison sent to the Senate 8.837 nomlnatlona, of whioh all but twelve rere oonflrmed. At East Liverpool. O., Teomer ilefeated Hanlan in a one-tuilé sculling race for a purae of Si, ooi). A committkk leached Donver, Col., to solicit aid for seltlers in the eastern part of the State. Crops tliere were a total failure, and many families laoked the neeessaries of life. Neab Saratoga, N. Y., James Dentón, a rich farmer aged 55 years, shot his wifo dead and then killed himself. Ho was temporarily insane. A mas known as T. J. llonderson died at the house of a Mrs. Pannell, near Birmingham, Ala. On his death-bed he confessed to her that he was Charles William Quantrell, the famous Missouri - outlaw, who was supposod to havo been killed in a fight with Federal soldiors in Kontucky near the close of the war. The Census Bureau announuos tho total population of the Stato of New Hampshire to be 375,837; increase, 23,836. The business failures in the United States during tho soven days ended on the 3d numbered ]'.", against 219 tho preceding woek and 200 the corresponding week last year. Samuel Eck's tbree little children were fatally bnrnod at Topton, Pa. They were locked in the house during their mother's absence, and tho building took firo. Miciiakl MoitiAiUTV, 10 years old, died of hydrophobia at Indianapolis, Ind., after sufferlng convulsions for three days. The Oxnard Beet Sugar Company bogan operations at Grand Island, Neb., and in twenty-four hours Uirnod out 300 barrels of reiined sugar ready for niarket Actino In'ihan Commissiokeb Helt has instructed the agenta of the various tribes to allow no more Indians to engage in the "Wild West" show business. At Chewalla. Tenn., five men wore instantly killed by the explosión of a sa w-m UI boiler. Gexerat business throughout tho country is reported in a highly prosperous condition by a Xew York commercial agency, a special feature being freedom from unhealthy excite ment reBulting from speculation. Duki.no the lirstnine months of 1890 there have been 3,782 miles of now roads added to the railway mileage of the United States. In New York the grand jury indicted the board of walkin delegates of the building trades which ordered the brick boycott last Jiily. Assistast Siicr.KiAiiT Gkaxt, of the War Department has w ritten to Secretary Butterworth, of the Worli's Columbian Exposition, authorizlng in the Government's name evory use and enlargeinent of the Luke Front requosted by the management, thus contirming absolutely the dual site of the exposition. At Marlboro, Mass., two children of Nelson Dion, aged 7 and 4 years respectively, were bnrnod to death by the explosión of a lamp. W. I. Maktin', aged 33 years, was hanged at lïaleigh Court-Ilouse, Md., for the murder of his wife. Ir is announced that when Congress reassemblos Postmaster-General Wanamaker will advocate tho reduction of letter postage tooue cent. Thikteen colts broko out of an inclosure in Lancaster County, Pa., ran down a raüroad track and all were killed. black of Hridgeport, Conn., has fallen heir to a fortune of over $'J0,000. Catekpii.i.ars have eaten every loaf from twenty-ilvo acres of oak trees near Kalamazoo, Mich. Tho worms wero moving westward. The Ottumwa (Ia.) base-ball club has won the pennant in the Illinois and Iowa League. Mus. Ei.r.is Joi.i.ie, of Chicago, fonnd in Providence, R. I., a daughter for whom she had been scarehir.g eighteen years. Tuk potato erop in Northern Michigan was said to be tho largeston record. Tuk local United States authorities at Boston, Mass., havo begun a stringent enforcement of the new lottory law.