News In Brief

A Shanghai dispatch says that official reports show that there were over 40,000 (leaths f rom cholera in Pekin during Angust. Tliree Indiana were held up near Lewiston, (daho, by three masked men and robbed oí $2,300 paid them by the government i'or land. Win. Haygood, while blaspheming at High Shoals, (a., declared there was no God, do heaven and no hell, had his tongue paralyzed. A boiler explosión at the car factory at Warsaw. Ind., killed instan tly Quinev Nebruner, the tíreman, and James Hoffman, a teamster. The jury inthe Frank Claucy inquest at Ann Arbor returned a verdict that Clancy carne to his death f rom a blow on the head by soine persun unknown. The jury censured the Toledo authorities for not investigating the case more thoroughly. Briatol tunnel, 1,200 feet long, on the 1!. .t O. raüroad near Zanesville, ü. , caught fire f rom sparks. One hundred feetof the. tunnel has fallen in. Efforts are being made to prevent the fire from reaching a point where a coal vein projects from the tunnel's sides. A special from Kingston, Jamaica, says that ('apt.-Gen. Martínez de Campos has written to the Spauish consul there, it has leaked out, that the strugjfle against tlie insurrection in Cuba is hopefess. Tbeooncedingof autonomy, he adds, is the only means by which Spain can avoid losing the island. The Cubans are jubilant. II. M. Romberg, a prominent liveryman of Decatur, Ind., left about two months ago to visit liis old home at Hamburg, Germany. Word has been received that he has been taken by the Germán officials and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, charged with whipping an official in the army prior to his coming to this country. Window glass manufacturers from Clhio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois met at Cleveland and organized a eombination, the purpose of which is to advance prices to meet the increase in the price of raw inaterials and the prospectiva advance in vvages. It was cLecided not to resume operations at the factories until September 27. A fight took place inacovered bridge near Kockport, Ind., between Belle Levi and Frank llurst, on one siie, and Wm. Broshears and Charles Williamsön on the other, in which Miss Levi and llurst were mortally vvounded. The tight was the result of an old feud between Bröshears and llurst. Eiurst waa taking .Miss Levi home in a buggy when tlie attack was made. An unknown tramp was mu.rdered on a Pennsylvania freiglit train near Mansfleld, O. II is throat was cut [rom car to ear. Two trampa on the train were mispected. They boardod an Eria train and were met at Ashland by officers. The trampa, five in number, opened fire and the battle r&ged live minutes before the trampa were handcuffed. Tlie engineer and liremen were wounded. Constantinople: The sultan has sent a dispatch to the Turkish ambaasadorsai Pari and St. Petersburg1, bitterly complaining of Great Britain i ittitude regarding Armenia, which is ïescribed as disoourteous and derogatory to the sultan's prestige. The jispatch concludes with an appeal to t ii,. Frenen and Roaaian governments to use their good offices with (ireat Britain to modify her present attitude. A dispatch from Londres, Franca, says: Fourteen railway trains loaded with siek and maimed persons arrived from l'aris, aud their wretched occupants are lying helpiess about the station claraoring to be carried to the lacred grutto. There are now 25,000 persons waitiug to be dipped in the healing water, many of whom appear to be at death's door. Seventeen of the occupants of the last train from l'aris dii'd on the iourney. A heavy letter addressed to Baron Alphonse Rothschild was delivered at the baron's office, at l'aris. during his ibsence. The barons contidential ïlerk, M. Jadowsky, opened the packoe, wherenpon it exploded. The lerk's eyes were almost torn out of liis head, and one of his hands was so badly sbattered that three of his (ingers liad to be amputated. Anarchiste are thought to be responsible, and W were arrested on suspicion. I.ondon: The Rome correspondent }f the Standard teleeraphs that Mrt. Zaiewski, apostolic delégate to India. is destined to succeed Mgr. Satolli at Wa.sliinjiton.