$400,000 Fire At Milwaukee

Vire broke out In tlie vvareliDiise of the Union Steamboat Co. , at Milwaukee, and a 30-mile wind spread the gamee with Btartllng rapidity. The principa! buildings bnrned, not ineludiní a inimber frame d welling, were as follows: Union Steamboat Co. warehouse, Pennsylvania Railroad freighthouse, Wisconsin Central f reighthouse, part of l'ritloff warehouse, Delaney oil warehouO, and Down's plumbing shop. Thousands of tons of merchandise and betweeo 78 and 100 freig-ht cais were destroyed. The total loss will be nearly $400,000. Three five-story building-s which were aboui to be turn down at C'incinnati were destroyftd by tire. Loss, 8100,000. - Cyrus 15. Cameron. of Columbus, O., oommittod suicide by shootisg hunself through tlie heart in the Weddell House in Cleveland. Ex-Mayor Van Hom, of Denver, was killed by falling frora a thtrd-story vvindow of the (rand Central hotel, of which he was tlie proprietor. üreat Uritain lias reíused the request of the ameer of Afghanistan to have direct diploma' ie intércourse, instead of through the viceroy of India. In speaking of tlie relations between the United otates and Qreat üritain refjarding' the Nicaraguan canal the St. James tiazette, of london, says: As far as can be seen we are heading straight for a crisis and there will be ïither a diplomatic deadlock between the two countries nr the English will surrender important treaty rights."