Telegraphic Tickings

Tlie large bain of A. B. Youngs, near Quinoy was burned by incendiarios, f.os S2,OÓO; plrtially insurcd. Over 8,000 lives have been lost by the earthquake disturbances which recently visited the provinee of Assam, East India. The windovv glass factory at Orestes, Ind. , has burned. The faetory is owned by the United Glass Co., aml employee! 400 people and the total loss vvill bc 8100,000. Ex-Queen Lilinokalaai, of Hawai!, lias presented to Secretary of State Shei-man a vigorous formal protest against the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. A large byena escaped from the Lincoln park menagerie at Chicago, and during the night ravaged seveiaL graves in Oraeeland cemetery. The pólice refused to help catch the beast, but it was killed by a posse of men abont 13 miles out in the country. The trial of Frank Butler, charged with the muider of Capt. Lee Weller, and six other men whom he took separately on gold prospecting trips ia Australia, and who was caught in San Francisco, has been concluded, the jury rendeiing a verdict of guilty. A carriage containing four ladies was s truck by a train on the Pennsylvania raüroad at Logansport, Ind., anddragg-ed 200 feet. Miss Daisy Raymond, of Valparaíso, was instantly killed, and Misses Liilian Moore, of Lafayette, and Stella Foster, of Logansport, were mortally injured. Over 5,000 uncmployed Poles marched to the city hall at Buffalo to de mand bread. The outbreak arose because 3,000 uien asked forworkon street railway construction, and only 50 were engaged. The men had long looked for employment at this work. After their rejection. a meeting was held, and all offieeholders were denounced. The library building of the the lowa state university was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire. The loss is 8100,000. Of this $50,000 was in books. Many of whieh are out of print and cannot be replaeed, some of them dating1 from the beginning of the 16th century Fireman L. M. Leek was eaught undcrafalling roof and burned to death. The state carries no insurance on any public buildings. A very heavy thunder storm pas sed over Owosso doing much damage. Chas. Moss, a labore r, was struck by lightning and killed while sitting at the supper table. Miss Horigan was seriously injured, and a horse owned by Castrie & Shaw was killed while the driver was holding the team. At Corrunna the Baptist parsonage was struck by lightning. The Michigan Association of Independent Telephone Companies was organized at the Russell house Detroit with nearly 30 men, representing the most of the independent companies in the state, present. Joseph B. Ware, of Grand Rapids, was elected president, and Alex I. McLeod, of Detroit, secretary. A constitution and by-laws were adopted and everything started for a strong movement to üght the Bell telephone monoply. Thomas Turk, one of the pioneer residen ts and merchants of Detroit and Pontiac, died at his home at the latter place, at the age of 77. He assisted in laying the first plank sidevvalk, one plank wide, between Grand Circus pari and the city hall iu Detroit, which was laid in 1838. In 1844 he opened a small grocery store in Pontiac. The business steadily grew until 1875, wlicn tlien he sold to hls sons, who still continue it on a large scale. K. A. Wilson, superintendent of the electric light plant at Marque tte, says he has discovered a complete model of an electric lighting plant made by an eccentric inventor named John Ingalls which has lain In disuse since 1887 and has just been uncarthed in perfect working order. By it a light similar to the incandescent bulb is said to be obtaiued without the use of a ülament the light beiug causcd by waves of eloctrical energy forced th rough a vacuüm on "high frequency." Lacón, 111.- John Southworth, oí South Lacón, who kept house for hlmself, made up flve quarts of strawberríes into shortcake, ata most of tt at one sltting, and dled. Aiohison, Kan. - Mías Mario Frdue, aged 18 yeara, daughter of a rlch banker of Hurón, eloped with Fred Waltr, aged 22, a farm hand, and was maxrled to hlm at Leavenworth. Indlanapolis, Ind.- B. P. Harens, who representad Indiana at the world's fali as executlve oommlsaionor, has broughl suit agalnst Che state for $1,486, whicb, be says, ha expended In antertainlng distiugulshed g uestn who called at tha Indiana building. San FranolMO.- President MoKlnley has declined an lnvitatlon of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce to visit California talg aummer uwlng to a press of official dutles. Washington.- The senate commlttee on International expositions, of whlcb VIr. Thurtton la chalrman, bas declded :o recommend an appropriation ot $500,000 for the United States exhibit at the Paris exposition in 1900. Kankakee, 111. - Joseph Dupuis, aged 90, and Misa Josephlne Huneau, aged 36, were married by Father Polssant. at St. Rose's Church. The groom is wealthy and retired farmer. Madlson, WU. - The race between th Jniversity of Wlsconsin crew and the Minnesota eight will not be rowed thia year. Members of the Wlsconsin Athetlc Couacil claim that the Badger crew were treated discourteously at Lake Mlnnetcnka last summer and that the newspapers were unfalr to them. St. Joseph, N. F. - Two Frenen flshermen Arrlved here from Heart's Content, after belng plcked up by a vessel in mid-ccaan. They had been four daya n their dory, with Just enough food to ceep whem alive, and had suffered exre me) y from cold and exposure.