Generalities Of News

Three French warships have been made ready to sail at a moment's notice at Toulon. Arthur Bradley killed Richard Ingraham in a frieudly prhe fight near Ilaverbill, Mass. Both branches oí the Ohio lefrislature have passed the bill to prohibit high huta in the theaters. Hon. A. W. Terrell, U. S. minister to Turkey, Is home for a vaeation. He refused to talk of the Armenian troubles. Balling-ton Booth is issuin a new paper - The Volunteer Gazette - in the interest of bis American Volunteer ïnovement A terrific explosión occurred in the Giles mine near Ward, Colo. , in which three men were instantly killed and ' two others badly hurt. Owing to the gravityof thesituation in South África, the British government is taking steps to dispatch 5.000 troops as soon as pussible, to be ready for any emergencie.s. A skirmish has oecurred at Adigrat, between Suakim and Abu Hained, on the IS'ile, in wiiich friendly Arabs routed the forees of a dervish outpost, killing several oí them. Col. Placea Jare.z, asred 60, who recently commanded a Cuban regiment, died at St. Louis as the result of a vvound received while escaping from the military prison at Pinar del Rio. Col. Jarez's last words vvere: "Sead word to my son to fight till the end for the cause." The officials of Rock Island county, 111. , believe they have evidence enough to prove that lienry i. Hastian, a wealthy farmer who suicided last month, murdered at least four mea tvho were in his employ duringf the past two years. The bodies of two hare been uneartlied on the farm and the others disappeared mysteriously over a year ago. They all dropped froni sight soouafter Bastían had paid them for their season"s work.