An Explosion Set Fire To Harlan Bro's

arug-store at Des Moines, Ia, Sunday night, whlch caueed the death by euffocatlon of Philemon Gobiet, a clerk who slept in an udioininjr room. A new and strange disease is killing off the hogs in the southern part ol Ciay Connty, Ii?:l Great sores develop over the body, and the animal, after two or thre day, die in spasms. The schooner Sapphire arrived at Victoria, B. C, on Saturday f rom Behring sea, having on board 2,520 Baaiskins. She was chased by the United States cutter Bear but Bailed away from her. Iw water in the river atJohnstown, Pa, has resulted in the exposure of a largè amount of malodorous decomposing mat ter, the gtench in the vicinity of the stone briöge being extremely nauseating.