Generalities In Brief

Brunswick, Ga., suffered a 8500,000 conttagration in which one man was I burned to death. Christopher Schrage, a Chicago miser, was bound and gagged by robbers in his ovru home and 350,000 was stolen. Jas. W. McDonough, of Chicago, has perfected a process by which natural colors are photographed with the ordinary camera. Complete returns of the state election in Rhode Island show that Lippet, Republican, was elected governor by 11,278 plurality. Two massive boilers of the Planters' oil mili, at üreenville, Miss., exploded, wrecking the mili property and causing the death of five men. Low water in the boilers was the cause. The Consolidated VVire and Steel Co., of Cleveland, attempted to put a forcé of non-union men in the place of strikers, but the latter assumed such a threatening aspect that the company gave it up. Over 4,000 people are destitute and suffering1 at Phuenix City, Ala., caused by the strike at the Kag-le and Phoenix milis in Columbus, Ua. A very heavy cut in wages caused the strike. Trouble is feared. A dispatch from Paris says there is reason to believe that an agreenient has been reached between France and Great Britain relative to the upper Nile interests, and that both countiies i are now safeguarded by mutual concessions. Whüe Col. A. F. Naff, a U. S. deputy marshal and seven men were descending the Rainy river, on the CanadianMinnesota boundary, to investígate reports of timber stealing1 by Canadians, they broke through the ice and six were drowned. Secretary Carlisle has written a letter to Chas. B. Long, chairman of the Kentucky Democratie state central committee, in which he says that the party's first effort should be for the declaration of principies and then for candidates. He declines to contest for the presideutial nomination, but intimates that if his fellow Deinocrats deern his past services to entitle hitn to such reward he shonld not further decline.