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Larty Finn küled hia wlfe with an axe at Marquette, Mich. B The Cherokees are still ia a ferment and Indulge In a talk of war. James B. ChesB. of Indiana, has been appointed United States Consul at Durango, Mex. A reduction of Western Union telegraph rates at all points east of Utah and Montana is announced. . Nelson Mather &, Co. 's f urn it ure factory at Grand Rapids, Mich., was destroyed by fire Bunday. Loss, $1300,000. T. V. Powderly is in New York working for a Government teïegraph system. Ha will go to Europe in May. Twenty-six of the leading shoe manufacturera of Bouhesber, N. Y. , havo abolished the Saturday half-holiday. At Hurón, D. T., on Tuesday the bodiea of John H. Gowan and his 16-year-old daughter were found frozen stift Frank McCutchen, a Mexican boy charged with incendiurism, was taken from the jail atOakdale, Cal., and lynched. An incendiary fire on Saturday at Doniphan, Neb., destroyed nearly the entire business portion of the town. The Chicago boodlers were on Tuesday sared from th penitentiary for a while by the granting of a supersedsas. A seven-foot vein of lead, containing email quautities of silver, was discovered at Boyal Center, Ind., Tuesday. A Washington dispatch says Mr. Blaine will return to tliis country, landing at San Francisco June 20 next year. Wiiliam Narswald died in New York on Tuesday of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a Newfoundkuui dog last August A company has been fortned at Boston for the purpose of building a telegraph line from New York to San Francisco. A collision at i'ima. O., on the Cincinnatl, Pamilton & Dayton railroad ro9ulted in the death of the fireinan and engineer. The residence of ex-Postmaster Kendrick, of Hoboken, N. J., was robbed Sunday of $8,000 worth of money and jewela The Pennpylvania courts decided adversely to the power of the mine-ownera to evict the striking miners from their homes. Colonel B. Penn Smith, who served with distinction through the war. died Mondav at hls home In Brighton, Statan Island, Friday's sales of whisky in the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce reached 2,720 barrels, the largest on record for one dar. Meta, a yearling filly by Onondago, made a half-mile at Lexington, Ky., Friday in fifty-seven seconds, carrying 100 pounda At Sydney, N. S. W., on Saturdny WUliam Beach won the sculling race for the world's championship over Edward Hanlan by two lengths. By a fearf ui explosión in the Abernout mines in Abordare, Eng., 340 men were for a time buried alive. A relief party rescued them all. At Waterloo, Ia., Tuesday, William Mundaform was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of nis uncle, Christian Hem me. Ex-County Treasurer W. J. Burke, of Galveston, Tex., accused of defrauding the county out of $36,000, ha3 been declared not guilty. The Northern Pacific Dining-Car Company's hotel at Thompson Falls, M. T., was burned Tuesday morning causing a loss of $60,000. The American Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa., with a capital stock of $200,000, closed its doors Saturday. It hopes tobe able to meet all its debts. The Buffalo (N. Y.) Union Stock Yards etrike ended on Monday, the strikers returning to work without having galned their point By a collision between two freight trains on the Cincinnati Southern road near Nemo, Tenn., two men were killed and two others were injured. M. Gaunt, a wealthy colored man Jiving near Xenia, O. , has given $30,000 to Wilberforce University, an institution for colored people. For the flrst nine months in 1887 railroads in Michigan earned $58,693,242- an increase of nearly 15 per cent over the same period last year. At Cincinnati on Monday Chris Ebert was killed and George Thiesing seriously injured by a passenger train striking a hand-car upon which they were. Ten thousand dollars reward is offered for the capture of the Mexican bandit Eraclio Bernai, who bas "ruined and almost depopulated districts in San Ignacio. " The superintendent of the insane asylum at Oshkosh, Wis., claims to be part owner in a valuable gold mine situated abouteighteen miles from the city of Washington. On tha pickerel grounds of Lake Erie, near Erie, Pa., the fishing boat Maggie was wrecked Tuesday and Robert Pryor and James McLaughlin were drowned. At Johan Most'g trial in New York on Monday one of the defendant'a witnessea said he did not believe God bothered hlmself about such trilling things as perjury. At the close of the business on Saturday the stock of wheat in sig-ht in this country was 39,362,059 bushels, of corn 6,241,274. bushels, and of oats 6,502,424 bushels. A New York syndicat3 has bought 10,000 acres of lnnd in Gadsden and Columbia counties, Fla., and will plant over 1,000 acres in tobáceo during the coming year. The Mansion House at Andover, Mass., was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The house was built over one hundred yeara ago, audhas been used as a hotel ever since. C. R and C. K. Garrison, sons of David R and nephews of the late Commodore Garrison, were alraost instantly killed Monday by falling down a shaft in a mine near Webb City, Mo. The official count in Virginia gives the Democratie majority at 420. The estimated majority in counties where there were no Democratie candidates will swell the majority to 3, 1G0. A tremendous flow of natural gas was struck Tuesday at Xenia, near Wabash, Ind. A blaze sixty fect high was issuing from a three-inch pipe all züght and the people were highly elated. Tippoo Tib has not sent the promised car-t riers to Stanley's rear guard at Yanbaga with stores for Emin Bey. Scanley has proceeded without them. Many of the men have starved to death, The ühio live-stock lioard has issued a, cali for a meeting of similar boards of the, Northern States to be held at Springfleld, I1L, December 13, to take actiou to prevent the spread of Texas fever. Henry Overstoltz, president of the collapsed Fifth National Bank of St. Louis and ex-mayor of the .city, dieii Tuesday. He had been ill Ifor 'some time, and did not know that the bank had suspended. The schools at La Salie, 111., which have been closed for several weeks on account of the prevalence of diphtheriu among the chlldren, have been opened again, and the city is declared to be in a healthy conditlon. The pólice preventad the holding of a demonstration in honor of the Manchester martyrs at Limerick Sunday. They had several encounters with the crowds in the streets, in which a number of people were lnjured.