The News Condensed

Dubing a family quarrel at Birmingham. Miss., James Davis shot and killed his father and brother. The thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Manasses was celebrated on the 21st at Charleston, Ö. C, by the unveiling of an obelisk in city hall square. A iiii.i.KTiN from the census office gives the population of Michigan at 2,093,889, an increase in ten years of 456,952. A train ran into a hand car near Boydton, Va., killing three workmen. A hailstorm in Nicollet county, Minn., damaged the crops to the extent öf $100,000. At St. Louis the circuit court decided that express compauies were liable for goods received from owners until they arrived at their destination. Sam PuLLIAM (colored) was lynched at Shelbyville, Ky., for assaulting Mrs. Thomas Glenn. Tuk Southern Pacific railroad, it was said, had passed into the hands of the Standard OU Company. Pkter Pascoe, r., and James Dower, Jr., were suffocated by smoke in a burning mine at Marquette, Mich. Miss C. IJ. BCTELL, of Evanston, 111., was elected president of the Women's Christian Temperance union in national session at Mountain Lake Park, Md. LAK. AxiiKiaoN, of Ohio, was appointed by President Harrison as second secretary of the legation at London to succeed E. C. McCormick, resigned. A 8TATUE of General "Stonewall" Jackson was unveiled at Lexington, Va., on the 21st, the thirtieth anniversary of the first battle of Buil Hun. Two men were killed by a boiler explosión at Lakeview, Mich. Thrke men robbed the Easton (Pa.) national bank of $4,000 in broad daylight and escaped. John Cook was shot and killed at Tiff City, Mo. , while disturbing a religious meeting, and another ruffian had his hand shot off. Mrs. Maey McCaffrey and Mrs. Farris, of , Pittsburgh, Pa., gave their babies carbolic acid, thinking it acough mixture, and both children died. Over 100 conversions was the record of the sixteenth camp-meeting at Bay View, Mich. ATKettle Creek, Pa., in April, 1889, Frank Hancock and four of his children were found dead in his yard, and it was supposed that Hancock had murdured the children and hanged himself. His wife died recently, and at the last moment confessed that she and two of her paramours had committed the murders. The names of the men were withheld. A niSASTROUS hailstorm a mile wide passed through the northern part of Cloud county, Kan., cutting the corn erop all to pieces. J. A. Vail, bookkeeper at the West Park windovv glass works in Pindlay, O., disappeared with L31,000 of thecompany's money. Bud Herry and William Garrett, as the result of a quarrel over a girl, fought a duel with knives at Ripley O., and Berry was killed and Garrett fatally wounded. The C'itizens' bank of Jefferson, Tex., made an assignment with liabilities of 8100,000. Charles HaSEMER and .John Ilardruba, engineer and fireman in the Burlignton shops at Plattsmouth, Neb., were killed by a locomotivo explodinff. The general grand chapter Koyal Arch Masons began its twenty-eighth trienial convocation at IWitmcapolis. It is the largest masonic body in the world, having a membership of 141,901. Chbbokee county, la., was vi by a heavy ruin and windstorm and two bnildings in Cherokee were swept into thi river and an immense amount of dam age was done to crops and other property. Lishtning struck the house of Jeremiali Carson at Ilutitington, Neb., fatally in j uring Mr. Carson, his wife and chiid. The output oí pig Iron in the United States for the first half of 1891 was 3,371, U'ö gross tons, against 4,580,513 gross tons in the first half of 1890. William Johnson (colored) was lynohed a1 Henderson, Tex., íor criminal assauJt. George W. Higoins, the leading merch ant at Olmstead, 111.. was killed by Miss Minnie Reddy, who was handling a revolver which was supposed not to be loaded. Si; i:.i; lln.i., a prominent farmer at Warren, Wis., and his two snns and two horses were strnck by lightning and killed. The Kimball & Champ Investmcnt Company of Council Bluffs, Ia., failed for $100,000. Thk business portion of Westpoint, Neb., was flooded by a rise in a creek, and great damage was done. Cíeorgk C. CüBRY bas arrived at Vancouver from Alaska in a dugout canoe. It was said that he was the only white man who ever made that journey in such a craft. A statement prepared at the post office department shows that the number of post offices in the country June 30, 1891, was 64,391, as follows: First elass, 116; second class, 550; third class, -3,270; fourth class. 61,449. This is an increase of 2,000 offices during the year. A IBBBIFI0 wind and rainstorm at Wellsville, O., uprooed trees, and several small buildings were blown over and cellars flooded. Many barns in the outlying districts were blown down, and crops of all kinds suffered severely. In a prize fight neiir Monongahela City, Pa., Harry üoyd struck John Myford a blow which caused his death. A cyci.one at Salina, Kan., did great damage to telephone and telegraph wires and a number of small houses were unroofed. At Kast st. Louis George Anderson, a saloon keeper, shot and killed Dennis Eyan, another saloon keeper, and then committed suicide in the presence of his wife and child, who begged hitn not to kill himself. DuiiiNG a heavy storm near Goldsmith, Ind., lightning struck the house of John W. Iiinkle, killing his wife and child. Tjïï National Sociejiy of .the tors or trif ttevoiution was incorporated at Washington with Mr8. Benjamin Harrison i president general. John Zimmebman, an inmate of the goldiers' home at Grand Rapids, .Mich., received nolieu that a tori une ol 8"8,000 awaited liim in the uld country by the death of an aunt. G. W. McKay, the Kansas alliance judge who lgnored a decisión of the state Bupreme court, was Bummonedbeíore that tribunal and made to promise that he would abide by its decisions hereafter. A.v entine boiler exploded in the Kurliiií_rti)ii & Missouri roundhouse at I'lattsmouth, Neb., klillnff Lwo men and fatally injuring three others. A sf.vkki; electrio storm passed over Ottawa, Kan., doing mueh damage to fruit and shade trees. Mbs. .1. II. .Jotinson, aged 70 years, and her grandson, aged 4 years, were killed by the cars at La Moille, ia. Tiiree men were instantly killed and five others were fatally injured by the explosión of a boiler near Litchfield, Ky. A fikk in the mines of the Deer Creek Coal Company at Glenrock, Wyo., caused a loss of .$100,000. A windstorm at Salem, Ind., unroofed several dwellings, and great damage was done to growing crops in the vicinity. . A HOME for widows and orphans ol odd fellows was dedicated at Laurel Station, Pa. The earth caved in at many places in Edwardsville, Pa., causing houses to topple over and rendering the land in the vicinity useless for further building. JoSKPii I'. IIoünkr, of New Orleans, was elected general grand high priest of the general grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons, in session at Minneapolis. I the United States the busines failures during the seven days endedon the 24th numbered :;."i4, against 274 the precedirg week and 199 for the corresponding week last year. A ckn.sus office bulletin shows the United States to be the largest producer of copper in the world, its product for the year 1889 being 22G,051,902 pounds. The total internal revenue collections from all sources during the year ended June 80 last were $140,035,376, an increase of S3, 440. 080 over the preceding fiscal year. A shoe factory at Carlisle, Pa., in whlch 800 women were employed, was struck by lightmng and two girls were killed and several others badly shocked. The city officials at Des Sloines, Ia., emptied 400 kegs of capturcd beer into the river. A masktod mob broke into the jail at Billings, Mont, took the mtirderer of Joseph Clancy out and hangedhim to a telegraph pole. After three weeks of suffering from a dog bite Htnry Burkhardt, of Ab; lene, Kan., dind of well-developed hydroph jbia. CharlSS M. O.iiuiín was hanged at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of John M. Bradiey on May 5, 1890. The Columbian Oil Company of Chicago failed ioröOO Ö00; PoUB persorfa were killed and nine badly injured by aoollision on the Denvi r & Rio Gíande raílroad near Carlisle, Col. EviDK.vcii was said to have come to light shd'.ving the innocence of Tom Williamson under sentence to be ■d Auafist 21 for wie murder at Sedalia, Mo. Wir.i.iAM Ewixo and Albert Ilampton were killed by lightning near Ilillsboro. 111. ArciTsrus Lkwis was placea in jail at Kondout, N. Y., on the charge ol having eight living wives. Tin: Immense COtton andwoolen mili of Campliell t Elliott in Philadelphia was burned, the loss being Í700, 000. Wyandotte, a horse owned by John E. Madden, of Lexington, Ky., and valued at 810,000, feil dead at the Detroit races. S. Gehukr, of Omaha, an American citizen, was said to have been banished to Siberia by the authorities of Myszyuca, Russia. He went to Russia for the purpose of bringing his family to America.